Film Review: July 2022

Hello dear reader, last month was as hot as being shoved in a bear and burnt to a ritualistic crisp. I also finally came down with shitty Covid, so on the plus side I got to watch some horror movies curled up on my sofa… I also wanted to give a massive shout out to […]

film review: Spring 2022 round-up

Hello dear reader, I’ve been exceptionally bad at keeping up a regular posting schedule for boring work-related reasons, but also because I had a preventative mastectomy and reconstruction operation which thankfully went very smoothly. Post-surgery I had to carry around a bag of my own blood for a week, so really I’ve just been enjoying […]

Film Review: February 2022

Hello dear reader, I didn’t watch many horror movies this month due to seeing a flurry of ‘Oscar’ movies (when oh when will both be synonymous cruel world?) and seeing one of my all-time favourite movies In the Mood for Love (2000) for Valentine’s Day. In case you didn’t know, the movie’s star Maggie Cheung […]

Film Review: January 2022

Hello dear reader, I hope your new year has been an extravaganza of brilliance so far? I’ve felt a lot more positive about this year and my new year’s resolution is to just say fuck it in general, but also to write my reviews in a more timely, consistent manner and, hell, just write more! […]

Autumn/Winter 2021 Film Round-Up

Hello dear reader, apologies for the long delay in posting, I have nothing exciting to report other than I returned to work after my cancer treatment and honestly struggled with finding the brain space and time to write. But it was a huge pleasure to return to the cinema for a few precious months and […]

A Feast of the Censors: Review and Analysis of CENSOR (2021)

Censor (2021) 9/10 This is a spoiler free review Prano Bailey-Bond’s much-awaited debut psychological horror is a brilliant, powerful and chilling film about repression, the nature of violence and horror cinema itself. Enid Baines is a dowdy, hard-working British film censor during the 1980s Video Nasties moral panic. After Enid’s parents officially declare her mysteriously […]

Seven Psychoanalytical Texts for Beginners

Hello dear reader, after my hugely enjoyable conversation with Mary Wild on her Patreon about my journey to psychoanalysis and film, I started to think about the key texts that initiated me into this theoretical coven. Mary and I discussed how psychoanalytical theory can seem quite inaccessible and abstract so I thought it might be […]

Film Review: July and August Round-Up

Hello dear reader, I took a little film review hiatus last month since I was finishing my chemo and ended up moving flats so, as the fox says, chaos reigned. But I did watch plenty of movies and here’s what I thought below… This month I also had the immense pleasure and privilege to feature […]

Film Review: June Round-Up

Hello dear reader, as I had a wonderful holiday in my Yorkshire hometown I didn’t watch so many movies this month, but the June weather was notably very schizophrenic – hot as balls and chilly as fuck. Talking of personality disorders, here are my short reviews of what I’ve been watching this month… […]

Film Review: May Round-Up

Hello dear reader, I hope you had a joyous May and sacrificed many metaphorical and literal demons on the alter of Spring. I’ve been enjoying the beautiful sunshine, although I have mostly stayed inside (turns out chemo drugs don’t like the sunlight so much). But at least I get to lounge around languidly wearing interesting […]