Jon Gower It’s been a while since Cardiff’s docklands have offered a setting for crime fiction. In the late 90s we had police tag team Dave Brade and Glyndwr Jenkins in novels such as Bay City, The Tattooed Detective, Forget It and Torch by David Craig (a.k.a former newspaper reporter […]
Ifan Morgan Jones This is a review and discussion of the book Wales – England’s Colony?, rather than the two part TV series that will screen on BBC2 Wales tomorrow night (Monday) at 9pm. Although I would presumes of course that the argument put forth by Professor of History at […]
Benjiman Angwin Gyda llai o siaradwyr na’r Gymraeg – tua 300,000 – mae Llywodraeth Gwlad yr Iâ’n ariannu 12 ffilm y flwyddyn yn Islandeg. Mae cannoedd o ffilmiau wedi’u cynhyrchu yn Islandeg, ond mae llai na 30 o ffilmiau’n bodoli yn yr iaith Gymraeg. Mae’n swm pitw ac yn embaras […]
Aaron Farrell The Banff Mountain Film Festival came to Venue Cymru, Llandudno in all its mountainous and awe-inspiring glory on March 1st 2019. Its prerogative was to showcase seven audacious films of varying lengths and subject matters. All had the relative themes of adventure, discovery and overcoming the […]
Essex Havard The National History Museum (popularly known as St Fagans) is as close to the social and folk soul of Wales as it is possible to get. Since its opening in 1948, millions of people have visited its serene grounds, Elizabethan manor house and many iconic buildings from around […]
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 […]
