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Hamnet (2025): A Quietly Devastating Portrait of Grief

Jessica McKeown 19/01/2026
Hamnet (2025): A Quietly Devastating Portrait of Grief

On August 11, 1596, a small coffin was laid to rest in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Famine and bubonic plague were sweeping through Warwickshire and though the cause of death was not listed on the burial register, it has been widely theorised that the eleven-year-old Hamnet was one of […]

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Blood Shine (2025): a hauntingly beautiful dive into belief (Sohome Horror 2025)

Jessica McKeown 29/11/2025
Blood Shine (2025): a hauntingly beautiful dive into belief (Sohome Horror 2025)

Close your eyes and picture a cult for me. Strange request, I know. You may be thinking about real-life cults from the Manson Family and the People’s Temple (of Jonestown massacre infamy) to Scientology. Or perhaps your perception of cults has been shaped by pagan cults with strange and sinister […]

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