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Hustlers: Playing the Wolves at their own Game
We’re all used to the predictable movie images of exotic dancers, but these women bite back. In her 2019 film, Hustlers, Lorene Scafaria...
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Sarah Gray
- Oct 6, 2019
- 2 min
Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds – The Immersive Experience
We are ushered into a Victorian style theatre where the narrator begins his chilling tale: Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic,...
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saraygray
- Apr 13, 2018
- 5 min
Ghosts of Christmas Future: A New Tradition…
... in which we close the doors to the cold night, snuggle up and bask in ghostly apparitions. Tim Frances, our charming host, introduces...
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Sarah Gray
- Mar 15, 2018
- 3 min
CARRY ON SCRIBING: GOODLY ADVICE FROM THE ESTEEMED WRITER, MS SARAH GRAY
Jane Austen and Natalie Goldberg give writing advice and Aphra Behn’s early editions are saved Jane Austen’s humble place of work The...
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Sarah Gray
- Nov 20, 2017
- 1 min
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I’ve let my babies go… Surface Tension and Half Life are being released into the wild. Book Crossing is a social networking site for...
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Sarah Gray
- Oct 24, 2017
- 2 min
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REPLICATING BLADE RUNNER Blade Runner does what all good sci-fi should and questions the nature of humanity. I was nervous at Blade...
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Lucy Cranfield
- Oct 16, 2017
- 5 min
MOTHER!: THE POWER IN HINDSIGHT
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. ‘If you gave an extremely bright fifteen-year-old a bag of unfamiliar herbs to smoke, and forty million...
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Sarah Gray
- Oct 13, 2017
- 2 min
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NORTHERN GOTHIC “I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.” ― Bram...
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Hannah McKibbin
- Aug 25, 2017
- 4 min
DANCING WITH MYSELF: FILMMAKING LAID BARE
Join our guest writer, Hannah McKibbin, as she discusses getting naked and her new short film The Happy Genius. When I first came up with...
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Sarah Gray
- Aug 18, 2017
- 8 min
UNDER THE SHEETS: THE DRAWBACK OF GHOSTS
Stories of ghosts and supernatural creatures are notoriously hard to get right, but this was the challenge I set myself when making my short
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Sarah Gray
- Jul 17, 2017
- 6 min
TOP 10 TV ADAPTATIONS
From the pages of a book to the small screen, what is the best TV adaptation? We’ve already discussed film adaptations in a previous list...
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Leonardo Rizzi
- Jul 13, 2017
- 8 min
TRANSLATING COMICS: THE ALAN MOORE ENIGMA
Join our guest writer, Leonardo Rizzi, as he recounts his times translating the legendary Alan Moore. Translating comics is bewilderingly...
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Sarah Gray
- Jul 6, 2017
- 6 min
TOP 10 MOVIE ADAPTATIONS
From the pages of a book to the big screen, what is the best movie adaptation? People always say the book is better than the film. I...
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Sarah Gray
- Jun 15, 2017
- 4 min
WHEELWOMEN: THE RIDE TO LIBERATION
Bicycles - the true weapon of feminism. “I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives her a feeling of...
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Josephine Rydberg
- Jun 2, 2017
- 5 min
FORTUNE AND FELICITY: BECOMING MRS MOSSWORTH
Join our guest writer, Josephine Rydberg, as she LARPs about with Jane Austen. I larp, beg your pardon, LARP, Live Action Role Playing....
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Sarah Gray
- May 18, 2017
- 4 min
FEAR AND DELIGHT: MY INFATUATION WITH HORROR
The allure of horror has endured throughout the ages. Wouldn’t we be able to sleep easier without the nightmares? “I delight in what I...
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Sarah Gray
- May 3, 2017
- 4 min
THE GODS COMPLEX: OUR RISING OBSESSION WITH MYTHS
Ancient mythology is once again making an impact on the cultural zeitgeist. After a resurgence in the 50s and 60s the gods retreated,...
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