Aaron Farrell Following on from the success of last year’s Ocean Film Festival, the Banff Mountain Film Festival is coming back to Wales. It will offer a series of films that will undoubtedly leave the audience in awe of the on-screen heroes and the inspired connections they create with the […]
Dylan Wyn Williams Sorry, Vera and Les Mis. There’s a new exciting Welsh language kid on the block to occupy our Sunday nights. Set in a bland courtroom and an eerie hotel in Bridgend County, 35 Awr (35 Hours) works its way back following the trials (boom! boom!) and tribulations of a jury thrown […]
Aaron Farrell Undoubtedly set to be contrasted with The Favourite for being a female-led, historical period piece released in the run up to awards season, Mary Queen of Scots is an enjoyable and important film in its own right. Though it isn’t upsetting any waters we haven’t seen before in […]
When satire is this polished and proud, we can take heart that satirists, in all mediums, are safe from censorship. Probably because of the infighting of those that want to control their countries and states but are too busy dancing, prancing and unromancing. Yorgos Lanthimos is fast becoming […]
Bethan Sayed, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West ‘They’re making Banksy mugs, coasters, t shirts and stuff in the town already to sell to the tourists coming! We’re getting 2,000 people a day visiting the garage, from as far away as Australia. I think someone wants to write a […]
2019 will start with a bang for Roger Williams – quite literally, as the writer/producer gets ready to bring a new series of hit S4C gritty crime drama Bang to the small screen. Drawing critical acclaim and securing best drama awards from BAFTA Cymru and the Celtic Media Festival, […]
Aaron Farrell I first saw Thunder Road in Screenwriting class during my first year at University. We were particularly interested in the short film as a form of visual storytelling. Within that one take, I was in awe of the presence of an emotionally erratic man grieving his mother. […]
Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price will conclude the 2018 leg of his leader’s tour with a visit to the International Politics Hall at Aberystwyth University tonight, December 13, at 7pm. Here are some key extracts from his new book The First and Final Colony. We’ve comforted ourselves too […]
Aaron Farrell ‘Thwip and release, thwip and release,’ prompts Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson) teaching a young Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) to web-swing through white powdered pine trees as they flee an in-pursuit Doc Ock (Katherine Hahn – that’s right, an inspired female Octavius). This astutely observed and delectably […]
Aaron Farrell La Cenerentola is an operatic Cinderella story, as told by the music of Gioachini Rossini, famed 19th century Italian composer. The Welsh National Opera’s La Cenerentola is layered with playful meta-humour, grand staging and a vivid colour spectrum (seemingly born in Terry Gilliam’s dreams) that drenches the […]
