Ben Mallett

Following recent rumours that Netflix’s TV adaptation of a cherished video game series would cast a BAME actress in the role of a white-haired, white-skinned character, Ben discusses the complexities surrounding the controversy. Discussions surrounding the merits (and demerits) of casting BAME actors in traditionally white roles are as...

Who remembers the rules to a children’s game called Sardines? I sure didn’t when I turned up to my first Hide and Soc session. Rewind to a week earlier and there I was, a small fresher in a big pond flicking wildly through the University societies page looking for...

February 2017 was the month in which cinema audiences flocked to see Lego Batman, Split and the raunchy Fifty Shades Darker. However, amongst the blockbusters and superhero movies, there’s always a few gems hidden in plain sight that you may have missed for one reason or another. This column is...

Warning: minor spoilers ahead. Logan is a brutal film. Brutal in tone, brutal in the uncompromising nature of the violence it presents, brutal even in its dark (some might say realistic) message. However, it’s arguably for this reason that Hugh Jackman’s last outing as the titular Wolverine is such...

Warning: major spoilers ahead! We’re halfway through Season 7 of AMC’s The Walking Dead and already we’ve been gifted with one of the best small-screen villains in living memory, a baseball bat you’d be hard-struck to forget, a goddamn tiger and some of the most emotional deaths the show has...