Category: Culture
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Erin Child wants Channel 4’s ‘Crashing’ to return!
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Across all three seasons of modern BBC classic ‘Happy Valley’, Catherine Cawood is a female character who consistently appears strikingly realistic. Strong-willed, sweary, and blindingly loyal, Catherine is a woman who constantly battles with a deep, personal trauma but never strays from doing what is right. Between her neon green battle armour or donning her…
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Maeve Wiley is introduced in the Netflix original show ‘Sex Education’ with a, let’s say, interesting nickname. She is portrayed as a ‘bad girl’, with blonde hair with pink dip-dyed ends, a nose ring and a tendency to wear fishnet tights. She immediately shuts down snide comments from her classmates with sharp-tongued sarcasm and keeps…
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Tohru Honda is the central protagonist of the 23-volume manga ‘Fruits Basket‘ by Natsuki Takaya. The story follows Tohru, a orphaned high-school student, who crosses paths with the Sohma family who accidentally reveal their curse: they are possessed by the animals of the Chinese zodiac and turn into their animal forms whenever they hug someone…
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“I volunteer as tribute!” These four words will catch the attention of any ‘Hunger Games’ fan and quite possibly bring them to a standstill for an emotional few moments. I read ‘The Hunger Games’ for the first time at age 16, which was the age we first met Katniss Everdeen when she volunteers to take…
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Lara Croft has been criticised, especially in her earlier iterations, for being overly sexualised, having unrealistic body proportions, and catering solely to the male gaze, whilst prominently being known as a video game sex symbol. While, in the first few ‘Tomb Raider’ games especially, a lot of this criticism is valid, it is easy to…
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Emily Poole explores Aelin Galathynius of ‘Throne of Glass’.
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Lottie James looks back at 2002’s Ratchet & Clank.
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Theatre Group’s Dinner is a darkly funny show with twists, turns, and several plastic lobsters. An excellent cast show great dramatic discipline in bringing such a complex plot to life and keeping the audience laughing throughout. Dinners have always been a great narrative way for drama to happen – whether it’s Macbeth seeing the dead or…
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Jasper Marshall provides a defence of the original ‘Far Cry’ game.
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Reece Beckett explores the importance of controversial literature.
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Emily Dennis checkes out Nick Winston’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ at the Mayflower Theatre.
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Karina Nasur checks out the SUSU Theatre Group’s new production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
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We all know the deal: many quality podcasts are not timeless. It can be hard to catch up with episodes that focus on the news of its day or podcasts about a subject that is no longer relevant. But never fear! Edge writers have collected below a few podcasts that are good for any day…