Cuming Out (Short) ★★★★ – Micheaux Film Festival 2025

Jasmine J. Johnson adds another string to her exceptionally talented bow with her dramedy Cuming Out. A film about acceptance and self-discovery in a complicated world, this short has a great deal of charm that wins you over immediately. Nervous Kennedy (Alycia Pascual-Pena) is on a date with the over-confident

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Virgin (Short) ★★★★★ – Micheaux Film Festival 2025

Ramone Menon’s short film Virgin is a fantastic twist on a well-known story. 15 minutes of pure horror excellence that still manages to remain thoughtful as it is engrossing. A must-watch short. A man (Herman Gambhir) and his pregnant fiancée (Jessica Damouni) are travelling and looking for a safe spot

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Silent Prey ★★★ 1/2 – Micheaux Film Festival 2025

Silent Prey is an absorbing thriller that deftly tackles a multitude of themes. Avan Hardwell’s film does so many things right, and with some powerful performances, it is a film that deserves your time. Raquel ‘Rocky’ Huntley (Misty Monroe) is a Los Angeles attorney whose brother’s suspicious death is not

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Incomplete Chairs ★★★★ Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

Kenichi Ugana’s absurdist Incomplete Chairs is a bloody strike at consumerism and materialism. Fantastically gory from beginning to end and filled with deathly dark comedy, you can’t help but have a fun old time with one. Shinsuke Kujo (Ryu Ichinose) is a chair artist who is trying to figure out

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Violence ★★★★ Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

Violence keeps to its title as we witness a wonderfully relentless, over-the-top assault on the senses from filmmaker Connor Marsden. Who knew we needed a bit of bloody, punk-noir in our lives? Henry Violence (Rohan Campbell), a former drug addict who has become straight-edge and moved on. He has one

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Camp ★★★★ Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025

Avalon Fast’s Camp is a film that you experience more than watch, and goodness, if it isn’t a wonderfully gorgeous experience in what feels like a constant dreamlike state. Fast knocks it out of the park with her second feature. Emily’s (Zola Grimmer) life has been scarred by tragedy, and

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Anything That Moves ★★★ Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025

Anything That Moves is a wonderfully horny sex-positive celebration with a delightful Giallo 35mm tinge to it. Writer-director Alex Phillips delivers a fascinating film that is far more vulnerable than you might imagine. Sex worker Liam (Hal Baum) spends his days riding through Chicago delivering snacks and heaven-sent orgasms for

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Abigail Before Beatrice ★★★★ Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025

Abigail Before Beatrice is as compelling as it is hauntingly affecting and sad. The more Cassie Keet’s excellent film goes on, the closer you get to the edge of your seat. Olivia Taylor Dudley is utterly devastating here as a lost soul desperate to reclaim her sense of belonging. Beatrice

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Lucy Liu to receive the festival’s prestigious Réalta Award at the 25th Belfast Film Festival

Belfast Film Festival marks a major milestone this year as it celebrates its 25th anniversary and will welcome Hollywood star Lucy Liu to town to receive the festival’s prestigious Réalta Award for her exceptional and compassionate performance in Rosemead, directed by Eric Lin. The Réalta Award honours actors and filmmakers who use

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Barbican Cinema presents the global environmentalist season ‘Land Cinema’ from Wed 5 Nov – Wed 26 Nov 2025

This November, Barbican Cinema presents Land Cinema, a season of rare films rooted in the global environmentalist movement of the past half-century, which sowed the seeds for climate justice today. Curated by Becca Voelcker, author of the new book Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction (University of California Press),

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