REAL CARDIFF: PETER FINCH | BOOK REVIEW
Peter Finch (Seren) Peter Finch has been writing about Cardiff since the turn of the millennium. Considering this is the fourth volume of his {Real Cardiff} series, he’s still got …
Peter Finch (Seren) Peter Finch has been writing about Cardiff since the turn of the millennium. Considering this is the fourth volume of his {Real Cardiff} series, he’s still got …
[wpdevart_youtube]hRKVxT4-1wM[/wpdevart_youtube] Mandy **** Dir: Panos Cosmatos Starring: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough (USA, 15, 2hrs 1min) Nicolas Cage seems to have two speeds; somnambulistic with occasional eccentricity, as witnessed in many …
GREAZY VEGAN 47-49 Castle Arcade, Cardiff. 07432 726091 / www.greazyvegan.com Food **** Atmosphere **** Starting out as a small pop-up night dotted around a few Cardiff pubs, Greazy Vegan has …
CARDIFF BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 BUZZ recently took the opportunity to check out the many choices on offer at the third Cardiff Book Festival. All events took place at Jurys Inn, …
2023 **** Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff Mon 8 Oct Lisa Parry’s vision of post-Brexit Britain isn’t the brightest. In the debuting playwright’s fictional future, the UK is a place of …
DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Fitzcarraldo Editions) From the winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize comes an acutely subversive …
Mary Golds: Grindstones and Rhinestones ***** The Lookout Cafe, Fri 5 Oct Mary Golds – celebrating a decade on the Cardiff drag scene by selling out her first one-woman-show at …
Moby Dick ***** Newport Transporter Bridge, Fri 4 Oct There were traders selling chickens, rum and coffins on the quayside. A young miss in a dirty dress badgered passersby to …
VOIVOD | LIVE REVIEW The Globe, Cardiff, Wed 3 Oct A full 35 years in the game, and Voivod still come onstage beaming. Beyond explaining it away on a …
[wpdevart_youtube]4rZ5Afqb6vU[/wpdevart_youtube] Tehran Taboo *** Dir: Ali Soozandeh Starring: Arash Marandi, Alireza Bayram, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (Germany/Iran, 15, 1hr 36mins) Extramarital sex, abortions, drugs and alcohol: common elements to Western filmmaking …
[wpdevart_youtube]nSbzyEJ8X9E[/wpdevart_youtube] A STAR IS BORN **** Dir: Bradley Cooper Starring: Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga (USA, 15, 2hrs 15mins) A fourth remake for a perennial Hollywood story. 1932 saw the first …
A YEAR IN PEMBROKESHIRE Jamie Owen and David Wilson (Graffeg) “A love story in prose and pictures” is how broadcaster Jamie Owen aptly describes this collaboration with photographer David Wilson. …
BABY BUSHKA | LIVE REVIEW Gwdihw, Cardiff, Tue 2 Oct The product of unfettered imagination and uncompromising vision, Kate Bush’s otherworldly prog pop was out of sync with everything …
Fractured Visions Film Festival **** (overall) Tramshed Cinema, Cardiff, Sat 29 – Sun 30 Sep. Cardiff’s first edition of the Fractured Visions Film Festival was overall a success. Stepping up …
Friendly Beast + Luz Friendly Beast (*****, Brazil, Dir: Gabriela Amaral) and Luz (*****, Germany, Dir: Tilman Singer) were by far the standouts of the festival, both coming away with …
The Features Of the features, the two most obvious standouts were Luz (*****, Germany, Dir: Tilman Singer) and Friendly Beast (*****, Brazil, Dir: Gabriela Amaral). Both deservedly won two awards …
The Shorts Each feature in Fractured Visions was paired up with a short film beforehand. These varied in quality, but the best were exquisite examples of short-form storytelling, refusing to …
HOYFEST 2018 | LIVE REVIEW Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Sat 29 + Sun 30 Sept It’s Hoyfest 2018, and although Clwb Ifor Bach remains fairly quiet for the first …
Now the Hero **** Wed 26 Sept, Swansea ‘‘All the world’s a stage…’’ declared Jaques, the character in Shakespeare’s famous play, As You Like It, and when it comes to …
BIKE **** The Full Moon, Cardiff, Thu 27 Sep A pleasant, warm late-summer/early-autumn night in Cardiff was the superb setting for BIKE, hailing all the way from Sao Paulo, …
THE LAZY LEEK King’s Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff. 029 2022 5270 / www.lazyleek.co.uk Food **** Atmosphere **** Tucked away in King’s Yard, one of the most pleasant hidey-holes in Cardiff, is …
Simon Reeve ***** St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Thu 20 Sep So this is Simon Reeve’s first ever tour, and to witness it was a treat. Simon Reeve didn’t come from …
HER WATCHFUL EYE Julie Corbin (Mulholland) Have you ever felt that someone’s watching you? Like the song? Well, they are. It’s a fact that there are more cameras on the …
SEMBLANCE **** Nyamakop (PC) Semblance doesn’t break any traditional narrative conventions. Its premise is simple – the gooey world you inhabit has been frozen solid, and your job is to fix …