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Nov 12, 2024 | 
pitchfork.com | Mabe Fratti |Tierra Whack |Harry Thorfinn-George
For the fourth year running, Pitchfork Music Festival returned to London. This year’s edition saw a staggering 87 acts across 19 events in the city’s premier live venues including Victorian theaters, iconic pubs, and nightclubs. The result of the American presidential election during the week was felt in London, a city whose identity has been shaped by the immigrant and queer communities that the president-elect has demonized.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Harry Thorfinn-George
Tierra Whack (Photo by Kimberley Ross)For the fourth year running, Pitchfork Music Festival returned to London. This year’s edition saw a staggering 87 acts across 19 events in the city’s premier live venues including Victorian theaters, iconic pubs, and nightclubs. The result of the American presidential election during the week was felt in London, a city whose identity has been shaped by the immigrant and queer communities that the president-elect has demonized.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
theartsdesk.com | Harry Thorfinn-George
You may have heard the phrase “elevated horror” being used to describe horror films that lean more toward arthouse cinema, favouring tension and psychological turmoil above jump-scares and gore.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
theartsdesk.com | Harry Thorfinn-George
theartsdesk Q&A: Anna Bogutskaya on her new book about t... You may have heard the phrase “elevated horror” being used to describe horror films that lean more toward arthouse cinema,... Since Yesterday review - championing a neglected female musi... Since Yesterday is one of those films that, perhaps embarrassingly, feels very necessary. An examination of the history of solely all... The Wild Robot - beasts and bot bond, gradually Is it mere coincidence or already a new trend?
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
theartsdesk.com | Harry Thorfinn-George
No film tackles the knotty topic of inherited mental illness with as much gleeful abandon as Smile. Mental health has been a popular subtext in contemporary horror for the past decade, but Parker Finn's Smile felt refreshing in how unsubtle it was. The premise was a curse that drives you mad with violent hallucinations that eventually force you to kill yourself, passing the curse on to whoever witnesses your death.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
theartsdesk.com | Harry Thorfinn-George
“Are you a serial killer?” asks a woman sitting in a pick up truck with a man she just met at a bar. The neon sign from the motel they are parked outside bathes the couple in cool, blue light. “Do you have any idea of the risks a woman like me takes every time she agrees to have a bit of fun?” As we see this very woman being chased by the same man in the next scene, we wouldn’t be wrong to assume Strange Darling is a cat-and-mouse thriller with a #MeToo slant.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
theartsdesk.com | Harry Thorfinn-George
“Are you a serial killer?” asks a woman sitting in a pick up truck with a man she just met at a bar. The neon sign from the motel they are parked outside bathes the couple in cool, blue light. “Do you have any idea of the risks a woman like me takes every time she agrees to have a bit of fun?” As we see this very woman being chased by the same man in the next scene, we wouldn’t be wrong to assume Strange Darling is a cat-and-mouse thriller with a #MeToo slant.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
theartsdesk.com | Harry Thorfinn-George
“Are you a serial killer?” asks a woman sitting in a pick up truck with a man she just met at a bar. The neon sign from the motel they are parked outside bathes the couple in cool, blue light. “Do you have any idea of the risks a woman like me takes every time she agrees to have a bit of fun?” As we see this very woman being chased by the same man in the next scene, we wouldn’t be wrong to assume Strange Darling is a cat-and-mouse thriller with a #MeToo slant.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
theartsdesk.com | Harry Thorfinn-George
A woman sits at her computer. She copy pastes an address into a search engine. She goes to street view. She zooms in. Click. Opens a new tab. Click. Searches a name. There are no lines of green code on a black screen or indecipherable programmes that we associate with sketchy online activity. Instead the woman is doing the kind of amateur sleuthing that anybody with a computer and internet connection can do.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
theartsdesk.com | Harry Thorfinn-George
A group of young people rent a cabin in the woods. A masked killer lingers nearby. Surely you know how the rest unfolds. The slasher and its well-worn tropes have been parodied, satirised and subverted for as long as it has existed. In fact, we seem to prefer watching these deconstructions compared to the actual, pulpy thing. Scream is after all the most successful horror franchise in history. But In A Violent Nature is arguably the most intriguing experiment in the genre so far.
