From ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to ‘Persuasion’: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium? Film & TV July 29, 2022
Channel 5’s Anne Boleyn – ‘Grumble all you like, this is how it’s going to be’ Film & TV June 12, 2021
The Movies are Broken: Can Veronica Mars and Crowdsourcing Fix Them? Jamie Adair Film & TV March 31, 2014
From ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to ‘Persuasion’: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium? Film & TV July 29, 2022
From ‘Wicked Wife’ to ‘Insane Traitor’: The Continued Slander of Jane Boleyn History January 25, 2021
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 8 Season Finale ‘Betrayal’ His Dark Materials December 29, 2019
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Two ‘The Idea of the North’ Olga Hughes BooksFilm & TVHis Dark Materials November 13, 2019
The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: What was Jane and Anne Boleyn’s Relationship Like? History September 13, 2022
Could Richard III’s DNA help Solve the Mystery of The Princes in the Tower? Olga Hughes BooksHistoryRichard III October 2, 2013
Love Is A Dagger – In which we ponder whether for Shakespeare love is mere words, or an altogether more penetrating object. Shakespeare August 5, 2023
Love Is A Dagger – In which we ponder whether for Shakespeare love is mere words, or an altogether more penetrating object. C S Hughes Shakespeare August 5, 2023
The problems of Richard III’s Y chromosome; the problems relating to the burials at Clare Priory, and the problems of working with Historic England HistoryRichard III May 22, 2017
The World of Richard III with Kristie Dean Olga Hughes HistoryInterviewsRichard III February 15, 2015
Mad Max: Slightly Grumpy Road C S Hughes May 28, 2015Mad Max: Fury Road opens at ballistic, immediately escalates to nuclear, and then ramps up on to whatever the hell...
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Is Back! C S Hughes May 16, 2015David Lynch has announced on Twitter that Twin Peaks, with Lynch and Frost at the helm, is going ahead. Dear...
Avengers Age Of Ultron: Captain America Came Out And Nobody Noticed C S Hughes May 11, 2015Superheroes are coming out. In the universes of comic books it seems a fairly conventional device, difference in sexuality is...
Infini – Bad Things Happen – Exclusive Clip C S Hughes May 4, 2015Don’t be fooled. At first glance Infini looks like a clone of classics like 2001 or Alien, Event Horizon and...
Vader Lives! Luke, Han, Chewie and Vader in New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer C S Hughes April 17, 2015Is this the world’s biggest tease or the world’s biggest spoiler? In the new official trailer for Star Wars: The...
Twin Peaks Without David Lynch Is Like…. C S Hughes April 10, 2015In October, 2014 David Lynch announced that groundbreaking cult classic Twin Peaks would be returning in 2016, fulfilling Laura Palmer’s...
Spock Is Eternal C S Hughes March 4, 2015There are few characters that are eternal, that embody so well the universal spirit that they become part of the...
BBC’s Australian Convict Drama Banished Neil Kemp March 4, 2015Banished, a new BBC drama series by Jimmy McGovern, is inspired by the events of the late 1780’s when Britain...
Wolf Hall Finale: Master of Propaganda Olga Hughes March 3, 2015Peter Straughan was facing two major problems when adapting Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies for television. The first...
Wolf Hall Episode 5: A Murder of Crows Olga Hughes February 21, 2015You have to wonder if it should really be this simple to gloss over the judicial murders of six innocent...
Amazon Greenlights Philip K Dick’s The Man In The High Castle C S Hughes February 19, 2015Recently in conjunction with Ridley Scott and the Electric Shepherd Company Amazon’s TV and film production arm Amazon Studios produced...
Wow Wachowskis “Jupiter Ascending” Giveaway! C S Hughes February 17, 2015Perhaps you remember Rutger Hauer’s soliloquy near the end of Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece, Blade Runner, in which the rogue...
Mr Squiggle A Retro Perspective C S Hughes February 15, 2015Notoriously irascible, the artist known only as Mr Squiggle shares more than his reputation as a “lady’s man” with Pablo...
Wolf Hall Episode 4 “The Devil’s Spit”: Playing the Blame Game Olga Hughes February 13, 2015It should be evident what direction Wolf Hall is now headed from the opening placard. Anne Boleyn, it tell us,...
Wolf Hall’s Characterisations of the Boleyn Family Clare Cherry February 11, 2015I’m am not entirely sure what the Boleyn family did to deserve Hilary Mantel. In both her novels, and the...
Wolf Hall Episode Three: Anna Regina – Boleynis Horribilis Olga Hughes February 6, 2015I was under the impression that I might enjoy the BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall more than the book. Clearly...
With Jupiter Ascending To Opposition, We Share Some Exclusive Movie Artwork C S Hughes February 4, 2015In Jupiter Ascending Mila Kunis plays Jupiter Jones, a very ordinary girl from Earth suddenly informed by a genetically modified...