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Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods 2025 – Batch #26
‘Man Finds Tape’ Trailer Teases Disquieting Docu-Realistic Horror, Rooted in Small-Town Secrets
‘IF YOU SEE SOMETHING’ Review: A Nuanced Meditation on Identity, Moral Responsibility, and the Struggle to Navigate a World That Is at Once Welcoming and Alienating
‘Scream 7’ Trailer: Kevin Williamson Returns to Direct as Ghostface Targets Sidney’s Daughter
“Stranger Things” Season 5 Trailer: The Stakes Have Been Turned Completely Upside Down in the Final Showdown
- Movie/TV Reviews
‘IF YOU SEE SOMETHING’ Review: A Nuanced Meditation on Identity, Moral Responsibility, and the Struggle to Navigate a World That Is at Once Welcoming and Alienating
‘FRANKENSTEIN’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Reverent Gothic Adaptation Delivers a Powerful Lament on Hubris-Fuelled Ambition
Film Review: ‘Shelby Oaks’ – Chris Stuckmann’s Ambitious, Unnerving Found-Footage Hybrid Marks a Confident Directorial Debut
‘Tron: Ares Review’ – A Neon-Charged Colossus, Yet Failing to Connect with the Code That Made the Grid Glow
‘The Smashing Machine’ Movie Review: A Monumental, Uncompromising Portrait of the Price Paid for Glory
- Movie/TV/Author Interviews
Alexandra Shipp and Nick Stahl on Revenge Thriller ‘Violent Ends’: Love, Loyalty and the Cost of Violence
Oday Rasheed and Jess Jacobs Interview: Connection in a World of Welcome and Exclusion in ‘If You See Something’
Adam Bakri on ‘If You See Something’: Exploring the Ultimate Struggle Between Rejection and Acceptance
Anchoring the Terror: Camille Sullivan on Bringing Chris Stuckmann’s Shelby Oaks to Authentic, Anxiety-Inducing Life
“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
- Music Reviews
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods 2025 – Batch #26
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods 2025 – Batch #25
Pearce Macca on The Clause’s Explosive Debut, Victim of a Casual Thing: An Honest Portrait of Youth and Struggle
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods 2025 – Batch #24
The Subways: 20 Years from ‘Young for Eternity’ to ‘When I’m With You’ – Billy Lunn Interview
- Music Interviews
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
Interview: Duncan Lloyd Unwinds New Album ‘Unwound’ – A Cathartic Rebellion Against Snack Culture
From Wigan to the World: The Lilacs’ Ollie Anglesea Talks New EP ‘The 395 (To Forever)’
INTERVIEW: The ‘KOKO’ Mojo, According to Lottery Winners’ Thom Rylance Prior to Fourth Album Release
- Features
Reimagining the ’80s: 10 Movies That Could Shine with a 2020s Twist
Unhinged, Unpolished, Unforgettable: 10 Wild ’70s and ’80s Cult Horror B-Movies Time Refuses to Tame
Rick Moranis and Mel Brooks Reunite as Long-Awaited Spaceballs Sequel Begins Filming
Escape Reality: The Most Thrilling Horror Movies That Will Help You Forget the World’s Woes!
Talk to the Dummy: Lionsgate to Reboot Anthony Hopkins’ Creepy Ventriloquist Classic ‘MAGIC’
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Beyond Victor’s Lab: 12 Novels That Resurrect Shelleyan Monsters and Their Terrifying Toll in Celebration of Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN
Children’s Booker Prize Launched to Spark New Generation of Readers as Reading for Pleasure Hits Record Low
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Books of 2025 (So Far): Top Horror Novels You Need to Read
“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 Interviews
“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
Neil McRobert Interview: Meet the Author Turning Northern Folklore into Haunting, Heartfelt Horror with ‘GOOD BOY’
Brian Asman Interview: ‘Man, F*ck This House’ Returns with 6 New Nightmares That Hit Uncomfortably Close to Home
- 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
Box Office
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...
MUSIC
Another Friday, another round of Noteworthy Nods – your go-to source for this week’s best indie singles. We’ve scoured the streaming platforms and sifted...
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After years of speculation, whispers, and wild fan theories, Oasis finally came back to rock stadiums across the world with their Live ’25 Tour...
Box Office
The keenly-anticipated sequel to the 2020 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic novel has finally hit the big screen, and it’s safe to say that...
Box Office
Land of Bad explodes onto the screen like a blast of pure 80s adrenaline. It’s the perfect mix of Predator‘s jungle scavenging, Die Hard‘s...
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Synopsis: Cash (Orlando Bloom) is trying to live an honest and quiet life, but when Big Cat (Andie MacDowell) forces him back into her...
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Bringing what promised to be an exciting new spin on the superhero genre! Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of Marvel’s mysterious heroine...
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Whether you believe in mediums and psychics or chalk it all up to what’s known as “cold reading” techniques, the fascination/fear/skepticism surrounding psychic abilities...
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Synopsis: Psychiatrist Elizabeth encounters a situation out of her idyllic life as she becomes obsessed with helping a young patient who she believes is...
Cinema
Synopsis: After discovering she is a descendant of the notorious axe murderer, Lizzie Borden, Tara is tormented by violent visions. As her nightmares start...
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SYNOPSIS: When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one...
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Synopsis: Ethan Hunt returns in this much anticipated seventh instalment of the Mission Impossible series and he must track down a terrifying new weapon...
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With the fourth entry being widely regarded as by far the weakest in the franchise, everyone is hoping and praying that The Dial of...
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Full disclosure: This reviewer approached Scream VI with an equal measure of high hopes and trepidation, having loved the first 75 minutes of last...
Box Office
John Swab is literally one of the most prolific filmmakers in the industry right now. And while quantity doesn’t necessarily always equate to sustained...
Cinema
As 2022 comes to a close, there’s no question that we’ve been spoiled with a staggering horror spread this year. As tends to be...
Box Office
‘NEXT EXIT’ Review: A Deviceful and Dynamic Debut That Finds Hope and Humor in the Darkest of Places
People often tell you to live your life as if every day were your last, but how would that mantra hold up if life...
Cinema
SYNOPSIS: After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a...
Cinema
SYNOPSIS: After her sister’s murder, Nic, her younger sister, and two friends seek solace through a Pacific island kayaking adventure. Hours into the trip...
Cinema
Synopsis: The future of humankind hangs in the balance as humans and dinosaurs coexist following the destruction of Isla Nublar. I was lucky enough...