Sicario: A Nihilistic No Man’s Land
Staff writer Mina Radovic reviews Emily Blunt’s highly anticipated thriller Sicario. From the bold opening of an FBI raid, Sicario (slang for ‘hitman’ in Mexico) creates both an uncanny distance from...
View ArticleTop Five Holiday Movies
*Or, What Movies I Vaguely Remember Token physicist of Dover Flat 1 (of “Dover Dinners” fame) and new staff writer Duncan Swan offers a heartwarming spread of five films that will undoubtedly stoke...
View ArticleWhat Television Does Right
Alexandra Rego, our Films & TV editor, expounds on what ‘Television does right’, focusing on the American television and film industries. **side note: this article focuses on the American...
View ArticleBertolt’s X-Men
Our very own travel editor Alice Roberts drifts in to share her cathartic experience at the newest instalment in the X-Men franchise. Was X-Men: Apocalypse a good film? Brecht would have grumbled an...
View ArticleFilm Review: Doctor Strange
Film staff writer Perpetua C. Long gives us an overall impression of the hotly anticipated Marvel film Doctor Strange. Perhaps most obviously, Doctor Strange is a film with a keen interest in its own...
View ArticleLa La Land: Worth the Hype?
Alexandra Rego, our Film & TV editor, gives us a review of Chazelle’s acclaimed new movie La La Land. The opening sequence of Damien Chazelle’s La La Land is arguably one of the film’s most...
View ArticleFilm Review: Lion
New Film writer Toby Symonds reviews this year’s critically lauded (and Academy Award nominated) Lion, starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. ‘We swan around in our privileged lives and it makes me...
View ArticleFilm Interview: The Green Film Festival
The Tribe had the opportunity to sit down with a representative for the Green Film Festival for an exclusive preview to one of the most interactive and interdisciplinary events in St Andrews. Below is...
View Article#Oscarssosilly
Film writer Toby Symonds assesses this year’s top Academy Award contenders and offers a fresh perspective regarding both the politics of Hollywood and which films were actually deserving of critical...
View ArticleScience Fiction’s History of Relevance
Staff writer Henry Roberts ruminates on the long history of science fiction’s interaction with its given contemporary. One of science fiction’s greatest assets is its persistence in popular culture....
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