Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 17th May IF (U) From director John Krasinski, this funny and fantastical family comedy, could be the perfect start to summer seasons at the cinema.
“I’d already gone to bed,†says Beverley Senturk, locally famous for getting up early to photograph the Scarborough sunrise, “but when the lights came through the window, I got up and rushed out to capture them.†We’re discussing the fabled phenomenon of the aurora borealis which recently lit up the night sky of much of the northern coast (and elsewhere throughout northern Europe),…
Artwork by one of UK land artist goes on display at Scarborough Art Gallery this summer in an exhibition which has been postponed following essential work on its original venue, Woodend.
Canal & River Trust, the charity that looks after Sheffield & Tinsley Canal, has confirmed that a new floating sculpture by internationally renowned artist Alex Chinneck has been granted planning permission. The ambitious new commission will be installed on the Tinsley Flight, close to Tinsley Marina later this year and is the first time the artist has embarked on a floating artwork.
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. Still Showing Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (12a) From director Wes Ball (The Maze Runner) comes this highly anticipated return to this iconic sci-fi/fantasy franchise.
As part of plans to further grow the screen industry across West Yorkshire and support diverse communities accessing creative jobs, the region’s screen agency has launched their latest Skills Connect training programme. Beyond Brontes: The Mayor’s Screen Diversity Programme, is once again open for applications and will run a series of practical sessions over the summer months.
A pioneering virtual production project is set to shake-up the traditional approach to digital arts training and education in the North East. Working in partnership with leading regional technical organisations, Gateshead College has brought together students from film production, scriptwriting, art, gaming, performing arts and music to produce a large-scale unique piece of work.
The Yorkshire Fossil Festival celebrates its 10th birthday this late May Bank Holiday weekend with its first ever visit to Redcar. The popular festival has had two remarkably successful years post-Covid, with crowds flocking to Scarborough’s Spa in 2022 and Whitby Museum in 2023. This year, the team are heading to the TunedIn!
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases.
The Faith Museum presents an evening of conversation with prominent British artist Mat Collishaw and Elizabeth Oldfield, host of The Sacred podcast, in the Throne Room of Auckland Castle on Tuesday 7th May, 7pm – 9pm.
JM Finn is sponsor the National Treasures exhibition at the York Art Gallery featuring Monet’s ‘The Water-Lily Pond.’ National Treasures is a key strand of the National Gallery’s programme celebrating the Gallery’s Bicentenary.
When one of the favourite places to pursue your art is amongst the most filmed, photographed, drawn, painted and written about in the UK, it takes a special talent to create images that bring a different dimension to such a familiar location.
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 26th April I.S.S. (15) This tense and claustrophobic sci-fi thriller comes from director Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish) and is breathless in every sense of the word.
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 19th April Abigail (15) Home invasion with a toothy twist.
Abstract impressionist painter Emma Butler is to bring her vibrant, colourful landscapes to Darlington with the opening of her first solo exhibition. Entitled Joy, Emma will showcase her beautifully bold work at Gallerina, in Darlington, which is home to some of the country’s best contemporary fine artists.
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 12th April Back To Black (12a) Marisa Abela is Amy Winehouse in this biopic from director Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy).
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 5th April Monkey Man (18) Dev Patel stars in and directs this critically acclaimed action thriller, which comes from producer Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us).
From the towering, seabird-shrouded cliffs at Bempton to the expansive sandy beach at Filey, artist Jason Hicklin’s walk has inspired a collection of etchings that provide a dramatic new vision of Yorkshire’s heritage coast. Seven prints created from the etchings, some 1 x1.5 metres in size, will get their premiere at an exhibition at Watermark Gallery in Harrogate between 12 and 27 April.
Andrew Liddle talks to two men who worked together on a very special local project The village of Skinningrove, hidden in a steep valley on the north-east coast between Port Mulgrave and Saltburn, is easy to overlook.
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 29th March Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (12a) Prepare yourselves for a new empire in the MonsterVerse!
A Teesside University academic is calling for volunteers to get involved in the creation of a new film about the region’s coalmining history.
Andrew Liddle talks to a local graphic artist about his posters of Preston David Robinson is a Prestonian through and through and the clean lines of his clear, bright retro travel posters, many of them done in blues and whites and creams – “Preston colours†- are buzzing with the talk of the town where he was raised and still lives.
There is a scene in Moonraker where James Bond has just landed in California, searching for the eponymous stolen space shuttle. He is helicoptered to the home of the evil Hugo Drax and is astonished to see the mansion that, although filmed at Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, in France, for the purposes of the script, 007 has been told was recreated brick by brick on the Drax estate.
A Yorkshire annual art exhibition has attracted a record number of entries this year. The Ones To Watch exhibition at the Sunny Bank Mills Art Gallery in Farsley, between Leeds and Bradford, is now open and runs until April 21. It is focused on talented emerging artists and makers with Yorkshire connections.
Andrew Liddle talks to David Starley about his latest exhibition of local artists from the past Acclaimed Yorkshire artists like Joe Pighills, Percy Monkman and Tom Clifton Butterfield will be among the 30 local artists from the past whose work will be on view at The Bingley Gallery.
Soundscapes - an immersive audio-visual installation that invites audiences on a sensory journey through the Yorkshire Dales - is now open to the public until June. Created by the immersive media artist Michaela French and composer Ben Crick, Soundscapes will showcase the diverse scenery of the Yorkshire Dales.
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases.
To mark Women’s History Month, the National Science and Media is celebrating female photography pioneers, Anna Atkins and Julia Margaret Cameron who were both instrumental in the development of modern photography.
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 8th March Imaginary (15) This new horror from Blumhouse sees all far from well with Chauncey, a young girl’s imaginary friend, who resides within her teddy bear.
The historic Newburgh Priory in Coxwold, one of Yorkshire’s "most beautiful country houses", is hosting a series of on-going art courses this year. These one-day Retreats will be tutored by award-winning Yorkshire artist Patrick Smith.