Event type: Film

Possibly in Michigan (1983) + Underground Shot-on-Video Short Films

Paraphysis Cinema and PVTV Fringe Flicks present a special screening of Possibly in Michigan (1983), the cult feminist horror musical by American filmmaker Cecelia Condit. The film follows two friends whose ordinary day takes a strange and unsettling turn, mixing dark humour, surreal storytelling and a distinctive lo-fi VHS style that has made it a viral favourite.

Alongside the main film, the event includes a curated selection of underground shot-on-video short films from a range of different eras. Expect strange, inventive and visually bold work made using consumer-grade video equipment – films that capture the energy and creativity of DIY and outsider cinema.

The event is Pay What You Can, keeping it accessible for all.Limited-edition screen-printed posters from Liverpool Community Print Station will be available to purchase on the night.

Organisers: Paraphysis Cinema & People Versus TV CICContact: peopleversustv@gmail.com

 

Jaws 50th Anniversary Celebration

Celebrate 50 years of JAWS at Videodyssey, Toxteth TV with live art, LEGO, quiz & more. 
 
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of JAWS at Videodyssey Toxteth TV Studios – Liverpool’s fully accessible arts venue in the heart of L8.

Dive into an immersive evening marking five decades of the original blockbuster – JAWS – at the legendary Videodyssey, where retro meets real-life thrills.

You can expect:

  • An epic LEGO JAWS display
  • Live art inspired by the movie
  • A killer quiz competition
  • Rare JAWS memorabilia to explore

This event is brought to you by:

Purple Revolver – champions of pop culture, creativity, and film in Liverpool

Liverpool Noise – your go-to guide for the best music, events and culture across the city

Don’t miss this chance to relive the bite that changed cinema forever – in true L8 style.

Get your tickets now – before they’re gone.You’re gonna need a bigger night out!

Iron Ladies – Film Screening

Iron Ladies is a feature documentary about the amazing women who were the backbone of the 84/85 Miners’ Strike.

From Scotland down to Kent, real ‘Iron Ladies’ from the coalfields shed light on their experiences of the year long struggle against the British state, trying to save their communities.

The film comes to Liverpool next month for a special one-off screening.

It plays at Picturehouse at FACT on 20th November and features a Q&A with contributor Rose Hunter (North Staffs Miners’ Wives Action Group) and moderator Abi O’Connor.

https://www.fact.co.uk/film/iron-ladies-q-a

Christmas pop-up cinema at Calderstones Park

NEW FOR DECEMBER 2025: Get festive at the historic Mansion House in Calderstones Park as The Reader reveals a season of “festive film magic” in its brand-new Christmas Cinema under a cosy canopy. 

(with photos)This December, The Reader has announced a new season of nine festive film screenings as Liverpool’s biggest open-air cinema returns to Calderstones Park.

A handpicked line-up of “unforgettable” movies will be hitting the screen under a cosy heated canopy in a pop-up Christmas Cinema between Friday 19 December and Wednesday 24 December.

The national Shared Reading charity’s outdoor cinema launched in July 2025 set against the backdrop of the stunning grade II listed Georgian Mansion House. All profits support The Reader’s charitable work transforming lives through literature in Liverpool and beyond.

Jen Chapman, Associate Director of Marketing, Communications & Digital at The Reader, the UK’s largest Shared Reading charity, said: “Christmas is a traditional time to snuggle up with the people you love and watch a film, so after the success of our summer open-air cinema and spooky cinema, we’ve decided to create another season of unforgettable festive film magic. Our cosy, heated canopy will glow with fairy lights, and we’ll have gorgeous festive food and drinks and music. We hope this will be a new Christmas tradition for families, couples and friends!”

MINI-MOVIES

Two short and sweet half-hour MINI-MOVIES for the littlest cinema lovers will be screened inside the cosy Mansion House Theatre Room. 2011’s hugely popular animated adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture book The Gruffalo’s Child (U), will be shown on Friday 19 December and Tuesday 23 December, 11.30am. 

Stick Man (U), based on the much-loved festive book by the same author and illustrator, will be screened on Saturday 20 December and Wednesday 24 December, 11.30am.

CHRISTMAS CINEMA The first film to open the CHRISTMAS CINEMA season in the Mansion House Garden under the cover of a cosy, heated canopy will be 1988’s Die Hard (15), 7.30pm, on Friday 19 December starring Bruce Willis as US cop John McClane on a mission to save a group taken hostage during a Christmas Eve party. Prepare for an edge of your seat, explosive festive adventure. 

John Hughes’ 1990 Christmas comedy Home Alone (PG), will follow on Saturday 20 December, 3.30pm, and again on Sunday 21 December, 7.30pm. Macaulay Culkin plays eight-year-old Kevin who has to defend the family home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.

Quintessential 2003 British Christmas rom-com Love Actually (15), featuring an all-star ensemble cast is on Saturday 20 December, 7.30pm, and there’s heartwarming festive fun in Elf (PG), on Sunday 21 December, 3.30pm, and Tuesday 23 December, 7.30pm. 

The season draws to a close with two family-friendly films: the puppet adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novella, The Muppet Christmas Carol (U), on Monday 22 December, 3.30pm, filled with laugh out loud one-liners and an iconic performance by Michael Caine and Dr Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (PG), Tuesday 23 December, 3.30pm, starring Jim Carrey as the cynical green grump who learns how to love Christmas.

And for the grand finale on Christmas Eve, Frank Capra’s 1946 black-and-white classic It’s a Wonderful Life (U), Wednesday 24 December, 3.30pm, starring James Stewart, will leave you feeling fully topped up and toasty warm with the true spirit of Christmas.

The Reader’s new open-air cinema has been made possible thanks to a grant by social investor Livv Investment, part of the Prescot-based Livv Housing Group.TICKETS, TREATS & SEATS

Arrive early and soak up the Christmassy atmosphere with in the lawned, festoon lit landscaped garden music, food and drinks under a cosy heated canopy. 

Gates will open: 

  • 11am for 11.30am screenings 

  • 2.30pm for 3.30pm screenings

  • 6.30pm for 7.30pm screenings

Calderstones Members will be able to save 10% and receive priority booking from today, Thursday 16 October. General sale will open from Monday 20 October. Tickets cost £14.50 for adults and £9.50 for under 16s. All bookings can be made here: thereader.org.uk/cinema. The Reader also has a handy FAQ page with further information. 

Pre-orders will be taken for Hot Dogs (VE available) £8 and Nachos, (VE available) £8. Treat yourself to a bottle of fizz for £25 or a bucket of Peroni beers (six bottles) for £20. Book a deckchair for £5 or bring your own.

The brand-new festive film season is part of the charity’s seasonal Christmas programming which includes the annual family-friendly Christmas Story Trail (29 November – 31 December) – based on Mr Santa by Jarvis – to Brunch with Mrs Claus, festive wreath-making and A Bronte Christmas Afternoon. To see the full What’s On list visit here.

 

ButtonMasher: Final Destination 3 Choose Their Fate

 

Button Masher presents : Final Destination 3 – Choose Their Fate! & Most Haunted Interactive DVD

November 6th Thursday

Rough Trade Liverpool

Button Masher! A night of interactive movies straight from the dodgy DVD discount bin!

Chapter Two – Choose Thier Fate

This month we are screening Final Destination 3 – Choose their Fate! A hidden extra on the 2 disc special edition dvd version of the third film of the Final Destination series.

Six years after a group of high-school students first cheated death, another teen has a premonition that she and her friends will be involved in a horrifying roller-coaster accident. When the vision proves true, the student and her fellow survivors must deal with the repercussions of cheating the Grim Reaper. Choose their Fate edition gives the viewer the ability to make changes at certain points in the film that alter the outcomes of some scenes, with particular focus on whether the characters live or die, and how…

We will also be playing a round of the Most Haunted Interactive DVD Quiz. Based on the Popular TV Series, join Yvette Fielding and the team in an epic journey through Britains haunted hotspots. Interact with the psychic mediums in creepy castles, mysterious manors and some of the spookiest houses in the land.

 

Made on Merseyside 2

 

Made on Merseyside 2, aims to celebrate the cultural/creative industries in our area. There will be a focus on film, TV, music and writing.

At the heart of the exhibition are objects and photos, films and documents which shine light on the many fascinating stories which have shaped our local cultural landscape. 

Highlights will include an inspirational documentary on the making of the cult film classic, Letter to Brezhnev, as screenwriter Frank Clarke is from Kirkby and many of the film locations are local to Knowsley/Liverpool.

Kitty and Her Accordion is a poignant short documentary that delves into the life of Kitty, a working-class Mum in 1950s Liverpool, who was constrained by societal expectations that stifled her dreams of becoming a musician.

A celebration of the 1960s TV series Z Cars, the first series of which was filmed in and around Kirkby, and an exploration of the work of local author of stage and screen Alan Bleasdale will form part of the exhibition, along with a look at The End, a unique magazine created in 1981 in Stockbridge Village (then Cantril Farm) by founding editors Phil Jones and Peter Hooton and focusing on local life, music, football and fashion.

Also featured, will be Amazon Studios and their independent record label ‘Inevitable’. Beginning life as Liverpool Sound Enterprises in the 1970s, Amazon Studios became a central site for the local post-punk music scene, responsible for early recordings by many local bands such as Echo and the Bunnymen, Dead or Alive, Wah! and China Crisis; they also recorded the original film score to the Letter to Brezhnev film, amongst many others.

Accompanying the exhibition will be a range of talks, events and workshops.

 

PVTV Fringe Flicks: Surreal Short Films feat. Hotel Kalura

Fringe Flicks returns this October with an evening of surreal, absurd, and experimental cinema.

The featured short is Hotel Kalura by award-winning UK animator Sophie Koko Gate, whose work has screened at Sundance, SXSW and Tate Modern, and who was shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award. Set on the romantic island of Sicily, Hotel Kalura is a dazzling animated tale filled with humour and dreamlike strangeness.

Alongside it, audiences will see twelve shorts from across the UK, US, Iran, Spain, France, Sweden, Estonia and Ireland. Expect monster comedies, poetic hauntings, DIY horror and satirical animations — a bold mix designed to surprise, provoke and entertain.

Full line up here: www.peopleversus.tv/fringe-flicks/

Presented by People Versus TV CIC, Fringe Flicks is run on a Pay What You Can basis. Refreshments will be available, and audiences are invited to stay after the screenings to socialise and chat about the films.

Tickets available via Eventbrite.

Helen Anna Flanagan ‘Burnt Toast’ & Gavin Gayagoy ‘Doomscroll_1’

This exhibition brings together two artists exploring the complexities of human existence in the modern world. Through their artworks, Helen Anna Flanagan and Gavin Gayagoy navigate experiences of alienation through societal neglect and digital isolation. Both works were created during artist residencies at FACT and developed in Studio/Lab, our dedicated space for nurturing and supporting artistic practice.

Burnt Toast is a contemporary ghost story by Helen Anna Flanagan. The film resurrects legendary British comedian Tommy Cooper, who famously died mid-performance in 1984. Combining machine learning, analogue technologies, archival materials and a trained impersonator, the film follows a failed magician trapped in his decaying home. Unemployed and struggling with mental health and social isolation, he recites memories and anecdotes haunted by the past. Through his story, Helen asks us to question how hidden structures —such as class, culture and capitalism— can shape our lives, control our actions, and leave us feeling alienated.

Read the film transcription here – Burnt Toast (2025) Transcript.

Gavin Gayagoy’s work, Doomscroll_1, explores our relationship with smartphones, focusing on the sensation of ‘doom-scrolling’ – compulsively consuming digital content, often to the detriment of mental health. Doom-scrolling often leaves people feeling trapped in an endless loop as they mindlessly switch between apps, losing track of time. Gavin utilises game design to examine how digital environments impact our emotions and, ultimately, our understanding of ourselves. His work addresses the paradox of being online – that it holds the potential to thrill and fear, offering freedom while also holding us back.

Our homes are full of ghosts – from our memories to digital presences that haunt us from our screens, drawing us into their spectral worlds and slowly building a sense of disconnection from those physically around us. In this exhibition, both artists use the domestic setting as a way to think about the technologies, social conditions and societal structures that create this strange loneliness in being connected.

Feature Image: Gavin Gayagoy, Doomscroll_1 (2025). Photograph, courtesy the artist.

 

Knuck & Knuckle (13 mins)

Knuck & Knuckle is a short film born from Irish artist, Frank McCarthy’s collaboration with a group of Irish Traveller boys passionate about boxing but less drawn to visual arts. Frank introduced Paint Punch, a technique where participants strike paint onto boards to create abstract artworks, a process that quickly captured their engagement and motivation, which features in the film.

The film follows the story of Lee Reeves, an internationally acclaimed boxer from Southill, one of Limerick’s most disadvantaged areas. His journey, marked by resilience, grief, and mental health struggles, speaks directly to young men living on society’s margins. In conversation with music artist WILLZEE, Lee shares an honest exchange about growing up in a working-class estate, offering a rare insight into contemporary Irish life.

Directed by first-time filmmakers Ellie Marron and Sean Horgan, with cinematography by Marron, sound and score by Evan O’Malley, David Sheerin and McCarthy, plus vocals by teenage singer Rosie McCarthy. The film is produced by Frank McCarthy and Monica Spencer for The GAFF. Knuck & Knuckle was awarded Best Documentary Short at Limerick’s Catalyst International Film Festival in 2025.

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Tony Birtill memorial lecture/ Léacht bliaintiúl in Tomós Antón Birtill

Conradh na Gaeilge Learpholl, in partnership with the Liverpool Irish Festival, are pleased to present the annual Tony Birtill Lecture.

On 21 Oct 2021, Liverpool (and Ireland) lost a great Irish Language supporter; Tony Birtill. He made an invaluable contribution to the conservation, promotion and teaching of the Irish language on Merseyside for over 30 years. A Gaeilgeoir (fluent Irish speaker) and walking enthusiast, Tony was also a keen historian and language activist. His widely acclaimed book Liverpool – A Hidden History gives a very incisive insight into the lives and living conditions of Irish emigrants living in Liverpool in the aftermath of the Great Famine (1845-1852).

This year’s memorial lecture is in two parts and will be delivered by local historian Greg Quiery and Dr. Eoghan Ahern from the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies. Greg’s talk will be about the establishment of the Great Hunger commemoration memorial in the gardens of St Luke’s Bombed Out Church in 1998 and Dr. Ahern’s talk will be about the impact of the Famine on the Irish language. Join us to hear to Greg Quiery and Dr. Ahern deliver two most interesting talks.

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