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With COVID making appearances in our fictional filmscapes, when is it ‘too soon’ for filmmakers to respond to a crisis?

“Shakespeare wrote King Lear during the Plague.” The viral ‘motivational’ post circula […]

A recent BBC documentary centred on rapper Digga D’s release from prison has laid bare the troubling nature of the UK government’s censorship of Drill music. As the 20-year-old musician attempted to re-integrate […]

26 years after their debut as a literal garage band, Foo Fighters latest album is a stunning impersonation of their previous works but not much else beyond that.

My first impression of Foo Fighters was […]

Phoebe Bridgers created an internet storm on February 6 when she smashed her guitar at the end of a performance as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live.

At the end of the performance of her song ‘I Know The […]

Psycho, Planet of The Apes, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Romeo & Juliet and now Oliver Twist have been on the receiving end of a stab of modernity. Not much to its credit.

So many classic works have been […]

Nicola Sturgeon’s upcoming book, Women Hold Up Half The Sky is due to be published in May by independent Scottish publisher, Sandstone Press. The book is a collection of speeches made by the Scottish First M […]

Following a group of narcissistic Brooklyn hipsters who seem all too familiar to any liberal arts college grad, Search Party follows a similar sequence of events every season: someone goes missing and our four […]

Emanuela Rossi, director of Darkness, explores the themes that have inspired her first feature, as well as the film’s prophetic nature.

Darkness was released in 2019, when Covid was still an unexplored threat, […]

Newcastle Fringe Festival is offering two £1000 grants to Northern theatre makers interested in creating new content for the stage.

This is the first time that Newcastle-Upon-Tyne has hosted a fringe […]

Master of surprise endings M. Night Shyamalan is set to return to the big screen with upcoming thriller Old, starring Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Alex Wolff and Thomasin McKenzie.

The teaser trailer m […]

Jacob Heayes traces how desktops, manipulated media and the internet have come to be the most potent tools in horror, from The Blair Witch Project to Host.

Back in 1999, the horror world was irreversibly […]

Since the release of Planet Earth II in 2016, BBC Studios have charted a course of releasing annual blue-chip (a big-budget, international production) natural history series to worldwide audiences. The BBC has […]

War, romance, rebellion, family: Into the Darkness has it all. As is always the case, however, too much of anything can be a bad thing. T.J. Davies reviews.

Into the Darkness examines the choices Industrialist […]

When Charles Darwin sat down to write On the Origin of Species I’m going to hedge my bets and say that he didn’t anticipate the figure described in ‘Modern Man’, the first track from Death By Unga Bunga’s […]

YNES’ latest single ‘Better Jobs’ brings a new form of political punk to the table. Written as a kind of “fuck you” to Rishi Sunak, following reports of derogatory comments the Chancellor made about the crea […]

Electronic Arts (EA) have acquired mobile game developer Glu Mobile for $2.1 Billion in one of the biggest acquisitions the gaming industry has seen.

Shares in Glu went up 36% following the merger, with shares […]

Just in time for Valentines Day, Taylor Swift has announced she is dropping a re-recorded version of her country hit ‘Love Story’ on Friday 12th February 2021. The new single is titled ‘Love Story (Tayl […]