Category: Culture

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    Rosie Spurrier

    The Best Beach Reads for Your Summer: ‘On the Island’ by Tracey Garvis Graves

    Rosie Spurrier sees Tracey Garvis Graves’ ‘On the Island’ as a beach reading essential this summer.

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    Erin Child

    TV Gone Too Soon… Crashing (2016)

    Erin Child wants Channel 4’s ‘Crashing’ to return!

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    Kat Munday

    Our Favourite Female Characters: Catherine Carwood of ‘Happy Valley’

    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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    Mollie Potter

    Our Favourite Female Characters: Maeve Wiley of ‘Sex Education’

    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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    Stella Lau

    Our Favourite Female Characters: Tohru Honda of ‘Fruits Basket’

    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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    Rosie Spurrier

    Our Favourite Female Characters: Katniss Everdeen

    “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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    Mollie Potter

    Our Favourite Female Characters: Lara Croft

    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

    Our Favourite Female Characters: Aelin Galathynius of ‘Throne of Glass’

    Emily Poole explores Aelin Galathynius of ‘Throne of Glass’.

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    Lottie James

    Why Ratchet & Clank (2002) Is Still A Timeless Classic 22 Years On

    Lottie James looks back at 2002’s Ratchet & Clank.

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    Douglas James

    Review: Theatre Group’s Dinner @ The Annex Theatre

    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

    2004’s original ‘Far Cry’: a defence

    Jasper Marshall provides a defence of the original ‘Far Cry’ game.

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    Reece Beckett

    Exploring the Boundaries: The Role of Controversy in Literature

    Reece Beckett explores the importance of controversial literature.

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    Emily Dennis

    Review: ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, 2/4/24

    Emily Dennis checkes out Nick Winston’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ at the Mayflower Theatre.

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    Karina

    Review: SUSU Theatre Group’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at The Annex, Southampton, 23/3/24

    Karina Nasur checks out the SUSU Theatre Group’s new production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’.