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It’s been a full-on five years of running Pop Verse. For a project that started as a way to impose deadlines on my writing, it became something so much more. I’ve seen contributors come and go, the rise and fall ...

Of all the major awards contenders I have seen so far, this is easily one of the most assured and memorable. Lady Bird is being hailed as Greta Gerwig’s debut as director (she wrote the film too), but that feels ...

Queen of Katwe falls well within the genre of a certain kind of sports film, telling as it does the story of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi. Comparisons could readily be made to Cool Runnings, also a Disney film about ...

I am a fully-grown adult and I am a geek. Despite actually having money to spend on useless merchandise, I find myself cursing the products that are available – they are all designed for children. Ever so slowly, we’re seeing ...

If Anomalisa is not in my top 5 films of the year by the conclusion of 2016, it will have been a damn good year. Put together over three years by indie auteur Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine…) ...

Sitting in the darkened cinema watching Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), I continued to have the same thought rolling through my mind over and over again: ‘This is brilliant.’ With each new plot twist my smile widened. I ...

Every year there are so many new additions to the creative world. No one could ever keep up with all of it. And this uber-consumer of popular culture products is no different. That said, I have consumed an awful lot ...

‘If you want my views of history then there’s something you should know The three men I admire most are Curly, Larry, Moe’ – ‘Everything Louder Than Everything Else’ In the late ‘60s, Elektra Records employed Danny Fields as their ...

Roll Out! Curious about The Acquirers? Read more about the comic here. Written by Stephen Flockton and Illustrated by Ashley Walker.

Vital Supplies Panel 3 of this comic is my favourite panel of this arc so far, the main joke isent bad but I really like the establishing shot of the Glacier (Not that I’m foreshadowing or anything). Curious about The ...