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A24 Debuts Trailer for Revenge Thriller ‘How to Make a Killing,’ Starring Glen Powell, Ed Harris, and Margaret Qualley
FX Orders ‘Far Cry’ Video Game Adaptation Anthology TV Series from Noah Hawley and Rob McElhenney
‘Stranger Things’ Returns: Netflix Launches Volume 1 Trailer and Nationwide Fan Adventure Ahead of Final Season
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Movies of 2025 (So Far): Top Horror Films You Need to See
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods 2025 – Batch #29
- Movie/TV Reviews
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Movies of 2025 (So Far): Top Horror Films You Need to See
‘King Ivory’ Review – Survival, Loyalty, and Moral Complexity Collide in John Swab’s Unforgiving Portrait of the Fentanyl Epidemic
‘The Running Man’ Review – Glen Powell’s Rage-Fueled Hero Anchors Edgar Wright’s Bombastic, Faithful Take on Stephen King’s Dystopian Classic
‘Muzzle: City of Wolves’ Review – A Superior Sequel of Revenge, Loyalty, and Trauma
‘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
- Movie/TV/Author Interviews
James Badge Dale, Michael Mando & Ben Foster Talk John Swab’s ‘King Ivory’ and the Toll of the Fentanyl Trade
Aaron Eckhart Interview: Back on the K-9 Beat in Action-Packed and Emotionally Charged ‘Muzzle: City of Wolves’
John Stalberg Jr. Interview: ‘Muzzle: City of Wolves’ and Revisiting Jake Rosser’s Wounds with Aaron Eckhart
INTERVIEW: Celebrated Comic-Book Writer Cullen Bunn Makes Adult Novel Debut with ‘Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World’
Meet Colman Domingo’s Bobby T – the showman running the world’s deadliest game show: ‘The Running Man’
- Music Reviews
- Music Interviews
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
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)’
- Features
Bright Green Light! The Mogwai Return as ‘Gremlins 3’ Is Officially Set for 2027
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!
- Books
New PROJECT HAIL MARY Trailer Showcases Ryan Gosling in a Sci-Fi Adventure Brimming With Cosmic Awe and All the Feels
INTERVIEW: Celebrated Comic-Book Writer Cullen Bunn Makes Adult Novel Debut with ‘Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World’
Apple TV+ Reveals First Stills and Premiere Date for Season Two of “The Last Thing He Told Me”
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Books of 2025 (So Far): Top Horror Novels You Need to Read
Christina Henry on ‘The Place Where They Buried Your Heart’ — A Community Haunted Across Generations
- Author Interviews
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
- 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
Bright green light! Bright green light! It’s finally happening. No matter how much we cried. No matter how much we begged. Most of us...
Cult Cinema
The 1980s were a golden era for movies, giving birth to some of the most iconic, genre-defining films of all time. Whether you were...
Cult Cinema
Unhinged, Unpolished, Unforgettable: 10 Wild ’70s and ’80s Cult Horror B-Movies Time Refuses to Tame
In the gloriously chaotic world of ’70s and ’80s horror cinema, low budgets, wacky premises, and unpolished execution were not bugs – they were...
Box Office
A24 has released the first official trailer for How to Make a Killing, the upcoming revenge thriller from Emily the Criminal director John Patton...
Box Office
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,...
Features
On waking up on Sunday 5th October it was a shame that Grimmfest was almost over but instead of moping around it was time...
Features
With superhero movies now showing off the latest special effects and dominating the box office, the age of the disaster movie seemed to be...
Cult Cinema
I seem to be setting a trend with reviewing horror films that feature proms. Is this some childhood trauma subconsciously emerging? Prom anyone? Anyway...
Features
Have you ever looked and an old Victorian photograph and instantly had shivers trickle down your pine? Maybe it’s the sepia tone or perhaps...
Features
So far at Grimmfest festival goers watched Pollyanna McIntosh play an action heroine in Let Us Prey, they joined Matthew Gray Gubler in teaming up with Kat Dennings...
Cult Cinema
This past weekend saw the return of Manchester’s premiere horror film festival as Grimmfest returned for its sixth year. Taking place at The Dancehouse...
Cult Cinema
Deciding to watch a film from 1997 for the first time in 2014 can go two ways. Either it turns out to be a...
Features
For a truly effective short, there needs to be less blank victims and more of a focus on the human content within. If you...
Cult Cinema
A timid high school girl struggles with the physical and mental abuse of not only her peers, but her obsessive religious mother. Gifted in...
Features
Being a hit-man is tricky business. I mean, first you’ve got to track down the mark in a largely populated city. Then you’ve got...
Features
Science fiction is one of the most lucrative genres for filmmakers. There is a plethora of imaginative strands that span across the Milky Way...
Features
Sometimes the police get it wrong. Very wrong. Look at the institutionalized racism and murder in the case of Ferguson, with residents fighting back...
Features
When it comes to the capabilities of a short film, it is vital that your message and plot hits quick. This week, at the...
Features
Undeniably the best horror film festival in Yorkshire, Celluloid Screams will return for its sixth year to The Showroom Cinema in Sheffield between the...
Features
Whichever way the vote is swayed today, there is no denying that it will be steeped in history. For many years, our Scottish kin...
Features
Directed and Written by Scott Frank, A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES stars Liam Neeson as Matt Scudder, an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private...
Features
The 58th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express will return to our capital between 8th – 19th October 2014. Over the...