GASP! Horror Festival 2025 – Day One
The 2025 edition of GASP! Horror Festival opened with magnificence. Continue reading GASP! Horror Festival 2025 – Day One
Tag: Manchester
Film Review: ‘The Draw’ (2024) – Manchester Film Festival 2025
Based on the concept of seeing people and the world through an Instagram filter, The Draw is one of the best – and scariest – sci-fi films in recent years. Continue reading Film Review: ‘The Draw’ (2024) – Manchester Film Festival 2025
Film Review: ‘Y2K’ (2024) – Manchester Film Festival 2025
Two teenagers task themselves with getting laid and having the wildest time as they enter the new millennium. Sound familiar? Of course. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Y2K’ (2024) – Manchester Film Festival 2025
Film Review: ‘Puck’ (2023) – MANIFF 2023
Casual sex, intimate encounters, one night stands etc. They are books which immediately close as they open. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Puck’ (2023) – MANIFF 2023
Film Review: ‘Spaghetti Junction’ (2021) – MANIFF 2022
From writer-director Kirby McClure, Spaghetti Junction is the latest to blend the elements of the socially realistic family drama with the surrealist sci-fi fantasy. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Spaghetti Junction’ (2021) – MANIFF 2022
For HCMovieReviews: “Zavvi’s Gotham Guardian Collection Launch”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi On a dark and gloomy November night…Manchester certainly resembles Gotham City. But where is the Batman?.. Manchester’s Kingstreet Townhouse, obviously. For the last time this year, unfortunately, the heroes from Zavvi hosted another fine, Bat-tacular launch party, and their finest yet: Gotham … Continue reading For HCMovieReviews: “Zavvi’s Gotham Guardian Collection Launch”
For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: Best of Film”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Alongside a few feature-lengths, this year’s Telling Tales presented a superb diversity of films with a 30 minute or less running time. From the UK to the Netherlands and to America, a wide range of nationalities in filmmaking were on show, presenting … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: Best of Film”
For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: Awards and Interview with Dr Lisa Gold”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi The 2018 Telling Tales International Film & Audio Documentary Festival came to a conclusion with an intimate awards ceremony within Screen 1 of Manchester’s old Cornerhouse. Those who finished 3rd, 2nd and 1st were in receipt of a certificate and bouquet of … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: Awards and Interview with Dr Lisa Gold”
For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: The Illuminators”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Antti Haase’s The Illuminators (Valontuojat) – the best film of this year’s Telling Tales – is a beautiful story of family history combined with Lapland’s electronic evolution. Opening with a helicopter journey, Antti presents stunning imagery of Lapland and its powerlines. Antti’s … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: The Illuminators”
For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: Best of Audio”
Audio appreciation outside of art installation, but consumed in the same manner as film, is a growing mode of entertainment. Telling Tales was proud yet again to display the best of student and professional audio documentary in the world today. Below are the three standouts from the festival: Iron Glove Velvet Fist Back in the […] via Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: Best of Audio … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: Best of Audio”
For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: MMU Student Shorts”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi On both the first and last days of Telling Tales, audiences were treated to a selection of the finest short films from first-year undergraduate students. The student shorts were presenting a portrait style of story-telling. Some students constructed documentaries around their family … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: MMU Student Shorts”
For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Nona”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Michael Polish’s Nona closed the 2018 Manchester Film Festival, as audiences were left depressed with the presentation of how hope and risk can lead to despicable outcomes that no woman should have to live under. Nona opens with a brief narration by … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Nona”
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