TV couples: do they last after the show ends?
This article contains spoilers for How I Met Your Mother, Normal People, Friends, and Gavin & Stacey. In honour of Valentine’s Day, it’s time to revisit our most beloved and…
Doctrines for a Contented Life: About Time and Past Lives
About Time (2013) and Past Lives (2023), directed by Richard Curtis and Celine Song respectively, explore the fundamental aspects of life—time, love, and loss. Despite being a decade apart, both…
Review: American Fiction
Breath-Taking. Real. Raw. What the world needs right now. Common phrases slapped onto film and literature reviews when they delicately graze against contemporary political conversations. But if I were to…
University Movies to Get You Back in The Spirit of Studying
The beginning of a new semester comes with its own excitements, but as we get back into study mode, leaving our comforters and the vacation mindset behind can be a…
Review: In Broad Daylight
A part of the fresh wave of Hong Kong cinema, Lawrence Kan’s ‘In Broad Daylight’ is a touchy love letter to investigative journalism. This review contains spoilers. What made my…
Review: Monster
Monster could mark a new stage of the famous Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s filmmaking. People who know Hirokazu Kore-eda might notice the uniqueness of Monster. Since the success of his…
“These are investments in war and weaponry”: The EUJPS divestment campaign, explained
“Did you know your tuition fees are funding genocide?” Such read the flyers circulated across campus by the Edinburgh University Justice for Palestine Society (EUJPS). In a statement to The…
“If you’re Not living your dream, then why not?”: In conversation with Edinburgh’s mature students.
Jill Harvey will be 36 this year, an age commonly seen as the start of midlife. Yet, Jill is far from ‘crisis.’ In fact, only since entering middle-age has Jill…