• Rapture: Netflix’s Newest Hip-Hop Series

    MC Tasha returns, with some new bars, Revealing the light back on the old stars, New artists, true artists who’ve all got the beat, and Netflix is showing us their victorious defeat. With Hip-Hop and Rap weaving its way into the charts music of today, Netflix launches a series...
  • Review: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2

    Netflix’s absurdist comedy returns, following the Baudelaire orphans through another series of unfortunate events. Remaining a uniquely surreal and sardonic addition to Netflix’s catalogue, A Series of Unfortunate Events continues to be a darkly comic show – don’t look away! Series two of the show recounts books five to...
  • Film Review: Veronica

    By now you’d think that horror films would have dwindled out of existence, as they all seem to be replicas, or even remakes of old classics. However, in recent years there has been a surprising revival of the genre, with the success of horror trilogies such as Insidious and...
  • In Conversation: Megan and her Nan on the evolution of technology

    In the ever-growing world of technology and social media, I think it is easy to forget that it is not part of everyone’s life. Our generation is used to technology as we were brought up with it, but what about our older generation? They have had to try to...
  • Trailer Watch – Jessica Jones Season 2

    Originally hitting Netflix in 2015, the first Season of Jessica Jones was seen, by many, as a masterpiece. It took an arguably little-known character of the Marvel world, and transformed her into a wonderfully sarcastic and incredibly powerful female protagonist, with a focus on her post-hero days, rather than...
  • Black Mirror: San Junipero’s Match Made in Heaven

    Double-Emmy-Award-Winning San Junipero follows a party girl determined to live life to the fullest without any emotional attachments – that is until she falls for another girl. Its writer, Charlie Brooker, is renowned for his dark story-telling, but San Junipero unexpectedly became one of the most uplifting queer love...
  • Franchise Fatigue

    Reading the cultural section of various news outlets, one might think that they are witnessing the collapse of a (still relatively young) industry. With disappointing box office statistics released at the end of progressively lacklustre summer film seasons, such a thought could be warranted. Indeed, there are numerous reasons...