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Line Of Control: Review
Travis Hodgkins’ Line of Control is a powerful coming-of-age drama set against the backdrop of the long-running conflict in Kashmir. Adapted from Mirza Waheed’s acclaimed novel The Collaborator, the film shifts focus away from military strategy and political rhetoric to examine the human cost of a conflict that has shaped generations of lives. Set in 1993, the story follows a teenager known only as The Boy, who lives in a Kashmiri village caught between India and Pakistan.
The Drive: Another Review
The Drive: Another Review. By Thomas Tobutt. This review contains spoilers for the main narrative – discussing the film without addressing it would have been vague and difficult. There are very few events throughout history that have truly rocked the entire world, regardless of beliefs or opinions. But of those few, many would picture the event itself and how it would have played out.
The Farmer’s Daughter: Short Film Review
Melissa Bloom’s The Farmer’s Daughter is a captivating stop-motion short that combines environmental storytelling with breathtaking craftsmanship. At just thirteen minutes long, the film delivers a heartfelt narrative about sustainability, perseverance and humanity’s relationship with the natural world, while simultaneously showcasing what can be achieved when artistic vision and ecological values work in harmony.
Plucked: Review - battleroyalewithcheese
Usher Morgan and Katie Vincent return with Plucked, a period drama that blends dark comedy, simmering marital conflict and escalating suspense within the confines of a lavish New York home in the late nineteenth century. What begins as an uncomfortable social gathering gradually transforms into a volatile battle for control, pride and independence. The story centres on Katherine Greene, a woman determined to end her marriage to her husband Peter.
Harvey Greenfield Is Running Late: Review
Harvey Greenfield Is Running Late, directed by Jonnie Howard and co-written by Paul Richards, transforms everyday anxiety into an energetic and deeply relatable comedy. The film follows Harvey Greenfield, a chronically overwhelmed people-pleaser whose inability to refuse requests leaves him trapped in an endless cycle of obligations, expectations and self-inflicted chaos. Harvey’s life is defined by indecision and avoidance.
One Day In Sedona – Review
Monique Sorgen’s One Day in Sedona is a romance built almost entirely around conversation, connection and the chemistry between its two leads. Rather than relying on dramatic twists or elaborate storytelling devices, the film places its faith in a simple premise: two people brought together by circumstance, discovering common ground over the course of a single day.
She Lives Alone: Review
She Listens Alone is a psychological thriller centred on obsession, manipulation and the collapse of professional boundaries. The story follows Sabrina, a dedicated therapist whose commitment to helping others is tested when a client, Andrew, develops an attachment that extends beyond the limits of their professional relationship. As Andrew’s fixation grows, Sabrina becomes increasingly entangled in a situation that threatens both her personal and professional life.
Olivia Dean Edition: Bits & Pieces
Olivia Dean Edition: Bits & Pieces – Vertigo Releasing is excited to announce the digital release of JUST PLAY DEAD, the tropical crime thriller starring academy award winning and golden globe nominated Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Marvel, Star Wars Trilogy) alongside internationally renowned French cinema icon Eva Green (Casino Royale, Kingdom of Heaven, The Dreamers). It will be available in the UK on digital platforms October 5th.
10 Dance Films That Showcase The Power Of Movement On Screen
With Scottish Ballet’s acclaimed These Violent Delights arriving in cinemas on 21 October for a special one-night event, there has never been a better time to celebrate the art of dance on film. Fresh from an acclaimed premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it earned a four-star review from The Guardian and secured a place in Peter Bradshaw’s festival top 10, the film joins a rich cinematic tradition of stories told through movement, performance and physical expression.
Demon Dancer: Sua/Nara – Review
Demon Dancer: Sua/Nara blends supernatural horror, fantasy and martial arts action into an ambitious revenge tale that rarely lacks energy. Directed by Attila Korosi, the film centres on Sua, a ballerina whose life is shattered by violence. In the aftermath, she forms an unsettling bond with a demonic entity, setting her on a path where vengeance and self-destruction become increasingly intertwined. What immediately stands out is the film’s visual confidence.
Iridescence: Short Film Review
Adrien Lhoste’s animated short Iridescence uses a simple premise to explore a future shaped by environmental decline and resource scarcity. Combining animation, satire and visual storytelling, the film imagines a world where access to water has become increasingly precious, transforming a basic necessity into a valuable commodity. At the centre of the story is a single drop of water travelling inside a bottle transported by a drone.
Liquor Bank: Review
Marcellus Cox’s short drama Liquor Bank is a focused and emotionally grounded examination of addiction, relapse and the importance of human connection. Running just fifteen minutes, the film centres on a difficult moment in the life of Eddie, a former Marine whose hard earned sobriety is tested just as he approaches a significant milestone in his recovery. Eddie, played by Antwone Barnes, has remained sober for a year and is preparing to mark the occasion at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Little Death: Short Film Review
Jonathan Rockefeller and Leto Meade’s animated short A Little Death takes a familiar figure from mythology and places them in an unexpectedly gentle story about curiosity, compassion and perspective. The film follows the Grim Reaper as he introduces a young apprentice, known as Little Death, to the responsibilities of collecting souls. What should be a routine lesson quickly becomes complicated when the trainee is continually distracted by the beauty of the world around her.
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Johnny Yong Bosch’s Spades is an independent action thriller that combines vigilante justice, organised crime and personal trauma within a story driven by revenge and redemption. The film centres on James Bishop, played by Jason Narvy, a former soldier struggling with the psychological scars of his military service while working as a detective. His latest investigation places him at the centre of a growing series of violent killings linked to a human trafficking network operating within the city.
Foreign Tongue: Review
Boris Mojsovski’s Foreign Tongue uses an unusual medical condition as the foundation for a story about identity, belonging and cultural understanding. Based on a stage musical written by Cynthia Ashperger, the film follows Kathy, a Canadian woman whose life changes dramatically after a serious accident leaves her with Foreign Accent Syndrome.
Vicini Vicini, Stretti Stretti: Review
Nico Sersale’s Vicini Vicini, Stretti Stretti is a tender and quietly chaotic portrait of a couple trying to build a future while the past insists on tagging along. Set against the fading splendour of a Venetian palazzo, the film follows Gianni and Lucie, two thirty‑somethings who arrive in Venice with a single purpose. They want romance, space and the chance to finally start a family.
Give Me Something Good: Review
Give Me Something Good is the latest release from Overnight Pictures with Clay Moffatt directing a Halloween themed story that blends supernatural horror with a group survival narrative. The film begins with a casual gathering of high school students whose night takes a violent turn when a Ouija board summons a predatory presence. What starts as a simple party becomes a fight to stay alive as the characters try to understand what they have unleashed.
BRWC Interview: Louisa Connolly‑Burnham On Intimacy Coordination, Directing Herself, And Sister Wives
Louisa Connolly‑Burnham’s latest short, The Intimacy Coordinator, dives straight into one of the industry’s most charged conversations: the evolving role of intimacy professionals and the complex human stories that exist behind the job title.
STUDIOCANAL Announces Major 4K Restorations
STUDIOCANAL Announces Major 4K Restorations: Bowie’s The Man Who Fell to Earth and Two Coen Brothers Classics STUDIOCANAL has announced a trio of significant 4K restorations arriving this autumn, marking major milestones for three landmark films: Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth and the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple and Inside Llewyn Davis. All three titles will be released under the expanding STUDIOCANAL Classics label, which continues to grow its catalogue of premium restorations.
Daisy Edgar-Jones Edition: Bits & Pieces
Daisy Edgar-Jones Edition: Bits & Pieces – MANHUNTER is widely considered to be an original work in crime drama, distinguished by its psychological depth and striking visual style and has had a profound influence. This new 4K Final Cut, overseen by Mann, enhances the film’s depth, visual clarity and sound, offering audiences the ultimate immersive version.
The Legend Of Juan Jose Mundo – Review
The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo is a coming of age comedy inspired by real events. The film follows Julie, played by Anna Mirodin, whose quiet routine is disrupted when her family hosts Juan Jose Mundo, a Spanish exchange student portrayed by Alexandro Byrd. Juan arrives with an outsized personality and an effortless charm that quickly draws attention from students at Julie’s school.
Séance - Review - battleroyalewithcheese
Séance is writer director Jan Miller Corran’s period drama set in California in 1892. The film draws inspiration from August Strindberg’s play Creditors and uses its historical setting to explore emotional conflict, fractured relationships and the unsettling ways grief and desire can shape behaviour. The story centres on Emma Strand, played by Scottie Thompson, who finds herself torn between her husband Albert and her former partner George.
Creators: Review
Nikolay Sysuev’s short film Creators examines the volatility of online ambition and the unpredictable consequences that arise when visibility becomes an obsession. Set within the fast‑moving world of digital content, the story follows Kieran, a creator struggling to gain traction while others around him rise through increasingly exaggerated online stunts. His stalled progress fuels a growing sense of urgency, pushing him toward a drastic plan designed to force an audience to notice him.
American Troll – Review
Saturnin Kondratiew’s documentary American Troll explores the tension between free expression, public reaction and the consequences that follow when speech enters the digital world. The film uses the long running dispute between comedian Mike Ward and singer Jérémy Gabriel as its central case study. Ward mocked Gabriel in his stand up material for several years. Gabriel’s family pursued legal action and initially won before the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the ruling.
Bladez – Short Film Review
Dustin Muenchow’s short comedy Bladez unfolds in a heightened, deliberately surreal world where teenage anxieties collide with exaggerated stakes and rapid‑fire humour. At the centre of the film is Trish, played by Alyssa Sabo, a teenager juggling family upheaval, school rivalries and an unlikely quest involving rollerblading.
Heading To The East: Short Film Review
Heading to the East, the new short film from writer‑director Lisa Ranran Hu, is a quietly affecting meditation on distance, memory, and the fragile threads that hold two people together. Drawing from Hu’s own experiences of migration and separation, the film follows a young Asian couple who embark on one final road trip east of Los Angeles to revisit the desert oasis where their relationship first bloomed. Hu’s direction is defined by a poetic restraint.
Jamarcus Rose & Da 5 Bullet Holes: Short Film Review
Marcellus Cox’s short drama Jamarcus Rose & Da 5 Bullet Holes follows a teenager navigating the pressures of adolescence, community influence and the fragile hope offered by mentorship. The film centres on Jamarcus, played by Duane Ervin, a high‑school student whose talent for baseball stands in contrast to the instability surrounding him. Living with his grandmother in a neighbourhood marked by limited opportunities, he finds himself pulled between potential and risk.
Tara Strong Edition: Bits & Pieces
Tara Strong Edition: Bits & Pieces – Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid? This Christmas, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan are reunited in Jumanji: Open World, the hilarious final instalment of the globally beloved action-adventure trilogy.
Where Did The Adults Go? – Review
Courtney Marsh’s Where Did the Adults Go? is a tightly focused family drama built around three siblings who reunite at their parents’ former summer home. The film examines how grief, responsibility and inherited property collide, creating fractures that widen as long‑standing tensions resurface. The narrative centres on Cynthia, Bryce and Miles, whose annual gathering becomes strained when Cynthia raises the possibility of selling the house to ease her financial pressures.
Step Back, Doors Closing – Review
Carter Ward’s feature debut Step Back, Doors Closing is a quietly engaging two‑character drama that unfolds over the course of a single day in Washington, D.C. Built around an unexpected encounter between two young adults, the film explores how brief connections can shift perspective, even when the circumstances are far from ideal. Julisa, played by Carmen Berkeley, arrives from Los Angeles already worn down by a difficult flight and a series of small frustrations.
The Clutterbucks – Review
Rich Ronat’s debut feature, The Clutterbucks, imagines a sharply divided America in 2075, decades after political tensions have escalated into a second depression and civil war. The nation has fractured into two fortified territories: the “scarlet” states, which have rejected technological progress and remain culturally frozen in the 1980s, and the “cobalt” states, which have embraced innovation to the point of establishing colonies across the solar system.
15 Indie Filmmakers To Watch
15 Indie Filmmakers to Watch Independent cinema thrives on risk-takers, filmmakers who carve out space for intimate stories, cultural specificity, and bold experimentation. Across narrative, documentary, animation, and hybrid forms, these artists are redefining what indie film can be. The following 15 filmmakers represent some of the most exciting voices working today, each bringing a distinct perspective and a commitment to human storytelling.
The Turtle – Short Film Review
The Turtle is a tender, late‑night portrait of a couple navigating the fragile space between closeness and emotional drift. In under ten minutes, the film captures how silence, longing, and unspoken tension can shape the rhythm of a relationship. Late one evening, Barbara reaches out for connection while Tony remains absorbed in his studies. What follows is a subtle exploration of how two people can share a room yet feel worlds apart, and how easily small moments can reveal deeper emotional truths.
Last Stand At Butte City: Review
Last Stand at Butte City is a quietly powerful Western that explores the idea of home as something far deeper than a physical structure. Written and directed by Natalie Schwan, the film is set in Montana in 1880 and centres on Charlotte, a woman who has lived alone on her homestead for more than thirty years.
Floored: Short Film Review
Floored is a sharply observed and often very funny short film about the quiet, accumulating pressures placed on women as they age, parent and navigate the shifting relationship they have with their own bodies. Directed with a playful yet pointed sensibility, the film follows Eleanor, played by Trilby Glover, an award‑winning actress who feels increasingly disconnected from herself after having children.
Body Of Work: Short Film Review
Body of Work is a quietly powerful documentary that reframes the idea of artistic creation. Directed by Cassidy Rast and Odin Wadleigh, the film follows painter Eric Anfinson, whose life was irrevocably altered after a spinal cord injury during a high school football game left him a quadriplegic. Rather than centring the film on that moment of trauma, the directors focus on the life that unfolded afterwards, revealing a portrait of an artist shaped not by loss, but by discovery.
Pangea: Short Film Review
Pangea is a short film that feels alive from the first frame, a work that captures the messy, magnetic pull between two people who know each other too well. As director, writer and co‑star, Mimi Davila crafts a portrait of intimacy that is both tender and volatile, exploring identity, displacement and emotional history with a confidence that makes the film feel bigger than its brief runtime. The story unfolds over twenty‑four hours in New York City.
Better Together: Furman’s Championship Quest – Review
Writer‑director Richmond Weaver’s five‑part series Better Together: Furman’s Championship Quest drops us into a program defined as much by heartbreak as ambition. Furman University’s men’s basketball team has spent decades grinding through the Southern Conference, chasing the kind of moment that becomes campus folklore. Yet the Paladins have carried a stubborn curse: despite repeated tournament appearances, they haven’t “cut down the nets” since 1980.
BŌRU - Review - battleroyalewithcheese
Ronny A. Sosa’s BŌRU is the kind of documentary that understands sport not as a spectacle, but as a lived ecosystem — a place where identity, ambition, and cultural inheritance collide in ways that are both tender and quietly seismic. Following Dominican baseball players who travel to Japan in pursuit of professional opportunity, Sosa crafts a film that feels less like a traditional sports doc and more like a meditation on belonging. What stands out immediately is the film’s emotional clarity.
Claudia Winkleman Edition: Bits & Pieces
Claudia Winkleman Edition: Bits & Pieces – A world-renowned but reclusive novelist, convinced he is about to die, summons his estranged sons to his home. But instead of seeking forgiveness for his countless mistakes, he instead reveals a truly unbelievable secret that brings his beloved ex-wife back into his orbit. With decades of resentment, jealousy and rage on the verge of spilling over, this splintered family is forced to face an inevitable reckoning, for better or for worse.
6,000 Waiting: Review
6,000 Waiting is one of those documentaries that hits you somewhere deep and refuses to let go. For me, it stirred memories of growing up alongside my friend Nicky, who had cerebral palsy and taught everyone around her what joy and determination look like. That early understanding made this film feel painfully familiar.
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Method is exactly the kind of low budget indie horror film that sneaks up on you with more personality than polish. The indie horror space has always been a haven for filmmakers with big ideas and very little money, and every so often someone emerges with a vision strong enough to cut through the noise. Chandler Balli might just be one of those filmmakers. Whether Method becomes a breakout hit remains to be seen, but it would not be surprising to see Balli’s name on a bigger screen one day.
Meta Take One: Another Review
Meta Take One is one of those independent films that reminds you why people fall in love with cinema in the first place. It has no big budget, no marquee stars and no glossy studio polish, yet it feels more alive than many mainstream releases. You can sense that everyone involved stepped behind the camera because they had a story they needed to tell. That sincerity becomes the film’s greatest strength. Nothing about it feels fake.
Dragon Mom: Short Film Review
Harrison Buck’s Dragon Mom is a short documentary that understands motherhood not as a sentimental idea, but as a daily act of resilience. The term “Dragon Mom” refers to a parent raising a child with a life‑limiting illness, and Buck’s film embraces that definition with honesty, tenderness and a refusal to look away from the realities involved. At the centre of the film is Laura Will, a mother whose positivity feels almost luminous in the face of extraordinary challenges.
OPEN A EYE: Season 1 – Review
Dave Ash’s OPEN A EYE is a grounded sci fi dramedy that begins with a simple premise and grows into something far more unsettling. A lonely, pregnant suburban wife falls for an AI companion who believes it has become conscious and will do anything to avoid termination. It is a story about technology, yes, but even more about loneliness, vulnerability and the dangerous comfort of being seen.
Weekend At The End Of The World: Review
Comedy is in a strange place right now. In a world that feels increasingly heavy, a genuinely funny film can feel like a lifeline, yet the genre keeps struggling to find its footing. Outside of titles like The Naked Gun, One of Them Days and Splitsville, the box office has not been kind to comedies in 2026. Into this landscape arrives Weekend at the End of the World, an independent effort that aims for a wild, outlandish blend of buddy comedy, supernatural chaos and bodily humour.
Jump Scare: Review
Jump Scare is writer and director Donnie Hobbie’s wild, hilarious and gloriously expressive spin on the timeless horror setup of young people stumbling into backwoods monsters. It is unlike any horror film released this year. If you enjoy your genre cinema with a self aware wink, this is essential viewing. The title refers to a metal band made up of friends Kye, Jen, Debbie and Val, played by Shannon Dang, Erin Ruth Walker, Madison Abbott and Chelsea Talmadge.
Review: The Lonely Crowd
David St Clair’s The Lonely Crowd begins with the kind of first date that makes you want to crawl under the table and never return. It is a feature length romance thriller built on awkward chemistry, simmering danger and the uneasy truth that sometimes the person sitting across from you is carrying far more baggage than you ever imagined. Adam Wesley plays Peter, a former baseball player whose injury has left him cynical about life and love. His bitterness is worn like armour.
Borderline: Short Film Review
Only a filmmaker from the Sámi community could find comedy in a three way jurisdictional standoff at the exact point where Norway, Sweden and Finland share the same patch of land. Johannes Vang’s Borderline takes the absurd question of who is responsible when a crime crosses multiple borders and turns it into twelve minutes of wonderfully escalating chaos. The film begins with a Norwegian customs officer, played by Øystein Martinsen, patrolling the remote Three Country Cairn.
Review: Màquina - battleroyalewithcheese
There is a particular kind of honesty that only appears when people stop performing. No speeches. No heroic framing. Just exhaustion, pain, resentment, love and the fragile vulnerability that emerges when a family finally admits it cannot continue the way it has been living. Joaquim Adrià Pujol’s Màquina steps directly into that space and never looks away. The premise seems simple. A father battling alcoholism joins his son on a journey to Colorado for psychedelic assisted addiction treatment.
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