On November 10, 2014, I strolled down to The Fleece in Bristol eagerly awaiting to see the Swedish Rock group Blues Pills live in concert on their UK tour, with opening acts The Vintage Caravan and Black Wolf. Upon arriving at the venue I came across an unnerving scene: 90% […]

Scorned released in 2013 and directed by Mark Jones. Its premise is infidelity and the circumstances that soon surface as an affair progresses. The establishing (opening) shots attempt to demonstrate a strong presence. White text lies on a black backdrop; its content leads to a convincing argument. SMS messages read […]

Translating Cheryl Strayed’s 2013 sort-of memoir Wild: From lost To Found On The Pacific West Trail to the screen must have been a daunting task for everybody involved; it really isn’t a text that seems like fertile ground for cinematic reinvention, it’s not crying out to be displayed on the […]

A report by the Sutton Trust – an educational charity which aims to improve social mobility and address educational disadvantage- revealed that most leading journalists went to private schools and that this disparity has been steadily increasing over last 10 years only. More than half of Britain’s top 100 journalists were […]

“Money makes the world go round” is a statement which is becoming as true in sport as it is in business. In recent weeks we’ve heard news that Floyd Mayweather will finally face Manny Pacquiao, not for honour, or to unify the boxing belts, nor to provide the boxing world […]

We all know that it’s not easy to write a TV show. Even writers of successful shows like Lost and Eureka will probably admit that it’s not easy to write a good script. But when it comes to TV Series, it’s not just about writing a good story; it’s about […]

Has Apple become a parody of itself? I was recently shown a commercial from the the Superbowl Half-Time show from 1984. It was an Apple Macintosh Computers commercial depicting a harsh, cold and indoctrinated dystopian world, with everybody seemingly obeying the voice/face on the screen. In comes a colourful woman […]

First and foremost, create a group of like-minded, yet fundamentally diverse individuals to share the experience of maturation. Through sheer coincidence or by the mystical hands of fate, Tommy Pickles, Chuckie Finster, and fraternal twins Phil and Lil DeVille were thrust into a shared experience of growing up that came […]