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Growing up in Cardiff, I became quite used to the sight of a television crew set up ready to film one of BBC Wales’s successful shows. I remember how natural it felt when one day after primary school my friends and I took a detour with our parents to see Doctor Who and his Tardis […]
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You can’t just go to the cinema to watch a film. You need to sample the upcoming releases that play before the big event. Whether that be the trailer for the next Marvel movie or a long-awaited sequel, you’ve got to let the flavours dance on your palate before consuming the main meal. Although we’ve […]
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Earlier this month, two and a half million of us tuned in to watch the finale of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s highly acclaimed comedy Fleabag. The series, which followed the misadventures of its damaged but lovable antiheroine, played wonderfully by Waller-Bridge herself, had finally come to an end, and needless to say, many were sad to see […]
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Artwork by Ellen Sharman It’s early 1831, George Sand has moved to Paris, penniless, with the intention of becoming a writer. The city is her opportunity for self-reinvention; her chance to change her clothes, disguise her general appearance of vulnerability, and most importantly, discover the freedom of strolling freely through the city. Once in disguise, […]
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Image description: The Deposition, Daniele da Volterra For all the associations of the Renaissance artist with individual passion, spontaneity and divine inspiration, at the heart of the Renaissance system of the arts was a very clear framework of tutelage and reciprocity. Not only in the institutionalised workshop systems, but on a more personal level, friendships […]
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Image Description: The Moai or Easter Island heads Is destruction an art? Is there a certain madness to it? Is there a lust for expression laced in its outburst? Creation is an art, most will agree; a precise co-ordination of intellect and will, a ballet of sorts that ends with something for eyes to behold […]
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Question and answer sessions with the cast of a play following its performance have become a common event in theatre these days. As someone who takes an avid interest in the behind the scenes aspect of plays I’ve attended quite a few, although I can safely say none have been quite like the fictitious version […]
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The BT has always intrigued me from a set design point of view. It’s a small, rabbit-hole like space lined with black curtains that can be pulled into a variety of positions to create a desired stage space, and whatever configuration I find it in, I’m always slightly too aware of how ‘make-shift’ the stage […]
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Image description: 1566 Calvinist Iconoclastic Riot, Frans Hogenberg Iconoclasm represents the viscerality of the human response to art. Reflective of more than just our subjective taste, this sort of destruction is charged with a raw sense of rage. Iconoclasm has the potential to throw crowds into a frenzy; tearing down statues and burning paintings. Simultaneously, […]
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This one’s for you, Instant Noodles. Disclaimer – I have never been a breakfast lover. Scrambled eggs are a dime a dozen, bacon gives me the sweats, cereals just ‘there’ – I generally feel disillusioned and apathetic to both the time of breakfast (obscenely early) and breakfast foods (except maple syrup, you’re my boo). But […]
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WARNING: Spoilers ahead. The night is always darkest before the dawn, and so it was with Game of Thrones’ third episode in the final season of the show. The episode opened with an eerie silence; it took almost fifteen minutes for the first proper line of dialogue to be spoken, cultivating a delicious sense of […]
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Upon a brilliant expanse of midnight blue lies a single, gold-leafed tree standing atop a great white hill. The words The Buried Giant are printed boldly underneath. Simple, but elegant. Uncomplicated, by mystical. Seemingly ordinary, but entirely unprecedented. My first expression of Kazuo Ishiguro and his masterpiece was powerful, and ever since I have remained […]
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Change is the watchword for American politics right now, whether that means Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump. The 2018 midterms were no exception, with an unprecedented wave of diverse candidates crashing into Congress. In Knock Down The House, documentarian Rachel Lears tracks the primary campaigns of four such candidates running against the establishment. The candidates […]
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Overlooking Doha’s sea front, The National Museum of Qatar appears as a mirage in the desert. The highly anticipated museum, designed by Atelier Jean Nouvel, held its glamorous opening ceremony on March 27th 2019. The building is an avant-garde structure made with 539 intersecting vertical and horizontal disks of multiple diameters, curvatures, and inclinations. Nouvel’s […]
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Okay, so this idea has literally just popped into my head but I’m rolling with it. A general consensus across the world is that music is awesome and often food is too. Both can bring out feelings of joy, make me happy dance and burp a lot – they’re also my two best friends. With […]
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Five years ago Christ Church student Scott Whitehead started writing his now finished novel ‘The Light Beyond the Garden Wall’. Set in the Middle East in 700BC, the story is a part historical, part inspirational fiction which follows the prophet Isaiah and the challenges involved in his coming of age. Going through an extremely difficult […]
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Chicken soup – you love it or you don’t. Either way, it is undeniable that the dish has souped its way into the hearts of people across the world, becoming a staple ‘rainy day’/’sick day’ comfort meal and an act of hostility to any kid who hates carrots (memories, shudder). Chicken soup’s broth is usually […]
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On 9th April, I spent my morning in Notre Dame cathedral. I had previously studied it in multiple art history classes, and thought, ‘Why not go?’ When I arrived, I was blown away. I stared in amazement at the portal sculpture of Saint Denis, a Christian martyr who was purportedly beheaded for his faith, before […]
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N.B-Nothing more spoilery than what was in the trailers “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry” – Adapted from Robert Burns’ To a Mouse Now 3 films bigger, and one year later, than when I last reviewed it, the MCU has reached a turning point in its life. It’s already a cinematic […]
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