Our weekly LSi best freeview flicks picks are here! MONDAY – Betty Blue (Film4 22:45) France is regarded as being the nation of romance, with Paris known as The City of Love. Following the lives of […]
Books | Top 5 World War One Novels
A hundred years on from the start of World War One, the devastating battle that defined a century has been commemorated in fiction in numerous ways. To mark the centenary, LSi takes a look at […]
TV | The Mill – Bleak historical drama returns
The Mill, a grim and relentless tale of workers at a cotton mill in rural Cheshire, returns for a second series on Channel 4 this summer, and there is little alleviation from relentless bleakness. This […]
Film | Guardians of the Galaxy – What we know so far
Images: Marvel Enterprises, Marvel Studios With just over a week to go until Marvel’s next summer blockbuster hits our screens, it’s all systems go for the Guardians of the Galaxy cast and crew, who were […]
TV | Silicon Valley – Sky Atlantic’s latest import falls flat
Sky Atlantic’s latest import, Silicon Valley, arrives on our shores with the same quiet fanfare as shows such as Workaholics and Broad City. It certainly has an impressive pedigree, coming from the mind of Mike […]
TV | Utopia – ‘Going places others can’t and won’t’
For those anticipating the new series of Utopia, Monday’s opener may have come as an initial disappointment. While fans were itching to discover the fates of our protagonists, instead the season began with an […]
Art | Mondrian and his Studios @ Tate Liverpool – Understanding and Immersion
Absolute immersion and devotion to a single occupation is rare in our modern age. Luckily, the rare, flailing student who rises each morning to sight of four bedroom walls plastered with exam notes is an […]
Books | The GCSE books gone with Gove
As of next year, ‘foreign’ texts will no longer be studied at GCSE level as part of a call by the now ex-Education Secretary, Michael Gove, for more works by British authors to be studied […]
TV | Slum Survivors – BBC Three’s missed opportunity
Since it was announced that BBC Three was to be removed as an on-air channel, there has been a great deal of programming that has rendered this move, at times, questionable. However, BBC Three’s latest […]
TV | Freeview Flicks of the Week – Made in Dagenham, Planet of the Apes and Hugo
Our weekly LSi best freeview flicks picks are here! This week we go on a 1960’s strike, a magical adventure with an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station and battle with some apes. […]
TV | The Honourable Woman – Nothing is what it seems in this exceptional spy thriller
A tight close-up of a blade and the swish of metal on metal, but the camera pans out to show it’s only a wire bread basket and tongs. A waiter neatly lines the basket with […]
TV | Freeview Flicks of the week – Star Trek, The Raid and Ghostbusters
Our weekly LSi best freeview flicks picks are here! This week we take a trip on the USS Enterprise, kick some arse and call up the ghost busters! MONDAY – Star Trek (Film4 21:00) In […]