Category: CULTURE
SEE NO EVIL RETURNS TO BRISTOL FOR 2012
After the huge success of last years See No Evil street art transformation of Nelson St in the heart of Bristol by over 70 artists, it’s been confirmed that the event will return on 16-19 August at Temple Mead and Temple Quay, near the train station in Bristol. Curated and organised by street art Inkie, [...]
REVIEW: CREATIVE COW PRESENTS…BORN IN THE GARDENS
Many theatre companies, when reviving a play that was first staged more than thirty years ago, would seek to update the piece with elaborate re-staging or contextual changes. Creative Cow’s triumph with Peter Nichols’ 1979 comedy is, in large part, down to the fact that they have remained faithful to the era and have staged [...]
REVIEW: MARLEY AT EXETER PICTUREHOUSE
Running at nearly two and a half hours long, this documentary by the Oscar-winning Kevin Macdonald paints a remarkable picture of the legendary Bob Marley. As well as the musical path of the great man, Marley covers many other angles: the background of Jamaican music that began with ska, Jamaica’s politics, the poverty in which [...]
REVIEW: MARVEL’S AVENGERS ASSEMBLE
It was in a short post-credits sequence in 2008′s comic adaptation Iron Man that Marvel first laid the groundwork for an Avengers movie: a superfilm of sorts that promised to one day unite the leads of Marvel’s film canon in a veritable orgy of punches, explosions and spandex/leather combos. Four years later, with the release [...]
EXCLUSIVE READER OFFER: 2-4-1 ENTRY TO BRISTOL AFFORDABLE ART FAIR 2012
Ahead of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic Games this year comes the most hotly anticipated local event of them all, as the Affordable Art Fair Bristol celebrates its tenth anniversary in May. Securing its position as THE art-buying destination in the South West with prices to suit all pockets, 55 galleries will be [...]
PLYMOUTH STUDENT DEBUTS WORK AT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The Film Department at Plymouth College of Art is celebrating outstanding success so far this year as students past and present continue to gain recognition of their filmmaking talent at well-respected film festivals on both sides of the pond. Tim Francis, who is currently in the second year of his Film Arts Foundation Degree, has [...]
REVIEW: 21 JUMP STREET
A common problem with modern comedies, especially the funnier ones, is the purported need for a satisfying, well rounded story. Some, such as 2007′s Superbad, are able to weave an organic narrative that compliments and enhances the comedy, whilst others only manage to muster a skeletal, formulaic plot that often more resembles a feature-length joke [...]
THE LIBERTINES: THERE ARE NO INNOCENT BYSTANDERS SCREENINGS POSTPONED
The film tour for The Libertines – There Are no Innocent Bystanders has been postponed. The tour which, was due to begin today, to take place in key cities at the O2 Academy venues, has been rescheduled to take place at the end of April 2012. The decision was taken as Roger Sargent, the band’s [...]
REVIEW: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT PLYMOUTH’S THEATRE ROYAL (13/03/12)
The Phantom of the Opera has been a long running success for Andrew Lloyd Webber and now in it’s 25th year, I went along to see what all the fuss was about. Seated in the circle seats I first noticed a massive chandelier hanging precariously over the audience in the seats below. The first night [...]
INTERVIEW WITH DOUG STANHOPE
Doug Stanhope has been doing stand-up comedy for over 21 years. The American’s style ranges from “true-life” graphic perversion to volatile social critism”, but whatever he chooses, you can guarantee it will be an alcohol fuelled evening for both Doug and the audience. Before hitting the road, Doug took some jet-lagged time out to speak [...]
ST WERBURGHS TUNNEL GRAFFITI JAM
Spring sprang into life over the first weekend of March 2012 with two days of live graffiti at St Werburghs Tunnel, Bristol painting when members of the KTF and RAW crews plus assorted friends, family and dogs took over the entire tunnel to celebrate the opening of a new show of work at The Farm [...]
WIN DEVIATION DVD
We’ve teamed up with Revolver Entertainment and Silverleaf Productions to giveaway three copies of Danny Dyer’s new film Deviation on DVD. Released this week, the psychological thriller stars Dyer and Anna Walton is set in today’s London; Deviation takes viewers on a fearful ride in the knowledge that despite the city supposedly being awake 24/7, [...]
THE DEVIL IS AN ASS AT PLYMOUTH DRUM THEATRE
The Peoples’ Company is open to anyone aged over eighteen and it supported by the Theatre Royal’s Creative Learning Department. They regularly put on full-scale productions within the Drum Theatre and 247 spoke to Matt Hall the director of their latest show, to ask what had attracted them this time to The Devil is an [...]
CAST REVEALED FOR PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT PLYMOUTH THEATRE ROYAL
Cameron Mackintosh has announced full casting for the spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, which premieres at the Theatre Royal Plymouth next month. Simon Bailey will star as ‘Raoul’, Angela M. Caesar as ‘Carlotta’, Andy Hockley as ‘Monsieur Firmin’, Simon Green as ‘Monsieur Andre’, Elizabeth Marsh as ‘Madame Giry’, [...]
REVIEW: YOUNG ADULT
Charlize Theron stars in Young Adult, a comedy-drama about a writer of popular teen novels who returns to her Midwestern hometown in an attempt to woo her high-school boyfriend, hoping to lure him from his wife and baby in the process. Young Adult is a bold movie: asking the audience to identify with someone whose [...]
GOING DARK OPENS AT THE DRUM THEATRE, PLYMOUTH
How far can you see? A mile? A hundred miles? Or to the furthest shores of the universe to a far away galaxy? These are the questions posed to us in Going Dark, a new play by devised by the Sound and Fury company. 247 spoke to writer Hattie Naylor to discuss her vision: Firstly [...]
FORMER EASTENDERS STAR JAMES ALEXANDROU FEATURES IN DNA AT PLYMOUTH’S DRUM THEATRE
A recognisable play and very recognisable face are coming to The Drum in Plymouth at the beginning in February. DNA was first written by Dennis Kelly as part of the National Theatre’s Connections project but since that time has become a core set text on the GCSE English syllabus. 247 spoke to actor James Alexandrou [...]
HORSE PISS FOR BLOOD DEBUTS AT PLYMOUTH’S DRUM THEATRE
The Drum Theatre Plymouth presents Horse Piss For Blood, a new play by Carl Grose. Horse Piss For Blood runs in the Drum Theatre from Thursday 23 February until Saturday 10 March and is directed by Theatre Royal Artistic Director Simon Stokes. Cornish conspiracy theorist Virgil Ploy is paranoid. He thinks that everyone is out [...]
HOTEL CHOCOLAT TEAMS UP WITH EXETER PICTUREHOUSE FOR VALENTINE’S DAY
Luxury chocolatier and cocoa grower, Hotel Chocolat, is appealing to romantic, chocolate-loving filmgoers across the UK with the launch of a limited edition chocolate to celebrate Valentine’s Day and the release of the quirky romantic comedy, ‘Romantic Anonymous’ . Indeed the chocolate has been specially created to celebrate the release of the film, and is [...]
REGINALD D HUNTER JOINS LAUGH OUT LOUD LINE-UP
This year’s Laugh Out Loud Festival held in various venues across Exeter involves more shows and more venues, showcasing some of the biggest names on the current comedy scene. The award-winning comedian Reginald D Hunter is the latest comedian to be added to the line-up. A regular on Have I Got News For You, the [...]
