Cursed Films is a five-part documentary series (each episode around the half hour mark) which explores the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously “cursed” horror film productions. From plane accidents and bombings during the making of The Omen, to the rumored use of real human skeletons on the set of Poltergeist, these stories are legendary…
DREAMLAND tells the story of a gang who hire a hitman to cut off a finger from a heroin-addict trumpet maestro. It is an eccentric neo-noir which immerses the viewer into a diabolical underworld, where doppelgängers, vicious child-traffickers and a creepy vampire cross paths. Though offering a hypnotic descent into a violent and corrupt…
A short film about music, fame, love and self-loathing The team behind ‘ Love You Guys’ are making a short film about music, fame, pain and ultimately, love. Think A Star Is Born meets I, Tonya, with a hint of Her. The story centres around Sky, one of the brightest emerging talents in the music industry. Whilst Sky’s…
In search of a more authentic life, Kate and Matt leave the city for an old house in the middle of nowhere Maryland. There, they discover a hidden room that has the extraordinary power to grant any wish. Their new life becomes a true fairytale, but beneath the bliss, something darker lurks: some wishes can…
Winner of 24 awards, including Best Film at the New York Cinematography Awards and Best Original Screenplay at the Indie X Film Festival, Wives of The Skies is a romantic dramedy, set in 1965, starring two stewardesses, Fran and Marcy from Fine Air, a well-appointed airline. One evening after work, at their stewardess’ hotel, they befriend Derrick,…
April is a wicked month on Horror Channel as cops and villains fight it out in the VENGEANCE SEASON, a hard-hitting violent action collection which includes the UK TV premieres of Jen & Sylvia Soska’s male maelstrom of mayhem, VENDETTA, starring Dean Cain and Paul ‘Big Show’ Wight, and the fight-to-the death revenge thriller BLOOD OUT, starring…
This May, director Anthony Cantanese (Hi-Death) reminds us… Girls Just Wanna Have Blood! from Wild Eye Releasing, a bloody and unique new addition to the vampire-pic subsection. When social outcast Jessica is accepted into a trio of teenage vampires, she finds herself thrust into a nocturnal world of murder, drugs and all-night parties as they stalk…
Six days before D-DAY, Victor Lawrence, one of the most senior planners of the Normandy landings, is shot down over France. Captured by the Nazis, he is detained in a holding camp under a false identity. The clock is ticking. When the Nazis discover who he really is, they will torture him and learn of…
Climate change, migration, disability, homelessness and sexuality are just some of the subjects explored in The Uncertain Kingdom. The ground-breaking anthology of twenty short films from twenty directors offers a unique portrait of the nation today. Bringing together artists working across film, TV, theatre, animation, dance and radio, The Uncertain Kingdom directors include IWC Schaffhausen…
Arrow Academy’s March release is the long-awaited Blu-ray™ debut of a legendary auteur’s most underrated and idiosyncratic films, backed up with a wealth of extras including a director commentary, visual essay, trailers and brand new artwork and a sumptuously illustrated booklet. Returning to the city of his birth for inspiration, legendary maverick director Robert Altman…
The Criterion Collection and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are delighted to confirm the titles to be released on Blu-ray in March 2020. On 9 March comes ANTONIO GAUDI. Less a documentary than a visual poem, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s film takes viewers on a tour of Gaudí’s truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Família basilica…
Blumhouse Productions presents a terrifying real world nightmare, a suspense thriller set in modern America that feels a bit too close to reality for comfort. Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are, or how they got there. They don’t know they’ve been chosen… for a very specific purpose … The Hunt. In the shadow…
Screening 7th March at Glasgow FrightFest and out later this year from Arrow Video Arrow Video have revealed the official poster for the dead funny apocalyptic zom-com ZOMBIE FOR SALE – designed by artist Scott Saslow. Korea’s biggest pharmaceutical company conducts illegal experiments on humans. One test goes wrong and creates a sexy zombie who escapes and…
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are immune to the zombie plague. Traylor, the tribal sheriff, must protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, apocalyptic refugees, and reserve riff raff from the hordes of walking white corpses. Starring Michael Greyeyes (Fear the…
CJ 4DPLEX (www.cj4dx.com), the world’s leading cinema technology company, together with The Walt Disney Studios, announced today that Disney’s epic live-action film, “Mulan,” will be released in the cutting-edge cinema technology formats, 4DX and ScreenX, on March 27th 2020. “Mulan” in 4DX will feature over 20 different motion and environmental effects enhancing the action and drawing audiences…
In 1960, close friends Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (Ian Hart), along with bandmates Paul McCartney (Gary Bakewell), George Harrison (Chris O’Neill), and Pete Best (Scot Williams), move to Hamburg, Germany, in search of success. Their tireless performing schedule and charismatic sound quickly put the Beatles on the road to stardom. But as…
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY HENRY BLAKE STARRING CONRAD KHAN, ASHLEY MADEKWE & HARRIS DICKINSON COUNTY LINES, the highly acclaimed debut feature from director Henry Blake, premiered at the 2019 BFI London Film Festival. Inspired by true events, COUNTY LINES is a vivid and moving coming-of-age film about a young mother and her 14-year old son…
IMAX has revealed its all-new exclusive artwork for No Time To Die, the latest instalment of the global James Bond franchise and the first ever to be shot with IMAX® film cameras. No Time To Die opens in UK IMAX cinemas from April 2. Filmmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga captured select sequences of No Time To Die using IMAX’s extremely high-resolution…
The Golden Age which made its debut at Cannes, and the headlines of Écran Total (French equivalent of The Hollywood Reporter) is having its European Premiere in London in March and is a tribute to the World-Changing Charms of 60s Saint-Tropez and was shot in 35 exceptional locations across Paris, South of France and LA. The film…
On Blu-ray for the first ever time 17th February from Arrow Video An old, dark house… A maniac on the loose… An orgy of bloodlust! All the hallmarks of late master of Spanish macabre José Ramón Larraz (Edge of the Axe, Vampyres) are present and correct in 1990’s Deadly Manor – the final horror movie…
This masterful adaptation of Prévost’s 1731 novel Manon Lescaut marks quite a departure for Henri-Georges Clouzot, the French director lauded for his acclaimed thrillers The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques. A classical tragic romance transposed to a World War II setting, Clouzot’s film follows the travails of Manon (Cécile Aubry), a village girl accused…
Directed by Marcel Carné, the master of poetic realism, Hôtel du Nord is a haunting, fatalistic melodrama which sits alongside Le Quai des brumes and Le Jour se lève as one of the auteur’s greatest pre-war works. Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Eugène Dabit, the son to the proprietors of the real Hôtel du…
Billy Murray is making his screen return, five years after he starred opposite Ian Ogilvy and Lysette Anthony in We Still Steal the Old Way. In NEMESIS, Billy plays John Morgan, an underworld kingpin whose return to London triggers a cataclysm of violence, retribution and murder. Perhaps best known for his celebrated television roles in The Bill (and…
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men,Gravity) recreated the early-1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo (YALITZA APARICIO, in a revelatory screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the…
If you think that the ultimate ‘imaginary friend’ film is Drop Dead Fred, then think again. Daniel Isnt Real takes the thought of a friend who isnt there, to a whole new level in director Adam Egypt Mortimers 2019 horror/thriller. Luke Nightingale (played by Griffin Robert Fualkner) is a lonely young boy with an emotionally…
The apocalyptic Biblical monster movie, shot on locations in the UK over a three-week period, will star Cruel Summer’s Reece Douglas, newcomer Maisy Kay and James Swanton as monster creation ‘The Forsaken’. Set six months after a biblical plague has fallen upon the world, WALKING AGAINST THE RAIN tells the story of two strangers, Tommy (Reece Douglas) and Blair (Maisy Kay) who are…
Scene-stealing ten-pin legend Jesus Quintana returns to the screen as acclaimed actor John Turturro reprises the role for a boundary breaking sex, crime and comedy caper! Fresh out of prison, smooth-talking petty thief Jesus Quintana (John Turturro, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?) is ready to roll with his best friend Petey (Bobby Cannavale)…
Have you ever wondered what lies beyond what we see? Does our soul really wander when we dream or are different dimensions paralleling ours to the point we’re all living amongst each other, but blind to the extent at which they exist? Awakened Minds explores the hidden realms in which we are yet to unlock.…
IMAX have revealed exclusive artwork for The Invisible Man, which will creep into IMAX cinemas beginning 28 February, for a limited time only. IMAX audiences will feel what they can’t see in a thrilling, edge-of-your-seat experience that can only be delivered in IMAX’s immersive cinemas. The IMAX release of The Invisible Man will be digitally re-mastered into the image and…
You have an interesting CV – from comedy theatre and film journalism to writing for The Hollywood Reporter and second assistant directing. Was all this a game plan to becoming a fully-fledged director? I’ve known since I was a little kid sitting in the basement watching the network TV premiere of Back To The Future while holding…
1917, one of my favourite films of the year had a great night at this years BAFTAs, taking home 7 awards including the big ones! Best Film, and Best Director. and the awards win is hugely deserved. To celebrate the win EOne is pleased to present an exhilarating new featurette giving you a glimpse behind the scenes…
At the behest of his social worker (Greg Proops), bullied 17-year-old Ray (Kurt Krause) moves in with his Aunt (Thea Gill, “Queer as Folk”) and cousin Kim (Paulina Alvarez) for his latest shot at a normal life. But for Ray, every new home placement is the same; getting tormented for being the weird, new kid.…
From writer/director Harley Wallen, and featuring genre icons Laurene Landon (Maniac Cop) and Yan Birch (The People Under The Stairs), Agramon’s Gate premieres On Demand February 11. A psychic reader and Medium is invited to a party. Something goes very wrong and something comes over from the other side to haunt the people from the party. They…
Based on the bestselling comic book, Vin Diesel stars as Ray Garrison, a soldier recently killed in action and brought back to life as the superhero Bloodshot by the RST corporation. With an army of nanotechnology in his veins, he’s an unstoppable force – stronger than ever and able to heal instantly. But in controlling…
Ignoring all signs and warnings, four counselors at a remote summer camp tell campfire stories to each other from an ancient book of evil that come to life to haunt them one by one. Check out this trailer for the film. Directed by: Ryan Byrne & Danial O’Brien Written by: Ryan Byrne, Hannah Craig, &…
Welcome to the transgressive, the traumatic and the terrifying as Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event, returns to Glasgow Film Festival for a 15th fantastic year, from Thursday 5 March to Saturday 7 March, 2020. Thirteen is lucky for some as that’s the number of new films being presented at the iconic Glasgow…
One of Marvel’s most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar® winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero, Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical…
The 92nd Academy Award nominations are out and here is a full list of them.over the next few weeks I shall try to catch up with as many of the films as possible and a week or two before the ceremony, I shall mark in bold the ones who I think will win, I may…
In February, Arrow Video send a wonderful Valentine to genre film fans, with an acclaimed new indie horror, the Blu-ray debut of a cult slasher, and, a bells and whistles release of a classic J-horror trilogy. As usual, the films are pristine, and the extras include exclusive interviews, commentaries, video essays, archival documentaries and rare…
The Criterion Collection and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are delighted to confirm the titles to be released in February 2020. On 24 February, for the first time in the UK, both the Blu-ray and DVD release of ROMA. With his eighth and most personal film, ALFONSO CUARÓN (Children of Men) recreated the early-1970s Mexico City…
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