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New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2026 Video Overview

The New Jersey Film Festival returns to Rutgers University September 4th - October 4th for the Fall 2026 season! Al Nigrin, Executive Director and Curator, provides an overview of the films being showcased.





 



2026 Indie Street Film Festival takes place this week

(RED BANK, NJ) -- The 2026 Indie Street Film Festival takes place this week from August 17-23, 2026. The festival includes film screenings, networking events, seminars, and after parties throughout Red Bank, New Jersey.




New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2026 to open with "Your Lips Never Left Mine" on September 4th

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2026 kicks off with a screening of Your Lips Never Left Mine on Friday, September 4, 2026. Matthew Kozlark's thriller will be available via video on demand starting at 12:00am with an in-person screening at Rutgers University movie theater at 7:00pm.




Review - "Soulm8te"

Irish writer/director Kate Dolan's excellent 2022 feature debut You Are Not My Mother marked her as a horror filmmaker to keep an eye on. Blumhouse certainly had their eyes on Dolan, snapping her up to direct a movie in the M3GAN franchise. The result is Soulm8te (the movie itself mocks that clunky title). An unfair victim of the disastrous box office performance of last year's M3GAN 2.0, Dolan's film was pulled from its theatrical slot and dumped onto VOD. Any connections to the M3GAN universe that may have previously existed have been scrubbed, resulting in a standalone killer sexbot thriller.




New Jersey Theater Alum Dylan Pitanza Lands Netflix Role

Long before actor Dylan Pitanza would go on to work on a Netflix film alongside stars like Sunny Sandler, Melanie Lynskey, Max Greenfield, Bebe Neuwirth and Steve Buscemi, he was a New Jersey teenager discovering his passion for acting on local stages.










FEATURED EVENTS


Your Lips Never Left Mine – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM

Friday, September 04, 2026 @ 7:00pm
NJ Film Festival New Brunswick, NJ
 

Clan of the Painted Lady - Online for 24 Hours!

Saturday, September 05, 2026 @ 12:00am
NJ Film Festival New Brunswick, NJ
 
 
 
 


 




FEATURES


New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2026 Video Overview

The New Jersey Film Festival returns to Rutgers University September 4th - October 4th for the Fall 2026 season! Al Nigrin, Executive Director and Curator, provides an overview of the films being showcased.




New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2026 to open with "Your Lips Never Left Mine" on September 4th

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2026 kicks off with a screening of Your Lips Never Left Mine on Friday, September 4, 2026. Matthew Kozlark's thriller will be available via video on demand starting at 12:00am with an in-person screening at Rutgers University movie theater at 7:00pm.




45th Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will Take Place September 4th through October 4th

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The 45th Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place between September 4 - October 4, 2026. As they have been doing the last few years, the festival will be presented as a hybrid with select in-person screenings at Rutgers University and most of the films available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. The festival also be offering an Audio-Visual Concert featuring the bands Lawns and Hanging Coats as well as two FREE Filmmaking Workshops.








 

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The ShowRoom's Annual Summer Camp Series Returns in August

(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- This August, The ShowRoom welcomes audiences back to its annual Summer Camp series, a celebration of cinema at its most gloriously excessive. Featuring larger-than-life performances, outrageous style, melodrama, and unapologetic bad taste, this four-film lineup showcases the movies that have earned devoted followings through their fearless embrace of the theatrical, the flamboyant, and the fabulously over-the-top.



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Airplane! Live with Julie Hagerty and Robert Hays at The Basie on October 9th

(RED BANK, NJ) -- You ever seen a... screening of the greatest comedy to ever hit the skies? Well surely you’ve seen Airplane! — but not like this! Count Basie Center for the Arts has clearance, Clarence, to show the beloved comedy classic, Airplane! on the BIG screen joined live by two stars of the film! The event takes place Friday, October 9, 2026 at 7:30pm.










REVIEWS

Irish writer/director Kate Dolan's excellent 2022 feature debut You Are Not My Mother marked her as a horror filmmaker to keep an eye on. Blumhouse certainly had their eyes on Dolan, snapping her up to direct a movie in the M3GAN franchise. The result is Soulm8te (the movie itself mocks that clunky title). An unfair victim of the disastrous box office performance of last year's M3GAN 2.0, Dolan's film was pulled from its theatrical slot and dumped onto VOD. Any connections to the M3GAN universe that may have previously existed have been scrubbed, resulting in a standalone killer sexbot thriller.





 



Film Review - "The Devil's Mouth"

We've gotten so many shark movies in the last few years that at this point they've all begun to blur into one big mess of chum. The core issue with this crowded sub-genre is that there simply aren't enough variations on the theme. The best of the recent crop, Dangerous Animals, worked because it gave us a human serial killer who was arguably scarier than the sharks. Every other recent shark movie carries on the tradition set by 2003's Open Water, that of characters becoming stranded in a body of water that unfortunately for them, happens to be infested with man-eaters (watch out or they'll chew you up).




Film Review - "Nightborn"

Pregnancy horror movies fall into one of two categories. There are those, like Rosemary's Baby, that play out during the pregnancy term, and there are others, like It's Alive, that focus on the horrors that arise once the child is born. They all tend to share a female protagonist's fear that her child, whether it's inside or outside of her womb, is something monstrous.