‘Reviews’ Archive

Slash fiction

27th August, 2010 by Tom

Has there ever been a character in the history of crime film and literature quite like Lisbeth Salander?
A computer hacker and genius with a photographic memory. Bisexual, tattooed, pierced. An Asperger’s sufferer. Five foot nothing and about seven stone, yet she shoots, tasers, kicks and punches the crap out of anybody in her way. Miss [...]

Parlour games

2nd August, 2010 by Beth

“Wow, this is like the inside of my head” exclaimed my crafting companion as we entered a small door off an alley near south London’s Clapham High Street and into the world of The Papered Parlour—a crafty paradise full of reams of bunting, tiny teacups and walls covered in vintage dresses.
The Papered Parlour is an [...]

Child’s eye view

9th July, 2010 by Hannah

Hooray for Hollywood is one of those rare pieces of art which really can and will stay with you, and has the power to change lives, writes Hannah Eiseman-Renyard.

Here come the women

10th June, 2010 by Siren

It could be said that feminism was born in Newington Green with its most famous resident Mary Wollstonecraft. It was therefore fitting to gather in the Assembly Rooms of Stoke Newington on Saturday (5th June) as part of the area’s first literary festival, to consider what Wollstonecraft would have made of the state of feminism [...]

Killing joke

18th May, 2010 by Chris Boyd

Part way through Michael Winterbottom’s new film “The Killer Inside Me”, several female journalists behind me promptly gathered their coats and left. Chris reviews Michael Winterbottom’s latest.

Who’s a clever girl?

11th May, 2010 by Steph

“Nell Gwynn is played to perfection as a saucy cross between Russell Brand and Barbara Windsor,” writes Steph of Cabinets of Curiosity’s new play.