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- News
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of February 2026
Grady Hendrix’s Big-Box Horror-Comedy “Horrorstör” Lands Searchlight Film Adaptation
MUBI Debuts ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Teaser, Jane Schoenbrun Revives Cult Slasher
Prime Video Unveils ‘Pretty Lethal’ Trailer for Ballerina Survival Thriller Ahead of SXSW Premiere
Riz Ahmed Anchors a Modern-Day ‘Hamlet in New Vertical Trailer
- Movie/TV Reviews
‘Sheepdog’ Movie Review: A Stark and Compassionate Look at Life After Service and the Arduous Path To Post-Traumatic Growth
‘Mimics’ Movie Review: A Polished Ventriloquist Horror Rom-Com That Struggles to Find Its Voice
‘Diabolic’ Movie Review: A Promising Baptism That Never Fully Immerses… in Dread
‘Send Help’ Movie Review: Sam Raimi Turns Survival Into a Brutally Wicked Battle of Wits
‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Movie Review: An Alarmingly Disarming Madcap Meditation on Algorithmic Overload
- Movie/TV/Author Interviews
Michaela McManus & Stella Marcus Talk ‘Redux Redux’ – Revenge on Repeat Across Parallel Universes
Matthew & Kevin McManus Talk ‘Redux Redux’ – Grief Across the Multiverse and Revenge on Repeat
Adam MacDonald Interview: Translating the Frenetic Chaos of Courtney Summers’ This Is Not a Test to the Big Screen
INTERVIEW: Composer Geoff Zanelli on Navigating Tonal Whiplash to Score ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
Diabolic Movie Interviews: Daniel J. Phillips and Elizabeth Cullen on Faith, Trauma, and Factual-Inspired Fear
- Music Reviews
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of February 2026
Album Review: ‘Social Disguises’ by The Enemy: Fuelled by Frustration, Fired Up by Experience
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of January 2026
Album Review: ‘Wasted on Youth’ by The Molotovs — An Uncompromising Debut Brimming with Bravado, Breadth, and Boundless Momentum
Album Review: Kula Shaker – Wormslayer: a feisty, fearless return to psychedelic form
- Music Interviews
Tom Clarke Talks Social Disguises: The Enemy’s Comeback Album Made on Their Own Terms
INTERVIEW: Composer Geoff Zanelli on Navigating Tonal Whiplash to Score ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
James Walsh Talks New Solo Album ‘It’s All Happening’ and 25th Anniversary of Starsailor’s Debut ‘Love Is Here’
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’
- Features
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz Rejoin Universal’s The Mummy for 2028 Release
Sam Raimi Open to Revisiting Spider-Man Universe, Cites Tobey Maguire’s Return in ‘No Way Home’
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
- Books
Grady Hendrix’s Big-Box Horror-Comedy “Horrorstör” Lands Searchlight Film Adaptation
Chris Panatier on ‘Daytide’: Wrestling with a Psychological Pandemic by Way of a Black-Metal Wizard of Oz
Adam MacDonald Interview: Translating the Frenetic Chaos of Courtney Summers’ This Is Not a Test to the Big Screen
Author Interview: Catriona Ward on the Peter Pan–Inflected World of “Nowhere Burning,” Where Freedom and Captivity Collide
Prime Video Unveils Trailer for ‘Scarpetta,’ Based on Patricia Cornwell’s Crime Series
- Author Interviews
Chris Panatier on ‘Daytide’: Wrestling with a Psychological Pandemic by Way of a Black-Metal Wizard of Oz
Author Interview: Catriona Ward on the Peter Pan–Inflected World of “Nowhere Burning,” Where Freedom and Captivity Collide
Author Johnny Compton Talks ‘Dead First’: Noir Horror, Immortality, and the Weight of Reckoning
Author Caroline Glenn Talks Revenge, and Grief in the Public Eye in New Novel ‘CRUELTY FREE’
INTERVIEW: Celebrated Comic-Book Writer Cullen Bunn Makes Adult Novel Debut with ‘Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World’
- Book Reviews
‘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
“SECLUDED CABIN SLEEPS SIX” Book Review: A refreshingly inventive twist on familiar thriller trappings
Books
Searchlight Pictures has set Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) to direct an adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s 2014 horror-comedy novel...
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MUBI has released the teaser trailer for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the latest feature from filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the...
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Vertical has unveiled the first US trailer for Hamlet, a striking contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy. The film places Riz Ahmed at the centre...
MUSIC
Another month’s done and dusted, which means it’s time for your latest dose of Noteworthy Nods: 20 singles we’ve had on repeat since they...
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Rustic Films and Yellow Veil Pictures have released the official trailer for Touch Me, the sophomore feature from filmmaker Addison Heiman (Hypochondriac). Labeled by...
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Many films about the aftermath of war focus on a soldier’s return home. Sheepdog, however, examines the longer-term consequences — the challenges of living...
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Following news dating back to 2024, Mike Flanagan (“The Fall of the House of Usher”, “Midnight Mass”) is still set to helm a new...
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Brainstorm Media has dropped the official trailer for Diabolic, the latest horror from Daniel J. Phillips (Awoken). Co-written by Phillips with Mike Harding and...
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The world of 28 Days Later has always been one of brutal, unrelenting dread. From the moment Cillian Murphy’s Jim awoke in a deserted...
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FrightFest returns to the Glasgow Film Festival for its 21st year from Thursday 5 March to Saturday 7 March 2026, once again taking over...
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Steven Grayhm’s latest film, Sheepdog, looks beyond the moment a soldier returns home, focusing instead on the long and often unseen work of living...
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A tense, morally complex story is set to unfold in the heart of Los Angeles’ housing projects, where loyalty, survival, and trust will be...
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Many films about the effects of war begin with a soldier’s return home. The new film Sheepdog shifts the focus to the longer-term impact...
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A24 has dropped the first official trailer for one of its latest acquisitions, The Undertone, the debut feature from director Ian Tuason, which teases...
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Saban Films has debuted the official trailer for Redux Redux, a tense and inventive sci-fi thriller from brothers Kevin & Matthew McManus. Starring Michaela...
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The first full trailer for Independent Film Company‘s Whistle, the forthcoming supernatural shocker from Corin Hardy (The Nun), has dropped, offering a more extensive...
Books
After the strong box office performance of The Housemaid, Lionsgate is preparing to bring Freida McFadden’s next thriller to the screen. The Housemaid’s Secret,...
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Dark Sky Films has debuted the official trailer for Dooba Dooba, an analog-style shocker from Ehrland Hollingsworth (Homestead), ahead of the film’s January 23...
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There are zombie movies, and then there are films that use the undead as a pressure test for the soul. We Bury The Dead sits squarely...
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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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Paramount has released a second behind-the-scenes featurette for Primate, titled “Silence,” offering a closer look at Johannes Roberts’ survival thriller through the perspective of Academy...
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Independent Film Company is all set to release writer-director Charlie Polinger’s debut feature, The Plague, in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on...