'The Last of Us' (HBO) Review: The Last of Us TV Series Does Something Different
The moment I heard the familiar notes of Gustavo Santaolalla - 'the maestro’, as he is affectionately called by the story’s creator Neil...
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Georgia Gibson
- Dec 20, 2022
- 4 min
'A Christmas Carol' Review: What Is Christmas For, If Not To Scare Kids Into Being Better People?
It’s that time of year again: tinsel, roast dinners and people pretending Home Alone is the best Christmas film. In fact, there’s a lot...
Oisín McGilloway
- Dec 14, 2022
- 3 min
"Silent Night, Deadly Night" Review: One Might Question What Makes This Film "Christmassy"
Released in November 1984 in time for the big day, Silent Night, Deadly Night is, without question, a video-nasty. Coming in at only 79...
Georgia Gibson
- Nov 16, 2022
- 4 min
'Corsage' Review: A Fresh Portrayal of a Decaying Queen
Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage has already established itself as one of cinema’s crowning jewels of 2022, having earned the Best Film Award at...
Bianca Layog
- Sep 19, 2022
- 4 min
The Promise of Escape: Reviewing Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lonely Castle in the Mirror follows Kokoro, a 7th grader at Yukishina No. 5 Junior High School. After having been...
Lara Mae Simpson
- Apr 14, 2022
- 3 min
Mala’s Cat Review: A Pertinent Reminder of the Violence of War
Holocaust memoirs are hard to read. Given the unfathomable brutality of this history, to hear a first-hand account of the Nazis’...
Maisie Allen
- Feb 18, 2022
- 4 min
London Literature Festival 2021: Booker Prize Shortlist Readings
For the finale of the 2021 London Literature Festival and on Halloween no less, the Southbank Centre hosted an author discussion of this...
Isabela Palancean
- Feb 9, 2022
- 3 min
London Literature Festival 2021: Mieko Kawakami's Heaven
Centred on the expansive theme of friendship, this year’s London Literature Festival inaugurated Japanese writer’s Mieko Kawakami’s novel...
Maisie Allen
- Jan 24, 2022
- 5 min
London Literature Festival 2021: Creative Future Writers' Award
As part of the 2021 Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival, the organisation Creative Future hosted their annual Writers’ Award,...
Maisie Allen
- Dec 11, 2021
- 4 min
Poetry + Film Hack: Rocks and the beauty of adolescent friendship
Set in the Barbican’s Pit, viewers were immersed into an emotional and sensory experience centred around the Black femme experience,...
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