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The trailer for Brand New Day (2026), the fourth Spider-Man movie in the MCU, was released last week, promising the most poignant movie in the quartet. Following the end of No Way Home (2021), Peter Parker is all alone as he tackles not only a new mysterious enemy but also...
Autumn Durald Arkapaw has won the Oscar for best cinematography at the 98th Academy Awards, for her work on Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, becoming the first woman to have received the honour. She is also the first person of African-American descent (Arkapaw is part Filipino and African American Creole) to have...
Ryan Gosling’s latest film Project Hail Mary is set to release this week, to much anticipation from fans and critics alike. So, as viewers flock to the cinemas to see his latest endeavour, it is time we explore: what is it about Gosling that is so appealing? His popularity is...
The release of Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, has received high acclaim, not only for its lead performance but also for Stewart’s uncompromising and deeply visceral adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir. The decision to enter directorship from acting is often borne from working on set for years and...
Culture
The Jolly Fisherman tells the story of community, division, gentrification, and ultimately of contemporary England. It begins in 2013, when 13-year-old Alan, having lost his mother, spends all his time in the local pub (the eponymous Jolly Fisherman) with his dad’s friends. A few years on, Amir, who is the...
Atomic Tales is Elena Arvigo’s devastatingly poignant stage adaptation of Svetlana Alexiovich’s Chernobyl Prayer. Alexiovich’s words are haunting and beautiful — her memoir won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and has become a famous novel on the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. It follows a woman whose husband was a firefighter...
I arrived to Matt Hale’s show expecting a show full of tense scenes which embarrass the subjects. However, this show couldn’t be more different from the images I had of hypnotists from the movies. In reality, his energetic entrance to a medley of 90s classics got the whole crowd dancing...
It is an immense privilege to watch some of Japan’s best Kabuki musicians perform a selection of the repertoire’s most beautiful yet demanding pieces. Kabuki is a 17th century classical Japanese art form where skilled dancers and musicians perform elaborate compositions in tangent to narrate a story, which usually derive from...
Lifestyle
The irony of influencers telling people that suncream causes cancer – when it is quite the opposite – is shocking. One must wonder, how can people ergo suncream to slap natural ingredients on their skin and call it a day? And what’s the politics behind this movement? Multiple news outlets...
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The novelty of moving away to university has not quite worn off yet. The fresh-felt freedom that sits at the edge of your fingertips on the drive up to your first year halls is a brand-new feeling full of opportunities and excitement. What you do with your time lies entirely...
With the advent of sporting events clouding the media this summer, sport is playing a much more dominant role in our everyday lives, and the world of fashion has noticed. With FIFA World Cup flags in pubs, and the current idolisation of toned muscle, sport is truly everywhere. I want...
Following a long day of lectures, the last thing the hangry student wants is to limbo under outstretched arms reaching for milk and eggs, or weave through the everlasting queue which snakes down the aisles of Nicolson Street’s Lidl. One would think, given the crowds in Lidl at 5pm, that...
