From Marilyn Monroe to Jack Nicholson and Leonardo DiCaprio, Douglas Kirkland has photographed the Hollywood elite for more than 60 years. This is his incredible untold story… A man at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, photographer to the stars Douglas Kirkland has, with his camera, portrayed over sixty years of pop…
Following its highly acclaimed TV premiere on the Sky Arts channel in 2019, the new documentary What Was Virginia Woolf Afraid Of? receives its DVD release on 16th November 2020. Exploring her life and work, drawing upon key biographers, literary critics and psychologists, the programme seeks to understand her remarkable but deeply troubled and disturbed life. From 1915,…
Now released is the complete set of the I Spit on your Grave series of films , for the first time, this collection contains the once banned, X-rated original 1978 original I Spit on Your Grave, as well as the 2010 I Spit on Your Grave remake, and sequels I Spit on Your Grave 2 (although this film…
Focusing on those whose poetic output remains perhaps the most impactful and influential THE PITY OF WAR: POETS AT THE FRONT explores the experiences of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon and their fellow poets including Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves and Vera Brittain, in this insightful documentary, available to buy on DVD from 28th September. Through the extensive use…
Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, in a partnership with Jump Seat Productions, has announced the Digital HD and Cable VOD launch of director Al Bailey’s DTF, a documentary about one pilot’s search for love and sex through Tinder and the friendly skies. DTF will premiere at LA’s Dances With Films before a VOD launch in the United States. DTF will be…
71 years in the making, Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo is the feature documentary experience revealing the extraordinary life journey of one of Hollywood’s heroes, Danny Trejo. Taking us through a feature length journey from an early life of drugs, armed robbery and hard prison time, to the red carpets of Hollywood blockbusters…
My journey through horror streaming platform Shudder continues and once again Shudder have shown me gold! In one of my favourite documentaries of the year Scream Queen:My Nightmare on Elm Street takes a look back at the first sequel to the Wes Craven classic ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’, The 1985 film A Nightmare on…
Filmmaker Asif Kapadia scores yet another goal in my eyes with his latest feature documentary focusing on footballing legend Diego Maradona. Brilliantly constructed from hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage, the 2 hour documentary centres on the years that Diego played for Naples but also takes us on a journey through Diegos early years and…
Gary Kent, one of the inspirations for Brad Pitt’s character in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, is profiled in director Joe O’Connell’s DANGER GOD. The famed filmmaker ‘loosely’ based Pitt’s stuntman character ‘Cliff Booth’ on Kent, and his own run in with the Manson Family at Spahn Ranch. Available on digital August 6 and…
Discover the history of Mattel’s definitive action figure toy line this September! From Randall Lobb and Robert McCallum, THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL : The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe chronicles the beginnings and blockbuster-success of ‘80s toy sensation He-Man in an exhaustive, captivating 95 minute documentary that melts back the plastic on…
For decades ive always been fascinated by the world (and other worlds) of UFOs, Aliens, and their technology. For a few years back in the late 80s and early 90s I attended lectures, met with people who claimed they had been abducted by alien beings, and who had been involved in various earth bound jobs…
The granddaughter of legendary Hollywood actor Robert Mitchum features in the new #metoo documentary “Rocking the Couch”. Former actress turned chef Carrie Mitchum – best known for her role as Donna Logan on long-running soap The Bold & The Beautiful – says because of who her grandfather was, nobody messed with her – but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t…
Created and Directed by Shaun Anthony Robinson and Produced by Lucinda Bruce (Lady of the Light Productions), “That’s Not a Knife; it’s an Aussie Actors Journey to Hollywood” is for anyone with a dream, the underdog story of an actor, who fights back against the odds by overcoming his own fears and creating his own…
The first trailer for That’s Not a Knife, featuring Christian Isaiah (“Shameless”), Aaron Jeffrey (X-Men Origins : Wolverine), and Andy McPhee (Wolf Creek) , has been released ahead of the documentary’s 2019 premiere. Written and directed by Shaun A Robinson, That’s Not a Knife is a documentary about the hard and often unglamorous life of an actor. It…
TEAM KHAN is a fly-on-the-wall documentary about British superstar boxer Amir Khan. Outside of the ring Amir must grapple with the significance of family, fame, and religion, as he grows from being boxing’s golden child into a professional fighter. As an amateur, he won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics,…
