Lucy Brett is the Head of Education at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), the organisation responsible for rating films, DVDs and trailers released within the United
Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012, the debut film of director Colin Trevorrow has finally received limited British release at the tail end of the
Surveillance. A population kept complacent through drugged drinking water. Brainwashing. Execution of political dissidents. Launched in January 1978, concurrent with Tom Baker’s effervescent fourth season of Doctor Who
It’s been twenty five years since the publication of Consider Phlebas, the novel that introduced readers to the Culture, a highly advanced interplanetary civilisation, its Contact branch and
Despite his reputation as a forward thinking man, when Herbert George Wells published what was to become his best known book in 1898, he could never have seen
Life has always been a struggle for Piscine Molitor Patel, a story of challenges before eventual triumph. Yann Martel’s second novel, it struggled even to find a publisher,
The great British holiday. The staycation. Caravanning. A series of phrases as misleadingly optimistic as the hopes of the British film industry, yet in Sightseers all these things
Can it really be fifteen years since Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers was released? Taking the structure and events of Robert A Heinlein‘s source novel, often dismissed as fascist
Depending on the interpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, 21st December 2012 is allegedly either the end of the world or the herald of a significant change
