Category: Features

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    Navi Ahluwalia

    Acts to look forward to at Boardmasters 2016

    The latest line up announcement from Boardmasters Festival 2016.

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    Robert Pratley

    “It’s a small price to pay to do what you’ve always dreamed of”: An interview with Natalie Burn

    Alumni of action blockbuster The Expendables 3 and only set to rise, The Edge chatted to the lovely Natalie Burn.

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    James Slaymaker

    Slay-ing it: I Am the Girl Who Exists Only to Facilitate Your Dumb Coming of Age

    The manic pixie dream girl?

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    Hollie Geraghty

    The Easter Rising Centenary: The Anglo-Irish Conflict in Film

    In commemoration of the centenary of the some of the darkest days of history in our islands, Hollie examines how the Troubles have made it to screen.

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    Laura Cox

    Acts to Look Forward to at Blissfields 2016

    Laura Cox suggests the top ‘acts to watch’ at Blissfields 2016.

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    Jack Gracie

    ‘With animation the scene can take a life of its own’: An interview with directors of the Oscar nominated Anomalisa

    Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson are the directors of 2015’s Anomalisa; based on a play of the same name, it is a masterfully created stop motion picture in which a lonely help author Michael (voiced by actor David Thewlis) sees everyone the same until he meets a certain special woman, Lisa (voiced by Jennifer Jason Leigh), […]

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    James Slaymaker

    Slay-ing it: Now I look and look around and there’s so many Kanyes!

    How does one define beauty when its aesthetics have become easily to replicate and associated with advertisements?

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    Sophie Trenear

    “If you can identify with characters on screen there is a kind of solace in the fact that it’s not just you”: An interview with Rayna Campbell

    Director Rayna Campbell’s latest venture, Lapse of Honour, sees her take a step backwards to behind the camera where she tells the tale of a modern-day, urban romance between teenagers caught up in a whirlpool of drugs, abuse and teenage pregnancy in Manchester’s Moss Side. Selected for several film festivals, it features faces familiar to […]

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    Lisa Veiber

    Superheroes in our world: blessing or threat ?

    With the upcoming Captain America: Civil War movie on the horizon and the ever increasing popularity of the superhero story as genre itself – be it in films, shows, or their original comic book form – a question must arise: what if superheroes were living among us? Would they be a help for the end of wars across […]

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    Rehana Nurmahi

    Teenagers aren’t stupid; and neither is their literature

    Young Adult Literature is often slammed by society as being worthless. However, there must be a reason that they’ve become so popular? Does teen fiction have any cultural value?

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    CM Kavanagh

    ‘No homo’: The unnecessary act of changing pronouns in song covers

    Come on over, Valerie, while The Edge talk about song covers and their artists that don’t worry about the terrible, awful potential where you might, maybe, possibly, think someone is not 100% straight.

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    CM Kavanagh

    Caitlyn Jenner: Call her out, but call her Cait

    Caitlyn Jenner seems to come up every time the Kardashian/Jenner clan are mentioned in social media. A lot of problems that people seem to have with her are that she continually misspeaks on transgender issues, and has won Woman Of The Year seemingly ‘just’ for coming out as a trans woman, when people argue that there are […]

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    David Mitchell-Baker

    Why UK music festivals need to stop playing it safe with their bookings

    Coldplay again!?! Why UK music festivals need to re-evaluate their headliners.

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    Sophie McEvoy

    International Woman’s Day: Gillian Anderson, and the war for wage-equality

    Gillian Anderson is a powerhouse in the entertainment industry. And, twenty years after she first fought for it, she’s still being offered less money than her male co-stars.