Entertainment

Dan Haygarth reviews the latest Amazon Prime sports documentary, which charts the Australian cricket time over a testing year

George A. Romero revolutionised horror cinema in 1968 when he released Night of the Living Dead, the first in a long series of zombie movies spanning more than four decades, and cementing the tropes that still characterise the zombie archetype today.

Greater Manchester’s hospitality industry is being forced to find new ways to deliver services, after the government advised the public to “avoid pubs [and] clubs” on Monday.

Taking message from literature as seriously as a deadly pandemic, MM have compiled a list of resources you can draw on for insights into disease, quarantine, and the current Covid-19 outbreak, which will hopefully help you cope with what is set to be a torrid year.

Comedians Robin Ince and Josie Long will keep those self-isolating entertained with a new daily festival to be streamed online.

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/