Ah, the Golden Age of Hollywood: an era that film buffs adore, and the majority of young people are baffled by. Until recently, I had no desire to ever see a film that came out before 1972. I predicted bad acting, outdated humour and poor special effects. I thought classical cinema would be the “first…
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Clap for Carers is well-intended but ultimately performative
Clap for Carers provided a perfect demonstration of unity at the start of the pandemic. Every Thursday for ten weeks, the well-meaning British public were invited to show their support for key workers by applauding on their doorsteps. Pots and pans were bashed, various musical instruments played, and non-participants were judged by their nosy neighbours….
Music
How lockdown made me find my love of music again
Though most things in life came to a halt when lockdown hit, music didn’t. It is one of the only things that continued throughout this scary time and it not only brightened my lockdown but made me fall in love with it again. Between uni and work, I rarely found time to play through an…
Gaming
Favourite games of the last generation
Although I played Dragon Quest XI on the Nintendo Switch, it was originally released on PS4 in 2017. The main criticism of the Dragon Quest series is the sameness that runs through each title, but it is this very criticism which is also its greatest strength to long-term fans of the series like myself. With…
TV
A Rewatch of… The Midnight Gospel (2020)
When you rewatch something, that overall experience can never be the same again – the mental circumstances occurring as you watch will always be different. This was my mindset going into my latest rewatch of ‘The Midnight Gospel’ (2020), a show I’ve now seen three times. ‘The Midnight Gospel’ is an adaption of sorts of…
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Appropriation or appreciation? Styling in popular culture
It’s starting to seem as though, behind the success of every creative mind in the media industry, there has been at least one terribly planned “exotic moment”. In Western popular culture it has become a trend, most common in music videos, for artists to use a country or culture other than their own, to bring…
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