When a book has a name like ‘A Song for the Dying’, it shouldn’t be hard to guess what it’s about: gruff detectives, gruesome murders and gallons of blood. In his new book for 2014, […]
TV | Freeview Flicks of the week – About a boy, a cannibal and a week with Marilyn Monroe
There’s always a wide selection of great films available on Freeview but sometimes the choice can be quite overwhelming, so here LSi has compiled a weekly list of the best films on TV. This week […]
Dance | The Good Life – The whole cycle of life, in dance!
My only experience of dance previous to this show was watching Step Up repeatedly throughout my teenage years (mainly due to Channing Tatum’s involvement) and the one street dance lesson that ensued. I therefore felt […]
Books | Longbourn – Austen would be proud, if not a little outdone
Joe Baker’s recently published Longbourn is a modern day rewriting of Pride and Prejudice from the perspective of the servants: quite right for a period currently besotted with the likes of the Crawleys. Baker’s novel can be […]
TV | Fleming – Shaken but not quite stirred enough
It’s clear that James Bond was Ian Fleming’s idol; his books were his desired autobiography, with “you as you’d like to be”, as his wife is quick to point out to him in the new BBC […]
Film | Wes Anderson Q&A – "Cannes is a little bit hallucinatory"
Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures Ahead if the release of his new film The Grand Budapest Hotel we asked director Wes Anderson some of our nagging questions. Your films seem to be set in worlds just […]
Theatre | Brand New Ancients – fierce and electric spoken word
Image: Kate Tempest Kate Tempest’s spoken word epic takes its audience on an intense journey, exploring the influence that love, hatred and regret play in creating modern day heroes, villains and victims. Intricately designed lighting […]
Books | Sex and the Citadel – Reconsidering attitudes towards sexuality in the Arab world
The Middle East is present in media outlets everyday yet, in the West, sexuality in Arab culture is still only tentatively discussed. The difficult subject matter is made accessible to all readers as Shereen El […]
Film | Stalingrad – all 3D and no depth
Video: Art Pictures Studio Stalingrad is not only the first Imax 3D film to ever have been released from Russia, but also the first domestic film in decades to beat Hollywood to becoming Russia’s top-grossing […]
Books | Cheat's guide to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Everyone loves a good bonnet, but if you’re weary of Wuthering Heights or feeling jaded by Jane Eyre, here’s an alternative from the ‘other’ Brontë: Anne. Who? Gilbert Markham:A young single farmer whose epistolary narrative provides […]
Film | Nymphomaniac – an odyssey in two parts
Image: Zentropa Entertainments Being someone who hasn’t seen a Lars Von Trier film, my expectations going in to Nymphomaniac (Volumes 1 AND 2) were based purely on what I had heard about him and the […]
Interview | Lars Mikkelsen – The man behind Sherlock's Charles Magnussen
With Britain’s surge of interest in subtitled Nordic Noir dramas such as Borgen and The Killing on BBC4, it was only a matter of time before familiar Scandinavian faces started crossing the North Sea, injecting […]