Post-Brexit and post-Trump, more than ever we needed a good year of TV to escape into and, looking back, 2017 was a rather brilliant year for the small screen. Sherlock kicked off 2017 on New Year’s Day with a shocking finale in the first episode, Toby Jones’ delightful villain and the revelation of a third…
Film, Venue
Murder On The Orient Express doesn’t run out of steam
Agatha Christie may be one of the finest detective writers of all time but her intricate and dialogue-heavy novels don’t exactly scream ‘gigantic $55 million Hollywood blockbuster’. Maybe this is why it feels like every ounce of drama has been squeezed out of this classic novel, and many more unnecessary moments added, to ‘ramp up…
TV, Venue
Lord of the small screens: the two mediums
With the huge, and surprisingly unpopular, announcement that Amazon are flirting with the idea of adapting Lord of the Rings for the small screen, it is worth examining other attempts of films that have been bastardised – sorry I mean lovingly crafted – for TV, to see what LOTR can learn. On the one hand…
Arts
Inkwell Productions injects energy into performance of Waiting for Godot
Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful. These are not my words, dear reader, these are the words of Estragon – a character from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. While this exclamation of frustration seems rather simplistic, it does rather succinctly prepare the audience for two hours of philosophical musing, witty exchanges and relatively…
TV
Is it time for Doctor Who to go?
As the new Tardis team is announced for season 11 of Doctor Who, Dan Struthers and Evlyn Forsyth-Muris debate whether the show should keep regenerating or face maximum extermination… Yes! First of all, I want to make it clear that my argument to axe Doctor Who has nothing to do with Jodie Whittaker’s casting as…
Arts
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival: Anthony Horowitz
Many authors would kill to have the career that Anthony Horowitz has had and seeing as Horowitz is the master of murder, he’d probably be the first to know who it was and how they’d do it. This reputation as a writer of mystery and murder began with his early work on ITV in the…
TV
In My Unpopular Opinion: Stranger Things is overrated
Stranger Things season two may have won the hearts of Netflix viewers, but when you strip away the 80’s nostalgia and references it smothers itself in, does it really hold up? Yes, everyone loves the 80s – it appeals to those who have lived through it, allowing them to experience the nostalgia factor, and it…
Film
mother!
Darren Aronofsky has a tendency to direct and write disturbing (Black Swan), polarising (The Fountain) and controversial (Requiem for Dream) films, but mother! may just be the ultimate amalgamation of all of the above. Jennifer Lawrence stars as a housebound wife and Javier Bardem as her playwright husband. They live in a solitary old house,…
TV, Venue
Freshers on the small screen
Fresh Meat, The Young Ones, Community. What do these seemingly random bunch of shows have in common? Why, university of course! University life is a tough one to pin down on TV, most shows tend to portray students as lazy creatures, their student houses as chaotic tips and the freshers experience as a crazy few…
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