James Reynolds

Just in time for Halloween, Hocus Pocus 2 sees the return of the Sanderson Sisters, ready to wreak havoc and become all-powerful, but can it live up to the original?  

★★★★✰

Long-awaited sequels can be fic […]

For much of my childhood, I spent afternoons with a broomstick between my legs and a toy sword in my hand, indulging in my favourite Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Like Angela Lansbury’s Miss Price, I p […]

The opening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s is iconic, like a cinematic Bible scene in the Church of Hollywood.

All the sacrosanct signifiers of the film are captured in those first minutes; the emergence of a G […]

Love Letter to My 20s: Falling Behind My Friends ‘Whaddya like? You like indescribable bliss? Then whaddya want to get married for?’ – Stephen Sondheim, Com […]

Part of the success of the original Sex and The City series was the everchanging tapestry of passing characters, the stitches crossing the lives of the main quartet. Some lasted for a season, some were several […]

Our society is moving towards a greater acceptance of LGBTQ+ people; more rights, more protections, greater recognition and celebration. Yet threats, collectively and individually, persist. One threat is […]

As a generation, we millennials are very concerned with ‘wokeness’, the desire and duty to be on top form when it comes to social and political matters: knowing and using the correct terms, supporting pro […]

Do you ever wake up in the morning and just lie there in that liminal space between dreaming and reality? If not, take a moment to try it, because that same feeling is where you’ll find the second season of w […]

Nothing pleases me more than pop culture discussed in a quasi-academic critical way. So, when a friend turned me on to a new podcast mini-series about Sex and The City I had a hunch it would tick all my boxes. […]

Morning class, settle down please. I assume you’ve done the assigned reading, or assigned watching I should say: episodes 1-3 of It’s A Sin. I definitely see plenty of red-rimmed eyes. Alicia, did you watch it? […]

Read Emilia’s Take on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part Four here.

It is with a heavy heart that I write this review of the final part of Netflix series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Along with a […]

If they haven’t already, many a bibliophile will be lighting their fires, settling in an armchair and dusting off their copies of A Christmas Carol, the literary quintessence of the holiday season. Finally, l […]

At the beginning of the year, when Corona was just a beer, I promised myself that I would finish the manuscript of my first book, a collection of seasonal short stories. Then lockdown came, months yawned out […]

“Books may well be the only true magic”, stated Alice Hoffman and her latest book, Magic Lessons, the most recent in her Practical Magic series, is proof positive of this. While Practical Magic told the story of […]

There are worse ways to spend an evening than watching the gorgeous cast of Netflix’s new LGBTQ+ film The Boys In The Band. Based on Mart Crowley’s 1968 play, The Boys In The Band centres on Harold’s (Zach […]

Park your broomsticks and fire up your cauldrons, the trailer for The Craft sequel has been conjured. Directed and written by Zoe Lister-Jones and produced by Blumhouse Productions and Red Wagon Entertainment, […]

Any Literature student worth their salt will have Roland Barthes’ ‘The Death of the Author’ tucked into their back pocket, waiting for it to be pulled out at any moment: midway through an exam, when picked on i […]