Boarding school challenges

Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, bring us a “Our Evenings”. Gay life in England across the decades, from 1960s to the pandemic captured with glowing intensity through an actor’s memories. A dark luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from on the finest writers of our age. Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of … Continue reading Boarding school challenges

35 years of Super Mario

Pint-sized Mario and his brother Luigi make their debut in September 1985, 35 years ago, in the first-ever “Super Mario Bros”.  The mustached plumbers would have sold a staggering 373 million games across the world. Mario, wearing red overalls with an unfortunate habit of losing his love interest to a spiky over-sized turtle, has become a craze among millions of people’s lives. To coincide with Mario’s 35th birthday, Nintendo is re-releasing three of his classic adventures. Super Mario 64 originally released on the Nintendo 64, Super Mario Sunshine ( GameCube), and Super Mario Galaxy (Wii). In the current world of ultra-high … Continue reading 35 years of Super Mario