The blurred image of a window, printed on an unbound canvas, is suspended against a wall and illuminated by two upward-pointing lights. The shadows crisscross over the photo and around the creaky, nineteenth-century room. This […]
Success for First Open House Exhibition
The back streets of the student inhabited Hyde Park provides the ideal setting for the first Open House Exhibitions event. A student run, hosted and exhibited art show from four artists, three from our very […]
TG Take On Love and Information
Theatre Group made a bold move in taking on Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information. With over a hundred characters and reportedly more than sixty individual scenes and no real discernable narrative, it’s not the most […]
Dance Exposé Presents Seven
The annual Dance Exposé showcase is renowned for its slick and professional finish, and this year’s edition was no different. With seven distinct acts, each covering one of the seven deadly sins, this conceptual piece […]
Phoenix Dance Theatre: Thrilling Contemporary Dance
There aren’t many contemporary dance companies outside of London who make it to thirty-five years. So, it’s with some credibility that Phoenix Dance Theatre can claim to be ‘the national contemporary dance company of the […]
How To Be Single – Far more progressive than expected
The trailer promised a sex crazed, girl power, easy-to-watch chick flick. And, to be fair, it totally was. But it was an actually good sex crazed, girl power, easy-to-watch chick flick. When I sat down […]
The Oscars: Editor’s Predictions
It‘s that time again: Oscars season. The season where all the best films of the year are pitted against one another in the awards ceremony to end all awards ceremonies, a gathering set to celebrate […]
Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Is Jane Austen spinning in her grave?
It seems rather a waste of words to outline the plot of Burr Steers‘ new film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, simply because this film is really nothing more or less than what it says […]
The People v. OJ Simpson: Not whodunit, but hedunit
It is apparent after the first episode of Fox’s new crime drama American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson that the audience is definitely supposed to be on the side of The People; Simpson […]
Dickensian: Too great an expectation?
I can’t help but imagine what it must have been like to have sat in on the meeting where it was decided to throw almost all of Charles Dickens’ characters together and create an EastEnders […]
Vinyl: It’s only rock & roll
When it was announced that HBO would be bringing Vinyl – the brainchild of Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese – to our screens this February, the blogosphere went into meltdown. Vinyl tells the story of […]
X-COM 2: How the war was lost
In preparation for XCOM 2, I went back to 2012’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown to try the apparently canonical ‘Impossible’ difficulty one more time. Unsurprisingly, the first mission ended how it usually does. By turn five, […]