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The length of a human heartbeat is measured in a nanosecond. Time often feels like it flits by like a humming bird taking wing. The passage of a day, a week or a month can feel like nothing at all in the grand context of life. So it is that…

Can we ever really label a work of art as ‘the best’ of its kind? Surely to do so is reductionist, to suggest that experiencing something – a book, a movie, a painting, a play, a dance, a song – is a quantitative, rather than qualitative…

I don't regret being given a Game Boy Colour for my seventh birthday. I'm sure my dad regrets ever even considering buying one though. From the moment I loaded up Dinosaurs on that early morning back in 2001 I was hooked. There was no…

Released in 2008, Pixar’s ninth feature remains one of the studio’s most ambitious productions and one of its most critically acclaimed. WALL-E is about a lonely robot living 700 years in the future and his pursuit of love across the…

Katy Perry’s first foray into pseudonymous stardom, One Of The Boys, turns ten this week -- and to be honest, it hasn’t aged well. Perry, who has spoken at length about her strict Christian upbringing leads a musical commentary on what life…

Sequels are unnecessary and more often than not, feel like a missed opportunity. There are though, a few rare exceptions. Psycho II is one of them. Anthony Perkins had already starred in eleven feature films before director Alfred…

It was my last film screening in my first year of college. Exams and deadlines were just around the corner. The last thing I needed was a documentary about father and son paedophiles. But, there I was. Now here I am nearly four years to…

Speaking from personal experience, it’s been pretty hard to be a Bioware fan the last few years. From the dizzying heights of being among the pioneers of the RPG genre, creating fully-fleshed worlds with endearing characters and several…

It was the late 2000s and Halo ruled the decade. Beginning with Halo: Combat Evolved in 2001 and ending with Halo: Reach in 2010 no other console game would reach the level of success the Halo franchise achieved. Even Call of Duty only got…

July 7, 2009. It’s midnight. Everyone’s sound asleep in their standing coffins. Well, almost everyone. There’s a small group of armed teenagers sneaking into a love hotel. It’s a bizarre tableau, perhaps, but it’s par for the course in…