I AM BELMAYA | FILM REVIEW
A necessary and moving watch, documentary film I Am Belmaya allows a young Nepalese filmmaker to tell her story.
A necessary and moving watch, documentary film I Am Belmaya allows a young Nepalese filmmaker to tell her story.
Tomohiko Itō's Hello World is the kind of ambitious and interesting storytelling you’d expect from a filmmaker finally let loose from the franchise pen.
Kieron Self casts a critical eye over the latest offerings from Netflix – it’s a mixed bag. CRIP CAMP Dir: Nicole Newnham, James Lebrecht (12A 106 mins) This superb documentary …
ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS | GAME REVIEW Animal Crossing: New Horizons may be exactly what the world needs right now. Although that may seem a little hyperbolic, couldn’t we all …
Fight off the boredom with these five board game recommendations, from John-Paul Davies and Ben Woolhead You’ve Got Crabs (Exploding Kittens) This is a new one for us. A one-joke card game, with …
I’M AFRAID THAT’S ALL WE’VE GOT TIME FOR Jen Calleja (Prototype) From a London-based writer, a debut collection of short fiction that’s consistently inventive, envelopingly surreal and biting in its …
News, views and reviews of Welsh brews by Neil at Wales Ales. The Great Welsh Beer Festival was supposed to take place this month, but is now unfortunately postponed until …
SORRY WE MISSED YOU (DVD) Not billed in any overt sense as a followup to 2016’s benefits system-denouncing I, Daniel Blake, this latest barrel of Newcastle-set grit from Ken Loach …
GOOD RIDDANCE Elinor Lipman (Lightning Books) The chocolatier protagonist of Good Riddance cannot really be described as an everywoman. However, like a good Austen novel, with whom Lipman has been compared …
FATTY FAT FAT The Other Room at Porter’s, Cardiff Thurs 12 Mar **** Katie Greenall’s one-woman play was a lovely addition to The Other Room’s Spring Fringe season, which has …
AN INSPECTOR CALLS New Theatre, Cardiff Tue 10 March ***** First opening at the National Theatre in 1992, Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s classic thriller is the …
MADAME OVARY Sherman Theatre, Cardiff Thurs 5 Mar ***** Intensely moving, effortlessly funny and intelligently crafted, Madame Ovary is a real-life tale of being diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the …