27 June 2025 Not yet James Bond’s Time to Die: can 007 survive his latest big-screen chapter? Dr Christopher Holliday from the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities asks what the James Bond…
20 May 2025 Is English still the lingua franca of Eurovision? Dr Andrew Green, ethnomusicologist and popular music scholar, shares his thoughts on the growing…
3 March 2025 No Comedy After Auschwitz: review of ’A Real Pain’ Professor Catherine Wheatley, Professor of Film and Visual Culture, reviews Jesse Eisenberg's 'A…
28 February 2025 ’Urgent work of cinematic activism’: review of ’No Other Land’ Professor Rosalind Galt, Professor of Film Studies, reviews 'No Other Land' (2024), nominated for…
4 February 2025 Bad Bunny’s new album shows Latin American artists turning away from the US Dr Andrew J. Green, Lecturer in the Music of Central and South America, reviews Bad Bunny's new…
15 January 2025 A play within a game: Grand Theft Hamlet brings Shakespeare to life Dr Rowe reviews, Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary recreating the Shakespeare play, filmed entirely…
14 November 2024 Rhinos and aphrodisiacal sweat: Our fascination with gladiators and the myths they left behind With the release of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, Dr John Pearce at the Department of Classics delves…
6 December 2023 Disjointed, rushed, inaccurate: historian reviews Ridley Scott’s Napoleon Dr Michael Rowe, Reader in European History, reviews Napoleon (2023), Ridley Scott's new epic…