Theatre

Netflix has been ever-present in most of our lives now for a while, yet a couple years ago it still would’ve been hard to believe that the online-streaming platform would…

Anyone who has watched The Oscars before will know very well that artistic integrity isn’t prioritised in the way that the awards’ image demands. However, news of the academy introducing…

Space travel has been a preoccupation for Filmmakers, almost since Cinema’s invention. George Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (1902) amazed audiences of the time. Its invention and depiction of…

Reading Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita as a love story is a standard initial interpretation of the novel, despite the kidnap and rape of the titular 12 year old girl by her…

Netflix’s new series, Sex Education, has been released less than a month and has already got rave reviews from fans across the globe. It has been considered one of the…

Colette is the biographical story of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, a French author, performer and dancer during the late nineteenth century. Keira Knightley gives a sublime performance alongside Dominic West as ‘Willy,’…

We interviewed Magnús Trygvason Elíassen ahead of Amiina’s performance of the score to Fantômas that took place on Saturday 17th November 2018 at the ACCA. We spoke about musical experiments,…

Since the announcement of Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor for series 11, Doctor Who has repeatedly been made the headlines.

Comparing any film maker to Andrei Tarkovsky always seems like very risky business. The Russian director is considered to be the greatest poet that cinema ever saw, but if I…

The follow-up to Ryan Coogler’s surprisingly masterful Creed also holds the title in being the eighth instalment of the Rocky franchise, following Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis as he must defend…

We have all been there, doing our daily routines, relaxing until suddenly, we get a ring from an unknown number. We answer and on the other end are the words…

Felix van Groeningen’s adaptation of David and Nicolas Sheff’s respective autobiographies is a powerful tale of a young man stagnated by his drug addiction, and his father, struggling in coming…

Disney’s take on The Nutcracker and the Mouse King from 1816 is a spellbinding fusion of magic, mystery and classical music, sprinkled with beautiful ballet sequences starring Misty Copeland from…

The wizarding world returns with the sequel to the spinoff based off a textbook for the 8-film long series based on a 7-book long best-selling franchise. Is there still life…

CineCity and Duke of York’s Picturehouse provided us with the opportunity to see Lukas Dhont’s ‘Girl’ before its general release on March 15th, 2019. The film is Belgium’s official selection…

The team behind Embrace of the Serpent has returned with a new work which employs western and gangster film genres in a subversive and clever way. These two iconically Hollywood…

Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation plays a dangerous game of using the language it also satirises. Levinson’s film is a stylistically bold and flashy critique of the contemporary culture of violence…

Fresh from winning the Palme D’or at Cannes, Hirokazu Koreeda’s Manbiki kazoku (or ‘Shoplifters’) arrived at Brighton’s CINECITY Film Festival with a delicately assembled tale of a ‘family’ that exists…

This Woman’s Work is a series of short films from female directors, produced in the last twelve months. The event was presented by Channel 4’s Random Acts, a late night…

The early 19th Century Holy Trinity Church – since 1996 the home of one of Brighton’s leading contemporary arts organisations Fabrica – served as a stunning host to a new…