On the cusp of innocence and adulthood: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” I have never despised anyone more than the fictionalized character of Holden Caulfield. Regardless, his teenage angst and cynical thoughts have led me to read J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye for the tenth time this past year. I had just turned

Money Heist: The Phenomenon Documentary

(SPOILER ALERT!) Money Heist is a Spanish drama series that premiered on Netflix in late 2017 and follows the story of a gang as they come together to attempt to pull off a high stake bank robbery. The series was an instant sensation and had viewers from around the world watching with eager eyes on

Never Look Away: a review

Many people believe that the main purpose of movies is entertainment. But these same people do not realise how they can also influence us tremendously. Everyday, we meet people from all walks of life. We like some, we hate some, we reject some, we envy some and we ignore some, but this is not the

Eyes wide shut to see/eyes wide open to sleep: Kubrick’s testament after 30 years

Last night, I resumed one of my favourite movies: Eyes Wide Shut (1999), exquisitely signed by Stanley Kubrick. Although rivers of ink have flown on Kubrick’s last testament, its meaning is still ambiguous and elusive. Like many other Kubrick’s movies, the story of Bill and Alice is based on a binary logic that pretentiously tries

Review on ‘The Return’ by Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks is a romance novelist who writes about heartache, triumph, tragedy, death, and life. He has also produced some great films: The Notebook, The Longest Ride and Nights in Rodanthe, to name just a few. In his recent novel ‘The Return’, he takes on a different writing approach by including a lost romance and

Part dystopia, part human exploration: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and The Sun explores what’s next for humanity

By Harry Hext The latest novel from Nobel Prize winning Kazuo Ishiguro is the next text in a line of works that tackle the impending ‘threat’ of artificial intelligence and its impact on the world. Ishiguro takes this premise and works it into a narrative of human support plus passing references to climate change, creating