Period problems: Megan’s menstrual cup review
Lifestyle writer Megan Burton shares her experience of using a menstrual cup for the first time, providing The Student with the lowdown of the cup’s compatibility with student life. Period…
EIFF: Goodbye Berlin (Tschick)
Screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017 Based on a young adult novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf, Tschick, this film is a riotously funny and fast-paced coming of age road…
Spider-Man: Homecoming
In the beginning was Tobey Maguire, then came Andrew Garfield, and now the Spider-Man we have before us is Tom Holland. His brief but supremely effective introduction was one of…
EIFF: Sami Blood (Sameblod)
Screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017 Amanda Kernell’s debut feature film highlights the impact of colonialist racism on a young Sámi girl, exploring the social and political in…
Baby Driver
Written and directed by Edgar Wright, most famous for the Cornetto Trilogy (comprising of Shaun of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and The Wold’s End), Baby Driver combines dry British wit…
Amateurs and professionals come together to expose the beauty of Outer Space
On Saturday 24th June, tucked into the auditorium of the National Gallery of Scotland was an exhibition hosted by the British Astronomy Association (BAA). Organised by Lorraine Cook, I was…
Lola (1981)
What are we to make of Rainer Werner Fassbinder? If, in the year of a major BFI retrospective, the director’s reputation has been consolidated, our idea of the man himself…