A Beginner’s Guide to Media and Journalism

The 2003 Christmas phenomenon, ‘Love Actually’ stars some of the brightest actors in Hollywood: Liam Neeson, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Kiera Knightley and more! The film highlights key relationship dos and don’ts for any couple struggling at Christmas time. Whether your significant other is cheating, a big romantic or the Prime Minister, I’m gonna be ranking each ‘Love Actually’ relationship from worst to best so you don’t have to! Let’s see if “Love actually is all around.” 10. Colin Frissel and his ‘American Dream(s)’:  Extremely self-explanatory for Colin to reserve tenth place in this ranking system because, realistically, what did the character do to prove "love actually is all around"? If the film was "Sex Actually", he’d have top spot; however, for me, the caterer and his American companions provided no sort of emotional depth, and the insecure Brit flew to a different continent JUST to get laid. On the contrary, Colin had a very lovely relationship with fell...

Sally Thorne’s, The Hating Game surprised me, to say the least.  The fiction novel follows the work life of our female protagonist, Lucy Hutton, and her ‘work nemesis’, Josh Templeman.  Set prodominently in the 4 walls of their shared office at ‘Bexley and Gamin’, the story follows the pair playing games with each other. Whether it’s the HR game, the mirror game or the staring game; the sexual tension is noticed immediately by the reader within the first few chapters.  As both characters are up for the same big promotion, the loser must resign. However, things often become complicated when feelings are involved.  I thoroughly enjoyed watching the ‘nemesis to lovers’ story unravel-as although somewhat predictable, was a lighthearted, enjoyable, hilariously funny read with multiple twists and turns. The ‘cringy’ aspect, continuously notable in other books, was absent in The Hating Game which was extremely refreshing given my avid affection for romance novels; not to me...

Prison break season one relies solely on its ingenious technicalities throughout every episode.  As a first-time watcher, I thoroughly enjoyed familiarising  myself with the show’s protagonists, Michael Scofield and Lincoln burrows- who are both inmates at Fox River prison state penitentiary, located just outside of Chicago.  The 22-episode season is a fast paced, easy watch restricted to age 15 and over. I binge-watched the Netflix show in my bedroom and was not disappointed by the watchability. As a fan of comedy, this series allowed me to step away from my own particular boundaries and familiarise myself with very smartly written crime.   We become aware in the episode “Pilot” as to why Michael commits a crime to become an inmate at Fox River and reacquaints himself with his brother, Lincoln who was charged for the murder of the Vice President’s brother. However, it becomes clear as the episodes progress that Lincoln and his brother Michael are innocent civilians ...