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This month’s BBC drama The Serpent has at once filled me with a sense of despairing wanderlust and made me terrified of ever leaving my parents’ house, let alone the country, again. The mini-series follows the […]

Has your partner, or the person you are dating, ever suddenly done something that causes you to feel repulsed by them? Maybe, you suddenly get the gut feeling that something is not right? If so, then you’re p […]

Despite how bad 2020 may have been, there’s been a consistent output of great new music. The newly-released debut single ‘Aengus’ Fool’ by folk/rock band Sleep Walking Animals is no exception to this trend. […]

The tallest man on earth is standing in front of you, requiring you to duck and weave more than Tyson Fury to get a glimpse of the act on stage. You’ve got a stranger’s ponytail in your mouth and your shirt is […]

This January, Netflix revealed to an unsuspecting world the latest and most cunning of its original programming; it stalked hit sensations such as Money Heist and The Queen’s Gambit in the shadows, eventually s […]

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 […]