Hi! My name is Toni and I always wanted to be a writer. While studying film and Screenwriting at Sheffield Hallam University, I fell in love with writing about cinema and branched out into writing film reviews and essays for various publications after starting on Blogger. I have over seven years of writing experience and love horror, 2000s films, and the 70s. My favourite film is Almost Famous and my favourite television shows are Charmed and Gilmore Girls. Most recently, I have been writing on Medium and was a staff writer for Screen Queens, covering both film and television, with a focus on horror and female-led media, until the website closed in April 2024. In July 2024, I decided to create my own platform and launched Cineberry.
My other bylines include Film Daze, WhatCulture, and JumpCut Online, to name a few, and I have covered horror-focused film festivals such as GrimmFest, Fright Fest, and Fantasia. I’ve been entrusted with screeners from Netflix, Disney, Prime Video, NEON, BBC America, and more. I also appear in the coffee table book “Alternative Film Posters A-Z” by Jeremy Arblaster, providing the blurbs for the films Annihilation and Hereditary, which are accompanied by alternative poster designs by talented graphic designers.
In May 2024, I started a Substack newsletter titled “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” after the 1988 Pedro Almodóvar film, which I later renamed to “Wait Until Dark,” after the 1967 film of the same name. The newsletter features essays from the intersection of mental health, personal experiences, and psychiatry, in addition to a monthly roundup of what I’ve been reading. All my posts are currently free and I only write there when I have something I want to share, so expect some inconsistency, but do subscribe if you’re interested as it really helps. ♡
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