sarah cullen

Only the River Flows is the kind of film that, while I enjoy watching, I don’t exactly relish writing about as a reviewer. Mainly because it’s the kind of film that really asks you to question whether the plot isn’t possible to follow or…

If someone were to have asked me fifteen minutes in what I thought about Guy Friends, I would have given a very different answer to now. At that point, the movie appeared to be a strange mish-mash of film conventions. The protagonist,…

Opponent opens with one man, Iman (Payman Maadi) chasing down another and beating him into unconsciousness as police sirens blare and the camera hurries to keep up with the action. The reasons for the inciting incident are hazy: and even…

Snow: it means a lot of things to a lot of people. From the gothic of Edgar Allan Poe's glacial whiteness, a terrifying signifier for the absence of meaning, all the way to the snow-filled carols from childhoods both contemporary and…

This October we asked our writers about their favourite examples of underrated horror: the underdog films that never got the recognition they deserved, the much maligned movies that are actually worthwhile despite the negative press, and…

As a fan of Maintenance Phase – the highly informative podcast that debunks weight loss and wellness fads that has only grown in popularity over the almost three years of its existence – Aubrey Gordon has been a knowledgeable, likeable and…

In 2017, spurred on by winning the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Award, Amy Powney, creative director of Mother of Pearl, embarked on an ethical and creative odyssey to explore how sustainable her fashion house could become. Becky Hutner’s…

I find Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom a surprisingly hard animal to quantify (is that a pun? Well if it is, it’s probably not worth calling attention to). While this Bhutanese drama initially follows the narratives of a city slicker in the…

In lieu of their prison sentences, five men agree to be participants in top-secret experiment in which they will be prevented from sleeping for thirty days. Two detectives are tasked with interviewing the researchers involved in the…

I was almost going to start this review by saying that it’s been a fruitful few years for both queer and horror analysis in popular media, but that’s really only in comparison to the dearth of titles that have come before. Thankfully,…