For a newcomer to the wonderful world of Middle-earth, the universe created by the British author and academic J.R.R. Tolkien can seem as large and unwieldy...
Music festivals are important cultural and economic events. They have become symbols of the British summertime. However, festival spaces are not equal spaces. Festival lineups remain...
This story contains spoilers about ‘Better Call Saul,’ although it doesn’t reveal details of the series finale. Better Call Saul has wrapped up after six seasons,...
As Netflix’s new series, The Sandman, notes, we spend a third of our lives in sleep and dream. In popular culture, The Sandman is a folkloric...
Olivia Newton-John was a versatile artist with an appeal that spanned generations, and who played an important role in claiming a space for Australian popular culture...
Beyoncé has released her seventh solo studio album, titled Renaissance (2022). The album, an event in global popular culture, is the first of a three-part project...
For some, death can be a smart career move. Quite how smart a move depends a lot on who you are and how you die. As...
As Rolling Stone wrote last month, “for at least the past decade, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter has been the world’s greatest living entertainer.” The African-American pop star...
UK households are cancelling streaming service subscriptions, citing the need to cut comforts to afford increasingly expensive necessities such as food and fuel. Netflix, which has...
SPOILER ALERT: this article contains plot references to Persuasion. So, the jury’s in. People really, really hate Netflix’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Austen’s last novel,...