Matt Jacobsen, Queen Mary University of London You can imagine being a queer teen in a Christian fundamentalist community in rural Australia is not an easy ride. In his debut feature Leviticus,...
Last month, I spent some time with the great stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis reminded me of an era when audiences went to the cinema as much for the...
2026 is shaping up to be a truly thrilling cinematic journey for lovers of great stories. We’ve just wrapped up an incredibly exciting August, marked by the tension, scares, and chills of major...
Kurt Russell’s eyes are wired. Those baby blues are ringed with red, the Disney child paranoid, sweating booze and armed to the teeth. Those jump cuts are making us anxious from the off. We’re...
This month over at Five Books For, I’m looking at books that explore the Holocaust from different angles. As living memory recedes, I’ve been thinking about the particular value of literature in...
Over the past few months, we've watched a series of revolutions in cinema history. We've seen Italian Neorealism strip away studio artifice in pursuit of authenticity, explored how Method acting...
If you haven’t seen Daniel Roher’s film Tuner, then you need to remedy that quickly. Leo Woodall is Niki White a former New York musical prodigy turned piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis....
Travel can broaden the mind, but are we doing too much of it? And, when we do, is it causing harm? This is what the documentary film, The Last Tourist, directed by Tyson Sadler, sets out to ask. But...
Thanks to the tremendous box office success of Obsession and Backrooms, the horror industry is experiencing a golden age. August 2026 is shaping up to be a must-see month for any fan of the genre....
For years now, I’ve been hearing complaints from my teenage son that go like this: “Ugh, this building reminds me of the Backrooms.” “Did you HAVE to pick a doctor’s office that’s...
