From the timeless Scarface (1983) to Ben Affleck’s recent, albeit less memorable, Live by Night (2016), cinema’s obsession with gangsters has endured almost as long as the medium itself. Many movies of the genre have become staples of popular culture, with some breaking box-office records and winning multiple Academy Awards....
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In a time when gaming companies are pursuing the most advanced and impressive software they can, Nintendo’s newest innovation is… cardboard. Nintendo Labo may seem like a huge gimmick – after all, how could a bunch of cardboard sculptures be anything else? What it is, however, is a load of...
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If there is one thing that can be agreed on, it is that Emmanuel Santos cannot sculpt Cristiano Ronaldo. In a somewhat surreal turn of events, sports website Bleacher Report commissioned the 41-year-old artist to have another ‘shot’ at a bronze bust of the Portuguese winger. The result: a bland...
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Reece Goodall explains the science behind the newest social media challenge of making a smooth sphere out of tinfoil.
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Oliver Holman reports on i-motifs - the new form of DNA discovered in human cells.
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Kamal Ahmed, the BBC economics editor and former business editor, spoke to Warwick students on Monday 30 April, in an event hosted by Warwick PPE society. Before the talk, The Boar spoke to Mr Ahmed about the government’s review into post-18 education, affordable housing for students and recent criticism of...
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Approaching term three, Giles Allen-Bowden discusses which study spaces are available and which your favourite literary characters prefer.
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“I will convince our compatriots that France’s power is not in decline, but that we are at the edge of an extraordinary rebirth, because we hold within our hands all the assets that will and currently make the great powers of the 21st century.” Emmanuel Macron passionately delivered these words...
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It’s the first Saturday evening of April and, at any moment now, the predominantly female audience of Birmingham’s Genting Arena is due to be graced with Harry Styles’ presence. For his first UK show of 2018, Birmingham seems like a strange place to kick things off, but the crowd are...
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Wetherspoons is an absolute student staple – after all, who hasn’t paid a visit to the Benjamin Satchwell on a Leamington night out? The pub chain hit the news this last week after it announced that it was quitting social media, telling its 44,000 Twitter followers that its head office...
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By way of introduction, half the delight with obscurer films is how you come across them. The point of a handful of recommended films like this is that they probably won’t come to you through Netflix’s algorithm of suggestions or through IMDB’s top 250 – at least that wasn’t how...
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The National Student Drama Festival (NSDF), which took place at De Montfort University in Leicester from 24-30 March, showcased selected productions from students aged 16-25 across the country. Warwick University was represented by Freshblood New Writing’s Seeking Intimacy and WUDS’ Speed Death of the Radiant Child. It was a privilege...
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With the pressure of exams, dissertations and deadlines, the first half of Term 3 is full of stress-induced breakdowns for many students. However, the final few weeks are a chance to make those final memories of the academic year. Warwick’s Graduation Ball, Societies Awards and Sports Ball have been regular...
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