Theatre

The Arts team continue their new section in which they come up with a theme and then list our film/music/TV/literary preferences according to that particular theme. This week, we delve…

Adam Curtis’ latest documentary, Bitter Lake, examines the roles of America, Britain and Saudi Arabia over the past sixty years in Afghanistan. Taking its title from the location of a…

Writer/Director Judey Bignell took on a huge responsibility with this piece. She had less than a term to mould a heaving cast and a smart script into the first pantomime…

The fact that this documentary had won the Audience Award at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest was an instant giveaway of what to expect from this fantastic piece of cinema. With…

If you put aside acts like Robyn, The Knife and Swedish House Mafia, Little Dragon are probably the hottest export to have left Scandinavia in recent years. Having just toured…

This year’s BFI London Film Festival had the honour of opening its diverse array of film screenings and events with the European premiere of Morten Tyldum’s highly anticipated biopic The…

Sarah Betts Alfred Hitchcock. ‘Hitch’ to those he honoured with his regard. An icon of the world of cinema and a man of many names; ‘Master of Suspense’ and ‘genius’…

Christos Papadogeorgopoulos Brighton’s 10th Cine-City festival opened with a screening of the much anticipated ‘The Seven Psychopaths’. Although the showing was not the films debut, it hasn’t been out long…

Ruth Atkinson Brighton Museum and Art Gallery have JUST opened a new exhibition, “Shoot the Wrx”. The show is a collection of renowned experimental film-maker and artist Jeff Keen’s work.…

Marie Hawkins Jeff Keen. This name may not ring a bell, but if you see his explosive, energetic and eccentric short films you won’t forget it. Four of his best-known…

Hannah Staff 8th November Any production staged at the stunning Theatre Royal Brighton sets itself up to high expectations and David Hare’s The Judas Kiss does not disappoint. Despite the…

Robert Henry Though it touches only lightly on its more delicate issues, ‘Untouchable’ will continue to win over audiences (perhaps even Oscar judges) for its irreverence and egalitarian sense of…

John Attridge Theatre Royal Brighton Mon 5th-Sat 10th November 19:45. £19-39 David Hare’s celebrated play comes from Richmond to the Theatre Royal, Brighton for a limited time this November. Set…

Georgia Rigg The Duke of York 21st October “Despair and anger”: these were the resounding emotions left with audience members after the Brighton premier of ‘5 Broken Cameras’ (the winner…

Victoria Rodrigues O’Donnell Heralded by many as a blueprint for reckless adventure and self-discovery, it is unsurprising that film-makers have struggled for more than half a century to adapt Jack…

Charlie Jones When A Clockwork Orange burst onto the world cinema stage in 1971 it became an instant cult classic; shocking its audience with its brutal monochrome vision of a…

‘My Week with Marilyn’ is the new British drama from director Simon Curtis and stars the up-and-coming actor Eddie Redmayne (The Other Boleyn Girl, Glorious 39) and the American actress…

‘Weekend’ begins when Russell (Tom Cullen) meets Glen (Chris New) at a seemingly dismal gay bar after a house party with his straight friends. The next morning Glen interviews Russell…

Students from Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) have progressed to the next round of the ‘Wild Card’ section of the Campus Moviefest (CMF) film festival. The ‘GH12 Crew’ created…

After a year which left us in the glorious wake of such films as ‘Black Swan’ and ‘The King’s Speech’, 2012 has a lot to live up to in the…