Entertainment

Nick Rowland’s feature length debut is an unrelenting tale of split loyalties, taking the well trodden ground of choosing between your blood family or your chosen one yet making it feel bracingly fresh.

Visually Back to the Future the Musical is spectacular. The show arrived in Manchester bringing the hit film onto the stage and into the 21st century.

The UK’s biggest celebration of new Spanish and Latin American cinema ¡Viva! Festival is back at HOME for its 26th year.

The stars will be out and converging on the Odeon Manchester Great Northern tonight as the city’s International Film Festival enters its sixth year of running.

To celebrate International Women’s Day, The Deaf Institute are hosting an evening of female hip hop artists with MC, poet, and all-round superstar Shay D taking the top spot.

Little Wimmin by Figs in Wigs runs 5-7, 11-14 March 2020 at HOME Manchester. https://homemcr.org/production/little-wimmin/

You can run. You can hide. But there is no escaping Lewis Capaldi. No matter how hard you might try.

The Manchester Open Exhibition has already attracted over 20,000 visitors, 200% more than its intended target. Queues were out the door as 3,750 people visited in total over the opening weekend, with a record-breaking number of attendees to the launch party on January 18.

As An Evening with Whitney rocked up at the Manchester Apollo, there had already been a fair-share of complaining that people had willingly paid up to £70 to see a hologram. MM’s Richard Brown went to see for himself what all the fuss was about…

The long hair and luxe vintage garms definitely made an appearance on stage on Friday night at Manchester’s Academy 2. Fortunately for Temples, when on stage their swoon-worthy style is met with equal substance.

I’m looking at the phrase ‘Sleater Kinney’ written in an understated font on a drumhead from the front row of the Manchester Academy, and reflecting that at one point in the career of this riot grrrl behemoth, I would not have been allowed into the room.