Last year, Bohemian Rhapsody pioneered the grandiose of the musical biopic genre in Hollywood, with a huge build-up of excitement through various media campaigns and raking in a whopping $900 million at the box office. […]
Review: Tolkien
Tolkien documents the childhood and early adulthood of the author J.R.R. Tolkien. His experiences during the First World War are punctuated with flashbacks to the unique friendships he formed with his fellow members of the […]
Review: Eighth Grade
Adolescence is agonising enough; your body is changing, and you probably hate the way you look so the last thing you want is hundreds of people zooming in on every imperfection and criticising your every […]
Review: Junk’s ‘The Mayfair’
On April 30th and May 1st, student theatre group ‘Junk’ presented ‘The Mayfair’ by writing for performance and publication student George Manson. The play opens on a note of slow ambience at an empty bar, […]
Review: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evile and Vile
The case, trial and conviction of Ted Bundy is one of the most intriguing and captivating in the history of serial killer stories. He stood out from his other notorious counterparts due to his extreme […]
The Campiest First Monday of May
The first Monday of May hosts the biggest event on the fashion fundraising calendar, the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A host of celebrities from the realms of […]
TV Review: Delhi Crime
*SPOILER AND TRIGGER WARNINGS (graphic details of sexual violence)* If this review is difficult to write, that is only because the series was near impossible to watch – and all the more excellent for it. […]
Avengers: Endgame Review
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Review: Around the World in 80 Days at Leeds Playhouse
Around the World in 80 Daysis showing at the Leeds Playhouse Pop Up Theatre, until the 28th April. As well as offering a thoroughly entertaining rendition of an old classic, whilst maintaining an impressive resemblance […]
McQueen: A Spider’s web of Delicate Strength
The subject of McQueen’s life has become the focus of numerous cinematic ventures, but none so far have captured the designer’s essence as successfully as Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui documentary, McQueen. From the moment […]
Review: Shazam! – ‘Big’ meets ‘Kickass’
To say that DC Filmshave had a troubling few years trying to build their cinematic universe would be an understatement. From the dismally dark and boring Batman V Superman to the overwhelmingly cringe-inducing Suicide Squad, […]
Not another Van Gogh biopic: At Eternity’s Gate Review
Vincent Van Gogh has become perhaps the most cinematically invented and re-invented of artists since red-haired Kirk Douglas embodied the passionate, tortured genius in 1956’s Lust for Life. The dramatization Van Gogh’s later years, his […]