First Man chronicles Neil Armstrong’s (Ryan Gosling) life as a pilot, an astronaut and, a grieving father. All building up to the Apollo 11 Moon landing on 24th July 1969. There is a delicacy on show within First Man. The picture is always showing the silent determination of Armstrong […]
Neckface Trailer from Double Happy Films on Vimeo. What if you woke up on your wedding day with a face growing out of your neck? That’s the question that intrigued Sian Harries, who wrote, co-produced and starred in her debut film NeckFace, which has been nominated for a BAFTA […]
Aaron Farrell Venue Cymru’s ground floor bustled with interested folks perusing all manner of stalls. Though unlike the foreign streets we’ve all sojourned in hope of purchasing a divine trinket to hang on our walls, these stalls were giving to the punters. Stickers, postcards, Marine Conservation Society strategy guides and […]
Aaron Farrell A festival headlining set introduces Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper), a Country/Rock ’n’ Roll musician inflected with the meaty chords and funky dream beats of the likes of The Black Keys. He is clearly a titan of industry, revelling with his band, performing to the crowd and with […]
Lisa Parry There’s a line in my new play 2023 that I’ve been struggling with for months. In the scene where the 18-year-old Mary meets her ‘donor dad’ Chris for the first time – a man whose sperm donation made her existence possible – he references her Polish surname. For […]
Stuart Stanton It may seem somewhat presumptuous to champion a claim that this recent city has the historic right to declare itself the true capital of Wales. It has no obvious history earlier than the Norman Conquest and it was for over 400 years – until 1974 – legally a […]
Aaron Farrell Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is Colorado Springs first black cop and just the catalyst to herald a daring new mission for the sleepy precinct. Infiltrating the KkK. After Ron strikes up telephone contact through a, ‘Do you believe in White supremacy’ newspaper ad, he enlists Flip […]
Carwyn Graves One of our widely-recognised problems in Wales is that we don’t know how to tell our country’s story. Not to ourselves, nor to the world. As a result, parts of our story simply fade into the past, as if they never happened, and as if they didn’t have […]
Ifan Morgan Jones This isn’t so much a review of Simon Brooks’ new book, Adra: Byw yn y Gorllewin Cymraeg [Home: Living in the Welsh-language West] as a discussion of it. Because, as an intensly political book, there doesn’t seem to be much point in judging it as ‘good’ […]
Jon Gower The recent visit to west Wales by the former President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana served to underline a long and much-cherished connection between the two countries. It was one of many celebrations of the work of missionaries from Ceredigion who visited the African island two hundred years ago, […]
