Film Festivals Articles

Ninth Annual MidWest WeirdFest Announces First Programming Wave of 2025

If you're in the mood for a wide range of offbeat and unusual cinematic fare, you need look no further than MidWest WeirdFest. Whether you seek horror movies worthy of watching through your fingers or documentaries that will blow your mind, the...
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT and PARTY OF DARKNESS (Another Hole in the Head Film Festival)

Pater Noster and the Mission of Light (U.S., 2024) Official festival synopsis: Max, a young record store clerk, stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into the world of a 1970s hippie commune. An invitation to the remnants of the cult and its...
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: OUR HAPPY PLACE and THE CODER (Dances with Films)

Our Happy Place (U.S., 2024) Synopsis: Raya wakes in the forest, cold and confused, with no memory of how she got there. Each day, it happens again. As hauntings intensify, Raya must confront a horrifying truth that shatters everything she had...
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A Fearful Four: A Quartet of Recommendations for Another Hole in the Head Film Festival 

San Francisco’s Another Hole in the Head Film Festival is well known for curating unique cinematic fare each year that ranges from the mind-boggling to the outrageous to the philisophical, and beyond. This year’s edition runs December 1–25, at...
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