As the balance of power shifts, Peter Hagen cautions against rash action on Iran. The ruling elites of Iran are remitting power like shit remits a blanket. The good news is that there is no prospect of democracy, and the strong chance of an emerging military dictatorship. Consider facts rather than emotion. In the...
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Writing with misplaced authority, Guy Wilson calls for a radical review of British democracy. There is no perfect pickle, there are only perfect pickles. Well, we’re in a pickle now. “Who talks of boom and bust economics today?” A question posed by Tony Blair in 2007, around the time of his resignation. Back then it...
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How Hollywood Blockbusters changed during the “Noughties” Michael Tansini outlines emerging and evolving themes in Hollywood. 2010 began with a cultural retrospective of the “Noughties”, with shows detailing the ‘100 most shocking incidents with celebrities and peanut butter’ that featured talking heads you’ve never heard of clogging up BBC3’s viewing schedule. Such lists for films...
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Anya Benson discusses nature’s voice as an  impossible imagining. The representations of nature we are used to in our world – or at least, in our political world – are of something silent and peaceful, isolated from the realities of human lives. It is depicted through gentle forests where we can be ‘alone’, vast...
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Sharon Coleclough derives  meaning from vivid  imaginings of the future. “We are all interested in the future, for that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives” – so speaks Criswell in Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer-Space (1959). Criswell is indeed correct, but what future is a question film...
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Tom Shingler traces the contours of visual  technology. Most of us have been to Alton Towers and visited the 3D cinema which makes the middle of your forehead tingle and ended up leaving less than impressed, but 3D has evolved in a big way. With films like Avatar becoming the biggest grossing film of...
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