Eva Victor’s directorial debut, Sorry, Baby, tells the story of Agnes, a literature professor. Played by Victor, Agnes lives in a New England town and works at a small [...]

Over the last few years there’s been a wave of horror films that explore a nonhuman, human-adjacent or otherwise partial perspective to build a dispersed sense of [...]

The new iteration of The Naked Gun is an object lesson in how to resurrect a franchise. It couldn’t possibly be as good as the original three films and it acknowledges that [...]

Sean Byrne’s third film brings shark horror to the Gold Coast. In a plosive prologue we meet a pair of backpackers, one Canadian, one British, who charter a shark diving [...]

Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig is quite an extraordinary achievement. It was filmed entirely in secret and smuggled out of Iran to screen at the 2024 Cannes [...]

Osgood Perkins’ second horror film is an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story “The Monkey.” It’s immediately recognizable as a King narrative too. We have an [...]

As the title announces, Three Chords & the Truth is a back-to-basics album for Van Morrison. The phrase was coined by Harlan Howard to describe country music and while [...]

Terrifier and Terrifier 2 were two of the most original horror films of the last five years, albeit for quite different reasons. On the one hand, Terrifier managed to restore [...]

Don DeLillo’s first novel was quite extraordinary. That’s partly because it reads like four or five novels in one (it runs close to five hundred pages). All of them [...]

“The Calusari” sees The X-Files return to a more conventional register after the singularity of “Humbug.” It draws equally on It and The Omen and revolves around a [...]