Trapped is how I felt watching TRAP after reading people on Twitter tell me it was fun and not terrible. I’m glad Josh Hartnett was enjoying himself but I wasn’t

when you triple check an email before sending

Running through some more of our @Frightfest 2024 reviews, Joel Harley takes a look at the "bold, very Welsh version of the Giallo" in Aled Owen's SCOPOPHOBIA. Read more: buff.ly/3AOYADN

"a well-structured game of secrets and lies" is Joel Harley's take on FrightFest 2024 Discovery title, NEVER HAVE I EVER. Read more: buff.ly/4cVXuU2

Featuring "exceptionally unsettling visuals and a hauntingly bleak finale", FrightFest 2024 title THE DAEMON is a modern Lovecraftian tale according to Joel Harley. Read more: buff.ly/3MxaAME

"discomforting in a way that can't be faked" is Joel Harley's verdict on FrightFest 2024 movie CHARLOTTE, the first feature from Georgia Conlan. Read more: buff.ly/47coy03

Headed to the cinema to double-feature a Beetlejuice film with BATMAN FOREVER, teenage me would be proud

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE is overstuffed and underdone at the same time; Michael Keaton is firing on all cylinders and both Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara are charmingly batty, but it’s sluggishly paced and lacks focus. Worth it for the Beetlebaby sequence(s) alone

BATMAN FOREVER on the big screen for the first time. Nicole Kidman as Doctor Chase Meridian is probably the most beautiful human ever put in a film

Stick it up your arse

Adam Sandler movies on Netflix / Adam Sandler standup on Netflix

That should be an end to it but I’m old enough to remember all the absolutely horrific shit he said last time and still got elected

The prophecy has been fulfilled

Third time’s a charm? My review of HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN is now live at STARBURST MAGAZINE starburstmagazine.com/reviews/hellbo…

Get in loser, I’m going reviewing! Pick up this month’s Total Film for my reviews of robodoc CYBORG: A DOCUMENTARY, animated adventure 200% WOLF, Bond-starring Giallo WHO SAW HER DIE, and the now 20-year-old MEAN GIRLS. On sale now!