When two men of different ages meet. This is the strangest encounter of their lives. A very short premise which thankfully doesnt give too much away but sets the tone for His Hands, from the creative minds of Arron Blake and Darius Shu. The short film should be out at some point this year and…
To celebrate the latest in the comedy-horror-disaster film franchise, UK distributor Tribal Films has partnered with Northern Monk Brew Co. to produce a limited edition Sharknado themed beer, with unique flavour and packaging. The special “Sharks Blood and Sea Salt IPA”, made with blood orange, is available across the UK and Europe. Northern Monk, homed in a…
Struggling photographer Sean Falco (Sheehan), who funds his lifestyle with a sideline in burglary, thinks he has hit the jackpot when he breaks into the luxurious house of the wealthy Cale Erendreich (Tennant). Things go wrong when Sean discovers a woman chained up in the house. Unable to free her before Cale returns, Sean reluctantly…
Imagine a world where happiness, smiling and laughter are a thing of the past; where an evil wizard presides over all that is good in the land. A WIZARD’S TALE is a magical family adventure about one boy’s quest to restore happiness to the world, available exclusively at Vue nationwide from 11th May, 2018 courtesy of Signature Entertainment. The Grump (Ian…
GRIMMFEST are mad about horror on the big screen, and few decades have provided more cult classics than the 1980s. For their next event they celebrate the gems of 1982. Kicking off with a special pre-release screening of remastered British cult classic, XTRO, following this up with a tribute to the late great George Romero,…
Arrow Video and FrightFest have agreed a one-year partnership deal, which sees the leading UK independent film distributor become headline sponsor for the UK’s biggest and most popular genre film festival. Mike Hewitt, Brand Marketing Manager for Arrow Video, said today: “As a long-time fan of FrightFest, Arrow Video are incredibly excited to be partnered with FrightFest for a…
Following a disastrous boat accident, professional big game hunter and celebrity playboy Rick Rainsford (John Hennigan) is washed up on a deserted island with his reluctant companion Anna (Michelle Taylor). While attempting to save another gravely injured survivor they encounter Colonel Zaroff (Eric Etebari), a psychopathic ex-KGB Agent and his menacing assistant Ivan (Joseph Gatt).…
The Criterion Collection and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the titles to be released on Blu-ray in July 2018. On the 23 July comes Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s richly humanistic A Matter of Life and Death; a romance that traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent value of love. After miraculously…
Based on RC Sherriff’s play and novel of the same name Journey’s End is set in March 1918 as C-Company, led by a war-weary Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin) arrives in northern France to take its turn in the front-line trenches. Told that a German offensive is imminent Stanhope drowns his fears in whisky whilst the…
SKD has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the psychological thriller ALTERED PERCEPTION, directed by Kate Rees Davies in her feature-length debut, and written by Travis Romero, creator of the USA series White Collar. Cinedigm will release the picture theatrically and on Digital and TV VOD on May 4, 2018, with a DVD Release to follow…
The inevitable clash between an unbeatable crew addicted to heists and an elite unit of Los Angeles detectives comes to a head in DEN OF THIEVES, arriving on Digital Download on 28 May and on Blu-ray™ and DVD on 4 June, courtesy of STXinternational, a division of STX Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Directed by Christian Gudegast…
Director George Russell‘s spellbinding expose on Andrew ‘Weev’ Auernheimer, Troll Inc., will be available on VOD May 22 2018 From innocent meme culture to malicious propaganda, the avant-garde has moved online and they have an agenda. Emerging from deep within underground computer programming culture, internet trolls are disenfranchised and using the click-bait obsessed mass media to…
Doug Jones, star of the Academy Award winning The Shape of Water, gives a mind-blowing performance in Gehenna : Where Death Lives, in theaters and On Demand May 4. The feature directorial debut of celebrated effects master Hiroshi Katagiri (Jurassic Park III, Pacific Rim), who also provides the film’s impressive effects, Gehenna co-stars genre icon Lance Henriksen (TV’s ”Millennium”,…
Director Jérémie Battaglia’s award-winning documentary PERFECT comes to VOD May 1 from Upstream Flix. PERFECT, which follows the Canadian synchronized swimming team beyond the beauty, to the brawn it takes to qualify for Rio 2016, was awarded Best Documentary at the Winter Film Awards. PERFECT has screened in over 110 cities worldwide to rave reviews.…
Following the official Festival du Cannes announcement, Anime Ltd. is pleased to confirm that Mirai will receive its World Premiere at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and screen as part of the prestigious Director’s Fortnight (Quinzaine) sidebar in May. Mirai will be the first Japanese animation ever to receive a world premiere on the Croisette.…
Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are on a roll – their critically acclaimed and utterly unique film Spring (which Empire called ‘one of the freshest genre offerings of recent years´) got them onto Variety´s ‘Directors to watch´ list in 2015, and received raves from Oscar-winning film- makers Richard Linklater and Guillermo del Toro…
Acclaimed sci-fi thriller RADIUS amongst four UK TV premieres on Horror Channel in May The gates of Hell are well and truly opened on Horror Channel in May, as the UK’s most popular TV destination for genre fans plays host to chilling Chinese legends, sinister sorcery, deadly zombies and a rampaging Arnold Schwarzenegger. There are…
Hereford Films, the London-based production outfit best known for its stylish and crowd-pleasing urban thrillers (We Still Kill the Old Way; Vendetta) has unveiled key art for the first title under its brand new Hereford Horrorbanner: the US-set, Blumhouse-style supernatural shocker, AURA. The film is due for release in the UK and USA in August by 4Digital Media and Sony Home…
There are so many ‘web series’ out there and so little time. Plus the added downside that most of the web series out there are indie made, which isnt a downside, but it just means that the only real way for the ‘word’ to spread is by people watching it and talking about it and…
When people ask you ‘so, what do you do?’ How do you introduce yourself? I either say I’m a filmmaker or I make movies. And sometimes I just say I’m a storyteller. What’s the first thing you do when you get on ‘set’ I say hello to everyone I see, then meet about…
From the director of Hooligan: Legacy, and Undercover Hooligan comes Hooligan Escape: The Russian Job, a film not connected with the two titles I have just mentioned which hits all formats very soon. Whilst the poster quote from The Sunday Sport describes the film as ‘The Grittiest British Film of the Year’ and I might…
As Spending Time With…Season 2 continues, its time to shine another spotlight on filmmaker Max Morrison, whos film The Firm is in full swing Directed and Written by Max the film will also star Adam Probets and is set and shot in Yorkshire,England. The story follows a lawyer’s alleged betrayal of one of his most notorious…
Professional wrestler John Hennigan (WWE, Impact, Lucha Underground) leads the cast in Steven LaMorte’s action-packed survival thriller Following a disastrous boat accident, professional big game hunter and celebrity playboy Rick Rainsford (John Hennigan) is washed up on a deserted island with his reluctant companion Anna (Michelle Taylor). While attempting to save another gravely injured…
Former London gangster Freddie Foreman is nearing the end of his life. A heavyweight villain with an unbelievably bloody past, Freddie is the last living legend of the Krays’ London underworld. A ruthless criminal, still feared and revered to this day. Freddie now lives in a retirement home: alone with only the memories of his…
The Misty Moon Film Society and Robo Films joint production BAD FRIDAY has now been released free to view on YouTube. Writer: David Barry, Producer: Stuart Morriss, Director: Jason Read During a Good Friday outing from a care home, Frankie Abbott (David Barry, “Please Sir!”) cons a giant Easter egg from a little girl in…
The Russian Job. Five English football fans have a violent encounter with a group of Russian hooligans at the European Cup. Their fight leaves one man dead and a vengeful Russian with an axe to grind. Two years later, former SAS man Ed Leighton (Ben Freeman) and four of his best mates travel to the World…
Bloody mayhem reigns supreme in this gritty Viking survival story set against a backdrop of the breathtaking Welsh landscape! Starring the cast of Game of Thrones and Vikings, including rising British star Dean Ridge (Dunkirk, Doctor Strange), and featuring a dazzling array of bone-crushing gladiatorial pit fights and blood-shedding battles of epic proportion, The Lost Viking is the must-own adventure…
The Addiction is one of the most powerful vampire movies ever made, with everything from its grainy black and white aesthetic to its raw central performance, combining to position vampirism as a hedonistic addiction above all else. Whether you’re already a convert or completely new to the film, Abel Ferrara’s take on vampire mythology, on…
With many thanks firstly going out to October Coast, a wonderful PR company that is easily one of the best around that supports a wide range of creative people, they helped me get some time with filmmaker Mark Heidelberger who has taken part in Season 2 of Spending Time With… A great read for all…
Relive the warmer days and calmer nights of Westeros when Game of Thrones: Season 1 makes its highly-anticipated debut on 4K Ultra HD optimized for Dolby Vision High Dynamic Range on June 5, 2018 from HBO Home Entertainment. Season 1 of the visually stunning fantasy epic, described as a “menacing, brutal and complex solid start” (The Guardian),…
With Season 1 of the online version of Spending Time With..being so popular, not only with those who took the time to answer the set questions that I fired over to them, but also with people who read the article and of course with myself for not only being able to read the answers typed…
With Season 1 of the online version of Spending Time With..being so popular, not only with those who took the time to answer the set questions that I fired over to them, but also with people who read the article and of course with myself for not only being able to read the answers typed…
A deadly hitman becomes an accidental hero in the pulse-pounding action-thriller ACCIDENT MAN, available on Digital Download and DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on April 16. Based on the underground British comic Toxic! by Pat Mills (creator of the “Judge Dredd” comic) and Tony Skinner, this darkly humorous and stylishly violent adaptation stars Scott Adkins…
‘’The House on Elm Lake is a dark and twisted supernatural tale that terrifies while delivering mind-bending visuals and exceptional performances” – Morbidly Beautiful This make a booking at the House on Elm Lake – the rooms are to-die-for! Director James Klass conjures up a holiday of horrors in a new Wild Eye Releasing release, premiering 4/10 on…
Lefty Brown (Bill Pullman) is a 63-year-old sidekick. Loyal, crotchety and rarely taken seriously, he’s ridden with Western legend Eddie Johnson (Peter Fonda) for his entire adult life. Now Johnson has been appointed Senator of Montana, and despite the objections of his spirited wife Laura (Kathy Baker), he plans to leave Lefty in charge of…
The safety pins are off as director Dominic Brunt and his producing partner actress/writer Joanne Mitchell (Before Dawn and Bait) bring us a satirical and sexy shocker unlike anything ever seen before. World premiered at FrightFest, ATTACK OF THE ADULT BABIES has been described as disgusting, depraved, brave, bonkers, brilliant and quintessentially British in its humour and depravity. As Brunt…
The Misty Moon Film Society and Robo Films joint production FRANKULA has now been released free to view on YouTube. It is almost half a century ago since Mummy’s little soldier, Frankie Abbott (David Barry), was at Fenn Street School and he is now in a home, being looked after by his carer Agnes (Emma…
To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of GRIMMFEST, the Manchester based genre festival is pleased to announce the first GRIMMFEST AWARDS, a new scheme to celebrate the very best genre titles selected for the annual festival and the creative teams behind them. This year’s GRIMMFEST festival takes place in Manchester UK from the 4th–7th October and the…
When Xiaoping joins the military, delicate dreams are dashed by the events of China undergoing a revolution. The devastating Sino-Vietnamese War crashes into 1970s China, changing the lives of the Army’s young recruits forever. In this epic spanning several decades, Youth shows Comrades of the People’s Liberation Army fight amongst themselves as much as on the…
This April, Jonathan Burke asks the question Who’s Jenna…? From 624 Productions and Indican Pictures comes the comedy of the year, starring Tracey Birdsall (Rogue Warrior:Robot Fighter, The Time War) and Bill Sorvino (Mommys Box, Confidence Game), on VOD and DVD April 24. Jonathan Burke (Bill Sorvino), a successful financial advisor, starts dating Jenna Casey (Tracey…
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