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Television: American Horror Story: Asylum – Episode 4 – The Review (Spoilers Alert)
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 […]
Television: American Horror Story: Asylum – Episode 3 – Review (Spoilers Alert)
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 […]
Television: The Walking Dead – Season 3 – Episode 4 – The Review (Spoiler Alert)
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 […]
Television: American Horror Story: Asylum – Episode 2 – The Review (Spoiler Alert)
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 […]
Television: The Walking Dead – Season 3: Episode 3 – The Review (Spoilers Alert)
Last night’s third instalment of the latest season of The Walking Dead was undoubtedly the David Morrissey show. It was the long awaited inaugural episode of The Governor, possibly one of the most cryptic characters we have had on the show recently and is definitely in contention with Michonne for “Bad-ass of the season”. David […]
Television: American Horror Story: Asylum – Episode 1 – The Review (Spoiler Alert)
American Horror Story became one of last year’s major television success stories and last night, on the Eve of Halloween, the British début of it’s second season was aired and it is TWISTED. It was announced fairly soon after the show got renewed that rather than returning to the storyline of last season the second would […]
Television: The Walking Dead – Season 3: Episode 2 – The Review (Spoiler Alert)
The second instalment of what looks set to be the goriest series of The Walking Dead yet was shown on FX UK last night, and it definitely got the heart pumping. If last week’s episode was a gore-fest of group survival, this week was more of a personalised form of gore. Centred completely around Rick’s […]
Television: The Walking Dead – Season 3: Episode 1 – The Review (Spoilers Alert)
The dead returned to walk the shores of the UK last night with the return of award-winning American zombie apocalypse show, The Walking Dead on FX. I wouldn’t exactly call myself a fan of the zombie sub-genre, it is so easy to parody and frankly almost all of the shows and films I’ve seen unintentionally […]
Book Club: Edition Two: A Mouthful of Glass by Henk Van Woerden (Translated by Dan Jacobson)
It is probably better to think of ‘A Mouthful of Glass’ as more of a biography than a novel, and in all fairness the British publisher – Granta – has classed it in non-fiction. In reality, however, it is a clever mix of fact, speculation and fiction, documenting the unusual life of Greek-Mozambican Demitrios Tsafendas […]
Owen Jack Williams 
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 […]