“This is a true story…sort of.” Wasting no time in getting its players on the board and establishing its own sardonic spin on Americana, Valley View Motel (2026) is a love letter to the 70s crime genre cinema with which it shares its setting. We start with what looks like a robbery gone very wrong […]
“You picked Haddaway?” 2012: Jerry’s, somewhere in the boonies, is the self-proclaimed ‘best bar in town’, with a thriving karaoke night taking place – right up until a drunk stumbles over and yanks out the machine’s power cable, blasting the literal eyeballs out of the current performer. I like it when a film makes a […]
Should you meet your heroes? Oh god, no – that’s the takeaway from Starsuckers (2026), a new entrant in the understandably-growing new subgenre of social media horror, even if it only ever really dabbles with horror elements. It’s about how vulnerable people now venerate dreadful Influencers, and possibly about the moment of realisation that the […]