Small Scale/Big Heart – Shazam! Film Review
The semi-officially titled DC Extended Universe (DCEU) has gotten off to a bumpy start ever since 2013’s painfully average Man of Steel, ultimately deriving into downright painful with the release…
Jordan Peele doubles down on satirical horror-comedy with US
Two years after Jordan Peele’s Oscar winning breakthrough, Get Out, expectations were high for the writer/producer/director’s follow up. Whilst Us falls short of the bar set by Get Out, it…
Punk Nostalgia: The Stranglers at Brighton Dome
For someone who believes that music culture must constantly evolve to stay vital, seeing a treasured band whose heyday was the late 1970s and 1980s is potentially loaded with ambivalence.…
Brighton Festival: 30 Years Of Mr Bongo preview
Back in the heyday of 1989, when Tina Turner and Kylie Minogue dominated the charts, and Prince was is his Batman-score phase, something else was brewing on Berwick Street in…
Rhys Lewis Interview: Love songs and political needs
By Rebecca Spencer: Comment Editor Rhys Lewis is a 28-year-old singer/song-writer with over 27 million Spotify streams on his song ‘No Right To Love You’. His songs are about heartbreak,…
Artist Focus: Ella Willson-Smith
Ella Willson-Smith is a finalist Illustration student at the University of Brighton. Originally from London, her projects are largely concerned with the relationships between people, objects and place. Ella likes…
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff turns to editing with new anthology Mother Country
Brighton Festival is due to take place from 4 to 26 May and there are set to be so many exciting literary events on offer. The festival this year is…
Attention: porn addicts
By Rebecca Spencer – Comment Editor With international women’s day just passed I thought it was about time we talked about porn and reclaiming female sexuality. Feminist porn is creating…
Candice-Carty Williams launches new book Queenie
Candice-Carty Williams is set to feature at Brighton Festival’s event Shapeshifters on 12 May alongside the equally talented Zawe Ashton. She will be discussing her brand new book, Queenie, which…
In conversation with Josey Marina: musician, activist, student
Last week I met with musician and second-year Sussex student Josey Marina, who recently released a new climate change-inspired single, ‘Moors’ (available across various streaming platforms.) We sat down to…
The Production of ‘A Clockwork Orange’
The clock is ticking for this controversial, phenomenal production to take to the stage and a explanation for why the themes of the play are so important in the modern…
London Astrobeat’s Orchestra Performs Talking Heads: Rearranged classics fall out of place
The name alone made me want to see the set. A multicultural entity, the band has been affectionately renamed “African Talking Heads” by fans, transposing the Talking Heads classics in…
Queer Eye Season 3: A Triumphant Rise to New Heights
With the Fab Fives’ long-awaited return, Netflix users tuck in to Queer Eye’s third season to watch both heart-breaking and heart-warming conversations, mesmerising physical, mental and architectural transformations with an…
Artist Focus: Ebba Davidsson
Ebba Davidsson is a photographer. She is an art historian and a gallery educator based in Sweden. Davidsson studied art history for a year at Sussex, living in Brighton as…
Mel Gibson Attached to Direct Jeremy Corbyn Biopic
Jeremy Corbyn’s reputation has grown to the point where the suits at Summit Entertainment have commissioned a biopic on the Labour Leader. Summit alumni Mel Gibson is reported to direct,…
Literary characters with disabilities
On World Book Day 2019, authors and screenwriters came forward calling for more diversity in children’s books, so young people see representations of themselves in the books they read. Rachel…
Peacock Poetry Prize
The annual arts festival, Brighton Festival, will be returning to Brighton this May, commencing from 4 May until the 28 May. The return of the festival also comes with the…
Interview: In Conversation with University of Sussex Stuart Hall Fellow Ingrid Pollard
Words by Elsa van Helfteren & Rosa Lichtenstein How does photography give agency to those ‘on the edge’? We interviewed Ingrid Pollard ahead of her panel event at the ACCA…
Introducing the ACCA
With the Attenborough Centre right on our doorstep, we are lucky to to have access to year-round, contemporary performances and events. In support of this, I thought that I would…
Getting Inspired by ‘Sustainable Gifting’
We caught up with those inspired by our last edition’s ‘Sustainable Gifting’ article. See below for inspiration and to see what was crafted by our readers As a follow-up from…