From filmmaker Jill Gevargizian comes The Stylist on stunning Blu-ray out now( @JillSixx )


Writer/director Jill Gevargizian assured debut feature  THE STYLIST, a sleek and inventive psychological thriller starring the fabulous Najarra Townsend (Contracted) as a brilliant but shy hairdresser with an extremely dark secret is out now on a lovely special edition blu ray from Arrow. A hit on the festival circuit in 2020 (including Sitges and Arrow Video FrightFest), Screen…

Dirt Music,starring Kelly Macdonald, available on digital download from 19th July.


Blue Finch Film Releasing are excited to announce that their latest release, Dirt Music, will be available on digital download from 19th July. Adapted by Gregor Jordan from Tim Winton’s critically acclaimed novel of the same name, the film features an incredible cast including leading performances from Kelly Macdonald (Line of Duty), Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy) & David Wenham (The Lord of the Rings). Dirt…

Frank Perez-Garland’s supernatural horror FACE OF THE DEVIL available on DVD and digital platforms now


DANSE MACABRE is pleased to announce the US release of Frank Perez-Garland’s supernatural horror FACE OF THE DEVIL which is available on DVD and digital platforms now Vanessa Saba, Sergio Gjurinovic and Maria Fernanda Valera, star as city friends who travel to the Peruvian Amazon where they encounter the Tunche, a primeval spirit whose shrill whistle is…

Wrestling star Taya Valkyrie and Academy Award Nominee Eric Roberts are Unchained this July.


Wrestling star Taya Valkyrie and Academy Award Nominee Eric Roberts (Best of the Best, The Expendables) are Unchained this July.   To Rise You Must Be Willing to Fall. Full-tilt action thriller Unchained opens up the world of underground fighting this summer.   An idealistic woman is kidnapped and forced to compete in an underground fight ring. Every night is a fight…

Lionsgate presents But I’m a Cheerleader – Director’s Cut on Blu-ray 21 June


Jamie Babbit’s classic 90s cult comedy But I’m A Cheerleader heads to Blu-ray this June in a sparkling new 4K-restored Director’s Cut.   This whimsically edgy comedy follows teenager Megan (Natasha Lyonne, Orange is the New Black), whose suburban existence, filled with friends, cheerleading, and all-American fun, is upended when her straight-laced parents suspect she may be a…

The Soska Sisters and Alexis Kendra bring fear factor to Horror Channel in June with Rabid, and The Cleaning Ladey ( @twisted_twins )


This month, Horror Channel highlights the work of female genre talent with the Channel premieres of RABID, the Soska Sisters visceral and wonderful remake of David Cronenberg’s body horror classic and THE CLEANING LADY, written by and starring Alexis Kendra (Goddess of Love), who also produced the much acclaimed twisted psychological chiller. Saturday 12 June @…

Thunderbird Releasing announce UK release of striking gothic thriller AGONY, starring Asia Argento and Franco Nero, on digital platforms on 14th June. ( @TBirdReleasing )


Thunderbird Releasing announces the UK release of striking gothic thriller AGONY, starring Asia Argento and Franco Nero, on digital platforms on 14th June. AGONY is the directorial debut of Michele Civetta, and boasts an impressive international cast including Asia Argento (Mother of Tears), Jonathan Caoette (award-winning star and director of Tarnation), Django legend Franco Nero, and Rade Serbedzija…

Etheria Film Nights 2021 Official Short Films Showcase Lineup to stream exclusively on Shudder ( @shudder )


Etheria Film Night (www.etheriafilmnight.com) have announced that the 2021 Official Short Films Showcase Lineup, which will stream exclusively on Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streamer for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, beginning Friday, June 25 through July 25.  This year’s Festival, the world’s most respected annual showcase of horror, science fiction, fantasy, action and thriller films directed…

Abundant Art release documentary charting the effects of the pandemic on the performing arts. Movie Forward, Looking Back #2020


Arts association and independent film makers Abundant Art have released a new documentary charting the effects of the pandemic on the performing arts. MOVING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK #2020 follows three dancers, as they navigate the succession of lockdowns and the sudden shutdown of their working lives – each one at a different stage of their professional development,…

Terry Stone is back in ‘Rise Of the Footsoldier:Marbella’ which checks in this July ( @TerryStone )


In the 4th chapter of the ‘Rise of the Footsoldier; series, this time the boys are going international, with appearances from Jess Wright (TOWIE) and Conor Benn (professional boxer), alongside the original loveable-rogue including Terry Stone (Bonded by Blood), Roland Manookian (RocknRolla) amongst others. Fresh out of prison, Pat Tate steps right back into his Essex nightclub business. But although the money is…

Poster and trailer release for horror ‘My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To’ starring Patrick Fugit, Ingrid Sophie Schram and Owen Campbel


Lightbulb Film Distribution is pleased to share the poster and trailer for new horror film, My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To, which will be coming to Digital Download from June 28.  Following its world premiere at Tribeca last year, the film has played a string of genre festivals – including Nightstream, Sitges and São Paulo. The UK…

Rainey Qualley, Vincent Kartheiser and Breeda Wool in ULTRASOUND screening at Fantasia FF 2021 ( @FantasiaFest )


Fantasia International Film Festival, the iconic Canadian genre film festival, has announced its first wave of programming for the upcoming 25th edition. Once again the festival will be a virtual event, and will run from August 5-25th of this year and one of those films is Ultrasound, starring  Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), Chelsea Lopez (Novitiate), Breeda Wool (UnREAL), Tunde Adebimpe (Marriage Story, Spider-Man:…

From Director Mika Boorem comes Hollywood.con a fun-packed adventure-comedy in the tradition of Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile. Out now on Amazon ( @MikaBoorem )


 It’s a mad race to the top and everyone is desperate to get there.     Acclaimed actress Mika Boorem (Riding in Cars With Boys, Blue Crush, Hearts in Atlantis) makes her feature directorial debut with Hollywood.Con, available now on Amazon Prime.   A fun-packed adventure-comedy in the tradition of Romancing the Stone and Jewel…

THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE Arte Original Limited Edition 4K Blu-ray – out now from Arrow Video ( @arrowfilmsvideo )


Dario Argento’s staggeringly assured debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, a film which redefined the ‘giallo’ genre of murder-mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom, and established the key traits that would define Argento’s filmography, including lavish visuals and a flare for wildly inventive, brutal scenes of violence. With sumptuous cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) and a…

Joshua Winch, Tyler Mane, Linnea Quigley, Danielle Harris highlight Houston Horror Film Fest 2021 ( @joshua_winch @TYLER_MANE @LinneaQuigley @halloweengal )


Joshua Winch (Fall of Grace) joins Tyler Mane (Rob Zombie’s Halloween), Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead), Danielle Harris (Halloween 4 & 5), Rob Mello (Happy Death Day), Oliver Robins (Poltergeist), Clint Howard (Evilspeak) and many more for the HOUSTON HORROR FILM FEST 2021.  The weekend of June 25 – 27 the Marriott…

Michael Jai White, Tom Berenger and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson star in COPS AND ROBBERS on DVD and Digital this June from Dazzler ( @DazzlerMedia ) ( @MichaelJaiWhite )


In this slick action-thriller, a hostage negotiator plays a high stakes game of cat and mouse with a cornered bank robber. As the two men learn each other’s identity, they realise they have a shared past, with scores and grudges to be settled.   Cops and Robbers stars action legend Michael Jai White (Arrow, The Dark…

Cameron Crowe’s coming-of-age movie ALMOST FAMOUS gets the 4k treatment and includes both version of the feelgood movie.


Writer/Director Cameron Crowe’s feelgood coming-of-age movie  ALMOST FAMOUS, starring Kate Hudson (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Day, Mother’s Day ), Billy Crudup (Where’d You Go, Bernadette, TV’s “The Morning Show”), Frances McDormand (Nomadland, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri), Anna Paquin (The Piano, X-Men) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, Capote) is…

Horror Channel gears up for the Rabid premiere, and I get to learn more about 2 of my favourite people. Jen and Sylvia Soska ( @horror_channel @twisted_twins )


Ahead of Horror Channel’s premiere of RABID on June 12, two of my favourite filmmakers and two of my favourite people on the planet Jen and Sylvia Soska reflect on the challenges of re-imagining Cronenberg’s body horror classic, meeting the great man (that means David Cronenberg, not me) and their new monster movie, BOB. RABID…

HBO’s thriller MARE OF EASTTOWN, available to own digitally now across all major platforms starring Kate Winslet


From creator and writer Brad Ingelsby (“The Way Back”), with all episodes directed by Craig Zobel, comes the tense thriller MARE OF EASTTOWN, available to own digitally now. Starring Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Kate Winslet (HBO’s “Mildred Pierce”), the seven-part limited series MARE OF EASTTOWN tells the story of Mare Sheehan, a small-town Pennsylvania detective…

‘Dr. Bird’s Advice For Sad Poets’ starring Jason Isaacs, arrives in the UK 21st June on digital


Enter the whimsical world of James Whitman (Lucas Jade Zumann), a 16-year-old boy obsessed with poet Walt Whitman, who’s reeling from the disappearance of his beloved sister Jorie (Lily Donoghue ­– Dirty John, Black Christmas) and struggling with anxiety and depression. But his dysfunctional parents:  abusive father (Jason Isaacs) and careworn mother (Lisa Edelstein­­)  refuse to confront the issues…

Writer/director Stephen Rutterford’s horror-mystery Finding Ophelia premieres on digital this June. ( @arrgntworm )


Experience a quixotic new nightmare when writer/director Stephen Rutterford’s horror-mystery Finding Ophelia premieres on digital this June.New York Advertising Executive William Edgar (Jimmy Levar) is mesmerized by a series of hypnotic dreams that blur the lines between fantasy and reality.His life is thrown into disarray when forced to choose between his career, his relationships and his romantic…

Bulldog Film Distribution presents WITCH: We Intend to Cause Havoc in select cinemas and on demand 2 July


Discover the psychedelic sounds of rock superstars WITCH in a guided tour through their mud-hut village formation to superstardom in the politically turbulent Zambia of the 70s, and eventual re-discovery by contemporary music fans. WITCH: We Intend to Cause Havoc is a vibrant, joyous celebration of life and music.   The film follows the twenty-first century formation…

Thunderbird Releasing announce UK release of thrillingly offbeat pandemic-era road movie romance TYGER TYGER, on digital 28th June. ( @TBirdReleasing )


Thunderbird Releasing announces the UK release of thrillingly offbeat pandemic-era road movie romance TYGER TYGER, on digital platforms on 28th June. Energetic, youthful and extraordinarily timely, Kerry Mondragan’s TYGER TYGER defies categorisation, but mixes road movie and romance with post-apocalyptic drama to plunge the viewer into an unsettling and extraordinary world, people by a superb cast of offbeat character,…