By Leslie Pitt @Afrofilmviewer Nanni Moretti’s latest feature certainly feels like a personal feature. The film deals with an overworked political filmmaker (Margherita Buy), who struggles to cope with balancing her working life while the trauma of a dying matriarch lingers over both herself and her brother (Moretti). The personal elements of the film creep through not only in the film within a film aspect (which hints at the directors left leaning sensibilities in on a surface level), but with...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @davidjdewinter Chelsea striker Diego Costa was back in the news at the weekend (surprise, surprise) after altercations with Arsenal defenders Gabriel and Laurent Koscielny during the two teams' clash at Stamford Bridge, which saw the former sent off.  Chelsea eventually won the match 2-0 but the victory came at a price as the Spain forward has retrospectively been banned for three matches by the Football Association for his part...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent The new Tate Modern is to open to the public on Friday 17 June 2016, Tate announced today, with school children from around the UK invited to visit on the day before the opening to explore the new building and respond to the modern and contemporary art on display. Created by world-leading architects Herzog & de Meuron, the new Tate Modern will feature a complete re-hang, bringing together much-loved works from the collection with new...

By Michael McNulty From the minute Pierce Brosnan’s face appears in medium close up in the first scene and he utters the words “I’m sorry, truly, because I fucked up” it almost feels like he could be apologising to the viewer for what they are about to endure. This scene and the rest of Lessons in Love is as about as convincing as Pierce Brosnan was playing James Bond. It’s a mishmash of poorly written, averagely filmed, unconvincing scenes that...

Willie J Healey has announced the forthcoming release of his second EP Saturday Night Feeling  on November 6th. Check out lead single 'Dude Like Him' below for some summer vibes in the vein of Maccabees and Hooton Tennis Club. ‘Dude Like Him’, demonstrates a more direct and punchy side to Willie’s typically hazy and meandering surf-rock persona. He is, in his own words ‘a lover of all things simple, cult films, surf tones and the girl next door’. Willie deals in...

By Emma Silverthorn (@HouseOf_Gazelle) In The Disappearance of Dorothy Lawrence theatre group Vital Xposure is set to tell another hidden story from an otherwise repressed voice. In the centenary year of the Suffragette movement it’s not surprising to find more art dealing with the stories of those women key within it; with the film Suffragette, out next month and starring powerhouse Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst, being the most high profile of all. But Dorothy Lawrence is not a well-known...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  A pop up restaurant in Borough Market serving stale bread as a main ingredient has been set up to highlight food waste. Great British Bake Off champion Nancy Birtwhistle joined forces with national charity Love Food Hate Waste to create a menu with one requirement – each course had to contain bread which had gone stale. They cooked up the idea after figures revealed that 24 million slices of bread are thrown away in the UK...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  The biggest decisions in life are made in the kitchen, new research reveals. A typical homeowner makes 208 important decisions while in the kitchen each year, with career moves, kids’ schooling and relationship chats among the burning issues. Research into the home lives of 2,000 people uncovered the kitchen as the hub of the home, with four in 10 saying it’s the most likely room to play host to ‘family meetings’. One in 10 made...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Over the past couple of years, there’s been a rapid growth in focus on sharing within some of London’s best restaurants. Personally, I have absolutely no qualms against this ‘Social Food’ concept, as OPSO put it. However, most Londoners (and most of my friends) are a bit selfish when it comes to Food and they’re not so keen on the concept of sharing. Unfortunately, this is a bit of a disadvantage for restaurants such...