(Original post at Cultbox)
Although previous chapters have felt obscure and frustrating at times, this week’s episode is tightly plotted and anxiety inducing throughout.
Author: inkerley
Freelance journalist from Wolverhampton, UK.
Fortitude: Season Two, Episode Four
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The fourth episode of Fortitude Season 2 slowly reveals more depths of its central mystery, but provides plenty of conflict to satisfy the audience.
Fortitude: Season Two, Episode Three
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In this week’s episode, Fortitude slows its pace and focuses on its living residents.
Arrival
Let’s make one thing clear- Arrival, Denis Villeneuve’s science fiction drama about first contact, will not win the Oscar for Best Picture. The category is crowded with powerful adversaries, some deserving and some not (I’m looking at you, La La Land). Given its competitors and Hollywood’s aversion to science fiction, Villeneuve and his team are unlikely to go home with the top prize- however much they might deserve it.
Fortitude: Season Two, Episode Two
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This week’s episode is surprisingly gore free, but delivers a terrifying set piece when a stray polar bear enters Fortitude’s primary school and traps a child inside.
The Art of the Deal: Tristram Hunt resigns
(Original post at The Boar)
Tristram Hunt, Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent, has resigned in order to become Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum. The former shadow education secretary was a surprise appointment, as Hunt has no experience running an organisation of such size, despite a strong background in patronage for the arts.
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Fortitude: Season Two, Episode One
(Original post at Cultbox)
“Life is hard in Fortitude,” says series creator Simon Donald, and after the events of Season 1, it’s difficult not to agree with him.
5 questions Sherlock fans want answered in ‘The Final Problem’
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Last week’s episode of Sherlock left viewers on a huge cliff-hanger with John at the mercy of Sherlock’s long-lost sister, Eurus.
Fans have some burning questions that we hope to see answered in Sunday night’s Season 4 finale, ‘The Final Problem’…
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Warwick’s Dr. Michael Scott uncovers Italy in new BBC documentary
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Warwick classicist Dr. Michael Scott will be exploring subterranean Italy in the new BBC documentary Italy’s Invisible Cities.
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Placebo, Birmingham Barclaycard Arena
Twenty years after the band’s debut album, Placebo have embarked on a world tour to celebrate their legacy. Their alternative rock stylings, suffused with hints of glam-rock swagger, earned them a passionate following in the UK. Fans were out in force to witness Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal return to Birmingham at the Barclaycard Arena, and were justly rewarded for their loyalty.
Bethan Ackerley 