Not quite softcore exploitation horror but not quite a rallying feminist cry either, Sam Levinson’s femme-fatale-led piece fails to pull out all the stops as promised – mostly because it doesn’t seem to know where the stops are in the first place.
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True to its tagline, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s new screenplay is indeed “a love story unlike any other” in certain senses – but on the other side of the coin, it is a wholly predictable and often misguided whodunit thriller just like every other.
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Too many cooks spoil the broth, and so do too many clichés – May The Devil Take You is brilliant on occasion, but mostly plays out as an inane, muddled collection of multicultural jumpscare ideas connected by a thinly-drawn plot.
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Loaded with enough intrigue to make you think yourself into a corner, School’s Out ramps up the dread at every turn, up to its (literally) explosive climax.
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Carey Mulligan and Ed Oxenbould gamely shoulder the hefty emotional weight of Paul Dano’s directorial debut, supported by an underused but nonetheless brilliant Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Foxing – Nearer My God As befits the title of their latest studio outing, Foxing are certainly reaching for new heights – once considered the band that would be post-rock’s saving grace, the Missouri quartet have proven themselves so much more than the faces of a single genre. Nearer My God is a Herculean studio…
Read MoreThis fortnight has given us some brilliant music from Phantastic Ferniture, emo newcomers No Better, and Mississippi garage rock bastion Bass Drum of Death.
Read MoreHusky Loops, BODEGA, and Years & Years make the turntable today with fresh new material, along with earlier releases from Leon Vynehall and Sweaty Palms.
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Welcome to the first ever Put Your Records On!, a music column run by our Deputy Arts Editor, EJ Oakley. Every Tuesday we’ll bring the best albums of 2018 straight to your ears, whether they’re fresh off the press from the last New Music Friday, or whether they’ve been kicking around for a little longer than that.
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This week we are giving you a dance floor filler by DJ Koze, a proper skanker by Wiley, and Childish Gambino’s groundbreaking track.
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