Liam Abbas

Their new Hitchcockian thriller; Crimewave , which would be helmed by none other than their old collaborator Sam Raimi and would almost ruin their careers.

The British right to universal healthcare is to many a symbol of what is great about Britain, it’s hard to think of something that makes modern Britain more patriotic than the NHS. But dissatisfaction with the National Health Service is the highest it’s been in decades, with research showing that . Decades of neglect and mismanagement, exacerbated by the Covid crisis, have left the health service underfunded, short of staff and simply unequipped to deal with the realities of the county’s health care needs. We all understand the NHS has become overwhelmed, but it might surprise some just how close…

The last couple of weeks have seen the introduction of bills that have serious implications on the way democracy works in this country.

News of Russian Oligarchs dominate the headlines, but what exactly is an oligarch and why are they being sanctioned?

It’s been over two decades since George Bush’s speech that promised to “use all necessary and appropriate force” against those who were responsible for…

Until 2017 you could experience one of Disney’s strangest rides, a small slow moving dark ride in Epcot with a pro fossil fuel message.

Far more than just an advertisement, film posters are an art form in their own right and have become an iconic part of pop culture. Hollywood may currently dominate the conversation when it comes to the film poster aesthetic, but at one time many different countries had unique visions of what a movie poster could be. Perhaps the most interesting was the weird world of Polish movie posters. From the mid-50s until 1989, communist Poland saw a golden age of poster art. These pieces are vastly different from the clean, unimaginative and actor obsessed film posters of today. Polish movie…

Whenever you see the US military on screen, chances are they’re not just in front of the camera- they’re behind it. The Pentagon and Hollywood have long had a relationship of ‘mutual exploitation’, a term coined by Author Lawrence Suid to describe the way in which the American film industry and its military have become intertwined. Every branch of the US military has offices in Hollywood with the purposes of loaning out millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to film makers and supplying military personnel as film extras, all for a free or reduced cost. In return, the military asks…

What was once the realm of science fiction is now reality. It’s now possible to book your very own trip to space- that is, if you have the cash. Unfortunately, you probably don’t. This time last year SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic all flaunted their ability to fly passengers above Earth’s atmosphere, giving us the first look at the future world of space tourism. The problem is, with ticket prices ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions, this new industry has a very limited customer base. We’re told that it will change- that everyone can have a space adventure…

Writing about the nature of war and the media, political journalist George Monbiot  said this: “News is about spectacle and there is no greater spectacle than war, the media love spectacle and so they love war.” But looking at coverage of Ukraine, it’s clear that the media love some wars more than others. The Russian-Ukraine conflict has dominated headlines like no other war in recent memory, with unrelenting coverage since the invasion. The sheer amount of content, and especially the way in which it has been reported, has led to accusations of bias in Western media. This bias at best…