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Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 18h

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces competition line-up www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2025-10... #PÖFF29 #FilmSky🎬

PEople stand on a beach in Think Of England still

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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 20h

A story of enduring friendship between two musicians is told in documentary Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/omar-... #filmsky 🎬🎸

The story of the intimate, artistic and personal relationship between Omar Rodriguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala from progressive band The Mars Volta.

Perfect Blue - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 21h

We take a fresh look at anime classic Perfect Blue as it returns to cinemas www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/perfe... #filmsky 🎬

Anime about a former pop singer who is being stalked.

A Want In Her - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 22h

'I’m very happy to be trusted with characters of this calibre' - Denis Lavant on the art of constructing personas in Redoubt and The Stranger www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #LFF2025 #LFF #73SSIFF #FilmSky🎬

b&w shot of Denis Lavant as a man carrying scrap across a field in Redoubt

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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 1d

An artist explores her own troubled heritage and her mother's alcoholism and mental illness in documentary A Want In Her www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/a-wan... #filmsky 🎬

When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, an artist returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house, and a history that threatens to take everyo...

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 1d

"We had a motto to make a film that had the view from the outside but knowledge from the inside" - Frederik Sølberg on identity, displacement and Hana Korea www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #filmsky 🎬

A still from the film Hana Korea. Two young Korean women pay studious attention as an older woman eats a bagel. Behind them, large windows look out across a city at night.

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 2d

Towards the end of the Second World War, a group of young women are forced to risk their lives checking that Adolph Hitler's food hasn't been poisoned, in The Tasters www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-t... #filmsky 🎬

A still from the film The Tasters. Four young white women sit at a dinner table, a Nazi flag hanging on the wall behind them. One looks with concern at another, who is holding her dish to her face to swallow its contents directly.

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 2d

"I was like, ‘I can play Deathstalker. I can run around with a sword, show off my muscles...Yeah, absolutely. I'm in" - Daniel Bernhardt talks Steven Kostanski, Slash and Deathstalker www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #BeyondFest #filmsky 🎬⚔️

A still from the film Deathstalker. Inside a witch's hut, a long haired white man in pseudo-Medieval warrior garb leans across a table, holding out an amulet.

Iron Ladies - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 2d

The women who supported the 1984-85 miners' strikes and, in the process, changed their own lives forever, are celebrated in documentary Iron Ladies www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/iron-... #filmsky 🎬

A celebration of the iron willed women who maintained the 1984/85 Miners' Strike as they fought for the future of their communities.

Bugonia - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 2d

"While some directors spend their lives crafting love letters to the worlds they create, Yorgos Lanthimos has developed a fine line in cinematic hate mail to humanity." - www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/bugon... #LFF #LFF2025 #FilmSky🎬#73SSIFF

Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

Maspalomas - Film Review - Eye For Film

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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 2d

"Arregi and Goenaga are at pains to suggest that no matter what your political or sexual stance, we’re all human underneath." www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/maspa... #73SSIFF #LFF #LFF2025 #FilmSky🎬

An accident forces a septugenarian to return to his home town and the daughter he abandoned years before.

There Was, There Was Not - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 2d

From our archive and opening in the US on Friday www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/there... #FilmSky🎬

Four women try to rebuild their lives in Artsakh decades after the war, as another one breaks out.

A Tooth Fairy Tale - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 3d

A rebellious tooth fairy and a goblin scientist fall in love, threatening centuries of tradition, while befriending a troll and being stalked by a scheming spider, in A Tooth Fairy Tale www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/a-too... #filmsky 🎬🧚‍♀️

A rebellious tooth fairy and a goblin scientist fall in love, threatening centuries of tradition, while befriending a troll and being stalked by a scheming spider.

One Battle After Another - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 3d

'"When you play with children it’s really important that we build a real family" - Eye Haïdara on creating the world of Six Days In Spring www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #73SSIFF #FilmSky🎬

The actress as Sana in Six Days in Spring

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 3d

A group of former revolutionaries reunites for a rescue mission in One Battle After Another www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/one-b... #filmsky 🎬

When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own's daughter.

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 3d

Tallinn Black Nights announces Debut Feature Competition line-up www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2025-10... #PÖFF29 #FilmSky🎬

A woman in a tartan suit stands in front of a stately home

Six Days In Spring - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 3d

"Haïdara’s ability to switch moods from fun to fear is a key selling point" www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/six-d... #73SSIFF #FilmSky

Despite adversity, Sana wants her twins to have a spring vacation, but all her plans fall through. Together, they decide to stay in a luxury villa on the Riviera, owned by Sana's former in-laws. Witho...

Limitation - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 3d

"A clever, dynamic study" - we take a look at found footage documentary Limitation www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/limit... #FilmSky🎬

A look back at Zviad Gamsakhurdia's presidency, the first in Georgia's history after the fall of the Soviet Union, through the use of found footage and archive materials from the era.

Self-Help - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 4d

A key event disrupts a youngster's swimming event in short Inhale www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/inhal...

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 4d

A young woman struggles when her semi-estranged mother joins a cult in Self-Help www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/self-... #filmsky 🎬🎃

Members of an underground online community attend a secret weekend retreat to confront their fears and regain their sense of self. Two girls discover that one of their mothers has become romantically ...

a group of monkeys are gathered around a man with a beard

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 4d

It's time for our Stay-at-Home Seven weekly round-up of films to stream or watch on telly, and we've got everything from journalistic heroes and smart simians to ringside comebacks www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #StayAtHome7 #FilmSky🎬

Alt: Orangutan in Planet of The Apes

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Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 5d

The Memory of Protest - A consideration of Georgian cinema’s tribute to political prisoners at Kutaisi International Short Film Festival www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025...

Mzia Amaglobeli showing Mzia in the dock

Beast Of War - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 5d

Inexperienced World War Two era soldiers are trapped on a raft and circled by a shark in Beast Of War www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/beast... #FantasticFest #Grimmfest #filmsky 🎬🦈

A group of young soldiers, fresh out of boot camp, find themselves stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean after their ship is sunk by the enemy, and must battle for their lives against a giant ...

Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon - Film Review - Eye For Film

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 5d

Our heavy metal heroes get the band back together by resurrecting its dead members, but nothing goes to plan in Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/death... #FantasticFest #filmsky 🎬🎸

Brodie resurrects his bandmates to win the battle-of-the-bands and reacquire his girlfriend. His uncontrollable undead bandmate raises an army of costumed corpses. Brodie must stop the zombie horde be...