Category: Opinion
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Thoughts On: UK Festivals 2016
Could a lack of variety result in 2016 being the weakest year for UK music festivals? It’s that time of the year again. The time where myself and hundreds of thousands of music fans pay close attention to multiple music festival’s twitter feeds to see who will be playing this summer. There’s nothing that can…
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Alternative Jobs For Students
Originally posted back in August of 2014 and before I received my exam results, I decided to have a bit of a laugh and list some possible career paths if uni doesn’t work out for you. If you’re a student from Scotland or any other part of the UK then you’re no doubt revising relentlessly, maybe constantly…
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TV REVIEW: True Detective – Season 1
In news that’ll shock no one, life is complicated and as much as we all want it to be simple and stress free, events arise that put us through emotional turmoil and change us in both positive and negative ways. AMC’s Breaking Bad captured this to an extent though not many of us can say…
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Thoughts On: R-Rated Movies
With Hollywood set to unleash a new wave of R-Rated films, I discuss why this could be detrimental for movies. It’s seemingly impossible to look at any source of entertainment news without seeing something about Deadpool, a film that, carrying a $58 million budget and a handful of dick jokes, has become the ultimate underdog story.…
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Thoughts On: The Brit Awards
When your award show is referred to as “the British Grammy’s”, you’d think it was some sort of compliment. Well, that’s until you realise that the Grammy’s themselves considered James Bay more worthy of a Rock Album Of The Year nod than the hundreds of other potential nominees. Fair do’s to the Grammy’s though since they at…
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Best of 2015
2015 has been one of the most eventful years in recent history. A year just as full of tragedy as it was brimming with joyous occasions that put a smile on our faces. An annual event since 2013 when I made my first compilation of best albums, here’s another Best Of from us here at…
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5 Things I Want From The Force Awakens
Since the very first teaser trailer, even since the rumours themselves started circulating, I’ve been waiting in anticipation for Episode VII. Why not? Star Wars is one of my favourite movie series of all time, from when I was a young up till now where age has only made me love the films more. With…
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Ranked: The Star Wars Saga
Undoubtedly the most iconic film series of all time, Star Wars has made a colossal impact not only on entertainment but on the world. With a universe packed with lore, action and amazing characters, the series managed to become a sci-fi epic of massive proportions that is still yet to be beaten in terms of how…
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Why Adam Sandler Should Just Stop
I knew I shouldn’t have done it. No, buying those Pikachu slippers is not a regret of mine. The decision I made occurred this afternoon whilst I was recovering from a sub crawl the previous day where, like anyone, I booted up Netflix to put on in the background while I curled up into a ball in bed and…
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X-Men: Apocalypse trailer reaction
Christmas has came early for nerds everywhere. While Father Christmas is only a fortnight away, we’ve already had the Civil War trailer, a proper glimpse of the Batman vs Superman film, more hype for The Force Awakens and now? A trailer for the follow up to one of the best comic book movies ever. The X-Men…
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