It’s that time of year where the employees of billion dollar company, Immaculate Pond Technologies, are sent on their annual corporate retreat to partake in team building exercises — something they all truly cannot be bothered with. The characters are introduced to us with style: a freeze frame with yellow text telling us who they…
Raindance 2026 REview: The Devil Whispered My Name
Set in rural Argentina, five teenagers celebrate graduating from school by performing an ayahuasca ritual in the woods. In the morning, Carla (Bianca Mitnik) finds her best friend Maria (Mia Cavo) dead by the water, covered in blood and marked by an unusual symbol. Ten years later, Carla (now played by Clara Kovacic) followed her…
Raindance 2026 Review: Serena
Chris Sadowsky (Steven Strait) used to be a rock star, but now he’s a loser who earns money by making personalised songs for children’s birthdays via Fiverr. A recovering alcoholic, Chris is struggling to make a new song, all while his pregnant wife Vicki (María Gabriela González) works as a waitress. The couple are three…
Raindance Film Festival 2026: The Horror Line-Up
Raindance Film Festival, the UK’s biggest indie film festival, returns with its 34th edition this month, 17-26 June, and festival passes are still available. Ranging from £45 for a day pass to £225 for a full festival pass, Raindance also offers a horror features pass for £115, allowing you to access to every horror film…
Review: Carolina Caroline
Coloured in red, white, and blue like the American flag, Carolina Caroline’s opening credits set the film’s tone. Caroline (Samara Weaving), a naive and innocent woman living in Texas, finds her life changed forever when Oliver (Kyle Gallner) walks into her filling station and scams her boss out of a few extra bills. Caroline is…
Review: Finding Emily
We’ve all been there. You’re working as a sound engineer for Manchester University, trying to get the club DJ to keep the volume within legal limits, when you hit it off with an alluring woman dressed as a fairy (Sadie Soverall)—smart, funny, and immediately captivating. You dance together until her friend pulls her away for…
Book Review: Write a Horror Novel by Erik Patterson
Write a Horror Novel: 99 Writing Prompts to Craft a Tale of Terror and Darkness is Erik Patterson’s third entry into his Writing Prompts series, following Write a Romantasy and Write a Dystopian Novel. Patterson has been making a name for himself on TikTok under @yourdailywritingprompt with 317k followers, but he’s also the screenwriter (with…
Review: Obsession
Bear (Michael Johnston) is a nice guy. He works at Cassell’s Music alongside his friends Ian (Cooper Tomlinson), Nikki (Inde Navarrette), and Sarah (Megan Lawless), whose dad owns the store. But Bear is lonely. He lives in his grandmother’s house, his parents are absent, and one day he comes home to find his cat, Sandy,…
Review: The Devil Wears Prada 2
Watching The Devil Wears Prada 2 reminded me of that famous quote: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” To be fair, most things remind me of this quote, attributed to Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, considering the state of the world, but…
Bridget Jones’s Diary at 25
With Bridget Jones’s Diary celebrating its 25th anniversary this month, it occurred to me that it was one of the last romantic comedies that came out before everything as we knew it changed. It was before 9/11, the Iraq War, the 7/7 London Bombings, and the global financial crash of 2008. Only a decade after…