In typical high fantasy fiction there is an obvious lack of female protagonists compared to other genres. While there may be female characters, they are rarely ever the heroine, let alone a heroine who conquers and vanquishes Evil. Daughter of the Empire is an exception, and is intriguing enough to […]

Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes And eyes and ears and mouth and nose Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Now hands up those of you who went into jovial singing once you recognised the classic rhyme? Most I should […]

For all you English students out there who thought that the new Great Expectations film and it’s all-star cast was going to be the nerdy highlight of your Christmas break, think again. Having read the book and seen the BBC adaptation of Dickens’s charming tale at Christmas last year, I […]

The premise of this light-hearted comedy-drama is simple enough. Whilst working as an intern at a Seattle magazine, Darius Britt (Aubrey Plaza) gets roped in by a half-arsed, borderline-misogynistic journalist called Jeff (Jake M. Johnson of New Girl), to write a story on a man who, on the surface, comes across […]

London is a great place to shoot your film school feature, but you already knew that. With the likes of the post-apocalyptic 28 Days Later, James Bond’s Skyfall, and the political/royal landscape at bay for films like The King’s Speech, it seems everyone is keen to shoot in the city that […]

It is the early hours on the morning of Thursday, December 7th 1972. A human being  has just snapped a photograph that will change the world. The man in question is not even a trained photographer; doesn’t answer to any editorial team. He’s a geologist by trade, but couldn’t be […]

“I have no white god don’t teach me anything wrong could the white god save me from white man oppression? I have no white god it’s just a Black Messiah, if a white god ah bless you him no bless Sizzla.” – Sizzla Kolange Jesus is white. At least that is […]

I was asked to bring forward my opinions and thoughts on Twitter, a social networking platform that has had birds tweeting since March 2006. Twitter is better known as a real-time social networking platform from where its little ‘birds’ open the world to celebrities, introduce newly launched companies and present old companies […]