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Image description: Marianne and Connell stand facing each other “Is that really weird?” “Yeah. Yeah, that’s really weird Marianne. But I think I understand it.” That is the premise of the BBC’s 12 part adaptation of Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel of the same title. The show unfolds the agony and ecstasy of first love before […]
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Image description: Peep Show cast looking into the camera The truth is, I suppose, I like Peep Show. That’s why I wrote this article. I like the show, and I believe it can help people survive through lockdown. Is that such a crime? Should I be hounded to the ends of the Earth just for […]
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Image Description: Spongebob and Patrick If you were lucky enough to grow up in the late 90s-early 2000s, you are part of the last generation that had genuinely good children’s T.V. shows (I’ll make an exception for BBC’s In The Night Garden which was a bit past my time but straight 🔥fire🔥 nonetheless). Currently, children […]
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Image description: Joe Exotic crouching next to a tiger Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness has taken the world by storm. A missing husband, a sex cult, a murder attempt and hundreds of captive jungle cats have made for incredible, if completely bizarre, entertainment under lockdown. The ‘Tiger King’ himself, Joseph Maldonado-Passage – more […]
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Image description: A poster for one of Godard’s films on the walls of an underground station Even at the age of 89, Jean-Luc Godard hasn’t stopped being revolutionary. Whilst many directors would have quietly retreated to some mansion far away from the world of film-making, Godard continues to make films which challenge the watcher even […]
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Image description: Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico My dream has always been to own a library. Nothing too fancy – I’m not asking for an Austen-esque regency manor with a cavernous expanse of dust jackets and cloth bindings – just an otherwise ordinary room whose decoration represents a shrine to books. Living in an increasingly digital society, […]
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Image Description: Illustrations of scenes from each film This is the year of Parasite, but it is also the year in which Donald Trump declared that a film like Gone With The Wind should have won Best Picture instead. No, Gone With The Wind shouldn’t win Best Picture in 2020, in fact, it shouldn’t have […]
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Image description: people performing TikTok dances It’s the quarantine hobby we were too ashamed to pick up, but are now too entangled in to give up. It’s the source of those catchy songs ingrained our subconscious, whether we truly know the words or not. It’s TikTok. Let’s be honest, you know the name by now, […]
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For my parent’s generation, catering for vegetarians was certainly not the ‘norm’. In fact, ‘vegetarian’ wasn’t a recognised term like it is today – plenty of people had never met a vegetarian before, and to embrace that title was to identify yourself as completely outside of the mainstream. Since then, social stigma has greatly improved […]
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Image description: video call rehearsal of Richard II “This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this [virtual] England” Not the Way Forward’s production of Richard II, directed by Dorothy McDowell and produced by Juliet Dowley, moves Shakespeare from the stage into the homes of its cast. With the pandemic and lockdown, a new way of […]
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Image description: The Guggenheim in Bilbao It was a pleasant sunny afternoon in Bilbao on the day I paid a visit to the Guggenheim. I’d been planning my trip to Spain for three months, and it would be a grave error for anyone remotely interested in art to skip one of the country’s largest, most […]
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Image description: An illustration of two hands with one holding an ink pen Though much has been said about our abbreviated attention spans during these days, if you find yourself unable to concentrate even on the latest book of essays by the corrosively delightful Samantha Irby or enjoy that ribald, irreverent biography of Princess Margaret […]
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Legends of Runeterra (LoR) is a free-to-play digital card game set to officially release on Windows, Android and IOS on 30th April. It is Riot Games’ Hearthstone if you will, and a new injection into the card game genre that is perhaps overdue since Gwent and Shadowverse failed to topple Hearthstone’s dominant position, while Blizzard’s […]
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Sourdough loaves, banana bread and Dalgona coffee are but a few of the edible boredom busters that might spring to mind when we reflect on this lockdown in years to come! But I’m sure you’ve seen and heard enough about them, so I’ll spare you the tales of my interesting attempts. Instead, I’m turning to […]
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With the lockdown affecting practically everything, many of us have turned to binge-watching Netflix or catching up on shows that we never quite got round to seeing. As nice as this is, the other week I got a bit bored with getting through all ten series of Benidorm. Instead, I felt the impulse to watch […]
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Image Description: Contestants gather together in a moment from the series Lockdown is really getting to me. A few days ago a new show popped up on my Netflix recommendations and, like a fool, I decided that a new reality programme where some oiled-up Instagram wannabes are banned from having sex with each other sounded […]
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Whilst most of the world is in lockdown, literature is still free to comfort, entertain and let you explore different cultures. Here are my favourite books from around the world, to be read whilst our world is a little further away from us. Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (originally in Spanish) An underrated book […]
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Celebrity chefs, like supermarkets and the CEO of zoom, are amongst the few in society who seem to have benefited from the recent lockdown. Swathes of people bored pretending to work from home have flocked to their recipes to make the 17th banana bread of the week (find our awesome banana bread recipe here) or […]
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Image description: Grimes live in Austin in 2012 You may have forgotten, but Grimes makes music. Now, a lot of her fans, myself included, have taken to viewing her recent affiliations with a side-eye. Contrary to what you find in the media, ever since her appearance at the 2018 Met Gala Grimes is more than […]
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