16th June 2022 After its nine year run in Queens Square ended in 2019, Bristol Comedy Garden expanded and moved its annual stand up extravaganza to the Downs last year. However, we were still shaking off the shackles of… Continue Reading
2-3 June 2022 From its origins in Castle and Eastville Park via a brief detour in the Downs, Love Saves the Day enters its second decade. This year sees the festival’s first outing at Ashton Court. LSTD encounters the tricky… Continue Reading
Hollywood’s profitable propensity for recycling its own young in the name of a sure bet blockbuster is writ large over this latest effort, with Tom Cruise sporting his patented shit-eating grin at every opportunity as director Joseph Kosiniski re-visits… Continue Reading
25th May 2022 (photo by Poonah Ghana) Seven tunes into tonight’s nine song opening slot for Australian indie rock outfit Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, fellow Aussie Stella Donnelly admits “this is something a support act should never do”… Continue Reading
18th May 2022 “It’s a testament to the strength of our Mayfest audiences that so many of you have turned up this evening” says festival co-director Kate Yedigaroff in referencing the torrential weather conditions and the as-good-as capacity turn out… Continue Reading
Robert Eggers’ (The Witch, The Lighthouse) third film expands the themes of his previous films (how humans and the supernatural interact in accurately portrayed historical settings) and sets them in Dark Ages Scandinavia with all the bloody violence… Continue Reading
28th March 2022 Jacques (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A Prophet, Rust and Bone, Dheepan) Audiard’s latest offering is somewhat of a departure from his usual gritty examinations of crime and marginalized figures from urban French society.… Continue Reading
2nd March 2022 Written in far-off 1981 in the early throes of Thatcherism, ‘Decadence’ is Steven Berkoff’s (British theatre’s senex terrible, darlings) savage takedown of British class attitudes and 1980s excess. Given that the yuppie phenomenon and associated materialistic,… Continue Reading