Found footage horror has been with us since the Blair Witch began stalking three unlucky documentary filmmakers in the Maryland woods - and unlike the movie that started it all, most of it is not...
Over at Five Books For this month, I've been thinking about a different type of Halloween read: the kind of book that leaves you feeling deeply unsettled, so much so that you have to keep putting...
The Argentine dramatic comedy 27 Nights (originally titled 27 Noches) premieres on Netflix after its successful debut at the opening ceremony of the 73rd San Sebastián International Film Festival....
Beth Johnson, University of Leeds Sally Wainwright’s new BBC drama Riot Women opens not with music, but with the sound of ice clinking in a glass and tonic fizzing as it’s poured over gin. Beth...
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...
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...
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...
Normally in this column I take a book that’s been turned into a TV show or film, and see what happens in the shift from page to screen. However, this month over at Five Books For I've been looking...
Like the devastating impact of climate change, the cold civil war being fought in America heats up incrementally degree by degree. The constant pressure applied to the body politic by the flickering...
Freya Gowrley, University of Bristol The Netflix documentary Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser raises questions around the ethics of one the most popular US reality TV series of the 2000s....
