How Severance gets you invested
"Enjoy your balloons". Naomi Pandey explains why, amid a landscape of glamorous but substanceless mystery shows, Apple TV's Severance stands out as a 'must-watch'.
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Music therapy as treatment: brimming with potential
Naomi Pandey discusses using music therapy.
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Racism against Indians online: Fading into the background
Going on Instagram to scroll mindlessly through reels has lost all meaning. The first time I noticed racism online, it was on a culinary video – an Indian chef was demonstrating a curry recipe, shot in a restaurant kitchen. I expected the comments to be expressing interest and fascination in...
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Twisters: a film about hope
Twisters starts with a gust of hope. Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is an exuberant university student with a passion for everything weather and tornado. She knows the weather like a friend. She knows when it will rain, when it will pour, and when stormy clouds will ravage the earth with unending anger....
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What to watch in 2025
As we kick into another new year, we make friends with new avenues, challenges, and obviously, television. Here is a quick, diverse and exciting list of six television shows, be it new seasons or new shows, that I am the most excited for in 2025. Severance, season two (Apple...
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Omar Rudberg delivers a charming and electric performance at O2 Academy, Birmingham
Naomi Pandey reviews Omar Rudberg's recent gig at the O2 Academy in Birmingham.
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Blue Violet’s ‘Faux Animaux’ is beautifully adventurous
Naomi Pandey reviews Blue Violet's latest release, Faux Animaux.
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Group work: Well-intentioned but poorly executed
Back in school, the mention of group work would be met with a series of reverberating groans. Now, in university, we may not audibly make a fuss, but we do complain about it behind closed doors. There’s a lot not to like about it, be it the often-unruly dynamic of...
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2025 Boar Resolutions
Happy 2025! Allow all of us at The Boar to inspire you with our bold new promises for the year – whether that's new sports, no coffee, or (finally) locking in academically.
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Heretic: Subversive to a fault but entirely different
Naomi Pandey reviews the immersive religious horror about two Mormon missionaries ensnared by a villainous atheist
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A deep dive on North Korea’s involvement in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war
North Korea, also known as DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) has shielded itself in secrecy, through a closed-off economy and the fact that a tourist can only visit if they are partaking in a ‘guided tour’. While the regime itself has been set on internationally projecting a good image...
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The genre of Magical Realism
There are moments where our mundane lives might start feeling ever so slightly magical. Meeting a person who understands us perfectly well, better than we understand ourselves, on a disastrous night out – the next morning, realising they never existed. Or one morning, embarking on a woodland walk, strongly believing...
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Neon Trees’s ‘Sink Your Teeth’ is an acquired taste
Naomi Pandey reviews Neon Trees' latest release, 'Sink Your Teeth'.
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