Oliver Timberlake

I am bisexual. I say this as a fact and not as a statement. Saying I’m a bisexual man would be an accurate description of who I am by some accounts. That word has never really meant anything meaningful to me. It wasn’t a huge, life defining moment when I realised; I was 14, on holiday, and I’d spent the best part of our final day stuck in bed with a debilitating migraine – something that’s common for the men in my family at that age. As I lay there in the dark, the vision in my left eye still…

Buzz Aldrin, the second person to stand on the moon, once famously told the human race to “get your asses to Mars”. On the surface, this seems simple enough. Mars, often the focus in discussions about space exploration, has notable similarities with Earth. With a vaguely similar size and orbit around the sun, polar ice caps and liquid water, moons and an atmosphere, it feels strangely familiar. In reality, under a thin, unbreathable atmosphere, the red planet is an expansive desert of toxic soil, with freezing temperatures and deadly levels of solar radiation due to its thin atmosphere and small…

I May Destroy You is great. When she accepted her Leading Actress BAFTA in 2021 for her main role in the show, Michaela Coel said to the other nominees “I wrote my words – I know that your talent to take words a writer has written and to make it sound like your own is unbelievable.” Coel wrote and starred in I May Destroy You, which also won best mini-series, as well as co-producing it and co-directing alongside Sam Miller (Luther, Snowpiercer). It’s becoming increasingly common in British TV for the creator/lead writer to take on more creative control like…

Everyone loves video games. They’ve become a staple of modern entertainment, and are available across the world in all kinds of shapes, sizes and genres. When you think of a game, you probably primarily think of gameplay. Nowadays, you might think of story, or visuals. But one thing has stayed consistent for decades: the masterful soundtracks that accompany our favourite games. So, without further ado, here is a celebration of 25 of our favourite video game soundtracks, accompanied with a taster song or two for each. 1. Undertale – Undertale OST: 090 – His Theme https://youtu.be/IkOK8tdEsFY The beloved indie RPG…

In 2020, it was reported that alcohol-related deaths in England and Wales had increased 20% on the previous year. This is thought, in part, to be related to the global lockdowns we’re all familiar with. As the world began to change drastically, seemingly overnight, as infections and deaths began rising, those stuck at home might inevitably turn to alcohol for comfort and distraction. Given that every society is known to ferment alcohol, which is thought by some historians to have been developed even before the invention of bread, it clearly plays a huge part in human culture. But how do…

“Even Jesus wasn’t perfect… He was really into prostitutes.” BBC comedy isn’t a genre I find myself paying attention to. Similar to the way that Channel 4-released dramas tend to find themselves dated and irrelevant very quickly, I’ve always found that sitcoms and comedy shows from the UK state broadcaster struggle to have a unique selling point, or even raise a consistent laugh (comedian Josh Widdicombe’s show Josh comes to mind). However, just as Channel 4 recently had an international hit with acclaimed writer Russell T. Davies’ It’s a Sin (2021), BBC Three had their own spark with This Country…

Obsidian Entertainment’s Fallout: New Vegas (2010), published by Bethesda Softworks, was a Godsend for the company critically, if not financially. The relatively small studio, known for franchise tie-ins such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II (2004) and South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014), fell into dire straits this time last decade. New Vegas, somewhat infamously, failed to meet an agreed-upon Metacritic score by just one point, meaning Bethesda withheld a considerable monetary bonus. Layoffs, cutbacks, and cancellations followed. If not for fundraising platform Kickstarter, where New Vegas creative director Josh Sawyer placed their recently-cancelled Pillars of…

Midnight Mass, the new limited horror series from the award-winning The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and Bly Manor (2020) writer-director-creator Mike Flanagan, has received mostly positive reviews from critics while largely being missed by audiences in the wake of Squid Game’s (2021) surge into popularity. Riley Flynn (Zach Gilford), an ex-altar boy, returns to his island hometown after a four-year stint in prison. There’s a new priest in the heavily Catholic village, Father Paul (Hamish Linklater), Riley’s old friend Erin Greene (Kate Siegel, a Flanagan mainstay and his real-life partner) is expecting a child, and Sheriff Hassan (Rahul Kohli,…