Edinburgh-based Tariq Ashkanani was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger – and won the Bloody Scotland Debut Award – for his debut novel ‘Welcome to Cooper’, a dank and rather gory thriller set in small town America. Next up was ‘Follow Me to the Edge…

The Sunderland Shorts Film Festival returns in May for a 10th anniversary special, and the depth, breadth and quality of work on show this year remains as astonishing as ever. This week long celebration of short films is one of the real gems of the nor…

The darkly humorous horror Final Destination series proves surprisingly durable with this, the sixth, does-what-it-says-on the-rusty-tetanus-spiked-tin entry. It begins in 1968 as young woman Iris Campbell (Bassinger) and her fiancé Paul (Lloyd-Jones)…