• The Jewel in Netflix’s Crown

    ‘The Crown’, Netflix’s sumptuous new drama has been out for several weeks now, and has us all hooked. From the first minute its clear to see the amount of money that has been ploughed into the show, and to great effect.  The music, costumes and locations are all of...
  • Spoiler Alert! Fantastic Beasts is Here!

    The global success of JK Rowling’s wizarding world of Harry Potter has provided her with the freedom to breathe new life into the franchise, transporting audience members effortlessly from Hogwarts to the wider world, which allows viewers to rediscover the magical appeal of spells, wizardry and, of course, fantastic...
  • The Accountant: More Exciting Than It Sounds?

    Ironically, for a film whose eponymous character’s autism equips him with an almost supernatural talent for mathematics, something about this movie just doesn’t add up! The Accountant is centred around Ben Affleck’s character, Christian Wolff, who has autism, echoing that of Dustin Hoffman’s portrayal of Raymond Babbitt in 1988’s...
  • Creepy or Cool? First Impressions of ‘Humans’

    Humans is an amazing and in-depth portrayal of what our world would look like if it was filled with robots that could do everything for us, and more importantly with AIs that think and feel like we do. Season Two starts off with a bang, and promises to be...
  • Nocturnal Animals: Full of Unfulfilled Promise

    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...
  • A week on…life after Bake Off

    It’s been a week since the Great British Bake Off ended, and it has slowly started to sink in that we shall never again watch Mary Berry seductively eat a piece of cake, inspect for soggy bottoms or send someone a disapproving look when she believes them to be...
  • Black History Month: Generation Revolution Review

    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...