• Watch This If…You’re Feeling Old

    There appears to be a fascination with looking back at nostalgic 90’s and 00’s memorabilia and references ranging from Gameboys to Arthur on CBBC. Even as youthful university students we often reminisce about our childhood and early teenage years when we would go and play in the park, woods...
  • Trailer Watch – Community, Season 6

    Yahoo! saved Community and are bringing it into a new ‘dean-mension’. Community’s life appeared to be over after the last season when NBC cancelled the series, but Yahoo! Screen has picked it up and is ready to bring the chaos of Greendale back around for another thirteen episodes. Some things...
  • Film Review – Focus

    In 2006, the BBC broadcasted a television series called Hustle that ran for 8 seasons and followed a group of elite con-artists pulling off scams, and it was incredibly entertaining. Every single one of the 48 episodes involved a clever, solitary twist at the end of each 60 minute chapter....
  • TV Review – Better Call Saul, First Impressions

    Better Call Saul is a spin-off show which chronicles the misadventures of lawyer James McGill, latterly Saul Goodman, in the time before, during and after Breaking Bad. For anyone who hasn’t seen the acclaimed original series, BB centres on a unfulfilled high school chemistry teacher, Walter White, who begins manufacturing crystal...
  • TV Review – Broadchurch, Series 2

    Warning: Series 1 spoilers follow! “Do you find the defendant Joseph Michael Miller, guilty or not guilty?” On Monday 23rd February at 9pm, this very question, that has kept viewers on the edge of their seats for the second series of the ITV mystery crime drama Broadchurch, was finally answered. The finale brought an...
  • TV Review – Spiral, Series 5

    The phrase ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave’ springs immediately to mind when describing the fifth series of the fantastic French import Spiral (Engrenages), which documents the efforts of an embattled Parisian police team and the lawyers of the Palais de Justice as they attempt to solve various...
  • “How Have You Never Seen…Pulp Fiction?”

    Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction has become one of the most iconic films of our time; such a revolutionary and unparalleled pastiche that it’s difficult to believe I have somehow managed to avoid it all these years. There are references to this film’s most memorable scenes everywhere in popular culture,...