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 […]

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 […]