The 225 Film Club Festival screens excellent current narrative and documentary short films by female and non-binary filmmakers, introduces directors and producers, and supports women in film. Ahead of the festival’s main screening event in December – the eighth – we launched our inaugural FEATURE FILM LOG LINE COMPETITION, creating new pathways for directors to… 225 Film Club Festival – NEW for 2026: the FEATURE FILM LOG LINE COMPETITION Read More
Welcome to the 225 Film Club Festival Official Selection 2026
Promoting Female Excellence In Film Direction since 2018, we support our screening directors through facilitating introductions to successful producers and other seasoned industry members, a dynamic Writers’ Group, and our short film festival held at The National Film Theatre, BFI Southbank. Celebrating its eighth edition, the 225 Film Club Festival is a well-established fixture in… Welcome to the 225 Film Club Festival Official Selection 2026 Read More
Filmmaker Alex Cox brings latest feature DEAD SOULS to UK cinemas with Q&A screening tour
Acclaimed maverick British director Alex Cox has a new film coming out called Dead Souls, and this November he’ll be touring it across the UK at special Q&A screenings in Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and London this November. Cox – the independent filmmaker behind Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Walker and Straight to Hell –… Filmmaker Alex Cox brings latest feature DEAD SOULS to UK cinemas with Q&A screening tour Read More
The true meaning of Christmas! The A Very Merry Breakup trailer is here
What do you mean, too soon? It’s not even too soon for Christmas 2027. So if you’re a Bah Humbug type, off you pop. For the rest of us, here’s the A Very Merry Breakup synopsis: Love addict Lydia thinks she is finally ready to settle down with her sweet, reliable boyfriend Tim. But when… The true meaning of Christmas! The A Very Merry Breakup trailer is here Read More
Tenzing trailer: “Left in the shadows” for decades, one of Everest’s heroes finally takes centre stage
I love Everest movies – starting with 1924’s The Epic of Everest, about the ill-fated expedition where Mallory and Irving disappeared on the mountain – and I cannot wait to watch this. After 1924’s disaster it took another 29 years – until 1953 in fact – for the world’s tallest mountain to be successfully climbed,… Tenzing trailer: “Left in the shadows” for decades, one of Everest’s heroes finally takes centre stage Read More
225 Film Club Festival: the 2026 Longlist is here!
Celebrating its eighth edition, the 225 Film Club Festival is a well-established fixture in the British filmmaker calendar. Created in 2018 by filmmaker Rita Osei, the 225 Film Club Festival screens excellent current narrative and documentary short films by female and non-binary filmmakers, introduces directors and producers, and supports women in film. The dynamic and high… 225 Film Club Festival: the 2026 Longlist is here! Read More
Dead Howling trailer: when your best chance of survival is befriending the werewolf…
Hot werewolf or ugly zombie? I know which undead killer I’ll be supporting when “the dead and the damned collide” at the end of the world. Step forward Carter (Joel Jackson), the howlingly handsome werewolf who can inject himself when he needs to transform rather than waiting for a full moon, a handy get-out when… Dead Howling trailer: when your best chance of survival is befriending the werewolf… Read More
New Whalefall poster
A new Whalefall poster has been released, just in case you needed further visual cues to truly feel how terrifying it must be to be swallowed by a sperm whale. Check it below – and watch the trailer, here. Whalefall is released in UK cinemas on 16 October 2026. Whalefall synopsis: Following the death of… New Whalefall poster Read More
Wolf? Where?The second Werwulf trailer is here…
I haven’t seen the first trailer for Robert Eggers’ upcoming Werwulf, but going by this second one it looks like the film is going to be The Vvitch but furrier, and with more teeth. Yes everyone’s favourite lycan lovely is about to hit the big screen again, which also reanimates the age old question (if… Wolf? Where?The second Werwulf trailer is here… Read More
New Dreamquil trailer: Carol2 or Carol too?
When it comes to unwanted AI women turning up and taking over my life I’m more BBC comedy Ann Droid than Stepford Wives. Though American or British, I still quite like the idea of losing the drudge bits of my life to a more efficient doppelganger. The trailer for Dreamquil reminds me of plenty of… New Dreamquil trailer: Carol2 or Carol too? Read More
Do they stay or do they go? The ending of The Incomer
Do they or don’t they? (Relocate to the mainland / see Daniel’s bum / expand their diet beyond “gull”)? Read my plot recap and detailed ending, below (my three star review is here) Isla and Sandy are two thirtysomething siblings who have lived alone on a tiny Scottish island since their parents disappeared in childhood…. Do they stay or do they go? The ending of The Incomer Read More
The Incomer 3 stars
Two siblings on a tiny Scottish island are visited by a local council worker with orders to evict them. A brother and sister live in splendid isolation on a supposedly uninhabited Scottish island, until their hard and solitary life is interrupted by an incursion by a council-sent intruder. They try to repel him the way… The Incomer Read More
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