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
Lacuna is a new short film from Midlands director Sophie Black and explores the sensitive subject of sexual abuse and its many ramifications.
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.
LATEST CINEMA & HOME RELEASES
An ominous (ironic?) disclaimer about not taking fiction as fact opens this story about the oppressive Russian regime and one which covers the rise of President Putin through the eyes of fast-rising spin doctor Vadim Baranov (Paul Dano)
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.
Watch the trailer for BFI-backed Midlands short CHOKEHOLD
"In a desperate attempt to escape his troubled home life, a young teenage boy runs away to seek out his estranged father, a once-famed professional wrestler".
Written and directed by Christopher Bevan and produced by Catriona Kelly of camakel productions in association with YSP Media, Chokehold was selected for funding by BFI NETWORK as part of the 2024 open call. With an upcoming 2026 release, the film stars Eddie Coates, Philip Bedwell, Lis Hipkiss, Mike ‘Wild Boar’ Hitchman, Ross Marshall, Jo Barker and Carl Bryan.
Find out more about the film, the cast and crew and the production at www.yspmedia.co.uk/chokehold