The Montclair Film Festival is held in Montclair New Jersey at the Clairridge (A non-profit cinema in the area) every year during October. The festival includes American films, foreign films, short films and documentaries. Some of the films that were shown this year included Anora, The Order, The Piano Lesson, […]
From the Festivals
6 Things Not To Miss at Soho Horror Festival (2024 Curtain Raiser)
The end of November sees the award-winning Soho Horror Festival return to Brixton – 3 days of fresh and independent horror that is certain to make jaws drop, entertain and raise the flag for us horror weirdos. The line-up has something for everyone, dipping into many different sub-genres but here […]
Documentary Competition (London Film Festival 2024) Feat. Mother Vera, The Shadow Scholars and Seeking Mavis Beacon
For whatever reason, I’ve unfairly neglected the Documentary Competition at London Film Festival. This year, I sort of stumbled upon it. I think the best thing about LFF is that, if you go looking, you’ll always find a good surprise. As I was unable to make it into town most […]
The Headliners (London Film Festival 2024) Feat. Hard Truths, Bird & The End
I love London Film Festival. As soon as the summer rolls around I’m counting down the days until the festival kicks off. My short film V played in the festival in 2017 and being granted a filmmaker’s pass was like finding a golden ticket. We saw over forty films that […]
Delivery Run (Grimmfest 2024)
Online food delivery workers finally get their moment in the headlights in Joel Palmroos’ wintry rendition of Steven Spielberg’s road rage classic Duel. Getting it’s World Premiere at the recent Grimmfest, Delivery Run is a Finnish production set in Minnesota USA but seamlessly filmed entirely in Lapland. The story revolves […]
Sayara (Grimmfest 2024)
Fan favourite director Can Evrenol, whose 2015 film Baskin was well-received in horror circles, had a new film playing this past weekend at Grimmfest, and although it’s not a horror per se, there are certainly grim, dark, and horrific parts to it. Sayara is a quiet young woman from Turkmenistan […]
Children of the Wicker Man (Grimmfest 2024)
The Wicker Man (1973) needs no introduction. To many, myself included, Robin Hardy’s folk-horror classic is considered one of the greatest British horror films – heck, perhaps horror films in general – of all time. However, to two of the director’s sons, Justin and Dominic Hardy, The Wicker Man is […]
Amsterdam Alert (Grimmfest 2024)
Amsterdam Alert (NL-Alert), played at this year’s Grimmfest, and it’s a hard-hitting, claustrophobic drama/real-life horror sitting perfectly at the 37-minute mark runtime. Directed by Loïs Dols de Jong, this short film tells the story of a young mother in Amsterdam who’s trying to get home to her baby, but during […]
The Black Hole (Fantastic Fest 2024)
The Black Hole – recently played at Fantastic Fest – is a comedy/sci-fi anthology from Estonian director Moonika Siimets. My only experience with Estonian cinema is November (Rainer Sarnet, 2017), a historical, mythic, folkloric fantasy, which will tell of modern Estonia but those cues will primarily be identifiable to the […]
Animale (Fantastic Fest 2024)
When it comes to the combination of body horror and monstrous feminine-centered stories, nobody is doing quite like the French are. With filmmakers like Coralie Fargeat and Julia Ducornau currently pushing the genre to bold new places and creating these complex, disturbed heroines, we’re almost in the middle of a […]