OUR TOP FIVE PICKS OF THE WEEK

Dir Dean Puckett, UK 2025 On digital platforms Folk horror has been a thing for a long time, but it’s an over-used term these days. In film terms it appears to mean something heavily influenced by Wit

Now it feels like we’re getting to the main event. We have thoroughly enjoyed our run through the second series of Fortean TV, but perhaps we were getting a tad too comfortable, what with the jingly m

Dear Simon, Reading Larry Brayshaw’s letter, A Knockout Visit, in the July issue, reminded me of the time I also met a British heavyweight boxer. Dick Richardson was based in Staines and we would meet

Liquid drips through the walls. Black mould creeps around the windows towards my bed. I hear strangers’ voices outside my door and screaming from downstairs. The electric shower is stuck at scalding t

Towards the end of the 1960s, the actor Terence Stamp suddenly found work was drying up. “They are all looking for a young Terence Stamp,” his agent told him. Stamp was baffled. For one thing, he was