GCS Game World’s S.T.A.L.K.E.R trilogy (released from 2007 to 2010), inspired by both the 1979 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky of the same name and the 1972 novel Roadside Picnic, represents perhaps one of the most significant gaming releases to emerge from Ukraine, and Eastern Europe more broadly. It is...
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The latest film by British writer-director Alex Garland, Civil War, proves to be a highly powerful drama centred on the photography of war. War photography has not been the true focus of many films to date apart from throwaway segments such as in Full Metal Jacket (1987). Garland uses the...
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In modern times, we have witnessed an ever-growing trend of books being adapted into movies. Whilst this is no new trend occurrence, it certainly does appear to have increased with no signs of stopping any time soon. Over the last year alone with we have witnessed the release of such...
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And here we are, the culmination of Doctor Who‘s 60th anniversary celebrations and specials, following on from Wild Blue Yonder the previous week. ‘The Giggle’ is a packed episode that tries to juggle many different threads and concepts, saying goodbye (once again) to David Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate’s...
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Franz Kafka has become an increasingly well-known and revered figure within literary Modernism since the 1960s, when his work started to become more widely translated and accessible to international audiences. This fame carries with it an air of melancholy; during his lifetime his work was practically unknown. His fictional stories,...
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