One of the surprise hits of the year has been Stranger Things, the eight episode Netflix show that has got us feeling all nostalgic for films and shows like The Monster Squad, The Goonies, Firestarter and Stand By Me. Its not shock that the show has been renewed for a second series but what is…
The year is 2018. One year after a deadly Cyber Virus has infiltrated and seized control of X-Corp, a top secret and highly advanced weapons manufacturer. Now the world is an apocalyptic wasteland of death and destruction. What’s left of the human race is hunted down and destroyed by X-Corp’s ground units (an army of…
Director John Asher’s hypnotizing ‘’Po’’, a runaway hit with audiences at various film festivals including Albuquerque, Houston and Palm Beach, will screen at The Golden Door International Film Festival on September 24. The film, starring Christopher Gorham (“Covert Affairs”) and newcomer Julian Feder, tells of a recently widowed man who must learn to cope with…
From writer-director Miles Doleac and Academy Award Winning Producer Lisa Bruce (The Theory of Everything) The Hollow – in theaters October 7 from Uncork’d Entertainment. James Callis (Bridget Jones’s Baby) stars in the suspense thriller of the year, a stylish and gripping hybrid of Blood Simple and Twin Peaks that’ll have audiences on the edge…
Neil Johnson’s highly anticipated sci-fi actioner ROGUE WARRIOR: ROBOT FIGHTER has been named as the Opening Night Film at this year’s Action On Film Festival, which is becoming one of the worlds top festivals to be in. The screening also marks the World Premiere of the film, which has been nominated for eight major awards…
When London bike courier Chris (Josh Whitehouse) witnesses a serious crime he flees the scene.You just know that Chris isnt about to have the best week of his life. This is one of the opening scenes for Alleycats, a British drama/thriller directed by Ian Bonhote and which is now available on DVD Bluray and Digital…
I was browsing a few of the blogs I follow, and this evening I discovered a posting made by John Shelton ( @mrsheltontv ) ( https://johnhsheltonofficial.wordpress.com/ ) letting people know that the Tom Wadlow directed film Wasteland is now on VOD (thats Video On Demand for those who arent film addicted) I have been waiting…
ROGUE WARRIOR: ROBOT FIGHTER to premiere at Action on Film September 2 Neil Johnson’s highly anticipated sci-fi actioner ROGUE WARRIOR: ROBOT FIGHTER has been named as the Opening Night Film at this year’s Action On Film Festival, which is becoming one of the worlds top festivals to be in. The screening also marks the World Premiere…
Its been a busy few weeks for me what with one thing or another, but now i am actually finding the time to catch up on some UK films and UK film news that I have been meaning to type up for you to check out. So whats new? Well a lot actually. Where to…
It’s been 20 years since James’s sister and her two friends vanished into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland while researching the legend of the Blair Witch, leaving a trail of theories and suspicions in their wake. James (James Allen McCune of TV’s SHAMELESS) and his friends Peter (WRECK-IT RALPH’S Brandon Scott), Ashley (Corbin Reid…
KINGSGLAIVE:FINAL FANTASY XV Debuting on Digital August 30 On Steelbook, Blu-ray™ & DVD September 30 Bonus Materials Include Four Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes Experience the global phenomenon when the action-packed, feature-length epic, KINGSGLAIVE: FINAL FANTASY XV, debuts on digital on August 30 and on Steelbook, Blu-ray™ and DVD on September 30 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Highlighted…
FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK OPENING NATIONWIDE SEPTEMBER 9TH In Theaters & VOD For The Love Of Spock is a documentary film about the life of Star Trek’s Mr. Spock as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Spock for almost fifty years. The project started out as a collaboration between Leonard…
Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Damien Chazelle, From the director of Whiplash LA LA LAND tells the story of Mia [Emma Stone], an aspiring actress, and Sebastian [Ryan Gosling], a dedicated jazz musician, who are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts. Set in modern day Los Angeles,…
I wasn’t sure what to expect when watching K-Shop, the feature film debut by writer/director Dan Pringle.I first heard of K-Shop whilst checking out the up and coming projects of actor Scot Williams (Hard Boiled Sweets, The Crew, Redirected) and of the three films Scot featured in this year, one of those was K-Shop, Scot Williams…
The horror creature feature Blood Hunters, will be having its world premiere at Horror Channel Frightfest London on Monday August 29th, 2016 at 6:15pm. Presented at the VUE Cinema Shepherds Bush, the film will be part of the Discovery Screen program. Director Tricia Lee, writer Corey Brown and actor Peter Blankenstein will be in attendance A character-driven genre…
Gritty action and high concept thrills combine in Level Up, a British, contemporary and distinctly unhinged thriller. Matt (Josh Bowman – Revenge), a directionless 20 something and one half of a young couple living in London has an unsuccessful date night with his girlfriend, Anna (Leila Mimmack – TV’s Home Fires), and they go to…
Award-winning actors Tracey Birdsall and Barry Corbin are filming The Time War, writer-director Neil Johnson’s long gestating science-fiction thriller that went into development back in 2010. The film features the legendary Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars : Attack of the Clones) in one of his final screen roles. Originally written in 1995, The…
From The Oscar Nominated Director of Dallas Buyers Club “must-watch black comedy” A successful investment banker (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. With the help of a customer service rep (played by Naonia Watts) and her young son, he starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of…
Revealed: Modern Men Too Scared To Turn The Lights Out Almost half of men under 30 are afraid of the dark (42%) The research unveiled that when faced with somewhere pitch black, nearly three quarters (73%) of young men feel terrified, wary, nervous, that it makes their heart race or that they simply try to avoid it…
Generally I like to have watched the previous films when it comes to watching a sequel. If I havent seen the first one, I rarely go on to watch the sequel. It makes sense to me to work that way. However when it comes to prequels things can work a bit different and this is…
DRILLER QUEEN is the brand new exploitation film from 29 year old British musician/performer turned filmmaker Kurt Dirt. Self described as “a cross between ‘Party Monster’, ‘Maniac’, and every HG Lewis movie ever made” DRILLER QUEEN is John Waters influenced Producer/Director Kurt’s second feature film to date. The plot focuses on a scalp snatching killer drag…
In UK cinemas 23rd September 2016 A tense and timely urban thriller, set against the ruthless backdrop of London’s exploitation of migrant labour, and featuring a star-making turn from rising international talent David Gyasi (Interstellar, Cloud Atlas, The Dark Knight Rises), Panic, aTaxi Driverfor the 21st century, reveals a side of the city usually kept hidden deep in the…
Wolfe Video today announced HURRICANE BIANCA will be released digitally on September 23, 2016. The film stars RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio (comic Roy Haylock), and tells the story of a New York teacher who is fired from a small Texan school for being gay, and returns disguised as “Bianca” to wreak revenge…
Get ready to get utterly hooked on SCREAM QUEENS, TV’s most mischievous and addictive new series when it arrives on DVD from 26 September 2016. From the mind of Ryan Murphy (creator of Glee and American Horror Story) SCREAM QUEENS is shiny, gory, ridiculous and wickedly funny. A mysterious “Red Devil” killer wrecks havoc at…
In the tradition of STRANGER THINGS, the spookfest rolls out on the small screen – in this case YouTube, beginning Monday August 15. The series, said to be a mix of Teen Wolf and Saw, features such seasoned names as Taylor Hay, Paul Stevans, Bryan McClure, Saige Ryan, Joey Luthman, and famed Viner, Nik Keswani.…
Highly-anticipated documentary DOMED! THE UNTOLD STORY OF ROGER CORMAN’S THE FANTASTIC FOUR, from writer-director Marty Langford, will be distributed in the US and Canada by Uncork’d Entertainment. Chronicling the history of Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four (1994), DOOMED! features never before seen footage from the production as well as new on-camera interviews with cast and crew…
ROGUE WARRIOR : ROBOT FIGHTER introduces audiences to to cinema’s next action heroine, Sienna! Director Neil Johnson’s film fixes on the overthrow of humanity by Artificial Intelligence and the determined rebel, Sienna (Birdsall) who goes up against the droid empire. William Kircher (The Hobbit), Stephen Manley (Star Trek III), Daz Crawford (TV’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D),…
STEVEN BERKOFF’S TELL TALE HEART’ Directed by Steven Cookson ‘SHAKESPEARE’S HEROES & VILLAINS’ Directed by Steven Cookson From the same team that produced ‘Stanley a Man of Variety’ in 2015 comes Steven Berkoff’s Tell Tale Heart and ‘Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains’ Adapted from the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Tell Tale Heart is told by an unnamed…
This haunting, psychological horror follows Seth, a lonely man working in an animal shelter. His monotonous routine is broken one day when he bumps into Holly, a girl from school who he soon becomes obsessed with. However, when she rejects his advances, Seth’s obsession reaches a terrifying new level, with Holly hiding secrets of her…
Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal), a successful investment banker, struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Despite pressure from his father in law, Phil (Chris Cooper), to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel. What starts as a complaint letter to a vending machine company turns into a series of letters revealing startling personal admissions.…
After a mini hiatus on monthly events while they focused on Supernova & Grimmfest (I attended a brilliant screening of Aliens:Theatrical Edition at Supernova) the team are back with the first of many new horror screenings! This time around its at the Manchester Central Library as part of Scalarama to screen another cult literary classic.…
Tom Hiddleston Stars as Legendary Country Music Icon Hank Williams Available on Digital HD August 29 Out on DVD September 12 Tom Hiddleston (Thor & The Avengers franchises, “The Night Manager”) gives a critically-acclaimed performance as the iconic, tormented singer-songwriter Hank Williams in Sony Pictures Classics’ and RatPac Entertainment’s I SAW THE LIGHT, available on DVD…
On DVD from Monday 1st Aug. 2016 and on VOD from Friday 22nd July 2016 and for download from Monday 1st Aug. 2016 Bloody vengeance comes to the streets of a British seaside town in this darkly comic horror, which sees a young student turn vigilante on the drunken thugs who caused the death of…
With these six films, Woody Allen made one of the most remarkable transitions ever seen in American cinema, from the slapstick buffoonery of the early, funny films to the Oscar-winning breakthrough of Annie Hall and the wholly serious Interiors. Along the way there’s the Latin American revolutionary satire Bananas, genre-bending sex-education spoof Everything You Always…
The Driller Killer On Limited Edition Dual Format Blu-Ray + DVD SteelBook, and Special Edition Dual Format Blu-Ray + DVD on 28 November 2016 On DVD, Blu-Ray and Dual Format from Monday 28th Nov. 2016. One of the most notorious of the ‘video nasties’, Abel Ferrara’s exploitation-art-house crossover was judged almost entirely on its video…
On Dual Format from Monday 21st Nov. 2016. In the seventies William Friedkin made The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer. In the eighties he equalled them with To Live and Die in L.A., one of the most stylish thrillers the decade had to offer. When his partner is murdered just days before retirement, Secret…
On Dual Format from Monday 14th Nov. 2016. How do you follow up a film as iconic as Joe Dante’s seminal werewolf epic The Howling? With a star turn from horror legend Christopher Lee and a leather-clad Sybil Danning (The Red Queen Kills Seven Times), Howling II is more than up to the challenge! After…
On Dual Format from Monday 7th Nov. 2016. Marking TV star Daphne Zuniga’s debut in a leading role, The Initiation ranks amongst the finest of the college-based stalk-and-slash flicks – now finally restored in glorious High-Definition! Kelly’s new sorority has a special initiation ritual in store for her – an after-hours break-in of her father’s…
RATCHET & CLANK ON DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FROM AUGUST 22ND & DVD from AUGUST 29TH, 2016 Two unlikely heroes must find the courage to battle an unstoppable force and save the universe in the animated adventure film RATCHET & CLANK, available on Digital Download from 22nd August & DVD from August 29th, 2016 courtesy of Lionsgate Home…
With the lovely news that web series“Cops and Monsters” has been accepted into the Los Angeles Film Awards 2016 for Best Web Series. Its a great time to show you some of the episodes of Scottish indie digital series, Cops and Monsters. Filming has wrapped on Episode 5 and due to a scheduling issue…
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