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Eliza Lita wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

Title: I Was Born For This

Author: Alice Oseman

What I Think So Far: Alice Oseman’s third novel, I Was Born For This explores the two sides of extreme fandom, following Angel, whose perceived life purpose i […]

Jack Roberts wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

With the festival circuit and the film industry as a whole attempting to adapt and steadily pick up the pieces following wide-spread lockdown, Chloé Zhao’s second feature has been teased with a trailer lasting le […]

James Reynolds wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

Muddy Waters’ 1950 arrangement ‘Rollin’ Stone’ spawned inspiration in Bob Dylan and in the Rolling Stones before the magazine, and between these four a two-thousand-year-old saying made an unlikely home in rock […]

Andrew Butcher wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

As the film made its debut at the 77th Venice Film Festival, the world got a first look at the movie with a 49 second clip.

In the short taster of The World to Come, we see the two leads—Katherine Waterston ( […]

Megan Roxburgh wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

Sony has announced more details about the upcoming release of the PlayStation 5.

Revealing the details in an online presentation, Sony also gave fans a look at some of the titles that are in development for […]

Orla McAndrew wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

2020 has not been a good year for the arts (or for anyone really!). We have seen British theatres being closed for over six months, with many of their workers being left on furlough or made redundant. However, […]

theindiependent wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

Disclaimer: We appreciate that many people who have vaginas do not identify as female and are using “women” and “female” to encompass anyone who menstruates or uses tampons.

For most people, their ‘time of t […]

Orla McAndrew wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

Theatre fans rejoice, Six the Musical is opening their doors again with a new West End run at the Lyric Theatre and for a Christmas run at the Lowry in Salford.

Six will open at the Lyric Theatre from the […]

Elliott Jones wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

On the face of it, Netflix’s latest original, The Devil All The Time, was an enticing prospect and rightly so. From director Antonio Campos (Martha Marcy May Marlene) and featuring the talents of Tom Holland, […]

Grace Nicholls wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

Lockdown and COVID-19 restrictions meant that many ongoing productions were prematurely ground to a halt, resulting in a drought of highly anticipated programmes we had expected this year, leaving us with nothing […]

Lauren Peters wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

My experience with Vaginismus is not unlike a lot of stories you will read. That doesn’t mean that my story is any less important to raising awareness of it; a lot of the time reading a story similar to your o […]

Mischa Alexander wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

Albion: a place from Arthurian legend that still continues to exist today, only we don’t call it that. We call it England.

The word Albion takes on a whole new meaning as the title of Mike Bartlett’s 2017 tra […]

Harriet Metcalfe wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

They might not have had to fight in the ring, but Netflix has managed to win distribution rights for Halle Berry’s directorial debut, Bruised.

The actor and former model and beauty contest participant is s […]

Mischa Alexander wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

On the 11th of September, The Royal Opera House officially announced its program for its autumn and winter season cinema performances. This comes at a time where in-person opera events are still closed due to the […]

Orla McAndrew wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

There is no shadow of a doubt that school is stressful. Lockdown was stressful. Homeschooling provided both parents and children with a host of new problems. However, a recent report from the University of […]

Noah Keate wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

The King’s and Festival Theatres in Edinburgh have written to the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warning of their risk of closure because of their inability to access financial relief as a result of t […]

Libby Briggs wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

In April, Olivia Wilde excitedly announced the cast for her second feature film, Don’t Worry Darling, including big stars such as Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, and Shia LaBeouf.

Yesterday, however, the d […]

Emma Curzon wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

Award-winning actress Dame Diana Rigg, best known for her roles in Game of Thrones and the James Bond franchise as well as a number of West End productions, has died of cancer aged 82, her daughter announced on […]

Kat Smith wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

Introducing: Mysie

Hometown: South London

Listen to: ‘Bones’, ‘Sweet Relief’, ‘Heartbeat’

As the worthy first winner of the Ivor Novello Rising Star Award, Mysie is certainly one to watch for the latter […]

Lucy Lillystone wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago

Following criticism last year regarding the lack of diversity among Oscars nominees, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced new diversity and inclusion rules for films seeking consideration […]