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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 Supporting Transgender and Non-binary People with Disabilities or Illnesses: a Good Practice Guide for Health and Care Provision.

Jennie is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and Cherry Picks and Criticwire. She is also a Rotten Tomatoes registered Tomatometer critic.

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Latest Film Reviews

The Collini Case
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.

Parkland Rising
A documentary following the students and family members who became fierce leaders of a national movement for gun reform following the shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.

To The Stars
Under small town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.

Skull: The Mask
An ancient mask used in a military experiment possesses a body and starts to carry out sacrifices to avenge a murdered god.

Lorelei
Reformed ex-con Wayland returns to his hometown and reconnects with his high school girlfriend Dolores, now a single mom with dreams of Hollywood in Doyle’s fable-like tale of second chances.

The Wanting Mare
In Whithren, a line of women pass a recurring dream through multiple generations.

Soundwave
A teenage inventor's life spirals into chaos when a nefarious group discovers he's invented a device that can hear into the past.

Killer Instinct
A woman goes to the countryside to spend a quiet weekend after losing her job and having her last complicated relationship implode. She rents a country house to an old-fashioned widower, who struggles to hide his psychopathic tendencies.

Edge Of Extinction
A young man surviving by himself years after the Earth has been devastated by nuclear war finds his orderly life thrown into chaos when he encounters other survivors.