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The Halloween Three - Part III: The final reckoning. Cult Manchester’s Halloween film picks come to a grisly end.
In space, no one can hear you argue about whether its a horror movie or not... Five films that might not be horror films at all.

Paul Hanley
Oct 253 min read


The Halloween Three - Part II. A seasonal selection of scary celluloid from a cabal of Cult Manchester contributors.
Horror goes abroad for Part II of our Halloween film selection.

Brontë Schiltz
Oct 243 min read


The Halloween Three - Part I. Cult Manchester's trio of writers choose their seasonal selection of scares.
Who better than Cult Manchester to help you with your choice of Halloween films?

Andy Murray
Oct 235 min read


‘Give people something to think about… without telling them what to think.’
Humanity! It's in short supply... but there's some available at Dylan Lisle's new exhibition in Oldham.

Katherine Macfarlane
Oct 203 min read


‘I like being a shadow… a strange, voyeuristic figure.’ Out on the streets of Manchester - at dawn - with the Not Quite Light photo project.
'I once had a kestrel fly past my thigh...'
The twilight world of Simon Buckley.

David Nolan
Oct 1710 min read


Cult thing of the month - Ian Curtis portrait commissioned by Granada TV.
Do you remember the giant mural in Castlefield that featured famous faces from 'Granadaland'?

David Nolan
Oct 34 min read


‘There I was trying to get Cheryl Cole into this drawer in a mortuary...’
Something kinda boo happened when Girls Aloud went ghost hunting. TV producer Helen Tonge was there so see it all unfold...

David Nolan
Sep 276 min read


Exclusive: this is Manchester, we do things in front of a blue screen… 24 Hour Party People unseen.
Exclusive - unseen footage of 24 Hour Party People form 25 years ago.

David Nolan
Sep 242 min read


‘I don’t think enough people talk about how much work happens around being an artist that has nothing to do with physically making art.’
'Making a living? Honestly, I'm still working this one out...' Meet the artists drawn together by the 1838 Collective.

Katherine Macfarlane
Sep 188 min read


'Do you know how hard it is to be yourself?'
Graham Fellows: 'It's so easy to be John...'

Andy Murray
Aug 307 min read


‘It's the newness and optimism of it. Then it starts going grey and rainy and decaying.’
Grief, coincidence and Asterix the Gaul - how artist Michael Cooke became the go-to illustrator for the Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan electronic music project.

David Nolan
Aug 285 min read


God-box documentary…
'Well, that’s ruined my opening sequence, hasn’t it?' Film editor Gareth Davies on rock doc cliches, goodwill and the DIY approach for his new Fall documentary.

David Nolan
Aug 215 min read


‘You deal with it by taking better photographs than they do...’
Women down the pit. What's it like taking photos down the front at a huge show? We ask three of the best.

Katherine Macfarlane
Aug 57 min read


‘We're a group of film fans putting on films for film fans - by any means necessary!’
What's next for CULTPLEX? We talk to Rob Jones, boss of Manchester's coolest cinema.

Andy Murray
Aug 37 min read


'Manchester music doesn't need a documentary, it needs a saga!'
‘I’m French,’ says filmmaker Sébastien Faits-Divers. ‘Sorry about that…’

David Nolan
Jul 305 min read
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