REVIEW: The Grudge (2020)

This review was written for Jumpcut Online. You can read the original publication here. Takashi Shimizu’s supernatural-born horror franchise, which began in Japan in 2002 with Ju-On: The Grudge but was transnationally brought to Hollywood just two years later, supposedly died in 2015 with Ju-On: The Final Curse. Dampened by poor critical reactions but bolstered by somewhat of […]

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A Cinephile in Swansea…

This feature was initially written for The Swansea Mumbler, which you can read here… Poet Dylan Thomas once called his home city of Swansea the ‘graveyard of ambition’. In Kevin Allen’s Twin Town – a raucously vulgar look at life in this corner of South West Wales – Dougray Scott’s character describes the town in even less […]

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