Mad, Bad and Sad
Barking up the right tree: Tom Goodenough reviews Warwick Prize for Writing nominee Mad, Bad and Sad.
Read More
Archives
Fiction’s year in flames?
Of the six books on the Warwick Prize for Writing shortlist, only one, Montano’s Malady, was fiction. An elaborate pan-literary game was facing up against histories of music and mental illness, a scathing attack on US political economists, an investigation of the state-sponsored murder of a Guatemalan priest, and a...
Read More
Shock winner
Naomi Klein wins the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing, John Ware attends the bizarre but brilliant awards evening.
Read More
Playing cops and robbers
Matt Freeman returns to the scene of the crime in his re-viewing of Michael Mann's classic Heat.
Read More
‘If it can be written or thought it can be filmed’
Alex King continues the Boar's director profiles with a look at the ever-controversial works of Stanley Kubrick.
Read More
Dollhouse: Child’s play
Robin Stevens reviews the first two episodes of Dollhouse, the much-awaited new sci fi drama from Joss Whedon.
Read More
Skate 2
Once again I find myself face-first into the side of a hand-rail wishing that I had ollied just a little earlier and positioned my board just slightly more to the right. I find that I spend more time base over apex with my manly parts crushed against various world objects...
Read More
Killzone 2
Let me start by saying that Killzone 2 is one of the best games I have ever played and is up there with the Halo franchise in terms of fast-paced First Person Shooter action. It continues the struggle of the I.S.A (in other words, the human race) against the Helghast...
Read More
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
I’m going to try an unorthodox approach to reviewing this game; I’m going to start with my conclusion. It’s just a little better than ok. Alright, I’ll push it, it qualifies for being a good game Now to my introduction, and the bit where I put the unnecessary and slightly...
Read More
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger was originally released way back in 1995 on the Super Nintendo. It received wide acclaim and many critics immediately put it up alongside the best games of all time. Unfortunately, it did not make it to UK shores that year; UK game players had to wait until it...
Read More
A glimpse into the future
The development of carbon nanotubes heralds exciting times for the field of chemistry
Read More