‘Worth seeing several times’ ‒ The Taming of the Shrew review
The Taming of the Shrew, written by William Shakespeare is the story of a girl known as ‘the shrew’ merely because she stands up for herself and has a voice.…
Fighting With My Family
Fighting With My Family is the heartwarming story of Saraya-Jade Bevis, aka Paige (Florence Pugh), who earns the chance to achieve her dream — shared by her whole family —…
Spielberg, Netflix, and Hollywood’s Shifting Battlegrounds
Continuing an already contentious year in the film industry after a disastrous fever dream of an awards’ season, it seems that some in Hollywood aren’t happy to let Los Angeles…
A Dispatch from Out West: the 2019 Glasgow Film Festival
Both the opening and closing films of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival can be described as ‘coming- of-age’ films: Jonah Hill’s Mid90s and Brian Welsh’s Beats. It may be more…
The “Studentification” of Edinburgh: understanding gentrification
On 30 January, as Edinburgh councillors announced the rejection of a proposal to build student accommodation in Leith, applause erupted from the public benches. The success of the grassroots campaign…
The liberal order: a talk with transatlantic expert G. John Ikenberry
Professor G. John Ikenberry was invited by the University’s British Journal of Politics and International Relations to speak to a crowd of almost one hundred students regarding the erosion of…
Lil Pump fails spectacularly to make his commercial transition
There has been something notably unsettling about Lil Pump’s rise. Maybe it’s record label vultures watching with glee as seventeen-year-old Pump cuts into his Xanax birthday cake, his constant attempts…
What we can learn from that Nike advert with Serena Williams
“Show them what crazy can do,” implores Serena Williams. The second instalment of Nike’s ‘Dream Crazy’ advertising campaigns focuses on the insults aimed towards sportswomen and the double standards within…