Neil Gaiman, writer extraordinaire with more awards to his name than the British Library has books, released a new novel earlier this week. This new book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, is unlike any novel of his that has preceded it – it’s much more personal, much […]

*This review contains spoilers* Going into this, I had the worst expectations ever. I had absolutely no faith in how the new Superman picture was being made. I hated everything they were doing. I agreed with nothing. Not the costumes, not the music, not the director, I didn’t like anything. […]

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is anything but incredible. Steve Carrell and Steve Buscemi play Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton in a Martin & Lewis type of magic acts that they’ve shared for the last decade at Bally’s in Las Vegas.  They are best friends on-stage, but bicker constantly behind it, […]

The turn of the twenty-first century saw a boom in alternative rock culture; bands like The Hives and New York’s finest, The Strokes, were starting out strong and building an army of Converse that took their pet ‘indie’ kids everywhere with them. A whole new sub-culture was born, albeit a […]

When I first set eyes on Caitlin Moran’s novel ‘How to Be a Woman’, I noticed two things. Firstly, that the title presumes to tell me how to ‘be’ based solely on the fact that I am a woman, and, secondly, that the woman on the front cover has unkempt […]

In the Purge it is the year 2022 and crime is at an all time low in America. Unemployment is at 1% and everyone seems content and happy with their lives. This is because for three-hundred and sixty-four days and twelve hours of the year, everyone is all ‘howdy neighbor’ […]

When one looks at the title, Stoker, it is automatically assumed to be a project related to Bram Stoker, author of Dracula. Although this movie does not have anything to do with vampirism, it does leave its audience similarly unnerved; especially when the tagline is ‘Do not disturb the family.’ […]

Directed by the progressively popular twin sisters, Jen and Sylvia Soska, the low-budget American Mary presents a voyeuristic yet psychologically volatile view into the dark worlds of body modification, rape and torture. The Soska twins, already having an impressive background in film with their love of all things horror, both […]