The Act of Writing

If there is one thing I can never claim to be good at, its video games. I don't understand how to wield dual controls, I get easily frustrated when I'm not immediately good at playing them, and quite frankly, I get bored of having to check in and play the same thing EVERY SINGLE DAY. That said however, I can kind of see the appeal. They're bright, they can be fun, franchise games usually pick up quite a large following because people can connect to the characters and most of all, they're the most immersive form of escapism that popular culture is able to give us. Therefore, whilst I do not play these games myself, below are my thoughts on some of the games I have seen my boyfriend, flatmates and friends play. Quite frankly it was either writing this or regurgitating something about my dissertation and I'm sick to death of staring at my diss, so I hope you enjoy! Animal Crossing: When this game was made available for the mobile earlier last year, ...

Catch Captain Marvel, in cinema's now The moment that every fragile, white, male lover of superhero movies has been dreading, has arrived. Captain Marvel  landed in theatres this weekend, and it's the first  Marvel  movie of this year. This film had a lot to prove. Firstly, it follows on from  DC's immensely popular Aquaman,  which grossed over $1 billion and has quickly elevated Marvel's  competitor to very high heights. Secondly, it is the first MCU movie to be lead by *shock horror* a woman, instead of the boringly same-y, crusty, white dude (Black Panther excepted. ) Finally, it has to both set up the new leader of the next ten years of Marvel movies, as well as building hype for the next film in the series, the highly anticipated Avengers: Endgame. Now, I am a huge Marvel fan, as I'm sure I have mentioned in other posts. I am also a white woman, which makes me the epitome of target audience for this film. That being sai...

The Cate Blanchett play at the National Theatre As it wraps its run, the new play at the National Theatre, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, (known hereafter as the 'Cate Blanchett play') has left many bewildered, gobsmacked or just plain shocked. With reports of people fainting in the front rows and others just walking out in disgust, this is my take on what exactly I went to see. First things first, whilst I do love going to the theatre, this play in particular would not have enticed me to travel 155 miles, just to see it were it not for the small fact that Cate Blanchett (of Lord of the Rings, Carol and Thor: Ragnarok fame) was in the leading role. So the play. I know that it is meant to be various variations on Samuel Richardson's Pamela, mostly because that's the second part of this play's outrageously long title. Martin Crimp, the playwright, admits that he was particularly inspired by the production of discourse that occurs within the...