Film Reviews

Chaotic, comical and self-aware, The Super Awesome Happy Fun-Time Trick Performance by Ben Webber is an absurdist piece of comedy that is reminiscent of meta-theatrical works such as The Play That Goes Wrong, where the boundaries of the set, the audience, and the characters themselves are constantly broken down....

The Amateur Dramatics Society, UoN’s resident crew of theatrically-inclined medics, rarely disappoint with their annual Medic’ Musical, and this year was no exception! Expect laughs, impressive singing, and unexpected acrobatics in their rendition of the Pirates of Penzance, on show at the Nottingham Arts Theatre until the 26th November....

A Beautiful Thing did not shy away from audience participation, and frequently invited the audience to play an active role. This was a fact which seemed to come as news to the onlookers at the Lofthouse Theatre, Nottingham, where the play was shown on the 22nd of November. Despite...

Closer is a play about four individuals who form different sets of couples. Set in 1990s London, it is a tale of lust, love, deception and betrayal that at times is disturbing in its portrayal of what people can do to each other but is also simultaneously a reminder...

Naked, plus-sized women dancing in slow motion with pom-poms and sparklers to an Americana drenched backdrop. Welcome to Nocturnal Animals. Renowned fashionista Tom Ford made his directorial debut in 2009 with the critically acclaimed A Single Man, the story of a university professor who struggles to cope with the...

As part of Black History Month, the Nottingham New Art Exchange screened Generation Revolution in collaboration with the University of Nottingham. The film was followed by a Q and A with the films’ directors and a member of the Nottingham branch of Black Lives Matter. The film looked at the...

The monumental success of Marvel’s core Iron Man and Captain America films has given them the freedom to pursue more offbeat and risky projects, such as Ant Man, Guardians of the Galaxy and now Doctor Strange, which takes the series in an exciting, psychedelic new direction.    Benedict Cumberbatch...