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You might have heard of AXLS from their debut release earlier this year. First Contact was a killer album by this talented trio from the North-East. The album hit us all with it's alien-esque melodies and groove and now, sooner than we…

Call us Ishmael, because we've just landed our first white whale! In celebration of our first anniversary we've decided to cover the inestimable Willem Dafoe. Over two episodes we'll be looking at his long, varied screen career with Part…

William Petersen had to work hard to get the role of Gil Grissom in the original CSI. Grissom was a combination of lab scientist and field agent, two things Petersen embodied in his first two leading roles with the kind of smoldering…

The live-action family film has not had a great few years, it must be said. Paul King’s excellent Paddington films were two of the few bright sparks during a time when the genre was beset with rapping chipmunks and an endless supply of…

It's been whirlwind few years for Beatrice Laus. The Filipino-born British songwriter has gone from quietly crafting her very literal brand of bedroom pop/rock—sharing it among friends and social media—to supporting tours with The 1975 and…

It feels like only yesterday when I realised I'd forgotten to pre-order the PlayStation 4 and had to wait a few months post-launch to grab one. The past doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme and here I am again having forgotten to…

Acclaimed screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz once recalled the time he contacted Sir Sean Connery to reprise his role as James Bond Agent 007 in Live and Let Die, the eighth Bond picture in just over a decade. An embittered Connery responded…

Following on from Nysferatu: Symphony of a Century, his recreation of Friedrich W. Murnau’s 1922 film which screened at the Bram Stoker Festival in 2018, Italian director and artist Andrea Mastrovito returns to the 2020 online festival with…

There have been many comparisons made between new Aussie horror Relic and Ari Aster's modern classic Hereditary. It's easy to see why. Both films are about a darkness that looms over multiple generations of a family. The two feature…

Thrash found its inspiration with the likes of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Motörhead in the 1970s. By the early 80s in what seems like a blink of an eye, its popularity had sky-rocketed. The genre became known all around the world,…