Charli XCX boom claps her way to the stars
Keri Ventre
Charli XCX has finally been put on the map thanks to big collaboration achievements with Iggy Azalea and Icona Pop, as well as huge summer smash Boom Clap, which featured…
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Album review: ‘Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance’ by Belle & Sebastian
Sofia Delgado
They say humans change completely every seven years, but when it comes to musicians it is almost impossible to set a standard rule. Some change from album to album, some…
Enter Shikari: ‘The Mindsweep’ album review
India Van Spall
Rating: 3.5 stars Almost three years to the day after the release of Enter Shikari’s last full length album release, A Flash Flood Of Colour, comes their highly awaited fourth…
‘American Sniper’
Anthony Waterworth
Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper have delivered a tense, insightful and action-packed thriller based on the true story of sniper Chris Kyle, which brings home the reality of war. The…
‘Birdman’
Tonje Odegard
As the camera zooms in on Michael Keaton floating in mid-air meditating, wearing only white briefs, for the opening shot of Birdman, you start wondering what kind of weird film…
10 ways to beat the January blues
Ilona Mosejeva
We are halfway through January: the holidays are a distant memory, spring is far away and rain is colouring the sky in grey shades. But there is nothing better than…
Review: ‘Into the Woods’
Grace Firmin
Rating: 3.5 stars When I went Into the Woods, I sure did have a big surprise. An all-star cast singing their hearts out and fighting for their not-so-happily-ever-afters. The film…
‘Taken 3’
Daniel Milroy Maher
Taken 3 shouldn’t be taken seriously, because it doesn’t take itself seriously. This is the best advice I can give to someone trying to approach the third installment in Olivier…
‘The Theory of Everything’
Caroline Svinsholt Raanes
The Theory Of Everything, directed by James Marsh, provides a fascinating and touching insight into the life of Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) as a young Cambridge student. The film is…
Ho ho horrible
Anette Lien
A compilation of Christmas albums bad enough to make Santa weep You know those Christmas songs that are so awfully cringe-worthy you actually find them quite enjoyable? Well, these are…