The Boogeyman first published by Little White Lies, 30 May 2023 Stephen King’s 1975 short story The Boogeyman blurs the psychological and the supernatural. Unfolding entirely within the confines of a psychiatrist’s office, it purports to be the story that distraught patient Lester Billings tells about his three children’s deaths – and while Lester insists…
Heretic at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 8 Nov 2024 Heretic opens with a conversation not only about condoms but also about the film’s other preoccupations: faith, marketing and exploitation. Sister Paxton (Chloe East) has heard that Magnum condoms are actually the same size as regular condoms, and the belief that they are bigger is…
A prospect is a possible future to which one is looking forward. There is not much likelihood of that for teenaged Cee (Sophie Thatcher, excellent) and her father Damon (Jay Duplass), ‘floaters’ hopping from one planet to another on a wing and a prayer. They are running on empty: trying to pay off an impossible…