Beauty and the Beast

Whilst many cultural categories are often dominated by rulings and ratings of what’s hot and what’s not (fashion, I’m looking at you); film and television tend to be one area of the arts that manages to side-step this treatment and flourish in its own variety. However, in an attempt to...

2017 heralds the arrival of the latest live-action adaptation of the Disney classic starring Emma Watson as Belle, however, the latest announcement from director Bill Condon tells us that there is going to be a bit of a diversion from the original animated version which will give visibility to the...

While many are aware of the Gregorian calendar, there is another one that runs parallel to it: the film calendar. Such a schedule means that months like March and September are “in-betweeners”. They don’t quite belong to the artsy-fartsy films of awards season, nor with the somewhat hum drum...

No beastly performances were present at this beautiful production of Beauty and the Beast. Northern Ballet, and particularly, David Nixon have outdone themselves with this visually spectacular interpretation of a well-known fairy-tale. The two-hour performance was seemingly faultless, thanks to the well-oiled machine behind the incredibly emotive and highly...

It’s finally here; the long-anticipated addition to the new set of accumulating Disney live action remakes, which includes the hugely popular Maleficent (2014) and Cinderella (2015). The official trailer for the magical Beauty and the Beast (2017) does not disappoint. From the outset of the trailer, where the soft...