As my spree of Halloween write-ups reaches its end, I Saw the TV Glow seems like the perfect place to leave things. A horror where most of the chills come from an uncanny recognition of parallels between the onscreen/offscreen lives of the characters and our own, it delivers a towering rebuttal to the cynical nihilism which some use to police the tone and content of culture that is ‘acceptable’ to the mainstream.

Prano Bailey-Bond's 2021 horror Censor should be considered a masterpiece of modern horror. Not only for its insights into the violence in our daily ideological fantasies, but for its examination of how the defanging of cultural criticism helps to maintain a society of horrors. In 2017, in another life, I was attempting to found a radical film festival in the east of England.

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The below live event has concluded. However, the six new films in competition can still be viewed on IFL’s private digital theatre. Use the password IFLPLAYER25 to access the movies, and to v…

Many of the reviews for Mad God inevitably focused on trying to describe one of “the bleakest dystopias science fiction”, as The Hollywood Reporter’s John Defore put it. And in many ways, that is only right: the scope and majesty of Phil Tippett’s masterpiece should be fawned over in as much detail as the film press can afford to print.

The days are shrinking, the nights are drawing in, and the dark half of the year is almost upon us. As spooky season gets into full swing, our showcase of short horror films is just one week away! …

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Tube Rats are back to bring you your Halloween fix – and this year Jack, Jimmy and Georgia are scaring themselves silly with four short found-f…

Ahead of the Indy Film Library Halloween Horror Showcase on October 25th - tickets still available here - Jack spoke to Felipe Baréa Prado. The director and writer for Alles is OK - a short playing as part of the selection - Felipe explores his artistic process, hopes for the film industry, and the differences between living and working in the Netherlands, and Brazil. You can listen to the whole interview here:

Sometimes, old bands find it hard to play the hits: they want to show they still have some of the old magic, when it comes to producing new material. Spinal Tap’s decades-late encore suffers from this impulse, but all is forgiven in the moments when it just gives us what we want: more time in the company of Smalls, Tufnell and St Hubbins.

Director: Myra Bax Writer: Myra Bax Cast: Vicu Bazan Szelest & Jasper Koopmans Running time: 5 mins There is a frame of mind that says routine is the mortal enemy of passion. The Flourishing of Love centres on a relationship which seems to prove that, both intentionally and unintentionally – as two apparently star-crossed lovers drift apart over the course of two-dozen bouquets.

2025 has seen a number of rather facile attempts to suggest the problem with modern horror is it has too much to say about modern life, and – to coin Clarisse Loughrey’s particularly ham-fisted phrase – leave audiences feel like they’ve been “bonked on the head by the metaphor hammer”. But after the jump scares and the superficial stuff fades away, the metaphoric ways the horror touches on our lived reality are the source of the most potent terror of all – as Zach Cregger’s…

At a glance, Jon Bois’ body of work is so eclectic that it’s hard to bind him on even a related group of topics, ranging from political documentaries to deep statistical sports analysis to multi-me…

Director: Sando Heijnen Writer: Sando Heijnen, Eli Idsart & Meander van Harrewijen Cast: Manu Zain Carmiggelt & Roman Derwig Running time: 11mins As the years pass, I enjoy more and more how I get to see artists evolve, when they send their follow-up work. But the thing I like most about Eindwerk is not something new, but its commonalities with previous movies from Sando Heijnen.

Movies by talented six Netherlands-based and three international directors to be screened at Amsterdam’s Supermercator (Mercatorplein 3H, 1057 BX) from 17:30 on October 25th 2025 Partnering with Cinemercator, the event will include Felipe Baréa Prado’s mental health horror ‘Alles is OK’; Lisette Vlassake’s identity-crisis short ‘Onderaards’; and Mart van den Heuvel…

Otets is billed as a “poetic-philosophical documentary” – and while the trappings of each one of those qualifiers contains a multitude of sticking points, it somehow manages to deliver on all three. That is no small feat, especially when throwing the powder kegs of contemporary European geopolitics, and familial trauma into the mix; so, writer-director Nataliya Golofastova and her team of editors (Srdjan Fink, Anna Bogolubova and Elja de Lange) should first be commended for making anything coherent out of the spiralling mass of footage and testimony before them.

Director: Catherine Forster Running time: 6mins The term ‘Anthropocene’ refers to a theory that in recent centuries, human beings have become the dominant planetary force for change – particularly noting the accelerating geophysical and biochemical changes the atmosphere has undergone in the last 200 years. But while rising global temperatures – and the mass extinction event tied to them – have our fingerprints all over them, the scientific community remains reluctant to confirm this new epoch.

Director:  Sheldon Armstrong Writers: Sheldon Armstrong Cast: Isaac J. H. Barnes, Ava Azadeh, Justin Basiner, Max Hofmann Running time: 46mins American cinema was obsessed with heist films at …

Director: Femke Baeten Writer: Femke Baeten Cast: Lotte Jonker, Claire Schuyffel, Jadore Felter Running time: 19mins With a blank page before me, I am not really sure how to start this review. Instinctively, it feels like I should begin with a disclaimer: the story touches upon a number of themes and events which I have never had to directly experience, so I am out of my depth when speaking about them.

With superhero fatigue here to stay, and video games having delivered catastrophic results, Hollywood is openly scrambling to find its next tie-in megatrend. War of the Worlds clearly isn’t it – but it might contain an especially tiresome blueprint, that many more films will deploy in the coming era. In the early 1990s, film producers kicked off development for a film starring Vanilla Ice.

Directors: Jonathan Sipkema & Jonathan Bergsma Writers: Jonathan Sipkema & Jonathan Bergsma Cast: Jonathan Bergsma, Eline Bijman Running time: 30mins Clocking in at 30 minutes, écht (which translates as ‘real’) might be the longest music video I’ve ever seen. Following co-writer and director Jonathan Bergsma’s alter ego, ‘Johnny loves me’, the story sees an inability to talk about his feeling steadily distance him from his partner ‘The girl with the orange lipstick’ (Eline Bijman) – in a series of increasingly abstract musical vignettes.

Director: Sterre Rutten Writer: Sterre Rutten & Laila Tobi Cast: Laila Tobi Running time: 4mins I have said before that not every film needs to make a subversive point, or have social and historical importance to impress me. Despite arguably playing it safe from a thematic standpoint, director Sterre Rutten’s undeniably sweethearted offering Knor stillmanages to perform well on many other fronts.