MIDLANDS MOVIES AWARDS 2025 NOMINATIONS
On Monday 21st April Midlands Movies Editor Mike Sales and BBC's Ed Stagg announced this year's awards nominees. Watch the video on Facebook and check the full nomination list here.
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Read the full list of nominees for the Midlands Movies Awards 2025
In the run-up to the much anticipated release of famed movie-maker Wes Anderson's new film, The Phoenician Scheme, Warwick Arts Centre is hosting a very special "Wes Anderthon" on Saturday 17 May 2025.
Paracinema, Derby’s film festival exploring cult and genre cinema, returns to the QUAD venue for 2025, serving up four days of screenings and talks from the 2nd-5th May
Both The Mockingbird Cinema and the Midlands Art Centre (MAC) in Birmingham are set to put on a series of live comedy nights, organised by Gobby Girl Productions.
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Local Midlands animator James Pyle enters 2025 with a selection of three new films and Midlands Movies takes a look at this collection of comedy shorts from the filmmaker.
Molina is a new sci-fi drama short from Leicester filmmaker Richard Chambers which explores the ramifications of mind-altering technology amid tense human relationships.
St. Patrick’s Day Massacre is the latest b-movie horror from Midlands director Steve Lawson who once again delves into the past to provide new spins on established stories and lore. And this time he uses St. Patrick’s Day as a jumping off point to create a tale of historic horror encroaching on the modern day.
I’ve mentioned this before in reviews for Midlands Movies; reviewing low budget, independently made films requires a change in mindset. There’s a level of compromise, with allowances made for the odd rough-around-the-edges performance or some shaky effects work.
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Ti West’s The House of the Devil makes a wonderful companion piece to his film The Innkeepers. Both maintain the director’s referential approach to horror, incapsulating it in a slow burning 90 minutes that manages to build and maintain tension while cheekily winking to the audience and showing the mechanisms behind the scares.
Warfare is a film based on true events and the memories of Ray Mendoza. During the Iraq war a group of young Navy SEALs begin a surveillance mission. But after everything goes horribly wrong, how will they escape and how will they cope?
After an unexpected stroke, former Judge ‘Stefan’ is forced into an assisted living facility. Whilst there, he is forced into sadistic encounters with another psychopathic resident and his vicious puppet companion.
Filmmakers would kill for a scene as recognisable as the exploding head scene early into Scanners. A moment so sudden and exciting that it was shown out-of-context in place of a trailer in some regions, and has been a horror touchstone, even for those who haven’t seen the film.
Watch the new teaser trailer for Midlands short THE CAGE
Leicestershire filmmaker Tom Botterill has just launched a brand new teaser trailer for his latest short The Cage. Telling the story of Theo, a reserved and introspective university student, the film follows him as he returns to his quiet home town for the funeral of his childhood best friend.
For more information follow Tom Botterill on
his Instagram for all the updates on the film.
