The album’s eponymous lead single, ‘People Watching’, sees Fender turning his lens on the world around him, affirming that he is still a man of the people. He finds solace in imagining himself in the ...

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Trigger warning: rape, assault Let’s play a word association game, shall we. If I say ‘model’, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Perhaps you think of a tall, leggy Victoria’s secret ...

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Emotional Support Horse is the multi-talented Claudine Toutoungi’s third collection published by Carcanet, and one which I am sure her firmly established readership will enjoy getting their teeth into ...

Brilliant lead performances, witty set pieces, and cleverly constructed plot twists ensure BBC One’s new puzzle-themed cosy crime series barely puts a foot wrong. ★★★★★ It may seem counterintuitive to ...

‘Coping’ is a track that has Blur tipping their hat to XTC (though their influence is more pronounced on the demo version) and, again, very hooky, but at its point in the album (track 13) its melodies ...

There are several famous jump scares littered throughout the 1970s, like the minor ones in The Exorcist (1973) or Jaws (1975), and particularly Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976), which is often cited as ...

Carry-On enlivens an ethical dilemma: would you endanger multiple strangers to save one person you care about? This is an interesting premise, however it’s weakened by its script. As Ethan converses ...

Sometimes the most difficult thing about writing is getting started. A writer may have an idea about how they want their story to end but they may not know where, or even how to begin. There is no ...

Screamboat is a horror retelling of Walt Disney’s classic animation Steamboat Willie, although oddly is not a part of the ‘Twisted Childhood Universe’ (TCU) which has included similar re-tellings of ...

From the director of the darkly relevant Promising Young Woman (2020) comes another disturbing yet beautiful thriller. Gorgeously cinematic, bitingly witty, and deeply unsettling, Saltburn (2023) ...