LATEST NEWS & FEATURES
Derby's rather excellent Darkness In The Fields Film Festival returns for 2026 promising another full day of folky horro scares featuring new films and filmmakers.
Leicester Film Club alongside Showcase Cinema de Lux Leicester are thrilled to invite fans of Moulin Rouge! to experience the vibrant movie the way it was meant to be seen — in a large cinema surrounded by fellow fans
Genesis is an upcoming sci-fi horror from Midlands filmmakers Lunar Gold Productions and billed as a blend of Alien meets Stranger Things.
The Midlands has incredible filmmaking talent but finding each other has often been the hard part. But Middling Connect, which launched earlier this year, hopes to try and change that with its new dedicated crew database built for the Midlands, by the Midlands.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and so, given his Midlands connections, how many of the huge number of film adaptations have been shot (or connected) to his hometown and local area? We endeavour to find out...
Why do pantomime when you can do Alien? A very amateur dramatics group of Dorset Bus Drivers spent a year creating a serious stage adaptation of the sci-fi, horror film, Alien.
Daniel Alexander’s feature film GALE: Yellow Brick Road is set to become one of the first Birmingham-made horror films to secure a nationwide U.S. theatrical release, screening in over American 1,000 cinemas.
Midlands film company Outward Film Network are excited to announce a new locally made short film that will begin its festival submission run from February 2026.
LATEST MIDLANDS REVIEWS
It’s the little things in life that matter in Jonathan Hawes wonderful short film, Sorry We’re Closed. Jacob and Olivia (Michael Muyunda and Jemma Bentley) are a bored couple, sitting at home, silently dissatisfied with their jobs, their social lives, and the lack of spontaneity in their relationship.
The repeating day formula is the groundwork (hog?) set-up for a new local short made in Leicester which explores the attempts to prevent a deathly accident.
A strange island with a mysterious aura is the focus of a new 30-minute short film where a community is plagued by disappearing inhabitants and horrific goings-on.
Midlands writer-director-actor-animator James Pyle ends the year with Big Red, a new 8-minute short film that explores the fun relationship between man and beast.
LATEST CINEMA & HOME RELEASES
Kleber Mendonça Filho transports viewers into a tropical thriller in “The Secret Agent,” using expressionistic cinematography and satire to paint a picture of the corrupt political landscape of its time.
Expanded from director Thibault Emin’s 2007 short film of the same name, Else boasts a really strong premise but struggles out of the starting gates. A bizarre virus which merges people with their surroundings forces the introverted Anx (Matthieu Sampeur) and extroverted Cass (Edith Proust) to hunker down in Anx’s apar
Now a worldwide phenomenon with much global attention brought to the show’s Midlands location of Birmingham, Peaky Blinders is set to hit cinemas in 2026 for a movie following on from the TV series.
Reading through the various synopsises of Redux Redux, the third feature film by writer/director siblings Kevin and Matthew McManus, I can’t help but wonder if they do the film a disservice.
Watch the trailer for local film THE BEAST OF RIVERSIDE HOLLOW
"Residents of a sleepy English village investigate a werewolf threat lurking in the nearby moors. Led by a punk band and eccentric locals, they race to unravel the mystery and reclaim their village from this dark danger."
The Beast of Riverside Hollow is a new British horror comedy starring Johnny Vegas and Ross Noble from local filmmaker John Williams. Check out the trailer above.