Last month, three graffiti artists were found dead near Brixton, south London. Their bodies had been found on a train track, a few hundred yards away from their last piece of work – they had all been hit by a train. These deaths have brought the issue of graffiti back...
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So the results are in, and it’s an incredible and depressing first for a Star Wars film – Solo is a box-office bomb. The franchise and name recognition failed to save the movie, with middling reviews and a lack of fan enthusiasm. The previous Star Wars film, The Last Jedi,...
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Reece Goodall explains Keeler's Theorem, the mathematical theorem created purely for the benefit of a TV sitcom.
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Reece Goodall explores the ways in which the BBC has failed to win the primetime TV battle for Saturday night. Is Saturday night TV even as important as it once was?
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It’s coming up to the end of the academic year here at Warwick, and that can only mean one thing – it’s ball season. Time to splash out on a fancy outfit, head off to a hotel far away and have one big party before summer, right? Well, you know...
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Ocean’s 8, a gender-swapped version of the Ocean’s 11 franchise, is currently hitting the silver screen this month, and some of the first reviews are in. Their verdict? A big meh. The film does what you’d expect, but it’s underwhelming to an extreme. Not that you’d get this from the...
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After 25 years in the chair, David Dimbleby has announced that he is stepping down as the host of Question Time – Dimbleby will remain until the end of the year, at which point a new host will take over. But who should it be? And will a new host...
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Reece Goodall explores why so many people believe in pseudoscience and its purpose in society.
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Developers within the gaming community are starting to wake up to the potential of influencers – personalities on social media or streaming sites who have a large follower base, and who can influence those followers to try certain products or brands. Video games, though, are a very different product from...
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The Tony Awards returned this month, recognising the incredible achievements on Broadway over the past year, and it was a night that was very keen on stressing unity and inclusivity. Did it succeed, or were the Tonys just another stuffy award show, far away from the real world? The night...
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The discount retailer Poundworld has gone into administration, following two years of losses – a few years ago, it was expanding aggressively, but it now looks to be another casualty of the high street. With the latest data showing that the discount sector’s growth has slowed over the past year,...
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Reece Goodall explores the recent experiment which hints at the existence of a new neutrino particle, which could be responsible for a number of unexplained phenomena in astrophysics.
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A number of years ago, pianist Gloria Cheng sought out a number of the most well-regarded film composers of today’s world and asked them to write piano music for themselves – the piano, she says, is the best instrument for revealing a composer’s true voice, and she wanted to see...
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