Fifth Gown issue of 2010-2011 available
The fifth Gown edition of the academic year is now available across Queen’s campus. If you have any views on the stories covered, please leave a comment below.
November 15th, 2010 | No Comments
REVIEW: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Zack Snyder has a history of making a certain type of film, be it his Dawn of the Dead remake or highly successful adaptations of 300, and Watchmen. All the films are essentially littered with brutal, yet stylised, violence as well as oozing tonnes of sex appeal. So whenever it was announced Snyder was attempting a children’s fantasy film about owls, many eyebrows were raised. The results however are really quite remarkable. BY ANDREW MOORE
November 15th, 2010 | No Comments
OPINION: Another week of television
BBC1’s The Apprentice has quickly become one of the year’s major Television events, and once again “some of Britain’s brightest business prospects” are fighting to become Sir Alan Sugar’s latest recruit. Week six saw Sir Alan arrive unannounced at 7.30am to present the latest challenge, before spending five minutes scowling at his watch. The remaining contestants hurried to get dressed and ready, no doubt wondering why he hadn’t bothered to call beforehand. BY MATTHEW MISKIMMIN
November 15th, 2010 | Comment (1)
REVIEW: RED
The latest film from Robert Schwentke, ambiguously titled RED, short for Retired and Extremely Dangerous, both surprised and disappointed in various capacities. Surprising in seeing the level of genuinely top class acting talent scattered throughout the film; surprising also in being one of the few DC Comic adaptations not released by Warner Bros (DC’s parent company) and surprising in how much fun it ultimately was. However, it also disappointed for being, annoyingly, like every other action film throughout 2010. BY ANDREW MOORE
November 14th, 2010 | No Comments
REVIEW: Jackboots on Whitehall
It always frustrates me to no end, some people’s insistence on making films that are, apparently, to coin the tired phrase, ‘so bad, it’s brilliant’ when in reality they’re simply just bad. Unfortunately for débutante directors Edward and Rory McHenry, Jackboots on Whitehall certainly falls into that latter category. BY ANDREW MOORE
November 14th, 2010 | No Comments
FEATURES: Why the red poppy should be available to all
The red poppy is the immediately recognisable symbol of Remembrance in the British Isles and the former dominions of the old Empire. Its use was once synonymous with commemoration of the slaughter of the Great War, which erupted almost a century ago. In 2010, the poppy still succeeds in encapsulating a national sense of grief for the many subsequent sacrifices of bodies and minds in the pursuit of liberty and in defence of freedom. BY BEN MALLON
November 14th, 2010 | Comments (17)
REVIEW: Martin Creed’s band on the Belfast Barge
Let me begin by saying that conceptual art and minimalist music are certainly not my idea of a good time. Old-fashioned as it sounds, I find it difficult to think of ‘a sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball’ as art. It is just that, a screwed up piece of paper. So I was set to attend Martin Creed Band’s gig with less than an open mind, my expectation was that Creed’s music was to be much the same as his art. BY LOIS VALLELY
November 14th, 2010 | No Comments
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