The 34th Raindance Film Festival

“TOKYO NIGHTFALL“RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. VUE CINEMA LOWER REGENT STREET. FESTIVAL UNTIL 26 JUNE INCLUSIVE OF THAT DATE. Google for performance times. 79 Minutes . Nominated by Raindance for Best International Feature of this festival Due to be released across Japan on 31 July the film covers a lonely delivery rider Anemashi who is trying to come to terms with his sister’s suicide. Directed by Yuto Shimozo and with a large cast, its screening at Raindance is a World Premiere. It is a dark film with a moving and negative philosophy about life and death and gives an eery off beat … Continue reading The 34th Raindance Film Festival

Murdoch’s broken family weaponize his own secrets against him

Bonfire of the Murdochs is the real succession story of the Murdoch empire. When Rupert Murdoch made a fateful decision about who should inherit his media colossus, he believed that pitting his children against each other would produce the most capable heir. Twenty-five years later that gamble would tear apart one of the world’s most powerful families and trigger a multi-million dollar reckoning in a succession battle featuring betrayals, lawsuits, and revenge plots.  This is the epic family feud, one whose seeds were planted 50 years ago in Australia, when he complicated patriarch left his homeland to conquer the world and … Continue reading Murdoch’s broken family weaponize his own secrets against him

Bikers, Strippers, boozy bars, dudes popping pills amid country music

Why “soaps” on the silver screen appeal to us as much as sci fi and special XF. BORN TO LOSE. RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Up to and including June 26 Vue Cinema Lower Regent Street London. 112 Minutes. USA Biker drama 2026. Writers – Pierce Csurgo, Eric J Kinsey, Joseph Zentil. Director Joseph Zentil. Stars include ;- Dylan Arnold, James Le Gros, Amber Chylders, Sarah Pigeon. If you like stories with bikers, strippers, boozy bars, dudes popping pills and lots of country music then you’re in for a treat with this saga. Crime is included and the perhaps familiar theme of a gangster style … Continue reading Bikers, Strippers, boozy bars, dudes popping pills amid country music

Raindance Film Festival London 2026, 16-26 June

Hello Jack – How are you? I know you are not a young man and I know you probably supposed wrongly that I had ulterior motives for inviting you to my gaff all those years ago  but it was mainly to show you my artworks and discuss estate issues  = not much other than that.  Anyway you never came.  I had the same problem with another almost retired contact who was struggling with continuing to work in a library locally and travelled by rail and walking through Hyde Park to Paddington every day from Peckham – a white guy who … Continue reading Raindance Film Festival London 2026, 16-26 June

AI and Gender Inclusion with Women in Film and TV UK

Raindance talk and discussion at The Canon Venue Piccadilly. Raindance Film Festival continues up to and including June 26 2026 at The Vue Cinema Lower Regent Street. “AI and Gender Inclusion with Women in Film and TV UK,” Panel – Katie Bailiff, Viviane D’Avilla, Katharina Gellein Viken and Georgina Cammalleri AI has been around for a lot longer than people realize and now it has filtered gradually into the mass public sphere and is actively employed more than ever especially in film making and any visual communication including of course, material featured on social media. The title of this well networked and informed … Continue reading AI and Gender Inclusion with Women in Film and TV UK

How secrets come out in a dark story with purple passages and spooky scenes

Jackalope(2026) Raindance Film Festival, The Vue Cinema, Lower Regent Street, London.Until and including June 26 , 2026. World Premiere. Bryce Hirschberg – Writer and Director. Independent horror/thriller. Stars Catherine Corcoran, Alex Mandel, and Bryce Hirschberg. The name Jackalope is a fictional beast – it combines a jackrabbit with the antlers of antelope or deer, rooted in American frontier tall tales and is a good choice of name for this dark film full of episodes to take our breath away. Jackalope indicates myth and mayhem and so the saga unfolds. It’s often fun to be watching a film which starts with … Continue reading How secrets come out in a dark story with purple passages and spooky scenes

Raindance Film Festival London 2026

The 34th Raindance Film Festival from 17-26 June 2026, at the Vue Piccadilly, London, has 85 narrative and documentary features including 48 films, most of them by emerging first-time filmmakers. The programme includes 112 short films. Raindance’s mainly sponsored by Canon Europe. Gangsters whose demands are urgent, evil and impossible American Muscle (2026) RSL Films and Ghost Gang 81 minutes. Writer/Director Joel Veach Produced by David Thompson Filmed on location in Santa Clarita California. Peppered by an unexpected diversion into the Tarot and featuring very believable characters the beauty of this film is that the lead actor David W Thompson playing Rey … Continue reading Raindance Film Festival London 2026

Latest piracy problems

Artificial Intelligence has made pirated audiobooks faster to make and harder to detect and this latest threat to the publishing industry. Create with one click or craft every performance detail, powered by the world’s most expressive AI voices as your manuscript is turned into a studio-quality audiobook in minutes. Artificial intelligence programs have given pirates new tools to rapidly reproduce audiobooks and to illegally profit from them by running advertisements as You Tube is crawling with pirated Audiobooks. Optimised and converted manuscripts into audiobooks with AI, is the latest threat to the publishing industry. Most antipiracy technology is designed to … Continue reading Latest piracy problems

Go against the System…

What do you do when law enforcement, the courts, and the prison system fail, there is a fourth and final option according to New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr  teaming up with M.P. Woodward, in their new thriller series. Disillusioned by the government and institutions he dedicated his life to serving, former Navy SEAL, sniper for twenty years and CIA ground branch operative Chris Walker is about to end his life when he receives a call that saves it. The wife of a teammate he lost in Afghanistan has now lost her son to the opioid crisis and needs Walker’s … Continue reading Go against the System…

Out of Inflation and Recession…

Jeremy Hunt, the former chancellor delivers a convincing and optimistic and detail blueprint for growth- and a candid assessment of his own time in government. Jeremy Hunt on how to fix the UK Economy. In recent years, a succession of economic shocks has led to low growth, stagnant living standards and divided politics. As debt and taxes have risen to record levels, many worry that the UK Economy is stuck in a low-growth trap with ruinous implications for future generations. Jeremy Hunt who was the Chancellor during one of those shocks and successfully navigated the economy out of both inflation … Continue reading Out of Inflation and Recession…