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“I have slogged through this so you don’t have to”: Monster: The Ed Gein Story

This spooky season, I am genuinely sick of serial killers and assorted deviants. I want to care about their victims, and not their twisted inner worlds. But the makers of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story have now decided to bring us Monster: The Ed...

The dawn of a Golden Age: Late to the Movies

I've been so excited about this month's column, because I've now reached the Golden Age of Hollywood and the earliest talking movies. Since the golden age of Hollywood spans such a long period of time, I'm focusing this month on the 1930s, when...

“Give me more older women saving the day in films, please”: Dead of Winter review

Watching Dead Of Winter is a tense 98 minutes in the cinema, and moments of relief are few and far between. Emma Thompson is stunning as Barb, who sets out to Lake Hilda during a snowstorm and witnesses a young woman’s abduction. In the middle of...

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