Warning: contains spoilers for Fight Club (1999), The Sixth Sense (1999), and Don’t Breathe (2016). I recently rewatched home-invasion thriller Don’t Breathe – imagine Wait Until Dark (1967) turned on its head – from Fede […]
Author: Luke Norton
Review: ‘Avengers: Endgame’
Warning: contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). The cultural impact that the MCU has had on cinema cannot be overstated. The idea of an interconnected web of films was simply unprecedented back in 2008, […]
Is the Mueller Report the end of Trump’s presidency?
“Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m fucked.” – Donald J. Trump These were the words uttered by the President, as he “slumped” into his chair upon learning […]
Review: ‘Us’
As brilliant as it was, Jordan Peele’s freshman outing Get Out (2017) always felt like more of a racially-conscious thriller than a horror flick to me. While I expected a similar vibe from its follow […]
Liverpool could win the Premier League, but it’s going to take some luck
Liverpool’s 2-1 win over Spurs the other night was safely one of, if not the best game so far this season, and it should terrify Manchester City in their chase for the Quadruple. The Reds […]
What does “the will of the people” even mean anymore?
“The democratic will of the British people was not determined for the rest of time on the 23rd of June 2016.” Old proverb The argument consistently hauled out by Theresa May and other Brexiteers at […]
My top 5 Arctic Monkeys songs
As my taste in music has matured, the Arctics have fast become one of my favourite artists, for their ever-changing indie-rock sound, slick guitar riffs – “Do I Wanna Know?” springs to mind – and […]
