Contributor Billie Walker

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Reviews

The Ritual review – fails to scare, entertain or convert

Al Pacino and Dan Stevens can't save this awful excuse for an exorcism thriller.

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Death of a Unicorn review – goodbye horses, good riddance

Alex Scharfman rallies together a cast stacked with comedic actors, but the result of this dull ‘Eat the Rich’ flick misses the mark.

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The painful truths of Girl, Interrupted

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, James Mangold's adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's memoir about her mental illness isn't perfect – but there's a reason it still resonates with young women.
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Reviews

The Rule Of Jenny Pen review – a stand-out ageing horror

A former judge finds himself confined to a nursing home where a sinister puppet rules the roost in James Ashcroft's effective horror.

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Heart Eyes review – a gimmicky horror fauxmance

Two youngsters come a cropper of a very particular masked maniac in Josh Ruben's dismal horror-romance mash-up.

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The Damned review – haunting but disappointing

A young widow in an Icelandic fishing village faces difficult decisions in Thordur Pallson's period folk horror.

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Can watching porn in public change perceptions of sex work?

Erika Lust's C*m With Me tour celebrates 20 years of the filmmaker's work, but how can welcoming porn back into cinemas challenge audience attitudes?
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Reviews

Something in the Water review – not likely to make a splash

A bridal party find themselves sharing the ocean with an aquatic killer in Hayley Easton Street's shark thriller.

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In Praise Of

Pills, thrills and bellyaches: the lost underworld of Human Traffic

Twenty five years on from its release, the rave culture of Justin Kerrigan's ode to doomed youth is all but lost.
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This Just In

Why are so many British feature debuts about childhood trauma?

An excellent crop of debut films in the past couple of years all explore painful childhoods. What does this say about the interests of the British film industry?
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This Just In

The troubling rise of cinematic therapyspeak

From gaslighting to trauma, more and more therapy buzzwords are finding their way on screen – but who does it actually help?
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Reviews

Electric Malady

Marie Liden offers an insight into one man's experience with debilitating electrosensitivity in her moving feature debut.

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