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‘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
Oasis’ Noel Gallagher Joins Forces with Gibson for Limited-Edition Les Paul™ Standard to Celebrate Live ’25 Tour
Alexandra Shipp and Nick Stahl on Revenge Thriller ‘Violent Ends’: Love, Loyalty and the Cost of Violence
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‘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 #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
Album Review: The Clause – ‘Victim of a Casual Thing’: A Bold, Eclectic Debut With an Unshakable Sense of Purpose
- 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’
- Books
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
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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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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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