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 and are trying to get the club DJ to keep the volume within sound laws. Then you hit it off with an alluring woman dressed as a fairy (Sadie Soverall), who you think is so smart and cute and funny. You dance…
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…
Review: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
With all the jokes circulating online about the fact Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is called Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, it’s really important it was called this in order to distinguish it from The Mummy franchise starring Brendan Fraser, a new instalment of which is due in 2028. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, however, is something else…
Review: Erupcja
British tourist Bethany (Charli xcx) arrives in Warsaw, Poland, with her delightfully boring boyfriend, Rob (Will Madden), who has planned a romantic itinerary, which includes a marriage proposal Bethany is secretly privy to. Rob originally wanted to go to Paris, but Bethany claimed Warsaw, of all places, was more romantic. “In Paris, there are so…
Overlook Film Festival 2026 Review: The Restoration at Grayson Manor
Bratty piano prodigy Boyd Grayson (Chris Colfer) delights in bringing men back to his opulent family mansion for sex, mainly to taunt his strict, legacy-obsessed mother Jacqueline (Alice Krige) who disapproves of his gay lifestyle. He calls her a “homophobic cunt,” but it’s perhaps more that Jacqueline doesn’t mind his gayness per se, it’s just…