Way back in 1978, John Carpenter made a horror film that would come to re-define the genre – that film, Halloween, would go on to be a successful franchise and introduce ‘Michael Myers’ to the realm of nightmare boogeymen everywhere. This Halloween season sees him return to the big screen...
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Sam Savelli reviews the latest Doctor Who episode which pays a visit to Rosa Parks and wonders how this episode could have looked if the Doctor were played by a black actor
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Reece Goodall explores the concept of randomness and its applications.
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Reading books often represents a comforting escapism. But what if reading could do even more than entertain and distract you at the end of a difficult day? What if reading could help treat a mental illness? Bibliotherapy, an ancient practice given its name in 1916 by Samuel Crothers, aims to...
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Coursing through Freshblood’s Lip Service is a piercing sense of unease. Set in the office of a Soho nightclub-cum-brothel in 1978, a mix of male employees, employers and female sex workers argue and cope with personal issues that have more public consequences. A consistent blend of joviality and viciousness helps...
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The closure came almost out of nowhere. Telltale was shutting down. When the dust settled only 25 people remained, a skeleton crew tasked with finishing a Minecraft: Story Mode project for Netflix. The 250 others, given 30 minutes to leave the building and told that their healthcare benefits would end...
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The writing has been on the wall for quite some time and what’s more is that the blame rests at Telltale’s own feet. The main factor that led to collapse of Telltale Games is honestly rather simple: their video games weren’t selling. According to the Steamspy, the first Walking Dead...
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Helena Lönnberg looks at how we our reactions to violence vary from fictional depictions on the screen to the real thing
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Theo Wolf investigates the gender balance within physics academia.
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Congratulations, you’ve made it! After years of work, you’re at university hanging up your fairy lights, and acquainting yourself with kitchen utensils that you never even knew existed. For as long as you can remember, you’ve been consumed by the need to participate in as many extra-curricular activities as you...
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Hannah Wiggan explores the different patterns of the female orgasm
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Equality, diversity and inclusion are three words that have been etched into my brain as a mantra for campus life since arriving at the University of Warwick less than a week ago. But what do these words mean? Whether you like it or not, every university in the UK has been working in recent years to improve their...
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Everybody loves a scandal, don’t they? So when Strictly Come Dancing contestant Seann Walsh was photographed last week locking lips with his married dance partner Katya Jones, it quickly hit the headlines. The infamous ‘strictly curse’ had been cast and ‘The Seann Walsh Cheating Scandal’ was talked about everywhere, from...
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