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As culture and society have evolved within the west, so too have attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community. In response, media depictions of Queer people and Queer stories have become increasingly prominent. While my natural inclination is to endorse this, I feel we must be cautious that representation does not become erasure. As a historian, perhaps […]
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As the darkness approaches earlier each evening and the essay crises (or problem sheet calamities – not that I know about those, instead hiding in the depths of the library to study literature) grow more frequent, there’s a glimmer of light in the shape of BBC iPlayer at 8pm every Thursday. You can find me, on a quiet […]
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Image Credit: Nickelodeon. Description: Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star. Just over 14 years ago, the golden age of a certain absorbent and yellow and porous sponge came to a tragic end. While it’s dangerous to use such a nostalgic term, Stephen Hillenburg’s departure following his directorial work on The Spongebob Movie (2004) undoubtedly led to […]
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Image Credit: Netflix. Description: poster for Better Call Saul season 4. Major spoilers for Better Call Saul Season 3. Although the ordinary Netflix formula of releasing an entire series in one go remains pretty satisfying, the company has made a wise choice to continue releasing one episode of Better Call Saul each week. Much as […]
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Image Credits: Netflix. Description: the poster for BoJack Horseman season 5. “How do you make something right when you’ve made it so wrong you can never go back?” This is a recurring line in the new season five of BoJack Horseman, an animated adult comedy show about a washed-up actor who struggles with addiction, childhood […]
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Image Credit: Netflix. Description: Jonah Hill and Emma Stone in MANIAC Jonah Hill and Emma Stone have come a long way since they starred together in Superbad. The new Netflix Original series MANIAC is a show with a special type of humor that’s both ridiculous and satirical. In the very first minute the narrator opens […]
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Image Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Among the biggest news to come out of the entertainment industry recently is that the latest reboot heading to our screens will be of the much-loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. The news was broken by a report from The Hollywood Reporter and, as one might expect, it has since […]
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From indie one-timer Will Allen’s semi-autobiographical Holy Hell, to bona fide Hollywood giant Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, filmmakers have always been attracted to cults. There is something eerily attractive about life on the inside. The latest addition to the already well-stocked library of documentaries on this subject is Chaplain and Maclain Way’s neat, Netflix-funded […]
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If I used an Outkast song to depict season two of Atlanta, I would keep it local with “Elevators (Me and You)”. It’s more than coincidence that the song provides the mood for the finale of season one and sets the outré mood for a powerful sophomore season. As Earn (Donald Glover) strolls down a […]
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It’s been a difficult year for the BBC. Not only do license-fee payers perhaps doubt the value of their contributions to the funding of the corporation, but ‘Auntie’ is even under pressure from its biggest stars for, of all the complex issues that could blight a major organisation, equal pay for men and women. Remarkably, […]
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All of us feel the need to go back to nature. Going away from the mundaneness of life, the mechanical and demanding reality of everyday routine. Summer seems to be the ideal time for a temporary escape in paradise, but what happens when you get the chance to live in a heaven-like place on earth? […]
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My one memory of The Archie Show consists of sitting in front of the TV as a child while my dad was watching old music videos. ‘Sugar, Sugar’ came on. The track, released for the show in 1969, played to a scene reminiscent of classic Scooby-Doo, complete with an anthropomorphic dog and goofy teenagers (albeit […]
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All too often, watching television is branded as a “waste of time” – often by those who never really take the time to watch it themselves. What these people fail to recognise is the fact that TV brings with it a wide range of benefits, going far beyond the obvious fact of it being a […]
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The recent announcement that Netflix is branching out into the world of merchandise only serves to remind us of the overwhelming success of their original content. With hits such as Stranger Things and Orange is the New Black sporting the label of ‘Netflix Originals’, it seems that the subscription service can do no wrong. The […]
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“The only thing I had when I was a kid were books. I used to live in them. I used to go to sleep dreaming I’d wake up inside one of them ’cause they had meaning. This place, this is like I woke up inside one of those stories. I guess I just wanna find […]
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Christmas is here, or at least Oxmas is, and as our term (thankfully to be honest) begins to draw to a close, it’s time to start looking forward to the exciting new films and shows hitting our screens – while not forgetting of course those seasonal classics. So, as I thank you for reading my […]
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Sometimes, even the most-watched movies and programmes don’t always get it right, with storylines, jokes or casting that spark debate or even cause offense among viewers. But as the audience, how we should respond to films and TV shows with problematic elements, whether it be underlying sexism, homophobia or a lack of diversity, and is […]
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It is no secret that our society has an obsession with crime, and an even bigger infatuation with crime dramas and documentaries. From Training Day and The Departed to Luther and Making a Murderer, there is no shortage of compelling entertainment to satisfy our desire to peek into the world of crime and criminal justice. […]
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Terrible Horror Films By Dan Mahoney Halloween isn’t scary. It just isn’t. It’s silly and fun, more about pumpkins, cartoon skeletons and Scooby-Doo than it is about Michael Myers and actual horror. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I find it hard to believe it’s a scary holiday when its most famous ritual […]
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