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Video Games | ISIS are playing the West at their own game
There are three constants in life; death, taxes and the constant claims that video games are corrupting our children. Now a recent video released to the internet that appears to be a trailer for an […]
TV | Louis Theroux's LA Stories
Louis Theroux’s work has taken him around the globe but it is his interest in the weird and wonderful subcultures of American society that has truly defined his career. In the past Theroux has always […]
Books | Butcher's Crossing
With the rediscovery of the 1965 novel, Stoner or “the greatest American novel you’ve never heard of” last year, the late John Williams has been propelled from relative obscurity to take his rightful place as […]
Comment | Too quick to judge Woody Allen
In an open letter to the New York Times, Dylan Farrow recently spoke openly and harrowingly about her alleged sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, Woody Allen. Farrow believes that the continued celebration […]
TV | 20 years since the 'Twenty Something' hit our screens and never left
20 years ago this September, the concept of the ‘twenty-something’ and a little-known actress called Jennifer Aniston stumbled out of a Greenwich Village street and into our lives. It’s been two decades since Friends first graced […]
TV | Girls
When Girls emerged two years ago, it’s fair to say it courted its fair share of controversy. Perhaps most shocking was the decision to seemingly exclude anyone with a Y chromosome from attaching themselves to […]
TV | The Dangers of Downton Abbey
Christmas is a time for peace, love and difficult conversations with family about why you’re still single, or your decision to pursue a degree in the arts. Yet spare a thought for our friends the […]
TV | The Great Train Robbery – All the wit and excitement of a Hollywood crime caper
In one of those eerie coincidences that could lead the more cynical among us to question the extremes the BBC are willing to go to for a bit of publicity; Ronnie Biggs the most famous […]
TV | Last Tango in Halifax – More Alan Bennett than Wuthering Heights
You could be forgiven for having missed the first series of the BBC’s Last Tango in Halifax, not to be mistaken for the Marlon Brando film Last Tango in Paris, under any circumstances, students are […]
Books | A Possible Life – A very English affair
Anybody who had to suffer the embarrassment of analysing one of the numerous sex scenes in Birdsong at A-level may be forgiven for giving Sebastian Faulks and A Possible Life a wide berth. But to […]
TV | Fresh Meat – Were the characters always so devoid of charm and wit?
Was Fresh Meat always this bad? Has its cast of characters always been so devoid of charm and wit? I seem to remember being genuinely moved by JP’s (Jack Whitehall) reaction to his father’s death, […]