The West Wing: A Retrospective
Emily Fulham takes a nostalgic look back at the Bartlet administration
Modern Family
The result of over 7 years work, Jim Jarmusch’s latest film takes a bold new look at the gothic classic of vampires.
Get Ready For All Night At The Oscars
As we near the end of another exhausting term at our favourite university, the return of the hallowed Imperial cinema All-Nighter also rapidly approaches. In a year of unusually high caliber for Oscar nominated films, we’ve selected the crème de la crème of the Oscar crop just for you.
Jesse feels the need for <del>meth</del> speed
Surely the overwhelming critical success of Breaking Bad could have set up Aaron Paul for a better cinematic role than this one. He has won two Primetime Emmys, and yet one of the first roles he manages to land is in a video game adaptation...
Alien in Scotland
Grating noise over a blackout. A pinprick of light. The noise intensifies, the light grows. More. More. The light spills out, begin to refract. Colours seep through.
A 5-star hotel experience
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a tricky film to review. Put quite simply: it’s a Wes Anderson film. In every conceivable way, as with all of his films before it, it is the essence of its predecessors mixed up, distilled, and delivered to the silver screen in a blast of pure, surreal, bittersweet joy.
The sound of cringe
The Sound of Music is without doubt one of the most beloved films of all time whether you like it or not. There isn’t a Christmas that goes by without Julie Andrews running on top of a hill singing at the top of her lungs...
Hipster House of Cards you won’t find on Netflix
Few people could have escaped the popularity of the Netflix political drama series House of Cards. However, the US show is actually a remake of a 1990s British TV miniseries of the same name.
Culture returns to the Idiots’ Lantern
Ryan Ehlers takes a ride in Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
Star Cops: A sci-fi golden oldie
First let me say – no, it’s not as bad as its name suggests. In fact it’s nothing like its name suggest. The show itself jokes about how bad a name it is in its very first episode.
Benefits Britain and the ethics of TV-making
Grace Rahman asks whether a live debate was necessary
Who do you think you are?
There is a reason why television critics can’t stop talking about Tatiana Maslany. The fact that her work on the first season of Orphan Black missed out on an Emmy nomination which damn well should have resulted in a win over Claire “I do the same boring crazy spy skit every episode” Danes...