WALES ALES | MARCH
WALES ALES No St David’s Day celebration is complete without a Welsh beer to toast the nation’s patron saint, so here’s how to quench your thirst on March 1st. Reviews …
WALES ALES No St David’s Day celebration is complete without a Welsh beer to toast the nation’s patron saint, so here’s how to quench your thirst on March 1st. Reviews …
SORCHA RICHARDSON | LIVE REVIEW Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Wed 26 Feb With a healthy amount of monthly listeners and a lead single with 13 million streams on Spotify, …
A DEATH IN MAYFAIR Mark Ellis (Headline) This noirish detective novel from Mark Ellis, a thriller writer from Swansea, is set in 1941 against the backdrop of the Second World …
GHOST STORIES New Theatre, Cardiff Tue 25 Feb ***** I’m a wimp. I watch horror films through my fingers and won’t go upstairs without the light on. So, being “locked …
THE 1975 | LIVE REVIEW Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Sun 23 Feb What’s not to like about tonight’s headliners at The Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff? In singer Matt Healy, The …
DARK WATERS **** Dir: Todd Haynes (12A, 126 mins) A solid, worthy drama that makes full use of star Mark Ruffalo’s environmental credentials, this shocking true story angers and informs …
WORKING MEN’S CLUB / LAZARUS KANE | LIVE REVIEW Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Thurs 20 Feb Fat White Family’s influence may be overstated by besotted music journalists, but they’ve …
BABYMETAL | LIVE REVIEW Great Hall, Cardiff University Students Union, Thurs 20 Feb There was a time, not so long ago, when a non-English speaking band would have been …
DOWNHILL *** Dir: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash (15, 90 mins) If anyone has seen the brilliant Force Majeure, this remake feels rather offensive. It was a superb darkly comic Swedish …
COMPRESSION Tim Cundle (Earth Island) Compression, the debut novel by Welsh author Tim Cundle, was originally going to be released in the mid-2000s, but the publisher died. Then it was …
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE **** Dir: Céline Sciamma (15, 121 mins) A simmering, intense romance played with heartbreaking conviction, this 18th-century tale, set on a remote island in …
CAMPAIGN FOR MUSICAL DESTRUCTION TOUR | LIVE REVIEW Tramshed, Cardiff, Wed 19 Feb Having already had Storm Dennis rip through south Wales in the past few days, there’s the …
THE INVISIBLE MAN **** Dir: Leigh Whannell (15, 100 mins) A reimagining of the classic novel by H.G. Wells, this stalker thriller rachets up the tension with Elisabeth Moss anchoring …
GENTLEMAN’S DUB CLUB | LIVE REVIEW Y Plas, Cardiff University Students Union, Sun 16 Feb Even for Sunday night, the city centre was eerily quiet. Storm Dennis was phoning …
DUBIOZA KOLEKTIV | LIVE REVIEW The Globe, Cardiff, Tue 18 Feb We’re often told that gigs are meant to be these wonderful collective experiences, but more often than not …
GREED *** Dir: Michael Winterbottom (15, 104 mins) A critique of the super-rich and their ability to exploit, Greed is a showcase for Steve Coogan but remains a somewhat formless and …
EXPOSITION Nathalie Léger, trans. Amanda DeMarco (Les Fugitives) Part-biography, part-autofiction, part-essayistic collage, Exposition is resistant to categorisation. A deceptively conventional premise sees Nathalie Léger’s narrator given the task of curating …
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA’S THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay Sun 16 Feb ***** With their first season of 2020, Welsh National Opera offer up an accessible and …
FASCINATING AÏDA: THEY’RE BACK AT LAST St David’s Hall, Cardiff Sat 15 Feb ***** With a career spanning almost four decades, Fascinating Aïda still manage to delight, charm and shock …
THE CALL OF THE WILD *** Dir: Chris Sanders (12A, 101 mins) Jack London’s classic dog-based adventure gets the fully rendered photorealistic animals treatment that made The Lion King look …
CABANE **** Grande Est La Maison (Cabane Music) This elegant debut from Belgian writer/composer Thomas Jean Henri enlists Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and This Is The Kit’s Kate Stables to croon …
A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED New Theatre, Cardiff Tue 11 Feb *** In Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced, the killing doesn’t simply happen out of the blue. In fact, all the …
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA’S LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay Sat 8 Feb *** Based on a real historical event which occurred in Sicily in 1282, Verdi’s rarely staged …
COUNT ARTHUR STRONG: IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? Sherman Theatre, Cardiff Fri 7 Feb **** There is no question that Count Arthur Strong – the legendary comedy creation from the …