Yauatcha Review: My dessert’s better than yours
Tricky, so I’ve saved up my ‘Burgers of London’ portfolio on my weebly page to hit you with it all and hopefully a solid conclusion and I finally went to Meat Liquor today, but you…
Wax On Wax Off
There are many of us out there who have considered whether waxing is a method of hair removal which we would like to invest in. Within the beauty industry, waxing remains one of the most…
Twins: Love At Arms Length
Have you got twins and wondered what it was like for other mums well here is a real life story which is has been written by Nichola who is a first time mother who recently…
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…
Tainted foods Scandals cruising through European nets
The gradual construction of the European market was well thought out: initially built around a homogenous group of 6 countries with common economic, political and social parameters (France, Germany, Italy, and Benelux countries). Then, it…
The World’s First Apocalypse in Fiction
The world’s going to end in a lot of different ways. Take your Apocalypse pick. If you’re a young and upcoming film director with a limited budget it’s going to be zombies. If you’re a…
Zombies vs. Vampires. The Cultural War
My original plan for this article was going to be Zombies vs. Dragons. Commenting about why it is that zombies have risen (gettit?) to cultural supremacy while dragons languish in animated kids flicks. But then…
Fifty Shades Film Review
Firstly, I would like to say I am fully aware this is vastly beyond my usual food related piece of writing but I’m only human and this caught my fancy for a post so here…
Three Thrillers. No Oscars.
Thrillers are like any other genre. There are good thrillers, bad thrillers, average-ish thrillers. And there are truly excellent thrillers, the product of outstanding workman and craftsmanship. But thrillers, unlike the biopic genre, don’t get…
Review: Rubens and His Legacy
When I heard that the Royal Academy was going to host an exhibition on the work of Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens and his influence on the generation of artists who followed him, I…