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Jennie Kermode

A full time writer, part time academic and human rights advocate, Jennie is content director at Eye For Film, which often means that she has to pick up the awful stuff nobody else wants to review. The good side of this is that it gives her the chance to identify undiscovered gems.

Jennie enjoys a wide range of different genres and would probably say that her favourite film is Picnic At Hanging Rock or Vertigo. Before coming to Eye For Film, she spent two years with Movie Gurus. She has worked as Arts & Culture Editor at KaleidoScot and written on film for the likes of The Independent, Studio Magazine and the Directory of World Cinema. She also writes books, the most recent of which is Growing Older as a Trans and/or Non-Binary Person.

Jennie is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and Cherry Picks and Criticwire. She is also a Rotten Tomatoes registered Tomatometer critic. You can find her on Twitter at @jennie_kermode, on BlueSky at @jenniekermode.bsky.social or on Mastodon at @[email protected]

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Latest Film Reviews

Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant
When a messy millennial underachiever accidentally gets alien-pregnant she must overcome sceptical doctors, a useless baby-daddy, and her oversharing mum in order to survive and reclaim her life.

Forever Is Now
Set between 2023 and 2025, this documentary follows Irish Green Party leader and Cabinet Minister Eamon Ryan during his final 18 months in government. Once buoyed by Europe’s Green wave, Ryan now faces waning public interest in climate issues as he advocates globally for renewable energy and climate justice for the Global South.

By Design
A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.

Nostalgie
A washed-up Eighties one-hit-wonder turned IT entrepreneur is stunned when a Belfast club invites him to perform at its centenary celebration.

Foreign Tongue
After suffering a head injury and waking up with a foreign accent, a Canadian woman is persuaded to pretend that she's Bosnian, but everything becomes more complicated when she falls in love.

Wuthering Heights: House Of The Damned
Mr Lockwood arrives at remote Wuthering Heights, where Catherine's vengeful ghost haunts the halls and its occupants. Heathcliff is alive and will not give up on her.

Posthumous
A young woman returns home to her estranged father, seeking comfort from a series of VHS birthday recordings left behind by her deceased mother, and uncovers an occult ritual that upends everything she was told about her mother's death.

V/H/S/Mixtape
This anthology where music and sound become the source of terror.

Devour
Stranded after a disastrous gig, an all-female heavy metal band finds a woman in danger in a town ruled by a warlock, and crawling with cannibals, vampires, and a deadly werewolf, forcing them to fight for survival.

Hallowarrior
Desperate for companionship on a post apocalyptic Halloween night, the last girl on Earth gets more than she bargained for, when something far more sinister arrives on her doorstep.