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Dead Poets Society: A Timeless Classic
As the leaves turn and deadlines quickly approach, this time in the school year is particularly stressful and particularly beautiful. When it gets difficult to remember the beauty in the midst of the stress, that is my cue to turn on Dead Poets Society. For those who don’t know, Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film set at a prestigious boarding school in 1959.
Meeting Taylor at Midnight
Taylor Swift fans spent the days leading up to the 2022 VMA’s in intense speculation on social media, and the later hours of the 29th of August brought the red carpet that they were waiting for. Their excitement was spurred on by a post by fashion brand Oscar De La Renta on instagram, a glimpse […]
Catwalk Launch Party: Newstalgia
Newstalgia. Not a typo – the latest approach to fashion, by St Andrew’s CATWALK Fashion Show. Imagine scuffed docs, grunge, flip phones, scattered cd’s, anything black goes. This was the CATWALK launch party. The party was studded with incognito models and their friends, and it became a spot the faces of the catwalk. (They all […]
Welly Ball Afterparty
Remember remember the 5th of November… when I ate the best pizza I have ever had, slipped over in my (borrowed) Welly’s seven times, and was home by one with no blisters. The Welly Ball Afterparty. The sheer mass of people who attended underscores that this event is one of the biggest events on the […]
Changing with the Seasons: Comfort in Cooking
Entering into October is the final step into autumn, where nobody can refute that summer has well and truly gone. As a cardigan fiend nothing delights me more than the thought of warming hot chocolates, Gilmore Girls and the excuse to go to bed early (I didn’t make the rules, the sun has gone down). […]
Better The Devil You Know
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. -Revelations 12:9 The Gothic, as a subgenre of the romantic, has always been invested in the sublime and the supernatural. […]
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 1 & 2 – ATTACK OF THE FIFTY-FOOT HAPPY MEAL TOYS
This week, Morgan reviews the first two Five Nights at Freddy’s games, it having seemed like a good idea at the time Does the world still feel the after-effects of 2020 and thus adopted the mindset that it’s in fact six years earlier? I mean, 2014 was fine, I suppose, provided I don’t look at […]
If you could time travel…
If you could travel back to three periods of history or into the future which ones, would you pick? I’ve asked quite a few people this question before. My sister said she’d love to go back to the medieval period as she could be a princess and be courted by many a handsome knight. If […]
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS WII – IT’S A-ME, THE DEVELOPER MANDATE
This week, Morgan reviews New Super Mario Bros Wii. There was meant to be a joke here, but it was forgotten in the time it took to get the title down. Is it kosher to compare the Mario series to the final days of Jesus Christ? Nintendo can publicly execute both him and his image […]
Red (Taylors Version) Review
The year is 2012, Taylor Swift has just released her pop/country crossover album ‘Red’, and Jake Gyllenhaal is public enemy no.1. The first release of the album was met with both critical and public acclaim, reflected in impressive record sales and chart positioning. Today nearly 10 years on, in what feels like a revival of […]
Motivation on a Monday Evening
With the sun setting at 4 pm, exams right around the corner, and break seeming so close yet so far away make sure to give yourself a break and still prioritize your mental health! I say this because in the midst of my deadlines as well as other writers we’ve unfortunately not published much this […]
BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM – I AM THE MADMAN IN THE ATTIC
This week, Morgan reviews Batman: Arkham Asylum, in order to postpone the horror of having to get an actual job Hello, national St Andrews’ audience. Just your daily reminder that I’m a Batman fan and would be willing to kill if it meant I got the chance to bring Bob Kane back from the grave […]
John Wyndham and Dystopian Fiction
I have said this many times before but I really love dystopian fiction. From ‘The War of the Worlds’ to the ‘Time Machine’, I’ve always enjoyed reading about a twisted dark future for humanity. Although I’m an optimist I’m intrigued to read other people’s ideas about it. Without a doubt, my favourite dystopian author is […]
Eve and Lou Ruview – Drag Race UK episode 4 and 5
Episode 4 It’s episode four, and you know what that means…GIRL GROUP CHALLENGE!!! It’s got a lot to live up to from last season and the iconic UK Hun? Following her win last week, Scarlett Harlett gets to be team captain, and so does Vanity Milan after winning another lip-sync. Scarlett choses Kitty Scott Claus, […]
Stop Cambo!
Right now, as we gear up to host COP 26, the UK government are setting out to approve the creation of a new oil field off the coast of Scotland. The emissions from the proposed extraction of 170 million barrels of oil would be equivalent to the annual carbon pollution from 18 coal-fired power stations. And […]
On Playlists and Identity
We all have that one playlist that puts anything you’ve ever heard in the Union to shame.There’s a certain rush in your ears when you go to put in your headphones—even your bodyknows that bliss is on the way. Making that perfect playlist, however, might be one of the hardestthings to do. Whether you’re a […]
Questionably Gourmet: Enchilada Pie
It is a source of pride for me that I am the proud owner of not one, not two but three 1970’s cookbooks. Being a benevolent and generous lady of culture, I have decided to share some of these recipes with you—roughly once a month, actually. This week, I will be blessing you with enchilada […]
Falling in love with Daisies
‘This film is dedicated to all those whose sole source of indignation is a trampled-on trifle.’ The final line of Chytilová’s brilliantly eclectic, infectious film seems to be written in anticipation of its condemnation by, among others, the Czechoslovak Communist Party. If you’re more concerned with the destruction of a trifle than the real world, […]