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The 2023 National Student Media Awards are fast approaching! For the 23rd year in a row, we’re celebrating the best that students have to offer in journalism, photography, film, TV, radio and more! This year’s opening date for submissions is March 1st –...

Don’t Worry Darling: You Could Have Done Better

Amongst talks of spitting at its Venetian premiere, onset feuds, and the most troubled post-production history known to man, Don’t Worry Darling had quite a lot to be, well, worried about. The second directorial feature from Olivia Wilde (the first being the ...

The Erasmus Diaries: Chapter 2

It is now October and life is slowly beginning to make sense here. In a way, time has seemed simultaneously so fast and so slow. It is only October, but I have submitted my first assignment, my parents are visiting in a couple of weeks and for the most part, ...

A Guide to the Perfect Halloween Movie Night this spooky season

Autumn is officially here. Leaves are falling, the nice summer weather has finally disappeared, and the moon hangs for longer in the sky. It’s that time of the year when we swap iced lattes for warm hot chocolates and nurse the never-ending freshers' flu five...

What lies beyond the Kim-Kraze?

In the era of reality television and social media, the posterity of a person's fame is directly correlated to how viral (understand shocking, entertaining, and therefore shareable) their content is. Since her infamous 2014 photoshoot for Paper Magazine, Kim K...

The Cultural Significance of ‘Avatar’

For most of us, James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar feels like a flash in the pan; a relic of our childhood that was emblematic of the 3D craze that dominated the early 2010’s, but that’s largely how it would remain in the pop culture zeitgeist-- a relic.  ...
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Another Night in the Life of a Woman

One night in late February, my friends and I decided to go on a last-minute night out. We got ready, had pre-drinks, and hobbled out of the door down the street towards town. Nothing was out of the norm. We arrived in a notoriously grimy Dublin club that w...

The Erasmus Diaries: Chapter One

I am sitting in a coffee shop off the main square in Strasbourg. Myself and my roommate Clíodhna have been exiled from our apartment as it is currently undergoing its second round of treatment for a particularly nasty bed-bug infestation. I still look like a ...