Author: Niamh Bird
It was far too late on a Tuesday night when I settled down to watch Frankenstein (2025) on Netflix, a movie I can tell you now, I recommend highly. Though the two and a half hours sent me way past my bedtime, I enjoyed every second of it. Directed by Guillermo del Toro and paired with a haunting musical score by Alexandre Desplat, the movie is a retelling of one of my favourite books, Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. Frankenstein at its core is a story of grief. Inspired by Mary Shelley’s own loss of her infant daughter,…
Fireworks. An invention first unintentionally discovered in 200 AD in China when bamboo was thrown on a fire and yet again in 800 AD when a foolhardy alchemist combined sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate together in an attempt to find internal life. The concoction exploded into what we now call fireworks. An invention born of brilliance, risk and high hopes seems a fitting thing to unleash into the skies above Loughborough campus, and the display was certainly eye catching. The event opened at 5:30, and though we were welcomed by rather a lot of rain, we didn’t let it dampen our spirits. We sheltered in the student union and soon the rain cleared just in time…