The Legend of Zelda: Political Polemics
With the recent announcement of a new Game of Thrones style Legend of Zelda TV series, and the latest installment of the video game series coming out soon, I’d thought it would be worth taking…
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A Road Trip through Road Movies: Part 3
Boy, we’ve been on the road some while, haven’t we? Having already examined the road movies of the Thirties all the way to the Eighties, we’ve been hiding out in diners and motels under false…
A Road Trip through Road Movies: Part 2
Previously we examined the ‘Pre-Road Movie Road Movies’ of the Thirties to the Fifties. Now we will be looking at the developments that took place once the ‘Road Movie’ had become a commonly accepted genre,…
A Road Trip through Road Movies: Part 1
What is a road movie? Is it a movie where a character goes on a journey through various locations until they reach their goals? That sentence would describe a lot of movies, and you wouldn’t…
Which Toxic Internet Clan Mythology is for You?
If you’ve spent the last twenty years in a coma and have just stumbled onto the internet and don’t know your Tumblrs from your Tinders, don’t worry! I’m here to give you a helping hand….
The Musical Evolution of Taylor Swift
One of the advantages that observing the MMA game has given me, in terms of creative media, is that the comparisons between fighters and writers has been made clear as day. Many people think that…
Reda Report : authors on the warpath
The way authors, and artists of all sorts, make a living has been a tricky problem to solve for centuries. The opportunities for plagiarism, illicit copies, and uncontrolled distribution, have made untangling the entire business…
Age of Ultron is too Cool for its own Good.
Article might contain mild spoilers about a film you might not have seen yet. You stand forewarned. *** Captain America stands before a group of baddies. He stares them down. One tries to jump him…
London Coffee Festival Review
Hello my lovelies Scene? Festival -2 days…19:00pm… More revision? TV? Check phone…ooh it’s dead I really ought to charge that, I might turn it on and have a hundred pressing messages to tend to…then…
The Cliff: Otherworldliness in rural Iceland
The Cliff (Hamarinn, 2009) a Nordic TV production from Iceland, centres on what was deemed to be Eurochannel’s most ambitious TV crime drama. Quintessentially a thriller buried in secrets, it is directed by Reynir Lyngdal…