Film Review: Oranges and Sunshine
It will be news to many people that the Aboriginal people of Australia were not the only ones to have a stolen generation. Starting back in 1869, and continuing as late as the 1960’s, hundreds […]
December 2011
Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence, at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Though this compact and diverse exhibition focuses on its 17th century female subjects – their household tasks, diversions and moments of solitude – it is just as interesting as an exploration of the (exclusively male) […]
Classic film review: The Usual Suspects
The face of modern crime drama changed when Quentin Tarantino’s self-aware and irreverent Reservoir Dogs (1992) first hit the big screen. It was a change that was built upon when director Bryan Singer and scriptwriter Christopher McQuarrie (a […]
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
On this previous Friday (the 11th) Bethesda Studios released their fifth installment of the Elder Scrolls video game series: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. And as is the case usually with games as physically large as this: […]