Welcome back. You’ve just finished your exams, submitted your last essay, and survived the first week of the Trump presidency — really, congratulations. After all that stress you definitely deserve a break. Sit back, relax, […]
#OscarsSlightlyLessWhite17 – The snubs and surprises
Just when you thought an American voter population couldn’t be more wrong, know that Suicide Squad is now Oscar nominated. The nominations for the 89th Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday and, unsurprisingly, La La […]
Review: A Monster Calls – A darkly magical depiction of grief
A Monster Calls, adapted from the novel by Patrick Ness and based on an original idea from Siobhan Dowd, tells the story of Conor (Lewis MacDougall), a young boy who is struggling to deal with […]
Review: Live By Night – dry as the Prohibition era it depicts
Ben Affleck’s adaptation of the American novelist Dennis Lehane’s work Live by Night is limp at best, mind-numbing and tedious at worst. Affleck has previously proved himself capable by tailoring Lehane’s novels to the screen, […]
Review: La La Land – unpolished perfection?
Those captivated by the romance that ensued between Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone’s roles in Crazy Stupid Love, will leave their seats fully satisfied by this all-singing, all-dancing journey of Seb and Mia, that marks the […]
North: Identity, Photography, Fashion – a celebration of diversity
Sat on Liverpool’s waterfront is Open Eye Gallery, one of the most important galleries -not only in the northwest but also throughout the UK- for promoting photography as an artistic discipline. This year the gallery […]
Review: Manchester By the Sea – brave, authentic, and surprisingly funny
It is frequently said that men need to ‘get better’ at emoting; we do not experience our emotions fully, or deal with them in a particularly healthy way. In light of this, Manchester By the […]
Review: Passengers – a disappointingly shallow sci-fi
Passengers is a sci-fi film that tells the story of Jim Preston (Chris Pratt), a mechanical engineer, who wakes up 90 years too soon from an induced hibernation. Jim has emigrated from Earth to start a […]
Review: Assassin’s Creed – not as terrible as you think
First things first, it’s not terrible. What a 19% Rotten Tomatoes rating should tell you about Assassin’s Creed is that 1/5 of critics thought it was a good movie, which on the surface doesn’t sound […]
The Curse of the Video Game Movie
There has recently been another attempt at bringing video games to the silver screen: Assassin’s Creed, starring Michael Fassbender. The fact that it received 15% on Rotten Tomatoes, and was called a “humourless bore” and […]
Golden Globes 2017: The round up
Oscar season finally kicks off in great fashion with maybe the most meaningless ceremony of them all! Meryl Streep inspired us all, Tom Hiddleston made an asshat of himself, and Spiderman kissed Deadpool, and all before […]
Review: Silence – three hours of watching Scorsese’s ego
Like a Penguin book or a Penguin chocolate bar, it seems all we need is a brand nowadays. This anxiety, that we must invest only in what we know, is wheedling its way ever-deeper into […]