An Exeter student has begun an initiative, ‘Not Just Hollywood’, to combat sexual harassment and assault. The campaign seeks to raise awareness of these issues in the community, ranging from cat-calling and inappropriate comments to criminal incidents; it will also provide a space in which people can discuss their experiences. Not Just Hollywood’s professed mission […]
Guild education survey opens
Released on Monday 13 November, the Guild Education Survey – which professes to “put the student voice in the centre of the conversation” – is the latest way for students to give feedback directly to the Guild and impact future decisions and initiatives. The Survey takes approximately three minutes to complete, and each student who […]
Review: Justice League
Justice League is not, strictly speaking, a bad film. It’s not awful. It’s not even terrible. Unfortunately, it’s not particularly good either – and it certainly doesn’t do justice to the expectations of both Warner Bros. and any still hopeful DC fans out there. With the lowest-grossing opening weekend of any DCEU film, it seems […]
Review: ‘Sunked’ @ the Bike Shed Theatre
Chris has a dream. He’s tired of feeling that his life is going nowhere fast, tired of working in a café, tired of feeling that what he does has no impact on other people – luckily, the solution is simple. Chris has found his purpose in life: all he has to do is raise the […]
Blaze of Glory!
If I had to pick a theatrical way to go out, then being quickly vaporised in a fiery blaze of glory whilst plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere early one September morning would rank quite high on that list. It certainly proved a fitting end for NASA’s Cassini probe, which culminated its twenty-year voyage of discovery on […]
Album Review: Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
So many Fleet Foxes songs have made their way on to my summer playlists in years gone by. So many good times, set to the soundtrack of ‘Mykonos’, ‘White Winter Hymnal’, ‘Helplessness Blues’… So, what better time than now – some six years on since their last release – for the Seattle folk group to […]
Guardians of the Galaxy: Fiction No Longer?
It may be out of this world, but space – and our exploration of it – is increasingly enshrined in international politics. Ever since the space race, the concept of international political tensions reaching beyond even our own atmosphere has become tangible, and with the recent New Zealand rocket launch it is clear that our […]
Film-making: a moral responsibility?
In September 2016, The Promise – a historical romance, directed by Terry George (Hotel Rwanda) and starring Oscar Isaacs, Christian Bale and Charlotte Le Bon – aired in three small screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival. By the end of October, the film – not set for full release until April 2017 – had accrued […]
Guild Awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for this year’s Guild Awards have been announced. Probably the most prestigious awards night this side of the Oscars (or at least featuring presenters more skilled at accurately reading small pieces of card), the University of Exeter’s Guild Awards have annually celebrated outstanding commitment and achievement by our students and alumni since their […]
‘A delicate line between heaven and earth’: Misao Fujimura and mental health
For those unaware, it was recently 2017’s Mental Health Awareness Week (May 8-14). Mental health, of course, is not just an issue for one week of the year – but what Awareness Week does provide us with is an apt opportunity to discuss, rationalise and destigmatise mental health within our society. Although I may struggle […]