Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has built a quiet life for herself in Pine Grove, running a coffee shop and raising three children with her husband, police chief Mark Evans (Joel McHale). With the two youngest staying with Mark’s parents, it’s teenage Tatum (Isabel May)—named for Sidney’s late friend—who takes centre stage. Timid and struggling to…
Review: I Live Here Now
Julie Pacino’s debut feature, I Live Here Now, follows actress Rose (Lucy Fry), who spends her time auditioning for roles and hanging out with her TikToker boyfriend, Travis (Matt Rife). As she hasn’t been bookable for years, Rose is happy when she lands the opportunity to meet top agent Cindy Abrams (Cara Seymour), who abrasively…
Review: Cold Storage
Cold Storage begins with a prologue introducing us to Skylab, a space station which fell out of orbit in 1979. “Pay attention,” a title card reads. “This shit is real.” And it is. Host to countless scientific experiments, it was important to recover all the pieces that weren’t destroyed during atmospheric reentry—but an oxygen tank…
Review: “Wuthering Heights”
Since Emerald Fennell announced her latest project, an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, it has attracted the harshest of criticism—especially from the book’s most devoted fans. Set in the 18th century, the story follows the intense and destructive love between Catherine “Cathy” Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and the consequences it has on not just themselves,…
Review: Blood Barn
Set in the summer of 1985, Blood Barn follows Josie (Lena Redford), a camp counsellor who gathers her friends (played by Chloe Cherry, Andrea Bambina, Simon Paris, Samuel Lanier, Felipe Di Poi, and Pierce Campion) for a final weekend at her family’s secluded barn before they part ways for college. However, their fun and nostalgic…
Review: Rental Family Offers Insight into Japanese Culture
*Contains story spoilers* Rental Family follows Phillip Vanderploeg (Brendan Fraser), an unemployed American actor who is still living in Tokyo after finding success in a wacky Japanese toothpaste commercial seven years prior. Things start to change for Phillip when he lands the unusual gig of working for a company which provides actors to play stand-in…
Top Films of 2025
2025 has been a strong year for cinema, but especially for the horror genre which is one of my favourites. I feel like I’ve seen so many great films this year, which is wonderful to say. It’s always hard to choose my absolute favourites when I get something from each film and could write a…
8 Most Anticipated Book Releases of 2026
Half his age by Jennette McCurdy 17-year-old Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all is her creative writing teacher, Mr Korgy. He has the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks…
Book Review: Trying by Chloé Caldwell
During the years that Chloé Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she’d read everything she could find on infertility — or, in her case, “unexplained” infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her experience, especially as most stories ended with success: vitro fertilisation or, you know, an actual baby. Writing…
Review: Forgive Us All
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a biotech virus has transformed humans into violent cannibals, Rory (Lily Sullivan, Evil Dead Rise) hides in an isolated cabin in the New Zealand wilderness with her father-in-law, Otto (Richard Roxburgh, Van Helsing). Two years earlier, Rory lost her husband and daughter to the virus, moments that still haunt…