Bringing you up close and personal with the voices shaping film, music, and storytelling today. Each episode dives into candid chats with filmmakers, actors, musicians, and authors — from rising talent to industry icons — as they share the stories behind their work, the challenges they’ve faced, and the sparks that keep their creativity alive.
The CinemaChords Podcast
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Bringing you up close and personal with the voices shaping film, music, and storytelling today. Each episode dives into candid chats with filmmakers, actors, musicians, and authors — from rising talent to industry icons — as they share the stories behind their work, the challenges they’ve faced, and the sparks that keep their creativity alive.
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July 14, 2026
#47: Araminta Hall on Unreliable Narrator, Narrative Authority and the Elusiveness of Truth
<p>Brighton-based author <a href="https://aramintahall.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Araminta Hall</a>‘s menacing, twist-laden novel <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808362/unreliable-narrator-by-araminta-hall/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Unreliable Narrator</a> is set for publication in the US this 14 July.</p><p>Offering a fresh perspective on power, memory and the stories people tell themselves, Unreliable Narrator centres on Hope, who, ten years after leaving Somerset in the wake of a tragic event, has built a quiet life while guarding a sinister secret that also protects her former lover, bestselling author Ambrose Glencourt. But when Ambrose publishes a novel that shares blaring similarities with their past – recasting Hope as the villain – she is forced to confront both Ambrose and myriad buried truths. As two conflicting accounts of the past collide, Hope fights to reclaim her story in a world where the loudest voice is often the one taken as gospel.</p><p>Two of Hall’s novels, Everything & Nothing and One of the Good Guys, were selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club at WHSmith, while four of her books are currently under option and at various stages of production. Most recently, Imperfect Women was adapted into an eight-part series for Apple TV+, starring Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara, which premiered worldwide on 18 March this year. </p><p>Ahead of the book’s publication, CinemaChords sat down with Hall to discuss the creative and structural choices behind Unreliable Narrator, including its multiple perspectives, its exploration of privilege, power and, of course, unreliable narration. She also revealed the novel’s balance between journal entries and literary prose, the contrasting philosophies of writing and storytelling it presents, and the ethical boundaries of drawing on real life for fiction.</p><p>Buy your copy of Unreliable Narrator here: https://amzn.to/4p9Tx5R</p>
July 7, 2026
#46: The Gothic Reframed: Charlotte Cross on Carving a Fresh Voice Within the Dracula Mythos in Her Debut Novel ‘The Brides’
<p>‘Come to me, and be mine for eternity’</p><p>Historical fiction author <a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/charlotte-cross/47736" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Charlotte Cross</a> launches her debut novel, <a href="https://amzn.to/44KLkLV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Brides</a>, in the US tomorrow (7 July). Having harboured a lifelong fascination with history, Cross grounds her new narrative in the framework of Bram Stoker’s Dracula—reintroducing familiar figures like Jonathan Harker, Lord Godalming, and Abraham Van Helsing, but entirely reframing the perspective.</p><p>Written in an epistolary format—and ideal for fans of Kat Dunn’s Bitterthorn and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian—The Brides is a sapphic horror love story set in 1884. The plot follows Mafalda as she journeys to Budapest to care for her grieving aunt, swiftly followed by her secret love, Lucy, who travels from London with a chaperone and lady’s maid in tow. However, the maid, Alice, is plagued by terrifying visions brought on by “the Sight.” </p><p>When their chaperone falls ill, the women head into Transylvania in search of healing waters, ultimately accepting a nobleman’s invitation to Castle Dracula—where their host’s dark ambitions threaten to tear them apart.</p><p>In celebration of the book’s US launch, CinemaChords caught up with Cross to uncover the “delightfully monstrous” blueprints behind this gothic subversion, tracing her journey to find an authentic voice inside a century-old literary shadow and exploring why horror remains our most honest mirror for dissecting the human condition.</p><p>Get your copy of The Brides here: https://amzn.to/4p9Tx5R</p>
July 3, 2026
#45 - Chuck Tingle Talks ‘Fabulous Bodies’: Turning Influencer Culture into Blood-Soaked Midnight Movie Mayhem
<p><strong>“These days, nobody seems to care about the experience, they just expect everyone else’s time for doing absolutely fucking nothing.”</strong></p><p>So declares one of the key characters in <a href="https://amzn.to/4fcQ3Mq" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Fabulous Bodies</a>, the highly anticipated new novel from USA Today bestselling author <a href="https://www.chucktingle.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Chuck Tingle</a>. It’s a line that hits shockingly close to the bone, perfectly encapsulating a book that’s bound to become a major topic of discussion when it publishes this coming July 7th through <a href="https://titanbooks.com/72792-fabulous-bodies/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Titan Books</a> in the UK and <a href="https://torpublishinggroup.com/fabulous-bodies/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Tor Nightfire</a> in the US.</p><p>For us, Fabulous Bodies is a brilliantly bonkers, genre-fluid chiller that reads like a late-night ’80s midnight movie for the online age. Melding the close-quarters, adrenaline-inducing stakes of Michael Mann’s Collateral with the cult sci-fi schlock of The Hidden, the novel drags an initially detestable delinquent into the orbit of a sinister, charismatic figure.</p><p>Yet, beneath its trippy, B-movie exterior, you will find a fiercely sharp critique of influencer culture and our insatiable appetite for shock value, exposing a modern narcissism that rewards increasingly extreme behaviour for fleeting attention.</p><p>The result is a wildly entertaining but deeply resonant critique that ultimately forces readers to reckon with whether great art can ever truly excuse destructive impulses.</p><p>The novel charts the misadventures of Poppy Stringer, an aspiring fashion influencer by day who moonlights as a Palm Springs grave robber by night to make ends meet. When her ultimate idol – the flamboyant, piano-slamming rock icon Eddie Michaels – unexpectedly dies, Poppy is offered a lucrative payday to snatch his corpse from the medical examiner. What should be a straightforward final score quickly turns into absolute, unadulterated chaos when the deceased rock star suddenly wakes up, triggering a fabulously blood-soaked joyride of pure grindhouse cinematic carnage. </p><p>In anticipation of the book’s release, we caught up with Tingle to discuss how he merged this contemporary satire on fame and performance with the raw energy of an ’80s midnight movie. The author also opened up about using “America’s iconic answer to Elton John” to interrogate the sinister side of creative genius, and just how much the narrative was informed by his own experiences navigating the surreal reality of meeting personal heroes.</p><p>Grab your copy of the book here: https://tinyurl.com/FabulousBodies</p>
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