Review: Fences
On the 26th of February everyone was shocked that the Academy had bestowed the Best Actor Oscar to Casey Affleck instead of Denzel Washington, who not only is a better…
Review: American Horror Story, Roanoke
American Horror Story (AHS) has remained one of the most well produced shows on cable television for six years now. It propelled networks to look into a genre that was…
Review: Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On
In 2015 Sundance Film Festival screened one of the most interesting and raw documentaries on pornography of the 21st century. Following the 1998 first season of Louis Theoux’s Weird Weekends…
Review and Preamble: Thirteen Reasons Why
Content warning: brief mention of rape and stalking I started dissertation work early this morning, but when I noticed that 5pm had suddenly crept up on me, I thought I’d…
Show Choir for I Heart Consent
By: Sussex Show Choir This year in Show Choir, to show our appreciation for the I Heart Consent initiative, we are supporting the Survivors’ Network who aim to reduce sexual…
Relieving one’s self is a human right!
Dear Badger, Last night, on the eve of International Women’s Day, I got chucked from the male bathroom in Green Door Store while the female bathroom had an approximately, 45-minute…
The Year of Animations
This has been a good year in terms of Academy Awards in the world of Animation. From Finding Dory, that helped express the importance of mental health and disability, to…
Review: Riverdale
With the return of appointment television, Netflix is now releasing on a weekly basis episodes of new CW teen-hit Riverdale. At first glance it seems like any other teen drama:…
La La Land: Review
With a record-breaking seven awards at the 74th Golden Globes Awards, La La Land seemed to sweep everybody off their feet. A film with a simplistic and overused plot that…
Making A Murderer Talk, Mandela Hall: Can the Media Change a Case?
Lawyers Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, from hit Netflix series Making A Murderer, arrived on Sussex campus to talk about one of the most extraordinary legal cases in the American…
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Review
Director David Yeats is back on the Hogwarts Express, except this time the train isn’t leaving from platform 9 ¾ but is instead in midtown Manhattan at the turn of…
Designated Survivor: Review
By: Mwenya Lumbwe I’m a big fan political dramas and was looking for something new to watch and I stumbled across ABC’s Designated Survivor when browsing through my Netflix. I…
The People v. O.J. Simpson: Review
American crime television seemed to have been in a rut until these past couple years. Shows like the 2015 docudrama Making a Murderer, 2014’s How To Get Away with Murder…
America must seek unity after divisive election
Is it me or is everywhere really quiet? That’s completely understandable seeing Donald J. Trump is to be the 45th President of the United States of America. In Obama’s 2008…
UniTV Does Black Mirror: Auditions
UniTV, our resident TV station are looking for actors and actresses for their new project, inspired by the hit Sci-Fi series Black Mirror. Casting takes place on Friday 18th November…
Presidetial Debate Spoofs
Every Presidential election gets a lot of media coverage, but this time around viewers actually broke audience records. The first Republican debate on August 4th — starring the one and…
Homeland Season 5
Premiered on October 2015, the fifth season of the award winning Showtime series Homeland, once again left us hanging as Carrie Mathisen looks into the light of the opening door…
Jamie-T at the O2 Brixton
Ten minutes before the doors opened at seven, the queue for Jamie-T’s Sunday concert went around the street and more, as crowds of people arrived in what seemed to be…
When To Rob A Bank: Review
In 2005 economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journo, Stephen Dubner, debuted Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. At first impression it sounded very much…