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Every year for the past couple of years, a bunch of articles listing the top 10 scariest films according to science go viral. They hook folks up to heart rate monitors and make them watch horror movies because that’s a job apparently. You might ask yourself, “Do we really need to demystify our very personal experiences with art to make lists and get Film Twitter all mad?”  The answer is yes. S...

Ethel Cain is dead. That is, Ethel Cain the alter ego. In the eponymous artist’s first studio album, Preacher’s Daughter, her narrative-insert-cum-possessive-muse escapes a strict religious upbringing (much like the real-life singer-songwriter, Hayden Silas Anhedönia), enters a whirlwind romance, is kidnapped, gets addicted to drugs, and is eventually murdered. Oh, and with that last one she g...

It’s not its aptitude for compassion that first draws you in with The Bear. Far from it. It’s the clock. It doesn’t tick—it clangs against your skull like the clapper from a ten-tonne bell. The first thing our protagonist sees, waking from a prologuing dream sequence, is the clock on his wall—a precise, ever-impending discus of Damocles above his head. When our lead, Carmy, realises the time,...