Cinema Third Kind film review Cannes 2018: explorers visit a barren future Earth
Three archeologists explore our future in Yorgos Zois’ Third Kind
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Cinema Grӓns (Border) film review Cannes 2018: John Ajvide Lindqvist adaptation is beautifully twisted
The latest film from the author of Let The Right One In blends rom-com, grotesquerie and bizarre fairy-tale
DVD & Blu-Ray Threads remastered DVD review: this is the way the world ends
The restoration of Barry Hines’ Threads is as devastating as ever
TV The Rain Season 1 review: is the Netflix post-apocalyptic drama worth your time?
Can Netflix’s Danish drama The Rain stand out from all the other post-apocalypses?
Cinema Revenge film review: an unshakeable sensory experience
Coralie Fargeat’s savagely stylish Revenge turns a problematic sub-genre on its head
Cinema Soft Matter film review: mad scientists, gooey mutants and sea gods
Jim Hickcox’s lo-fi, low-art monsterfest Soft Matter defies easy categorisation, while reflecting upon its own impermanence
Cinema The Strangers: Prey At Night film review: stalkers go slasher
The Strangers are back and as vicious as ever in Johannes Roberts’ throwback sequel
Cinema The Dark film review: Justin P Lange’s dark debut concerns monsters and scars
From the Tribeca Film Festival, here’s our review of pitch-black horror The Dark
Cinema Mary And The Witch’s Flower film review: a magic first film from Studio Ghibli veterans?
The first film from Studio Ponoc is beautiful to look at, but is there substance as well as style?
Cinema Chimera film review: A desperate scientist’s race to find a cure comes with a price
Maurice Haeems’ debut Chimera updates the Frankenstein myth for a brave new world of genetic science
The Hellbound Heart audio review: Bafflegab takes on Clive Barker’s classic
Tom Meeten, Neve McIntosh and Alice Lowe star in Paul Kane’s adaptation of The Hellbound Heart
Cinema Avengers: Infinity War film review: Thanos brings the end of the world
Did Marvel manage to pull off their massive crossover event movie?
DVD & Blu-Ray Cure Blu-ray review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s horror mystery will haunt you
A detective investigates a string of gruesome, motiveless murders in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure
Cinema First Light film review: A close encounter between two teenagers – and aliens
Strange lights in the sky bring two teenagers close together in grounded and heartfelt SF First Light
DVD & Blu-Ray The Whispering Star Blu-ray review: Sion Sono’s artfully elegant spin on memory and mortality
Sion Sono delivers a leisurely look at memory, loss and loneliness in The Whispering Star
Cinema Big Fish & Begonia film review: a beautiful animation with visuals that sing
Long-awaited Chinese animation Big Fish & Begonia is a visual feast
Cinema Truth Or Dare film review: the latest Blumhouse horror wants to play a game
Play by the rules or die horribly…But do you really want to play Truth Or Dare?
Cinema Rampage film review: The Rock takes on giant mutant animals
Dwayne Johnson’s creature feature goes big but does it work?
DVD & Blu-Ray The Director And The Jedi film review: a behind the scenes look at Rian Johnson’s Star Wars
Disney’s feature length documentary appears on Blu-ray editions of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Is it worth a watch?
Cinema Wildling film review: Womanhood and werewolves in a world controlled by men
Bel Powley, Liv Tyler and Brad Dourif star in the sharp genre hybrid Wildling
Cinema I Kill Giants film review: Madison Wolfe shines in a moving adaptation of the graphic novel
A young girl escapes from reality and takes on monstrous foes in I Kill Giants
Cinema A Quiet Place film review: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski must stay silent to stay alive
Silence is survival in John Krasinski’s tense and frightening horror A Quiet Place
Books The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S Buckell book review
Dive into a world ruined by magic in the fascinating The Tangled Lands
TV A Series Of Unfortunate Events Season 2 preview: does it top Season 1?
Here’s a spoiler-free review of the first six episodes of A Series Of Unfortunate Events Season 2
Books The Hollow Tree by James Brogden book review
There’s a world beyond with dark, angry forces waiting for revenge in James Brogden’s The Hollow Tree
Books The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale book review
A toyshop fantasy is the backdrop for powerful journey in Robert Dinsdale’s The Toymakers
Cinema A Wrinkle In Time film review: Ava DuVernay brings a sci-fi classic to the big screen
A young girl searches for her father in the visually dazzling and uplifting fantasy A Wrinkle In Time
Cinema Ready Player One film review: Steven Spielberg takes on the joys and dangers of escapism
Can the master breathe life into Ernest Cline’s nostalgia bible?
Cinema Pacific Rim: Uprising film review: is the apocalypse cancelled?
Can the sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s love letter to mechs and kaiju live up to its predecessor?
Books Autonomous by Annalee Newitz book review
Annalee Newitz’s cyberpunk thriller Autonomous gets under the skin