The aim of most superhero adaptations is to fulfill the excitement and expectations of comic book nerds in the breath-taking visual experience of cinema. Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass takes a uniquely creative detour as its story is told from the perspective of teenage characters inspired by comic books. However, due to […]

TO VIEW ALL OF LAURA’S PICTURES OF STREET ART PLEASE CLICK HERE I’ve lived in East London for all of my life. It is a place that is in constant transition, filled with a huge number of people from different backgrounds, cultures and countries. The area has been known throughout […]

After the pressure of a world war in 1917-18, America had been prosperous. They had been on the winning side of the war, and the country’s morale was at an all-time high. Money seemed to flow freely as people celebrated freedom itself, creating the ‘roaring twenties’. The American Dream seemed attainable for all, […]

Every so often you hear of plans to take a gem of British TV across the pond in the hope that some of its magic will rub off on a proposed American remake of it. Sometimes it rubs off well, like with The Office. The Ricky Gervais-penned hit spawned a U.S. […]

As helicopters fall from the sky and cities are levelled by bombings, President Obama sits cosily in the oval office conducting business as usual. Apparently Libyan lives are more valuable than Syrian lives. You may argue that NATO invaded Libya, not the US, but NATO is primarily an American run […]

Despite Johnny Depp’s recent comments on retiring from acting he has already signed on for the sequel to Tim Burton’s hit Alice In Wonderland. When the film came out in 2010 it grossed over one billion dollars, so it was only a matter of time before we got a sequel! […]

Only God Forgives is the latest film entry from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, and while it’s getting almost universally panned by critics for being dull and overly ultra-violent, its true brilliance lies not in its content but in its cinematic execution. I’ll try and keep this as spoiler-free as […]

Trigger warnings: rape, sexual assault, child abuse, victim blaming. I hate it when people say “It’s time to talk about x”; “It’s time we sat down and had a serious discussion about y”; “It’s time the two sides stopped squabbling and hammered out their differences over z”. Especially if they’re […]