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Vampire For Hire – Out Now for Halloween

Liz Rodriguez — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:57:00 +0000

Jaime Zevallos and Nicholas Turturro have teamed up for a fun new horror-comedy short “Vampire For Hire”, and it’s available to watch free here on Movie Marker! Actor-filmmaker, Jaime Zevallos (Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger) and Nicholas Turturro (Apple TV + Highest 2 Lowest) star in Vampire For Hire, a horror-comedy that sinks its teeth into celebrity culture, […]

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Bolton International Film Festival Set To Return For 9th Edition

Darryl Griffiths — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:45:20 +0000

The Bolton International Film Festival proudly returns for its ninth edition, running from Wed 1st Oct to Sun 5th, Oct, the BAFTA and BIFA accredited short film festival will showcase 283 short films, including 34 World premieres, 16 European and 62 National premieres – cementing its reputation as one of the premier events on the […]

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MM Shorts – Contact Hours

Darryl Griffiths — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 02:58:53 +0000

Director: Harry Richards Starring: Kris Hitchen, George Osborne Envelopes resting on a shelf, pleading for an ‘urgent response’. Sets of keys hanging up all numbered, almost like their owners are just a statistic. For many of us. Keeping our pesky anxieties and fears about life concealed or locked up, as not one to worryingly project […]

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MM Shorts – The Third Life

Darryl Griffiths — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:53:55 +0000

Released: 22nd September 2024 (Youtube) Director: George Earwicker Starring: Rosie Frascona, Jacob Mellers, Alfie Rose ‘Love always needs somewhere to go’. As Alfie Rose’s boundlessly inquisitive son races past a globe-like feature with an arrow piercing through it, in the opening credits of this George Earwicker offering. Whether it’s through contemplative observation of its sweeping […]

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MM Shorts – Barricade (Alice Johannessen)

Darryl Griffiths — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:38:27 +0000

Lost in the summer haze as your favourite sounds blare into your ears. Only to have that sun-kissed escapism abruptly halted by a brattish boy, flexing his toxic masculinity by sexually harassing you on a busy bus, with seemingly no safe route for your grievances to go. That is the reality faced by young Aleena […]

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Good Boy

Rehna Azim — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:43:40 +0000

Director: Tom Stuart Cast: Ben Whishaw, Dino Fetscher, Marion Bailey In real life, grief is a very individual experience. In real life, it can be hard to get grief right. Exploring it in an original way that captures its many facets within the confines of a short film is an impressive feat. actor/ director Tom Stuart manages […]

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Gates ★★★★

Gala Woolley — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 17:07:17 +0000

Director: Josh Pickup Cast: Lily Walbeoffe and Iona Champain Gates is the story of two estranged sisters and the multifaceted often messy nature of sibling relationships. Lily Walbeoffe and Iona Champain play sisters Ella and Grace, respectively, in a beautifully shot and excellently acted short film. I am particularly interested in the representation of female […]

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