Category: Arts & Entertainment

Nero, Manchester Academy 1, 16/03

This review can be found at The Yorker, here. As someone who’s always gets on edge when surrounded by strangers in a small space, going to a dubstep concert with a moshpit seemed like a ridiculous step up from the awful clubs …

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Film Review: Les Adoptés (The Adopted)

©Studio Canal My media consumption is largely starved of quality Human Drama – partially because I’m a fan of psychological/horror, partially because a lot of my media consumption is in video games, and they tend not to handle emotional narrative too well. …

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Author in Profile: Jasper Fforde

You can find this feature at The Yorker, here. With a lot of Science Fiction and Fantasy works, there’s a heavy emphasis on world-building in lieu of character development. Call it an artefact of Tolkien’s impact on the genres, but in many …

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Ugly on the inside: Girl Model review

This review can be found at The Yorker, here. I would say it’s relatively common knowledge that the fashion advertising industry is toxic. In addition to all the body-shaming and the increasingly unrealistic and creepy ‘standards’ of beauty, you don’t even need …

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Empirical – Elements of Truth

This review can be found at The Yorker, here. ©Empirical; Image Credit: Empirical Jazz can be a hard genre to get into if you’ve not grown up with listening to it. Smooth Jazz and Big Band are already somewhat niche interests, but …

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Not quite psychological warfare: Safe House review

This review can also be found at The Yorker, here. Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) is an ex-CIA agent who’s widely respected and somewhat feared by intelligence agencies worldwide for two reasons. Firstly, he’s a psychological genius; secondly, he makes a living stealing …

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Running from your relationships: Catherine review

This review can also be found at The Yorker, here. Video games aren’t too great at dealing with relationships; especially sexual ones. Often, when sex comes up in a game, it’s as a ‘reward’; and if the game is particularly immature, as …

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Location: Always the Urbanite

This article is a Destructoid Bloggers Request, found here. I love living in the city – while many resent the crowded streets, the tall buildings and the subtle background notes of consumerism and pollution, it’s what I grew up around, and I …

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Dating Sims: Romance for those who don’t know better

This article is hosted on The Yorker, found here. Dating Simulators. It’s a genre that’s been around longer than you might think, surprisingly constrained to obscure Japanese titles, and even then, ones essentially indie developed and distributed for DOS. For the uninitiated, …

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Desert Living: Bombay Beach Review

This review can be found at The Yorker, here. Living in poverty is trying. So is living in a desert, and miles away from any major settlement. What was once advertised as a thriving tourist resort in the 50s is now a …

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Have You Read… Norwegian Wood

University is difficult. Not just the academics, but the social side more than anything else. We are forced to sink-or-swim in a setting where we initially know no one, and rarely have old friendship groups to rely on. And yet at the …

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