Natalie Beecroft reviews the BBC’s newest documentary feature about the novels and authors that shaped Africa.
“They surrounded us and said we are taking your details”: Freshers speak of lockdown isolation
It has long been expected that the first week of this semester would be different, but the ‘rule of six’, a 10pm curfew for pubs, as well as the continued closure of nightclubs, meant that […]
Review: Veritas Theatre’s The Group Chat by Dec Kelly
After a strange year of makeshift livestreamed gigs and endless viral challenges to do at home, people from all walks of the creative industries have had to find new and inventive ways to keep their […]
To The 1975, Here Are Some Notes On A Conditional Form
It’s difficult enough to review a 22-track album in less than 300 words let alone an album so packed with detail as this one is. The 1975’s third studio album comes a mere 91 days […]
Extraction Review: What can be salvaged from Netflix’s latest action-packed feature?
In Extraction, ex-Asgardian Chris Hemsworth plays a stoic Australian mercenary, Tyler Rake, flung into a world of crime. Rake’s recruitment is directed by handler Nik (Golshifteh Farahani) and also features warring Indian and Bangladeshi drug […]
REVIEW: Normal People
Sally Rooney’s novel beautifully depicts an imperfect love story set in Carricklea and Dublin, and the BBC’s new TV adaptation does not stray far from the delightful original. The story perplexes readers, forcing them to […]
Oh Wonder, No One Else Can Wear Your Crown
Alt-pop duo Oh Wonder began working together in early 2011 but made a name for themselves when they released their self-titled debut album in 2015, following an unorthodox approach of releasing a song every month […]
News Just In, Bieber’s Back
Newly-wed, sober and not shy about it, Bieber makes a highly anticipated comeback with 16-track, fifth studio album, ‘Changes’. We see a Justin that ‘never thought [i] he could be loyal’ show off his new […]
Drag Race Season 12 Episode 1 REVIEW
It’s back back back back back again! The hit reality show, where drag queens vie for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar, premiered its twelfth season, with rap royalty Nicki Minaj as the guest […]
Open Theatre’s Normal: An Alarming True Story of Horror Brought to Life
Anthony Neilson’s haunting tale of Peter Kurten, a prolific serial killer who terrorised the people of Dusseldorf in the 1930s, has been brought to life extraordinarily by Open Theatre’s production. Eve Walton’s direction tells the […]
Trailer Review: The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson’s notorious auteur colour palette has once again brushed our screens with the trailer for The French Dispatch or The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (to give its full title) hot […]
Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood
‘It seems to me that some of us value information over wonder, and noise over silence,’ the children’s TV legend Fred Rogers once said in a 1994 interview with Charlie Rose. ‘You and I,’ he […]