What I've Been Into

Consumed & Considered

What I consumed and what consumed me — or didn't.

Month's Pick

Books

The Collector

John Fowles

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.

A lonely, dim-witted and deeply unpleasant young man unexpectedly wins a large sum of money in the lottery. What will he do with it — especially given his passion for collecting butterflies and his secret obsession with a local girl?

Films

The Drama

Kristoffer Borgli, Ari Aster

A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.

DramaComedyRomance

Films

Other Side of the Box

Caleb Phillips, Nick Tag

A couple receives a mysterious package from an old friend.

Short MovieHorror

Series

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen

Haley Z. Boston

A certain atmosphere of horror is felt the week before the celebration of an unfortunate wedding.

Psychological HorrorThrillerMystery

Films

The Bride!

Maggie Gyllenhaal

A scientist revives a murdered woman as a companion for a legendary creature. The aftermath defies all expectations.

Psychological DramaMonster HorrorDark Comedy

Films

The Last Thing Mary Saw

Edoardo Vitaletti

The daughter in a strict religious family is interrogated after the death of her family's uncanny matriarch.

Folk HorrorThrillerMystery

Films

The Hunt

Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm

A kindergarten teacher's world collapses around him after one of his students implies that he committed a lewd act in front of her.

Psychological Drama

Films

Fréwaka

Aislinn Clarke

Follow a student of nursing palliative care, who is plagued by a trauma from her past that has a disorienting effect on her present, her relationship, her career and her ability to function.

Folk HorrorPsychological Horror

Films

Mercy

Timur Bekmambetov

Set in the near future, a detective accused of murdering his wife has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to an advanced AI judge.

Legal ThrillerActionSci-Fi

Books

Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin

A young woman is tricked into bearing Satan's offspring, the Antichrist.

Film AdaptationSupernatural HorrorPsychological Drama

Films

Avatar (franchise)

James Cameron

Avatar is an American epic science fiction media franchise created by James Cameron. It currently includes three movies: Avatar (2009), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025).

Sci-FiActionFantasy

Films

Promising Young Woman

Emerald Fennell

An unexpected encounter gives a wickedly smart woman a chance to right the wrongs from the past.

Psychological ThrillerCrimeDrama

Books

All Things Cease to Appear

Elizabeth Brundage

It all begins on the winter morning when Catherine Claire died.

Film AdaptationMysteryCrime

Books

Sunrise on the Reaping

Suzanne Collins

Explores Panem, starting on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, where a young Haymitch Abernathy participates.

Science FictionDystopiaAction

Films

Men

Alex Garland

A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband.

Psychological ThrillerFolk HorrorDrama

Series

Adolescence

Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham

When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking what really happened.

Limited SeriesDramaPsychological

Films

The Substance

Coralie Fargeat

A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that helps her create a younger, better version of herself.

Body HorrorPsychological HorrorDark Comedy

Books

It Ends With Us

Colleen Hoover

Lily and Ryle's relationship seems too good to be true — until she starts noticing that Ryle is not the man she thought he was.

Film AdaptationRomanceDrama

Books

Poor Things

alasdair gray

A young woman brought back to life by an eccentric surgeon who implanted an unborn child's brain into her body. With the mind of a newborn in an adult woman's body, Bella begins to discover the world completely on her own terms.

FILM ADAPTATIONFictionSatire

Films

Ayla: The Daughter of War

Can Ulkay, Yigit Güralp

Sergeant Süleyman finds a little girl on a battlefield during the Korean War. He takes her and names her Ayla. Fifteen months later, Süleyman's brigade is told they will be returning to Turkey, and he is reluctant to leave her behind.

WarHistoryBiography

Books

The Stepford Wives

Ira Levin

A family moves to beautiful Stepford — too good to be true. But behind every idyllic facade lies a terrible secret.

Film AdaptationPsychological ThrillerFeminist Horror

Films

1922

Zak Hilditch, Stephen King

In the year 1922, a rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain and convinces his teenage son to participate.

HorrorPsychological ThrillerCrime

Books

I'm thinking of ending things

lain Reid

A young couple visits his parents on a remote farm — but something feels off from the start. Strange behaviour, a familiar photograph on the wall, and something terrifying in the basement. Soon, things take a sinister turn.

Film AdaptationPsychological ThrillerHorror Fiction

Series

How to Get Away with Murder

Peter Nowalk, Shonda Rhimes

A group of ambitious law students and their brilliant criminal defense professor become involved in a twisted murder plot.

CrimeLegal ThrillerDrama

Films

mother!

Darren Aronofsky

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

Psychological HorrorDramaMystery

Books

The Companion

perihan mağden

"Chaperone needed to accompany child on long sea voyage." A newspaper job ad — and the beginning of an unlikely relationship between a daring twelve-year-old girl and a young woman who slowly managed to melt the ice in her heart.

FictionDramaProse

Books

Kata

Steinar Bragi

Kata is a nurse who has seen plenty of pain and suffering — but always someone else's. When her daughter disappears and her killers walk free, she decides there's no point waiting for justice from God or the state.

FictionCrimeThriller