Before I say anything else I would just like to say “I FRIGGING LOVE FRANKA POTENTE!!”. This week’s episode, the first in a two -parter sees her first appearance on the show and it looks like she is going to really stir things up. Yet again the entire cast put in a fantastic performance but […]
Three episodes into the latest season of this fantastic horror story, and we are really getting into the nitty gritty of things. With a storm looming down on the asylum, which is not just a metaphor for the coming escalation of drama but a great catalyst for the progression of many our characters stories, the […]
This weeks episode of the Walking Dead left me feeling more than a little bit abused… but in a good way. After last week’s rather lax episode, which seemed to be more bothered with setting up new storylines than progressing anything current, I’m happy to say that we are back to a good old fashioned […]
Violent Misogyny seems to be the theme in this weeks instalment of American Horror Story as we begin to settle in to the new surroundings of Briarcliff Mental Institution. While the centre-piece of episode two, and its most visually violent element, is an exorcism (which I will talk about in a moment), it is flanked […]
The Leveson Report: The Views of an Unemployed Journalist
Lord Justice Leveson has just released his report on press standards in the United Kingdom, and the fourth estate collectively held its breath while he announced that he would recommend a new independent, self-regulating body, recognised by governmental legislation, to oversee the practices of the press in the future. It falls short of the press’s […]