Writer's Block Magazine

Highlander – There Is Only One

April 23, 2015

Everyone has fond memories of a lot of films from their childhood that raise those films above and beyond everything they see afterwards. For many, those films are products from the masterminds at Disney, or the work of directors like Spielberg. Then there are the more obscure titles that just happened to be in the…

Passionately Curious – Taking Flight

April 19, 2015

by Passionately Curious, Paul Hofma, WB Column

Well, that’s my article for today. Enjoy the rest of the week guys. I’m pulling your leg, of course. Today I’ll be taking a look into how the hell a giant lump of metal, weighing in at around 200 tons, can take off and just chill up high in the atmosphere pretending it’s a bird.…

On Intellectual Curiosity and the Online Zeitgeist

April 16, 2015

by Essay, Ilona Roesli, WB Column

In an ambitious attempt to respond to Yentl’s article on Generation Wuss, I’ve come to the conclusion that this characterisation of my generation is actually a confronting, but accurate term for the post-postmodern generation that seems to have it all, desire it all, know it all. We flaunt our lives by underlining the insignificant, taking…

Hozier – Hozier: A Review

April 13, 2015

by Music, Reviews, Rivka Hellendall

I was rather late to join the Hozier bandwagon. So late, in fact, that when I recently sang Take Me To Church at the top of my lungs, my 11-year-old sister was baffled I even knew the song. (Is my pop culture knowledge now, at the tender age of 19, inferior to that of an…

Aiming for Oblivion: A Review of The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta

April 9, 2015

by Judith Kroon, Literature, Reviews

The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta Publisher: Candlewick Press Release date: March 1, 2010 328 pages Cover: http://www.penguin.com.au/jpg-large/9780670074235.jpg Everything is fine until Joe Finch Mackee is blown to pieces in a bombing at the London underground, and grief hits his remaining family members hard. The Piper’s Son, a companion novel to Saving Francesca (2005),…