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Scary stories for kids: Gremlins and the terror of normal, even cute, things becoming horrific

Scary stories for kids: Gremlins and the terror of normal, even cute, things becoming horrific

Don’t get them wet. Don’t expose them to bright light. Don’t feed them past midnight.

27.10.2025 3

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Louis Bayman

London Film Festival: a hit year for human dramas – the films to look out for in 2026

London Film Festival: a hit year for human dramas – the films to look out for in 2026

Our cinema expert brings you the best (and a few of the worst) at this year’s film festival in the capital.

23.10.2025 8

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Louis Bayman

Hard Truths: Mike Leigh’s bleakly comic take on depression offers no easy answers

If you were to ask a computer programme to come up with a title for a new Mike Leigh film it could do no better than Hard Truths. Echoing the title...

30.12.2024 4

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Louis Bayman

BFI London Film Festival 2024 – a cinema academic’s look at the year ahead on the big screen

This year’s London Film Festival boasted 254 feature and short films, with an all-time high of 44% of the films screened by female and non-binary...

23.10.2024 3

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Louis Bayman

Starve Acre: a stylish folk horror that’s a bit too respectable

Set in rural Yorkshire in the mid-70s, Starve Acre brings together the recent vogue for folk horror with an equally trendy retro quality. The dull...

02.09.2024 1

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Louis Bayman