So what is Ready Player One? Ready Player One film is a 2018 American science fiction action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline based on Cline's 2011 novel of the same name. It stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, ... READ the POST
Coronavirus and the mental health opportunity
Has the virus offered us a mental health opportunity many can't see? As I sit writing this it is day 59 of the lockdown in the UK due to the Coronavirus. I was one of those people who initially foolishly thought that I would use this time to get fit, to get healthy and to get organised. I was ... READ the POST
Divergent – a Movie about choice and identity.
So what is Divergent? Like most YA movies, Divergent was firstly a book series (three books) by Veronica Roth, released hot on the heels on The Hunger Games. Fans of The Hunger Games flocked to this new dystopian series, making it a New York Times bestseller and shooting Veronica Roth into the ... READ the POST
Drag Queens and Queers Taught Me How to Be a Woman
Drag Queens Taught me More About Female Empowerment Than Any Woman Ever Has. Female Empowerment has always been somewhat perplexing to me, Drag Queens haven't. Empowerment is a concept I fully believe in but every time I investigated or tried even to participate, I found it fraught with difficulty. ... READ the POST
Identity is far more important than you think
To change behaviour you first must change identity “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis I have spent the last few years trying to understand identity and its impact on ... READ the POST
What we can learn from the film Nerve.
Screenology - Nerve a film that teaches us a lot. So what is Nerve? A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of "watchers.“ Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico, has had ... READ the POST
