Reviews

  • Bulbul Can Sing (Film)
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Movies & TV Shows, Reviews

    The London Indian Film Festival is now in its 10th year, bringing South Asian filmmaking talent to the capital with red carpet events at renowned independent film centres such as BFI Southbank and the Barbican Cinema. London’s oldest cinema, the Phoenix, north London and Stratford Picturehouse, east London are also amongst the venues showcasing the […]

  • Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (TV Show)
    Posted in: Movies & TV Shows, Reviews, Videos

    Black Mirror: Bandersnatch took the internet by storm this winter, but many felt like it let them down. On Telly Hot, Calum takes you through how creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones could have used the choose-your-own-adventure style to create something a bit more ‘Black Mirror’.

  • Colette (Film)
    Posted in: Movies & TV Shows, Reviews, Videos

    Colette is a biopic about the famous French author Colette starring Kiera Knightley and Dominic West. It’s a powerful film about identity and self-discovery with an important message. After the success of other period pieces like The Favourite, audiences will be flocking to this but is ‘Colette’ the film they’re expecting to see? Is it […]

  • Park Seo-Bo ZIGZAG: Ecriture (Exhibition)
    Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews

    When art critic John Ruskin saw an exhibition of American artist Whistler’s abstract paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 he so disliked the work he accused him of ‘flinging a pot of paint in the face of the public’. And if that paint was Dulux White and you accidentally stepped in it, the footprints […]

  • Moxy London (Bar)
    Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Reviews

    The regeneration of Stratford, East London has seen it become a centre of transport, communications, retail and commerce as well as a creative hub. Hot on the heels of these housing developments, Stratford International Station, the Olympic Stadium and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park are a cluster of bars and clubs, hotels and restaurants hoping to […]

  • Polterheist (Film)
    Posted in: Movies & TV Shows, Reviews

    The title should give it away, but don’t worry, this play on words will soon become self explanatory. Prepare for a few surprises because this low budget horror movie has a high budget feel and bridges one or two genres in an inimitable northern style. Filmed in Bradford, Leeds and Manchester, Polterheist draws you into […]

  • The Murdér Express (Theatre)
    Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Drama & Theatre, Food & Dining, Reviews

    A murder-mystery unfolds on the Murdér Express steam train departing from a reconstructed early 20th-century train station at the Pedley Street Arches, Brick Lane. Is it theatre? Is it a pop-up restaurant? Well, few before have ‘popped up’ with the lavish attention to detail and period grandeur of this immersive dining experience presented by award-winning […]