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Film shorts have their own unique identity, a craft all of their own. They are stand-alone features and stories in their own right and...

Scare Me is a joyful ride by writer/director, and lead actor Josh Rubens, whose one-man-band style achieves a total creative synergy. Set...

Set in a stark backdrop of the remote early 19th century American territories, The Wind offers a slice of history in this western-style...

A gritty game of cat and mouse, Revenge is Lara Croft gone rogue. Hollywood has given us an onslaught of slasher horror films where young...

Heralded as a classic gothic horror story and one of the best of Shirley Jackson’s, The House on Haunted Hill is seen as the first...

Set in 1988 Tehran and within the juncture of the Iran and Iraq war, Under the Shadow tells the story of Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her...

Under ‘normal’ non-Covid circumstances The Turning would certainly have been a cinema trip for me, but instead became a rented home...

Since grappling with the global pandemic, and with us all having to now navigate a new lockdown reality, Vivarium’s sparse utopia doesn’t...

Tragic and classical, The Tale of Two Sisters (2003), has stood the test of time. Steeped in mystery with few certainties; teenage Su-mi...

Come to Daddy (2019) is a family reunion gone bad. When Norval Greenwood (Elijah Wood) arrives at his estranged father’s sea cabin for a...

Annie Wilkes returns, and my god we have missed her. Having watched Misery more times than I can care to remember, any rekindling of...

Few films are brave enough to construct a complete overtake of a theme like Possum (2018). Right from the beginning, never-ending you...

Fun, frolics, and murder, Knives Out (2019), offers a detective drama with a huge dose of comedy. This jovial hunt for the killer of...

Father Tomas (Alfonso Herrera) and Father Marcus (Ben Daniels) are back with a vengeance. Season 2, although a period after the first is...

The BCC’s two-part adaptation of Agatha Christies The Pale Horse (2020) is a slick production set in a high-class 1960s London. A typical...

Cool, calm, and collected law student Christine Reade (Riley Keough), in Season 1 of The Girlfriend Experience (2016) is pulled into the...

Sisters (1972) plays on the art of assumption, if someone looks good, then we are less likely to see them as a threat. The film charters...

A Dark Song (2017) is my favourite kind of horror, psychological with a mix of occultism. The premise is promising, a grieving mother...

Adolescence is a bitch and so it seems are your family when you are growing up. Raw (2016) follows teenage Justine (Garance Marillier), a...

Passionate and raw, Lady Macbeth (2016) excels on all levels. A period drama set in 19th century industrial Britain but without the...