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Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?

You are eight years old. Teeth have been brushed. Pyjamas are on. As you crawl into bed, someone you admire opens a colourful picture book. You hear about Alice’s experience with a mad hatter—or perhaps about a spoiled girl and three bears. These worlds are explored nightly with a day’s anticipation from the storyteller to yourself. […]

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Culture Feature Film

The Wicked vs The Woman: the evolution of the ‘Final Girl’

Blood-curdling screams and spine-chilling serial killers… It’s the 80s – slasher horror is at an all-time high, and thrill seekers are grabbing onto their cinema seats whilst adrenaline pumps through their veins. Film billboards read Halloween II, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Hell Night, and Friday the 13th – only to name a few. You […]

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Culture Feature Film

Intimacy and Vulnerability: Bill and Frank in The Last of Us

Note: Spoilers for the first half of the episode The Last of Us has recently taken fans by surprise once again — and this time, it’s not through a fungus-filled jumpscare. ‘Long, Long Time,’ episode three of the ongoing television series, had fans enthralled in an unforgettable love story between two of the hit video game’s […]