Lucy Lillystone

  • *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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Trigger warning: this performance and review of Walk of Shame contains references to sexual assault and drug misuse.

    As part of Online@theSpaceUK’s Season 2 line-up, Walk of Shame is a brilliantly […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 a […]

  • Lucy Lillystone wrote a new post 5 years ago

    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 […]

  • Lucy Lillystone wrote a new post 5 years ago

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Directed by Declan Donnellan and designed by Nick Ormerod, Cheek by Jowl’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘problem play’, The Winter’s Tale, is a daring, vibrant and challenging modern-dress production that is […]

  • With the closure of our beloved theatre venues, musical fans have been lucky enough to watch many of their favourite shows online, for free, over the lockdown period as countless companies have treated us to […]

  • To celebrate 200 years of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Edinburgh Horror Festival returns with a Halloween pantomime sell-out, Frankomime’s Monster, streamed online straight from Edinburgh. A fringe show that was […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 p […]

  • Filmed over five years, I Am Samuel is a vérité-style documentary that follows the life of titular Samuel as he moves to Nairobi in search of a new life, finding a place of belonging in a community of fellow g […]

  • Welsh author, Rhiannon Lewis, best known for her debut novel My Beautiful Imperial has become the first UK writer to win the prestigious William Faulkner Literary Prize for her new short story.

    The win was […]

  • Based on the Young Adult novel series by Nancy Springer, Enola Holmes focuses on Sherlock’s younger sister stirring up trouble and testing her own hand at solving mysteries. Despite the bizarre controversry […]

  • When lockdown first started everyone inevitably found themselves on Zoom, attending virtual pub quizzes, virtual festivals, and virtual concerts. Months later, amid the ongoing restrictions, it is safe to say […]

  • A pantomime production of Aladdin has come under fire this week, with many accusing the directors of “casual racism” after they cast two white people as ‘The Chinese Policemen’ in an already all-white cast. […]

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