*This review will include spoilers* The Stone in My Pocket is a coming-of-age Scottish novel that tells the story of teenager Nathan who believes ghosts are speaking to him in the middle of the night. In a desperate attempt to find answers, Nathan joins a spiritual circle in the attic of his village bookshop, telling […]Read More
Apple TV+ has officially released a first look at the upcoming crime drama Cherry. It’s here, the latest collaboration between the Russo Brothers and Tom Holland. This time, they’re setting the Marvel Cinematic Universe aside for a new and highly anticipated adventure. Entitled Cherry, it follows the story of an army medic with PTSD, who […]Read More
Trigger warning: this performance and review of Walk of Shame contains references to sexual assault and drug misuse. As part of [email protected]’s Season 2 line-up, Walk of Shame is a brilliantly thought-provoking, hard-hitting piece on the importance of sexual consent. Written by Stephanie Silver and Amelia Lovsey, and directed by Michelle Payne, the performance also […]Read More
TW: sexual assault, miscarriage, substance abuse (addiction/alcohol) Pieces of a Woman is an intensely personal story of a woman’s life that is upended by the death of her child following a traumatic home birth Harrowing and heart-breaking in tone, director Kornél Mundruczó explores the knotty subject of grief and its detrimental impact on mental health, […]Read More
Christmas came early for Marvel geeks as Disney’s Investor Day unleashed a tonne of announcements and updates, including a first look at multiple exciting up-coming MCU shows. This included the much-anticipated and long-awaited Marvel series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier which, originally, was set to premiere in August this year. Now expected to debut […]Read More
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Anne Bronte’s birth, Gondal Theatre Company (comprised of third-year students at the University of Leeds) celebrate and honour the “forgotten” Bronte sister with a self-devised performance of The Glass Bell. A play that gives audience members a complex and intimate portrayal of Anne Bronte – a woman whose work was often […]Read More
We may be in the middle of a global pandemic, but that does not stop the Gallagher family from being, well, Gallaghers. The official trailer for the 11th and final, season of Shameless has dropped, giving us a tease of what to expect before we say a sad goodbye to everyone’s favourite dysfunctional family. For those […]Read More
TW: domestic abuse While the US election has dominated current affairs this past week, the film industry has also had its fair share of big news. Johnny Depp, in a letter to fans, revealed his resignation from the Fantastic Beasts film franchise at the request of Warner Bros. The news comes days after losing a […]Read More
Lucy Lillystone reviews Cheek by Jowl's The Winter's Tale, which she describes as "one of the most thought-provoking, intelligent and challenging adaptations of Shakespeare's play performed yet".Read More
21 Chump Street is a musical, exuberant but sobering short play from Lin-Manuel Miranda that features outstanding turns from the whole cast.Read More
Lucy Lillystone reviews Frankomime's Monster, a pantomime performed as part of the 2020 Edinburgh Horror Festival.Read More
By the acclaimed author of Psychogeography which has sold over 20,000 copies, Merlin Coverley is back with another book. Hauntology sets out to discover why contemporary culture is so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated with the past. In a period where we are nostalgic for the times before the pandemic, this novel is a […]Read More
Created by Darren Star (Sex and the City) and produced by MTV Studios, the new TV show Emily in Paris has officially aired on Netflix and it is fair to say that reactions to it are mixed. Quickly becoming a hot topic of discussion on social media, French critics and Parisians, in particular, are less […]Read More
With Halloween just around the corner, Warner Bros has released the first official trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ rather extravagant-looking adaptation of The Witches. The Witches is based on the classic 1983 children’s novel by Roald Dahl, telling the story of an orphaned boy who discovers a coven of children-hating witches. With the help of his […]Read More
American poet Louise Glück has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “unmistakable poet voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” This makes Glück the 16th woman to win the prize, and the first American woman to win since Toni Morrison in 1993. The prestigious award is renowned for being awarded to […]Read More
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