26th March 2022
The academics have been recognised as some of the greatest thinkers in Scotland today. Of 80 new Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), 10 are University of Glasgow academics across the departments of engineering, law, and the humanities. Recognised as some of Scotland’s “greatest researchers”, the academics join the 1,700 Fellows of the ...
26th March 2022
Ollie praises the dizzyingly dazzling debut performance of singer Alana Haim in Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming of age drama Licorice Pizza. Watching the Oscars has become something of a tradition over the past four years for me and my housemates. There is something genuinely thrilling in the ritual, watching into the early hours of the ...
26th March 2022
Ahead of the Oscars ceremony this weekend, Eve considers the prospects of victory for the nominated pictures. The 94th Academy Awards will be taking place this weekend, pitting some of the best films released this year against each other. The relevance (or lack thereof) of awards ceremonies is an ongoing debate and it’s hard to ...
26th March 2022
Before the 94th Academy Awards this weekend and the inevitable storm of cynical viewers dominating your Twitter feed, Tomek considers the positive aspects of the ceremony. On 16 May 1929, the very first Oscar statuette was awarded. Since then, almost a century later, of the 318 winners in acting categories, only 20 were Black. Out ...
