With more exciting films Executive Produced by Cate Blanchett, Spike Lee, Issa Rae and Patty Jenkins The HollyShorts Film Festival returns this summer for its 21st edition, continuing its legacy as one of the world’s premier showcases for short-form cinema. Taking place from August 7–17, 2025, at the iconic TCL
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Just a guy from Northern Ireland over sharing my life details as I continue my weight loss journey, lover of films and sports and music (like everyone on Earth) and exercise of all forms, so expect a lot of nonsense, apologies beforehand.
Katwe – ★★★★ 1/2 Sheff Doc Fest
Katwe is a powerful and essential documentary from Nima Shirali about the working class in the salt pans of Uganda—those left behind from one broken promise after another. A deserted salt factory casts a very long shadow of an unfulfilled promise. In contrast, the politicians promise to free the community
Frankie Freako – ★★★★
Steven Kostanski has found a unique, cheesy, weird and most importantly, fun corner of cinema to thrive in, and that continues with his latest film, Frankie Freako. It’s bizarre, but a whole lot of fun and sometimes, that’s all you need in life. Workaholic yuppie Conor is in an existential
Videoheaven – ★★★★
Alex Ross Perry’s documentary Videohaven is the perfect visual dissertation that hits all the right emotional and thoughtful notes you want it to without being overly sentimental. Socio-cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread, the video rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies. With narration
James DeMonaco’s THE HOME and Kurtis David Harder’s INFLUENCERS to open and close 26th edition of FrightFest
Full Festival Passes on sale from Sat 12 July, noon. Day Passes and Single tickets on sale from Sat 19 July, noon. https://www.frightfest.co.uk Be prepared for the weird, the wild and the wonderful as FrightFest 2025, the UK’s No.1 horror & fantasy film festival, returns to The Odeon LUXE Leicester
Fantasia International Film Festival 2025 Preview – The Shorts
Now if you know this website, you know I love short films, and this is probably the favourite couple months of the year for me. With Fantasia, each year they have endless glorious stands of short films for audiences to digest and there is never enough time to catch all
Fantasia International Film Festival 2025 Preview
It’s that glorious time of year again, when we plunge both feet first into the extraordinary, weird, and sometimes grotesque world of the Fantasia International Film Festival. Our preview will be a little different this time, and we will give you a glimpse of both feature films and short films
The Lonely Musketeer ★★★★ – Raindance 2025
Nicolai Schümann announces himself as a filmmaker to keep a keen eye on with his suffocating thriller, The Lonely Musketeer. It’s one hell of a debut with a powerhouse performance from Edward Hogg. Rupert (Edward Hogg) wakes up in a sealed, windowless room with no recollection of how he got there.
Casas Muertas ★★★ 1/2 – Sheffield Doc Fest
One thread runs through all of the multi-generational subjects in Rosana Matecki’s excellent documentary, Casas Muertas – they are all haunted in some form by ghosts, whether that is family who are lost, or a country that resembles nothing of what it once was; these people are haunted and lost.
Redlight to Limelight ★★★ 1/2 – Sheffield Doc Fest
Dreams are everywhere; everyone has them. In Bipuljit Basu’s empathetic Redlight to Limelight, we see those who are the most fragile dreaming, and all you can do is dream with them. Sex workers and their kids in a Kolkata brothel run Cam-On, a video production unit where they create stories.
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