WELCOME TO MIDLANDS MOVIES

Thank you for visiting. Here you will find a place for local filmmakers and fans to work together to promote the local area especially in creative film. 
  
We regularly cast our eye over new Hollywood blockbusters as well as local filmmakers & scriptwriters based in the Midlands area plus you can also often hear us on BBC Radio Leicester with Jack Rafferty & BBC Radio Derby with Ed Stagg. 
  
With plenty of new reviews and features, we have something for everyone including our ongoing list of Film Festivals in the Midlands, 'Spotlight' films, movie groups, shorts and more from the Midlands. Anyone interested in getting involved please email midlandsmovies@yahoo.com

Thank you for visiting Midlands Movies!

Here you will find a place for local filmmakers and fans to work together to promote the region's talents in creative film. 


We regularly cast our eye over new Hollywood blockbusters as well as local filmmakers & scriptwriters based in the Midlands area plus you can also often hear us on BBC Radio Leicester with Jack Rafferty & BBC Radio Derby with Ed Stagg.


With plenty of new reviews and features, we have something for everyone including our ongoing list of Film Festivals in the Midlands, 'Spotlight' films, movie groups, shorts and more from the Midlands. Anyone interested in getting involved please email midlandsmovies@yahoo.com

LATEST NEWS & FEATURES

By midlandsmovies 26 Mar, 2024
Always a reliable venue for genre showcases, Derby’s Quad cinema held the first in-person Darkness in the Fields event on the 23rd of March, bringing together a host of modern examples from one of the oldest, and harder-to-define genre offshoots: folk horror.
By midlandsmovies 13 Mar, 2024
Midlands Movies spoke to local filmmaker Darren Scott about his new feature film All Roads Lead to Home, the production challenges of making a film over six years and how other budding creatives shouldn't limit themselves when tackling big projects.
By midlandsmovies 11 Mar, 2024
“How far would you go to save the family business?” Despite us championing the cause for over a decade now, Northampton sadly doesn’t have a long list of film credits or shooting locations to its name.
By midlandsmovies 28 Feb, 2024
Derby’s thriving independent cinema Derby QUAD presents a day of folk horror screenings, interviews and more on the 23rd March 2024 for the Darkness in the Fields Film Festival.
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LATEST MIDLANDS REVIEWS

By midlandsmovies 26 Mar, 2024
The heyday of 80s movies and culture are the inspiration behind a new feature film set at Alfreton’s real-life 80s Video Shop – a business specialising in the glory days of the video rental era.
By midlandsmovies 25 Mar, 2024
1950s Brutalist architecture emerged in the UK amid reconstruction projects of the post-war era and showcase a minimalist style without fancy decoration. And whilst the exposed unpainted concrete and plain geometric shapes of the movement may not seem an obvious focus for a film, Northampton writer-director Joe Burden has used it as a jumping off point in his new short The Brutalist.
By midlandsmovies 24 Mar, 2024
All Roads Lead to Home, the latest feature from writer and director Darren Scott, is a feel-good comedy/drama that follows two aspiring musicians – Amy (Imogen Archer) and Matt (Frederick Szkoda) – who meet when both are going through a calamitous period of their lives and embark on a road trip together to find themselves.
By midlandsmovies 10 Mar, 2024
Another micro short film comes courtesy of Midlands filmmaker Rajab Mahmood who moves from his previous sci-fi stylings to a horror-tinged tale in a new project called Kajol.
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LATEST CINEMA & HOME RELEASE REVIEWS

By midlandsmovies 26 Mar, 2024
Midlands Movies writer Matt Tilt headed off for a day of features and shorts at Derby Quad's Darkness in the Fields festival. Check out his reviews of the full set of horror features shown on the day
By midlandsmovies 25 Mar, 2024
The fight over inherited wealth is a theme that has seen a resurgence lately especially with the excellent TV show Succession alongside recent movies Knives Out, The Fortress and The Estate. The Origin of Evil sits alongside these - particularly as they all have the same family portrait poster design (!) - and tries to include a few new twists in an attempt to stick out from this busy crowd.
By midlandsmovies 25 Mar, 2024
Paul Duane’s feature All You Need is Death explores one of the more difficult to film aspects of folk horror – how these tales are passed through the generations. It follows Anna and Aleks (Simone Collins and Charlie Maher) who travel around Ireland collecting rare folk ballads
By midlandsmovies 05 Feb, 2024
The filmography of Yorgos Lanthimos has often turned to bodily autonomy in the director’s efforts to tell weird, often disturbing stories. This is often combined with a musing on the nature of innocence, harking back to his third film Dogtooth (2009)
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Watch the new trailer for the Midlands short Baby on Board

"A haunting and emotional encounter between a police officer and a young father in the dead of night".


Watch the brand new trailer for Baby on Board, an upcoming short film from Andrew David Barker.

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