Readers’ Responses – Democracy, wages, trigger warnings and crude images
In this weeks Readers' Responses, our writers give their replies regarding democracy, wages, trigger warnings and crude images
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Reece Goodall
Last Night I Watched: Frankenstein (1931)
The modern horror film owes a lot to the Universal Monster films of the 1930s. These early pictures influenced a lot of what we came to associate with horror cinema, and the 1931 version of Frankenstein is no exception. The film’s influence is clear on every mad scientist film that...
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The Big Bang Theory: love it or hate it?
After celebrating its 200th episode, the show is still divisive as ever. What's your opinion? Here are some arguments for and against The Big Bang Theory
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Midsomer Murders Season 18: keeping death entertaining
Here's why Midsomer Murders Season 18 is still as strong as ever
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Scoring a silent film
Reece Goodall reflects on the challenge of writing a score for a silent film.
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Why I love historical non-fiction
Reece Goodall explains his love for historical non-fiction and offers some recommendations
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Do black holes really have hair?
A recent paper, published by Stephen Hawking and other physicists, has suggested that black holes may be surrounded by ‘hair’ made up of ghostly zero energy particles, and goes on to suggest that some of the information consumed by black holes may be stored on these hairs. The proposal does...
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What is it really like to be on an exec?
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s I write this, I am coming to the end of my second-year as the vice-president of the Film Society, and these two years on the exec have been some of the most interesting of my life. My role is essentially the secretary, as I do all the admin stuff such...
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Midsomer Murders – Harvest of Souls
We’re now at the end of series 18 of Midsomer Murders, and we go out with a story that is solid and rounds off a very middling run. ‘Harvest of Souls’ sees Barnaby go to the fair and deal with some old family rivalries, in a fun case that is...
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A blind date with a TV show?
Six writers try out a blind date with a TV show – which pairings were love at first sight, and which ended with someone climbing out of the bathroom window?
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Midsomer Murders – Saints and Sinners
Given that so many murder mysteries are centred around looking into the past to unearth secrets, setting one on an archaeological dig makes so much sense. That’s the premise of this week’s instalment of Midsomer Murders, ‘Saints and Sinners’, in which a local discovery is the inciting incident for murder....
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Tête-à-tête: are safaris a waste of time?
Nicola Paling and Reece Goodall give their views on Safaris
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