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The Unofficial A Nightmare on Elm Street: How It Follows distils the essence of Wes Craven’s classic and updates it for the modern audience.
The essay linking It Follows to A Nightmare on Elm Street that I presented at Fear 2000’s 40th Anniversary celebration of the ANOES franchise at Nottingham University. Read more
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‘True Romance’s Perfect Scene
Exploring True Romance’s perfect Billboard scene. Read more
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2024 Milestones
A lookback at my working year. Read more
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Best of 2024 – Everything Else
With my horror and festival picks already live, here’s the best of the rest. Read more
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best of 2024 – Festival Edition
A round-up of some of my favourite films I caught across the festival circuit. Read more
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Best of 2024 – Horror Edition
It’s been a great year for horror, here are some of my favourites. Read more
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The Worst Situations to be Trapped in According to Film
The ten worst scenarios that you should hope you never find yourself in. Read more
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Best of 2023 – Everything Else
After having already shared my top festival films and horror films, now comes the turn of the best of the everything else. These are the films that released either in cinemas or onto streaming that fall outside of the horror genre. Read more
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2023 Writing Milestones
2023 has been a big year for me in terms of my writing. With my daughter finally in full time education I have finally has a chance to try and make this freelance thing work. It has only been a few months, but so far, so good. In addition to having more time, I have Read more
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Best of 2023 – Horror Edition
Yesterday I shared my favourite films from the festival circuit. Today comes by pick of the horror movies that got either a cinema or streaming release in the UK this year. Horror has continued to go from strength to strength with some of the most talked about movies falling within the parameters of the genre. Read more
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Best of 2023 – Festival Edition
It’s the end of the year and so it is time for the obligatory top ten lists. As I’ve seen so many films across genres and festivals, I like to cheat and split mine into three. Here are some of my favourite festival watches. Read more
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Alternate Couples to Spend Valentine’s Day with
Well, it’s that time of year again, that time when to quote Wet Wet Wet’s ‘Love Is All Around’. Read more
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Non-Horror Films of the Year
So far in my round up of 2022 I have written about my favourite festival debuts and my favourite horror films. Now, I am turning my attention to films outside of the horror genre. With cinemas back to business as usual, post pandemic restrictions, 2022 has been an incredible year for movies. Streaming services have Read more
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Horror Films of the Year
2022 has been an excellent year for horror films. Independent horror has been thriving thanks to support from platforms like Shudder, and mainstream audiences have flocked to cinemas in their masses to get scared in the dark. With so many horror movies on the market it felt only fair to create a separate end of Read more
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Festival Films of the Year
This year I have been lucky enough to cover a ton of film festivals. 2022 marked my first time covering Sundance, SXSW, Soho Horror, Brooklyn, and Celluloid Screams. In addition to these new festivals, I once more covered Glasgow, FrightFest, Grimmfest, Fantastic Fest, and Fantasia. Having attended so many festivals I have been utterly spoiled Read more
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FrightFest 2022 Highlights
Since joining THN as a contributor I have been fortunate enough to cover Arrow Video FrightFest every year. Read more
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The Year 2021 in Film
2021 has been another rough year. Covid-19 continues to remain and has had a massive impact on our day-to-day lives. Read more
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The Power of Film to Keep Memories Alive
This is an incredibly personal post for me, something that I’ve never really done before. Read more
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The Conjuring Universe: A Timeline
The universe of The Conjuring in linear time order. Read more
