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POP CULTURE
Sep 24, 2021 | Medium | A Deep Dive into Nicole Richie’s 2000s Tabloid Hell
Nov 12, 2020 | Medium | ‘This Is Paris’ Reveals the Trauma Behind the Socialite’s Infamous Persona
FILM REVIEWS
Dec 13, 2024 | Cineberry | Review: Hot Frosty
Dec 11, 2024 | Cineberry | Review: Our Little Secret
Sep 26, 2024 | Cineberry | Review: Azrael
Sep 20, 2024 | Cineberry | Review: Clawfoot
Sep 12, 2024 | Cineberry | Review: Subservience
Sep 8, 2024 | Cineberry | Review: Fitting In
Sep 6, 2024 | Cineberry | Review: Hoard
Aug 28, 2024 | Cineberry | Review: And Mrs
Aug 19, 2024 | Cineberry | Review: Hell Hole
Aug 12, 2024 | Cineberry | Review: Duchess
Aug 5, 2024 | Cineberry | Review: Ganymede
Nov 2, 2023 | Screen Queens | Meg Ryan Explores Lost Love in Intentional Rom-Com ‘What Happens Later’
Oct 24, 2023 | Screen Queens | Joe Lynch Celebrates Stuart Gordon’s Legacy in Sensual Possession Body Horror ‘Suitable Flesh’
Oct 8. 2023 | Screen Queens | ‘Borderline’ Attempts to Explore BPD and Addiction But Lacks Depth and Focus
Sep 18, 2023 | Screen Queens | Intense Crime Thriller ‘Condition of Return’ Asks Why a Churchgoing Woman Would Commit A Mass Shooting
Sep 17, 2023 | Screen Queens | Shudder’s ‘Elevator Game’ is a Simple yet Effective Horror Despite Its Flaws
Aug 17, 2023 | Screen Queens | Stewart Thorndike’s ‘Bad Things’ has Interesting Ideas but Poor Execution
Aug 14, 2023 | Screen Queens | ‘Birth/Rebirth’ Examines the Body Horror of Motherhood, Morality, and Pregnancy
Aug 7, 2023 | Screen Queens | ‘Alone At Night’ is an Average Pandemic-Set Slasher with a Meta-Twist
Jun 26, 2023 | Screen Queens | The Imperfect ‘She Came From the Woods’ Breathes New Life Into Slasher Genre
May 15, 2023 | Screen Queens | Margaret Qualley’s Alluring Performance is a Highlight in the Intriguing ‘Sanctuary’
May 15, 2023 | Cineberry | Review: A Tale of Two Bunnies
May 5, 2023 | Cineberry | Review: Beautiful Disaster
Apr 30, 2023 | Cineberry | Review: A Little White Lie
Apr 26, 2023 | Cineberry | Review: Ghosted
Apr 12, 2023 | Screen Queens | ‘Mafia Mamma’ is a Crime Comedy Made for Women by Women
Mar 17, 2023 | Screen Queens | ‘Moving On’ is a Meandering Tale of Revenge Saved by its Veteran All-Star Cast
Mar 8, 2023 | Screen Queens | Irish Folk Horror ‘Unwelcome’ has a Moving Story But Not Enough Murderous Goblins
Feb 25, 2023 | Screen Queens | Christopher Landon’s ‘We Have A Ghost’ is a Heartwarming Supernatural Family Comedy
Feb 20, 2023 | Screen Queens | ‘Your Place Or Mine’ is a Cosy Rom-Com with Chemistry-Less Leads
Feb 2, 2023 | Screen Queens |‘Maybe I Do’ is a Multi-Generational Examination of Love and Marriage with Humour and Heart
Jan 24, 2023 | Screen Queens | ‘Sorry About the Demon’ is an entertaining and humorous horror
Dec 8, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘Something From Tiffany’s’ is an old-fashioned romance perfect for the holiday season
Dec 1, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘Darby and the Dead’ explores tough themes while being a fun teen dramedy
Nov 11, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘Falling For Christmas’ sees Lindsay Lohan shine in return to acting
Nov 5, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me’ captures a rare side to the pop star
Oct 3, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’ is a sentimental horror that favours chills over scares
Sep 28, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘Blonde’ highlights childhood trauma in adulthood via series of dreamy vignettes
Sep 28, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘The Retaliators’ has its moments
Aug 31, 2022 | Screen Queens | Tame French sex worker drama ‘Her Way’ shows how far a mother is willing to go
Aug 25, 2022 | Screen Queens | Sabrina Jaglom tackles the dangers of perfectionism in ‘Jane’
Aug 16, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘The Immaculate Room’ is a tame psychological thriller that relentlessly reveals one’s true self
Jul 29, 2022 | Screen Queens | Zoey Deutch charms in searing satire about influencer culture, ‘Not Okay’
Jul 19, 2022 | Screen Queens | John Cho and Mia Isaac lead emotional, yet even drama
Apr 18, 2022 | Screen Queens | Elisha Cuthbert is stellar in cliché-filled horror ‘The Cellar’
Apr 11, 2022 | Medium | ‘Umma’ has compelling ideas but falls short due to a restrained and disjointed script
Apr 2, 2022 | Screen Queens | Boasting technical prowess, ‘Windfall’ struggles to find its genre
Mar 29, 2022 | Medium | ‘Night’s End’ is saved by an entertaining final act
Mar 13, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘They Live in the Grey’ explores grief, ghosts, and child abuse through miserable pacing
Mar 7, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘The Seed’ is an entertaining twisty cosmic body horror
Feb 10, 2022 | Medium | ‘The Requin’ loses human story of survival message to laughably bad CG sharks
Feb 2, 2022 | Medium | ‘The Fallout is an intimate character study of life after trauma
Dec 13, 2021 | Screen Queens | French-Belgian Christmas horror ‘The Advent Calendar’ delivers gruesome gifts
Dec 30, 2020 | Medium | ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Review
Nov 25, 2020 | Cineberry | Review: Happiest Season
Oct 8, 2020 | JumpCut Online | Review: Kajillionaire
Aug 28, 2020 | Cineberry | Review: Dead Dicks
Aug 4, 2020 | Screen Queens | Shudder’s ‘Host’ Brings Found Footage to the year of COVID-19
Aug 3, 2020 | Cineberry | Review: Yes, God, Yes
Jul 1, 2020 | Screen Queens | ‘Suzi Q’ Documentary Celebrates An Underappreciated Rock Icon
Apr 10, 2020 | Film Daze | ‘Butt Boy’ Review: A Truly Original Premise that turns Silly into Serious
Apr 6, 2020 | Film Daze | ‘We Summon the Darkness’ Review: Alexandra Daddario Shines Admist the Satanic Panic
Mar 31, 2020 | Film Daze | ‘The Wolf Hour’ Review: Naomi Watts Shines in Uneventful Psychological Thriller
Mar 22, 2020 | Film Daze | ‘Relic’ Review: An Emotionally Devastating Portrayal of Dementia
Mar 9, 2020 | Film Daze | ‘Swallow’ Review: A Beautiful yet Distressing Experience
Jan 15, 2020 | Film Daze | ‘Tone-Deaf’ Review: A Modern Horror Pitting Boomer Against Millennial
Dec 20, 2019 | Cineberry | ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Explores Lesbian Romance Using the Female Gaze
Nov 10, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Doctor Sleep’ Review: An Exploration of Trauma and Recovery
Oct 29, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Rattlesnake’ Review: Zak Hilditch Delivers a Strong Premise Devoid of Tension
Oct 04, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Itsy Bitsy’ Review: A Creature Feature Full of Family Drama
Sep 26, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Isabelle’ Review: An Uninspired Exploration of Grief and Ghosts
May 30, 2019 | Reel Steel Cinema | ‘Booksmart’ Review
May 28, 2019 | Cineberry | ‘Starfish’: A Visually Stunning Debut Exploring Grief
May 22, 2019 | Reel Steel Cinema | ‘Thunder Road’ Review
May 9, 2019 | Screen Queens | Ted Bundy Biopic ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’ is Confident in its Perspective
May 4, 2019 | Reel Steel Cinema | ‘Vox Lux’ Review
Apr 10, 2019 | Cineberry | ‘Unicorn Store’: Being Yourself Isn’t Something You Have to Give Up
Mar 27, 2019 | Cineberry | ‘Under the Silver Lake’: An Ambitious and Unique Neo-Noir from ‘It Follows’ Director
Mar 10, 2019 | Reel Steel Cinema | ‘Captain Marvel’ Review
Apr 23, 2018 | Ramona Mag | ‘Tomb Raider’ Review
TV REVIEWS
Jun 6, 2023 | Cineberry | Review: The Idol, Episode 1 – Pop Tarts & Rat Tails
May 1, 2023 | Cineberry | Review: Dreamland
Jul 8, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘Boo, Bitch’ is a quick, easy watch
Jun 10, 2022 | Screen Queens | ‘First Kill is exactly what you expect and a bit more
Oct 11, 2020 | Cineberry | Review: The Haunting of Bly Manor
Sep 18, 2020 | Cineberry | Review: Ratched
Apr 24, 2020 | Screen Queens | Shudder Delivers Another Compelling Documentary Series with ‘Cursed Films’
Apr 8, 2020 | Screen Queens | ‘Killing Eve’ Season 3 is a Rewarding Season Full of Twists and Surprises
Nov 26, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Harley Quinn’ Review: Harley Quinn Moves Out of Joker’s Shadow
Aug 18, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 7 Review: The Final Goodbye
Apr 22, 2019 | Screen Queens | Ryan O’Connell Didn’t See Any Stories That Reflected His Reality, so He Created ‘Special’
FESTIVAL COVERAGE
Fantasia 2024
Aug 10, 2024 | Medium | Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘House of Sayuri’ Injects Wacky Comedy into Bleak J-Horror
Aug 8, 2024 | Medium | Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Electrophilia’ is a Fascinating Yet Lacklustre Exploration of a Lightning Strike Survivor
Aug 5, 2024 | Medium | Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Oddity’ is a Genuinely Scary Modern Horror with Almost Unbearable Suspense
Aug 2, 2024 | Medium | Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Kryptic’ is a Surreal Character Study with No Satisfying Pay-off
Aug 1, 2024 | Medium | Fantasia 2024 Short Film Reviews
July 31, 2024 | Medium | Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Cuckoo’ Gets Lost in Its Unique Storytelling
July 29, 2024 | Medium | Fantasia 2024 Review: Dale Dickey is Utterly Compelling in ‘The G’
July 28, 2024 | Medium | Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘The Dead Thing’ Delivers Strong Premise with Poor Execution
July 23, 2024 | Medium | Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Carnage For Christmas’ is a Serviceable Trans Murder Mystery
Fantasia 2023
Aug 5, 2023 | Screen Queens | Lee Won-suk’s ‘Killing Romance’ is a Smart Yet Wacky Musical Filled with Social Commentary
Aug 2, 2023 | Screen Queens | Jennifer Reeder’s ‘Perpetrator’ Weaponizes Empathy in a Feminist Coming-of-Age Revenge Story
Jul 30, 2023 | Screen Queens | ‘With Love and A Major Organ’ Creatively Asks If It’s Better to Detach From or Engage in Emotion
Jul 28, 2023 | Screen Queens | Teresa Sutherland’s ‘Lovely, Dark, And Deep’ Explores National Park Disappearances Through Psychological Horror
Jul 26, 2023 | Screen Queens | Larry Fessenden uses the Werewolf as Metaphor for Addiction in ‘Blackout’
Jul 5, 2023 | Screen Queens | 6 Films to Watch at Fantasia Festival 2023
GrimmFest 2020
Nov 20, 2020 | Screen Queens | ‘Revenge Ride’ is a Biker Gang Flick with Mixed Messages
Oct 16, 2020 | Screen Queens | ‘Death Ranch’ Aims to Subvert Blaxploitation Tropes in this Murky Grindhouse Flick
Oct 13, 2020 | Screen Queens | ‘Ten Minutes to Midnight’ is an Entertaining Vampire Flick with a Powerful Message That Falls Short
Oct 11, 2020 | Screen Queens | ‘Triggered’ is a Twisted Gore-Fest as Characters Figure Out Who Their Real Friends Are
Oct 10, 2020 | Screen Queens | ‘The Unhealer’ is an Original and Entertaining Tale of Bullying and Revenge
Oct 9, 2020 | Screen Queens | An Uneven Script and Awoken Evil Torment a Family in ‘They Reach’
Oct 7, 2020 | Screen Queens | John Hyams’ ‘Alone’ Allows its Protagonist to Make Smart Decisions
London Film Festival 2020
Nov 16, 2020 | Cineberry | LFF Review: Wildfire
Nov 2, 2020 | Cineberry | LFF Review: A Love Story
Fright Fest 2019
Sep 01, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘The Black String’ Review: Evil Is Skin Deep in Frankie Muniz’s Return to Acting
Aug 27, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘A Good Woman Is Hard to Find’ Review: A Gritty Realistic Revenge Thriller
Aug 27, 2019 | Screen Queens | Soska Sisters’ ‘Rabid’ Remake Handles Cronenberg Through the Modern Female Gaze
Aug 26, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Deadcon’ Review: A Modern Horror That Misses the Mark
Aug 26, 2019 | Film Daze |‘Happy Face’ Review: An Exploration of the Person Behind the Face
Aug 26, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘The Perished’ Review: An Emotionally Charged Blend of Social Issues and Horror
Aug 25, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Kindred Spirits’ Review: An Uncomfortable Psychological Thriller
Aug 24, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘I’ll Take Your Dead’ Review: An Original Heartfelt Horror
Aug 24, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Sadistic Intentions’ Review: A Slow Paced Horror That Lacks Excitement
Fantasia 2019
Jul 30, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘8’ Review: A South African Horror That Tackles Guilt and Grief
Jul 20, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘The Wretched’ Review: A Chilling Blend of Fairy Tale and Horror
Jul 27, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Stare’ Review: A Refreshing New Addition to J-Horror
Jul 22, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Another Child’ Review: An Intimate Portrayal of Family Affairs
Jul 19, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Knives and Skin’ Review: A Mesmerising Exploration of a Small Town’s Large Grief
Jul 11, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Sadako’ Review: The Return of a Japanese Horror Icon
GAME REVIEWS
May 3, 2020 | Medium | ‘The Complex’ Review: The First Interactive Sci-Fi Movie Intriguing but Underdeveloped
INTERVIEWS
Dec 22, 2022 | Screen Queens | Janeen and Michael Damian on ‘Falling For Christmas’
FEATURES AND ESSAYS
Dec 19, 2023 | Medium | The use of juxtaposition in ‘Wild Child’
Jul 9, 2023 | Medium | Femininity and the Female Experience in Anna Biller’s ‘The Love Witch’
Apr 25, 2022 | Medium | Killing Eve’s Tragic Love Story
Feb 17, 2022 | Medium | ‘WandaVision’ explores Wanda Maximoff’s grief
Feb 17. 2022 | Medium | ‘Spice World’ perfectly captures Spice Mania during Cool Britannia
Jul 15, 2021 | Screen Queens | [The Final Girls Club] Excision’s Pauline Celebrates the Grossness of Teenage Girls
Jul 13, 2021 | Medium | Legally Blonde at 20
Apr 23, 2021 | Cineberry | What is the Real Message of ‘I Care a Lot’?
Feb 20, 2021 | Medium | Borderline Personality Disorder in ‘Ingrid Goes West’
Feb 1, 2021 | Medium | Fuck Marry Kill with Gilmore Girls’ Dean, Jess and Logan
Sep 18, 2020 | HORRORWOOD Presents | ‘Shirley’ and Unravelling the Mind of an Iconic Horror Writer
Aug 31, 2020 | Cineberry | Killing Eve: The Transformation of Eve Polastri
Aug 25, 2020 | Cineberry | 20 Years of Cheers: The Legacy of Bring It On
July 13, 2020 | Cineberry | I Am Legend: Becoming the Villain in a Vampiric Dystopia
Jun 13, 2012 | Screen Queens | How Kevin Smith Explores Bisexuality and Biphobia Through Fragile Masculinity in ‘Chasing Amy’
Nov 19, 2019 | Film Daze | How Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Teaches Us to Not Repress Our Emotions
Jun 28, 2019 | Film Daze | ‘Killing Eve’ and the Unpredictable Nature of Eve and Villanelle’s Relationship
Jun 18, 2019 | Film Daze | The B Word: The Erasure of Bisexuality in Cinema
May 16, 2019 | Reel Honey | The Case For Saving ‘One Day at a Time’
Mar 22, 2019 | Screen Queens | The Importance of Tackling the #MeToo Movement in Modern Sitcoms
Mar 21, 2019 | Cineberry | ‘Captain Marvel’: Does Carol Danvers Lack Personality?
Mar 12, 2019 | Cineberry | ‘The Expanse’: An Intense Space Opera Worthy of Your Time
Aug 16, 2018 | Screen Queens | Reflecting on ‘Hereditary’: An Indie Family Drama or Contemporary Horror?
May 25, 2018 | Medium | Defining the Giallo Film
Mar 24, 2018 | Medium | Why was ‘Ghostwatch’ so successful?
LISTS
Oct 23, 2024 | Medium | 18 Fun Horror Films to Watch this Halloween
Sep 22, 2024 | Cineberry | 13 Films to Watch this Autumn
Oct 27, 2022 | Medium | 10 More Horror Shorts for Halloween
Oct 30, 2020 | Medium | 12 Short Horror Films for Halloween
Feb 16, 2020 | Film Daze | The Best LGBT Films Available on Streaming Services
Feb 6, 2020 | Film Daze | Women in Horror Month: Best Women-Directed Horror Films of the 2010s
Jan 31, 2020 | What Culture | Sex Education Season 3: 12 Questions That Must Be Answered
Jan 12, 2020 | What Culture | 10 Classic Movies You Had No Idea Were Being Remade
Jan 12, 2020 | What Culture | YOU Season 3: 9 Exciting Fan Theories
Dec 16, 2019 | Film Daze | 10 Christmas Films to Watch When You Hate Christmas
Oct 30, 2019 | Medium | 10 Short Horror Films to Watch This Halloween
Jun 4, 2019 | MAC Birmingham | Top Cinema Picks this June
Apr 27, 2019 | What Culture | 20 Most Hotly Anticipated Movies of Summer 2019 – Ranked
Apr 9, 2019 | Cineberry | Top 10 Modern Scream Queens
Apr 9, 2019 | What Culture | The OA Season 2: What Does The Ending Really Mean?
Apr 5, 2019 | What Culture | Love, Death & Robots: 9 Reasons You MUST Watch
Apr 3, 2019 | What Culture | MCU Phase 4: 9 Reasons To Be Excited About Black Widow
Apr 01, 2019 | What Culture | YOU Season 2: 10 Things That Must Happen
Feb 24, 2019 | What Culture | The Haunting Of Hill House Season 2: 5 Things To Know About Bly Manor
Feb 13, 2019 | What Culture | Russian Doll: 7 Big Questions We’re Left With
Feb 12, 2019 | What Culture | Netflix’s Sex Education: 10 Things That Must Happen In Season 2
Feb 11, 2019 | What Culture | 8 Movies & TV Shows To Watch On Netflix This Month (Feb 2019)
Jan 31, 2019 | What Culture | Netflix’s Sex Education: 13 Questions That Must Be Answered In Season 2
Jan 25, 2019 | What Culture | YOU: 8 Most Intriguing Fan Theories
Jan 21, 2019 | What Culture | YOU Season 1: What Does The Ending Really Mean?
Dec 10, 2018 | What Culture | The Haunting Of Hill House: 9 Questions We Desperately Need Answers To
Dec 6, 2018 | What Culture | The Haunting Of Hill House: 7 Most Chilling Fan Theories
Nov 26, 2018 | What Culture | 10 Horror Legends’ Favourite Movies
Oct 30, 2018 | Reel Honey | 10 Horror Shorts to Get You Into the Spooky Spirit
Oct 1, 2018 | Screen Queens | Top 10 Most Gruesome Horror Scenes
Jan 2, 2018 | What Culture | 9 Films You Didn’t Know Were Nominated As Worst Picture