LATEST NEWS & FEATURES
A list of festivals for local filmmakers and film fans taking place in the Midlands region of the UK
Tickets for the 20th Flatpack Festival (8–16 May) go on sale on 30 March, with UK premieres spanning cinema, music and audio-visual art plus some fantastic one off events for their anniversary.
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.
LATEST MIDLANDS REVIEWS
Director and actor Kay S. Ubhi takes us on a whirlwind journey through Birmingham’s dark side in this stark, gritty and gripping new British crime drama.
Showcasing a cast of local talent from the Nottingham Actor’s Workshop, new feature Surrender To It is a true Midlands production mixing horror and comedy as a group of friends take a trip to the countryside.
This 13-minute debut short from writer/director Joseph Ringland is a fully rounded, accomplished piece that skirts the boundaries of horror, drama and even some light comedy.
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.
LATEST CINEMA & HOME RELEASES
Samantha Cochran (V/H/S/Halloween) stars as Ally, a young woman whose mysterious illness is only superseded by her mysterious adoptive parents and their disturbing intentions in new thriller flick The Cure.
The Sun is dying. Earth comes up with one last ditch effort to save it. Send astronauts into the deepest parts of space, to study and understand why the stars are going out. But when Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up from his induced coma, things have gone wrong.
Having not read much around the film but always interested in a gritty hostage thriller, I had a strange sense of Déjà vu when starting out Gus Van Sant’s latest drama.
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.
Watch the RED BAND trailer for crime-horror JACK
Jack is an upcoming Midlands feature film from regional director Matthew Hickinbottom. Filmed around the West Midlands, Jack sees the police investigating a killer possibly linked in someway to the Jack the Ripper legend. Watch the film's first red band trailer above - *graphic content warning*.
Find out more about the film and follow the production team's progress over on theirofficial Instagram account here.