With Suicide Squad, the modern face of DC, currently strutting onto our screens with all the subtlety of a howitzer, and getting a tepid response from most, Batman: The Killing Joke stands apart as a more subdued and altogether quite different beast. When it shines, it harkens back to better...
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In a report on the ‘Migration Crisis’ by the Home Affairs Committee published Wednesday, Coventry was named the local authority where the highest number of refugees are to be resettled under a scheme to relocate Syrian refugees and their dependants in the UK. The refugee crisis saw a sharp increase...
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The past couple of years have been pivotal for superhero films with, DC’s cinematic universe launching with Batman v Superman and the passing from an ambitious Phase 2 of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe to a Phase 3 with twice the number of titles. Both of these developments confirm what had already...
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Two men who were arrested on suspicion of Syria terrorism offences have now been released on bail. Police arrested two men from separate addresses in Coventry on the morning of 3 August. They were bailed later that day, with conditions pending further enquiries. The 38 year-old and the 40 year-old...
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The enthusiastic 'Games Makers' were one of the triumphs of London 2012. This year, Warwick student Emily Standen is in Rio for an experience of a lifetime.
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Sure, everybody loves heroes, but there’s a reason that the villains tend to be the more popular characters – villains have a chance to let loose, to be bad with gay abandon. Assemble a team of villains, then, and that’s pretty much assuring a hit, right? After all, making an...
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The other night, I was the cinema watching a quiet film, and the atmosphere was absolutely ruined by the fact that the two people in front of me were very noisily eating popcorn. As I left the cinema, it got me thinking – why is popcorn the food that we...
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Four Warwick students represented the university in the notoriously difficult TV program ‘University Challenge’ which was aired on Monday. The team was led by Maths student Giles Hutchings who worked alongside French and History student Sophie Hobbs, Sophie Rudd studying Computer Science and Thomas Van who studies History. Warwick triumphed...
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Polly Findlay has staged a raucous, playful production of The Alchemist, Ben Jonson’s esteemed city comedy. A play of many transformations, The Alchemist is centred around a “venture tripartite” of confidence tricksters. Face (Ken Nwosu), otherwise known as Jeremy, is a butler to the nobleman Lovewit. With his master fleeing...
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After a marketing campaign which relied more on motorcycle stunts and the Beastie Boys than the series’ renowned philosophical science fiction, I thought that I would sooner eat my own hat than enjoy this film. Well, I can tell you that I will be happily dining on trilby tonight, as...
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Cat-calling is a feature of every woman’s life. An unwanted feature. From a man telling us to ‘have a good morning darling’, to a group of men telling us exactly how they’d like to fuck us, from as young as nine years old women learn that the act of walking...
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Facebook has announced its intentions to use end-to-end encryption in the next version of its Messenger app. Developed with Open Whisper Systems, a non-profit encryption software used by Whatsapp and Google’s messaging app Allo, it’s thought the update will be released in autumn this year. Previously, messages sent using such...
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No one could match Chris Froome as he retained his Tour de France title. Warwick Triathlon and Cycling Club's Jack O'Neill tells us why he was so dominant.
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