Nottingham Creative Community News

Foxfinder Review - Lace Market Theatre

Adrian Reynolds checked out Lace Market Theatre's timely revival of Foxfinder...

Film Review: IT Chapter Two

12 September 19

Lifelong coulrophobia wasn't enough to stop Ben Lawrence checking out IT Chapter Two...

Film Review: Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth

09 September 19

Jeanie Finlay's latest documentary follows the story of Freddy McConnell, a gay trans man, on his journey to fatherhood...

Living Mindfully with a Visit to Pure Land Japanese Gardens

05 September 19

Need a break? Just outside of the city, in Newark, there’s a little slice of paradise at Pure Land Meditation Centre & Japanese Garden. We went to meet Buddha Maitreya, the zen-fuelled, scone-making owner who welcomed us in to a Lantern Lit Evening – running this September…

Entirely Hollow Aside From the Dark - Creswell Crags

04 September 19

Mother Earth comes alive at Creswell Crags, with their ongoing Entirely Hollow Aside From the Dark installation...

Matt Jordan at Spit and Sawdust

04 September 19

Matt Jordan's been picking up discarded materials and giving them a new life. What appears to be playful, colour popping artwork might actually have darker imagery behind it. I got down to check it out...

Film Review: Pain and Glory

02 September 19

Pedro Almodóvar's semi-autobiographical story is screening at Broadway Cinema now...

Film Review: Hail Satan?

02 September 19

Fabrice Gagos headed down to Broadway Cinema to check out Mayhem's screening of Hail Satan?

RE:PRESENT – Neil Roberts at Surface Gallery

27 August 19

Painting punters should get their skates on to catch the last few days of this excellent show of a brush-master’s craft. Adrian Shaw got down to Surface to catch the tail end of it...

Film Review: Otherhood

19 August 19

Our Miriam Blakemore-Hoy was less-than-impressed with Cindy Chupack's new Netflix film...

Film Review: Vita and Virginia

19 August 19

Chanya Button's new film about the love affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West has divided critical opinion. Here's our two cents...

Film Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

19 August 19

Quentin Tarantino's highly anticipated ninth film is in cinemas now...

Film Review: Blinded by the Light

14 August 19

We went to check out Gurinder Chadha's feel-good story of a British-Pakistani teenager growing up in 1980s Luton whose life is changed by the discovery of Bruce Springsteen...

Film Review: Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans

12 August 19

Terry Deary's books might an institution to those of us that grew up in Britain, but how will our French-born film reviewer react to the big-screen adaptation of Rotten Romans?

Theatre Review: Coram Boy

09 August 19

We were hugely impressed by the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company's stage adaptation of Jamilia Gavin’s book, Coram Boy...

Review: The School of Artisan Food's Foraging and Wild Food Cookery Course

03 August 19

We wandered the gardens of the Welbeck Estate to see what delectable delights we could scoff...

Film Review: Knife+Heart

29 July 19

A porn producer, a broken heart, a serial killer… what more could we want from a French thriller?

Theatre Review: Much Ado About Nothing

24 July 19

Much Ado Theatre brought Shakespeare's comedy to the Canal House's beer garden...

Film Review: The Lion King

23 July 19

The pursuit of this hyper-realistic reimagining seems to be to create something convincing, but in a plot that surrounds lions and meerkats singing together in perfect harmony, audiences don’t want to be convinced, they want to be entertained…