The Boar’s favourite TV Christmas specials – the American picks
The Boar TV heads across the pond as our writers offer up some of their favourite American TV Christmas specials.
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Lakshmi Ajay
Breaking expectations – has Game Of Thrones become too predictable?
Game of Throne likes to play with viewer expectations, killing off characters and taking unexpected plot turns. So what's been going wrong?
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Cigarettes after Sex – Modern day lullabies to escape the pressures of productivity
Ambient pop band Cigarettes after Sex recently released their debut album, Cigarettes after Sex. As listeners are gifted with lullabies about the most cliché forms of love, ranging from a teenage romance in a park to an unrequited love as an adult, the band takes us through so many stages...
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Books for beginnings
With the summer vacation just around the corner, many of us will have already started to put together a reading list for the break. Once the hustle, bustle, stress and pain of term time have started to ebb away, the summer is a perfect opportunity to open the books that...
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“A visual spectacle of the perfectly mundane”: ‘Mess’ review
Having had to share a bedroom with my brother all through my teens, my ensuite is that one place of solace for me. I love the way my thoughts fly free in there and how I can have entire monologues on my own in there. I love how the very...
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Behind the lens: In conversation with YaM
In they walked, swaying perfectly as if in tune to an internal rhythm that only they could hear. Meet Horatio Gould, a 2nd year Film student, Alfie Green a 2nd year English Literature student and Andrew Kirwan a 2nd year History and Politics student and together they form the Yahtzee...
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What’s On At Warwick?
Di Caprio All Nighter 23rd Feb, Week 7 Prepare for a whole night for Di Capriciousness with back-to-back screenings of Leonardo Di Caprio’s best films only at the Warwick Student Cinema. The only question that remains is… Can you last AllNight? James Bond Film Ball Week 9 Film Studies Society...
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Mark Kermode Live in 3D: “A simple celebration of film”
Far from a simple film screening punctuated by occasional remarks and reflections (I admit, this is what I feared), Mark Kermode’s aptly titled live show, Mark Kermode: LIVE in 3D, delivers something far more dynamic and enjoyable: eloquently spoken insights, thoughts, witticisms, and reactions to the audience, from a man...
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Review: ‘Things I Know To Be True’
Things I Know To Be True is a beautiful production brought to the Warwick Arts Centre by the South Australian company Frantic Assembly. This world touring play has been reviewed by major publications, renowned theatre critics, and has received the best ratings – so what makes my review, as an...
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Lecture performance anxiety at university
As a high achiever in school with a constant anxiety to keep up top grades in school, coming to university meant keeping up the same high level of grades that is expected of me.
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Get fit, save funds: an insider’s guide
Staying active during your time at Warwick doesn't have to mean forking out for the sports federation fee. Lakshmi Ajay has another way...
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International Student Matrix: Warwick’s faraway freshers
Before Warwick, I’d never left Asia before, so everything was a bit of a culture shock at first. I grew up in Bangkok, the land of motorbike taxis and never-ending summers. To be dropped into a situation in which I would be travelling by bus and wearing five layers of...
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To Sir, With Love : Tribute to Prof. Perkins, Co-Founder of Warwick’s Film Dept.
Professor Perkins, co-founder of University of Warwick’s Film Department passed away on 15th July, 2016. Professor Perkins started teaching at the University of Warwick in 1978 and went on to form Warwick’s Film Department which soon topped UK’s league tables for Film Studies. He is known, both nationally and internationally, for...
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