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CinemaChords’ Best Singles of the Year 2025
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Future Perfect: 10 Sci‑Fi Films That Find Hope Amid the Rise of AI and Technology
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Future Perfect: 10 Sci‑Fi Films That Find Hope Amid the Rise of AI and Technology
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Movies of 2025: Top Horror Films You Need to See
‘THE PLAGUE’ Review: A Harrowingly Poignant Exploration of the Cruelties and Contradictions of Early Adolescence
‘SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT’ (2025) Review: A Darkly Comic Reinvention That Marries Brutality with Ethical Nuance
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Review: A Patchwork Sequel That, Sadly, Mostly Plays Like a Skippable Cutscene
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‘THE PLAGUE’ Interview: Everett Blunck and Kayo Martin on the Cruel Realities of Growing Up
Do You Fear What I Fear? Mike P. Nelson and Ruby Modine Talk Reimagining SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT Through Carnage, Conscience, and Courtship
‘I really enjoy playing unpleasant people… but Trevor is different’: Rowan Atkinson on finding warmth in absurdity in “Man vs Baby”
‘Man Finds Tape’ Interview: Cast Talk Confronting Fear, Faith, and the Pressures of a Watchful World
‘Man Finds Tape’ Interview: Kelsey Pribilski and William Magnuson on Terror, Belief and Life Under Surveillance
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Crispian Mills on Kula Shaker’s Upcoming Album ‘Wormslayer’: Navigating Creativity and Chaos in a Wired Age
GOOD HEALTH GOOD WEALTH’s Bruce Breakey Explains Philosophy Behind Narrative Debut Album ‘This Time Next Year We’ll Be Millionaires’
Pearce Macca on The Clause’s Explosive Debut, Victim of a Casual Thing: An Honest Portrait of Youth and Struggle
The Subways: 20 Years from ‘Young for Eternity’ to ‘When I’m With You’ – Billy Lunn Interview
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Future Perfect: 10 Sci‑Fi Films That Find Hope Amid the Rise of AI and Technology
Men In Black to Suit Up Again, Bad Boys Writer Drafted for Next Mission
In Anticipation of the ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ Reboot: 8 Great Horror Remakes That Live Up to Their Source Material
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2026 Horror Book Releases: CinemaChords’ Most Anticipated Titles for the First Half of the Year
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Books of 2025: Top Horror Novels You Need to Read
New PROJECT HAIL MARY Trailer Showcases Ryan Gosling in a Sci-Fi Adventure Brimming With Cosmic Awe and All the Feels
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Apple TV+ Reveals First Stills and Premiere Date for Season Two of “The Last Thing He Told Me”
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INTERVIEW: Celebrated Comic-Book Writer Cullen Bunn Makes Adult Novel Debut with ‘Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World’
Christina Henry on ‘The Place Where They Buried Your Heart’ — A Community Haunted Across Generations
“Fandom today borders on the religious — and that’s both beautiful and terrifying”: Joey Batey on debut novel ‘It’s Not a Cult’, creativity, and the cost of being seen
‘Cathedral of the Drowned’ Interview: Nathan Ballingrud on Moon-Spun Nightmares, Centipede Bishops and Lunar Gothic Dread
Author Interview: The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale – Genre-Bending Stories and Timeless Fears
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‘The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre’ Book Review: A Retirement Home Slasher that Finds Life and Tenacity in the Shadow of Death
Chilling Reads Ahead: CinemaChords’ Top 10 Most Anticipated Horror Novels for July 2025
Chilling Reads Ahead: CinemaChords’ Top 10 Most Anticipated Horror Novels for 2025
“EVERYTHING THE DARKNESS EATS” Book Review: A Poignantly Provocative Supernatural Shocker
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Charlie Polinger’s The Plague is a potent, unnerving look at the psychology of growing up, where social pressure and emerging cruelty shape the way...
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Mike P. Nelson’s Silent Night, Deadly Night revisits a notorious cult premise with both care and cunning. The story follows Billy, a boy who...
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After the runaway success of 2023’s Five Nights at Freddy’s, a sequel was inevitable. And here it is: most of the original cast and...
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End-of-year lists are rarely about consensus and more about habit. Some of these songs hit instantly; others revealed their qualities over time. In every...
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Horror has always been a shape-shifter, changing with the times to throw our darkest fears back at us in clever, unsettling ways. In 2025,...
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Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet made a huge splash when it hit shelves in 2020, scooping up major literary awards before being adapted for the stage....
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Based on extensive research with law enforcement, gangs, inmates, migrants, and addicts, King Ivory confronts the fentanyl epidemic head-on, presenting a world where the...
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Decades after Arnold Schwarzenegger tore through the neon-lit arenas of the 1987 The Running Man, Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel arrives under...
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Dogs have long commanded the screen with a certain presence that human performers often struggle to match. In recent years, that power has been...
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If You See Something is a fascinating, powerful, and poignant exploration of identity, belonging, and the moral complexities of immigration – navigating the fraught...
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The lonely, the abandoned, and the beautifully grotesque — Shelley’s immortal fable finds a worthy kindred spirit in del Toro’s most melancholic film yet....
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A decade after carving out his voice as one of YouTube’s most respected film commentators, Chris Stuckmann steps behind the camera for his feature...
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More than four decades since audiences were first dropped into the luminous world of Tron, and 15 years after Tron: Legacy tried to modernise...
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The Smashing Machine pulls back the curtain on a world sculpted by muscle and relentless will, exposing a far more vulnerable and achingly human...
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From its very first heartbeat — a naked young couple sprinting through the woods only to be riddled with arrows in a scene that...
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Horror’s full of old houses and loyal dogs, but it’s not often you get both in the same breath — and rarer still that...
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There’s a long tradition of British crime films wrapping up violence in bespoke tailoring and razor-edged repartee. All the Devils Are Here, directed by...
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Have you ever wanted to know more about a surprisingly tasty range of vegetarian foods from the 90s? Or what a “veggie nugget slide”...
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Colin Minihan‘s Coyotes isn’t interested in realism — and it makes that very clear from the start. Instead, it embraces the outlandish with relish,...