François Ozon’s critically acclaimed & award winning BY THE GRACE OF GOD is an engrossing and topical examination of the Catholic Church abuse scandal, telling the story of three friends who pursue justice for the abuse they suffered as children. Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day he learns that the…
Arrives on DVD and digital 23 September 2019 ‘A novel narrative structure and an innovative flashback technique combine to deliver a complex murder mystery’ Pick of the Day The Observer ‘A chilly antler-strewn mystery…heavy on atmosphere and menace’ ««««« Financial Times TV phenomenon The Bridge has inspired numerous remakes across the globe and heralded a new dawn…
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…
15 years after she was attacked, Emma (played by Mhairi Calvey) (Robert the Bruce, Braveheart, Five Pillars) comes face to face with the perpetrator again – in the wilderness.in Director Julianne Block’s nail-biting 3 Lives which pis out now on DVD and Digital from High Octane Pictures. Emma wakes up to find herself trapped in an…
Sony Pictures Television will launch the UK’s first free-to-air movie network as it rebrands its existing entertainment networks in the UK to form one cohesive Sony-branded portfolio. Sony Movies, Sony Movies Action, Sony Movies Classic and the seasonal pop-up channel Sony Movies Christmas will form the Sony Movies network. At the same time, the Sony-owned entertainment channel True Entertainment will be…
The Criterion Collection and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are delighted to confirm the UK release of Spike Lee’s classic film Do The Right Thing which graces our shelves on August 26th on blu ray. Set on one block of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy Do or Die neighbourhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike…
From the director of some of the best films ever made William Friedkin (,Sorcerer,The Exorcist, The French Connection) directed Al Pacino as an undercover cop pitched into New York’s seedy underbelly in the 1980 drama thriller CRUISING – available for the first time on Blu-ray in a brand new director-approved transfer with a host of…
Arrow’s Michael Rowe stars in the powerful new crime drama CROWN AND ANCHOR, premiering on DVD and Digital July 2 from Uncork’d Entertainment. A raw look at the effects of childhood trauma through the eyes of two estranged cousins, writer-director Andrew Rowe’s “unique, rather unflinching perspective on the fragile nature of the human psyche”* bowed…
To celebrate FrightFest 2019, taking place in London during the August Bank Holiday, Horror Channel is dedicating thirteen nights to past festival hits. Amongst the twenty-six fearsome favourites, the channel will kick off the season with the UK TV premiere of Howard J. Ford & Jonathan Ford’s India-based zombie road movie THE DEAD 2, the follow-up…
Slippery psychological thriller…facts of the story are fractured and distorted, seen through the prism of a broken mind’ «««« The Observer ‘Haggard, painful, longing, poignant, confused, alarmed, amused, dejected, sinister… [Toby] Jones can be all these things without saying a word. You’re with him all the way, trying to decode the mysteries of his life…
Signature Entertainment proudly announces 10 films for FrightFest 2019 which takes place in London from 22th – 26th August at Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema. The impressive spread of scarers includes 5 Signature Entertainment releases and 5 titles Signature will release under the FrightFest Presents (“FFP”) banner in conjunction with the festival’s…
If you don’t know her name, you will when “The Curse of La Llorona” arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital. From New Line Cinema and producer James Wan, “The Curse of La Llorona” brings the iconic Latin American legend to terrifying life in an original horror film, marking the feature directorial debut of Michael Chaves,…
Acclaimed horror directors Jen and Sylvia Soska aka ‘The Twisted Twins’ (American Mary) are back with their next nightmare – the bloody, brutal and deranged Rabid! After aspiring fashion designer Rose (Laura Vandervoort) suffers a disfiguring traffic accident she undergoes a radical and untested stem-cell treatment. The experimental transformation is a miraculous success, transforming her…
Arrow Academy’s September Blu-ray releases are a brace of classic debuts – the first Hollywood starring role for a legendary actor, and the US debut of a celebrated auteur. Both discs are presented in stunning high definition, crammed with extras and accompanied with lavishly illustrated booklets featuring penetrating writing on the films. First in September…
Truth is wilder than fiction in this captivating retelling of one of the literary world’s most infamous hoaxes. Coming to cinemas following a Closing Night Gala performance at BFI Flare Festival 2019. Laura Albert (Laura Dern, Big Little Lies) writes as her “avatar,” a disenfranchised young queer man named JT LeRoy. When her debut novel…
My Week with Shudder is a new ‘series’ of articles launched here on frompage2screen.com which will keep you updated with the many horror shows, and films that I will watch during downtime from my night job. Someone asked me earlier what Shudder is, and the best way to sum things up is that Shudder is…
LOVE, HONOUR, secrets, betrayal…welcome to Beecham House. Bend it like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha pens this lavish ‘Delhi Downton’ drama, set amongst British nobles in India during the cusp of the 19th century. Airing this Summer on ITV, the stunning six-part series is set to arrive on DVD and digital from Acorn Media International. Tom…
Based On The Novel by Stephen King After the Creed family relocates from Boston to rural Maine, they soon discover an ancient burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home. When tragedy strikes, the grief-stricken father is driven by the cemetery’s sinister power, setting off a perilous chain of events that…
With more Cesar Awards to her name than any other French actor and a host of Academy Award nominations, Isabelle Adjani (Possession, Nosferatu the Vampyre) is perhaps the most celebrated French screen star of all time. In 1983 she hit a career defining high, in Jean Becker’s much-lauded crime classic One Deadly Summer (L’ete Meurtrier), a potent blend…
101 Films Black Label presents David Cronenberg’s Rabid on two-disc Blu-ray 26 August and lost 90s horror Skinner of dual-format 23 September as we all add to our classic film collection and run out of shelf space. Rabid, the enduringly tense and gruesome horror that marked a landmark in David Cronenberg’s early career came out…
Complete Your X-Men Collection When X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX Arrives on Digital Download on 28 September and on 4K Ultra HD™, Blu-ray and DVD on 7 October Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence fire up an all-star cast in this spectacular culmination of the X-Men saga! During a rescue mission in space, Jean…
On the hunt for an elusive serial rapist and murderer, battle-hardened cop Marshall (Henry Cavill) crosses paths with vigilante duo Cooper (Ben Kingsley) and Julia (Eliana Jones) as they trap online predators and deliver their own extreme methods of justice. When Julia is kidnapped, Marshall, Cooper and the police hunt down the perpetrator but the…
A body-horror throwback out of the UK, writer-director Cesare Pollacci Libardi di K’s Landing Lake is now available on video on demand and DVD from High Octane Pictures. Shot in Super35mm, and utilizing the lavish terrain of Trentino, Northern Italy, and the UK, this pulsating cocktail of The Thing and Rabid is pure lung-draining thrills. A team of satellite technicians…
Oslo. Norway. The early 1990s. A new, uncompromising style of heavy metal explodes onto the underground – True Norwegian Black Metal! Blasting and brutal yet also majestic, this subgenre achieves worldwide infamy through the extraordinary achievements of its musicians and the suicides, murders and church burnings that come to define the scene… Seventeen-year-old Euronymous (Rory…
The seaweed is certainly not always greener in this particular lake… The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead begins with a mermaid falling in love with a human, but that’s where the similarities with Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale end, instead taking a terrifying twist as she instead aims to keep him underwater in her Kingdom of…
(Photo by Stephen W. Dunn) A War Of Two Halves tells the dramatic and moving story of the gifted Hearts team of 1914, whose Scottish title ambitions were interrupted by the outbreak of World War 1. Accused of being cowards by playing football, and inspired by Colonel Geordie McCrae, the team joined up en masse…
On August 4th audiences are invited to dance the night away ‘The Chicago Blues Brothers’ – Europe’s biggest and best-loved production of the Blues Brothers which comes to the West End London’s Savoy Theatre This award-winning spectacular is a high-octane, adrenaline-pumping musical mash-up presents the best material from the original Blues Brothers movies; jam-packed full of songs by legends such…
On August 9, Midnight Releasing sets free Wicked Witches, the creepy, witchy new horror jaunt from The Pickering Brothers. After being thrown out of his home by his wife for being promiscuous, Mark finds himself back at Dumpling Farm, a place of youthful memories and parties, but things aren’t quite right. His old buddy Ian,…
Starring and executive produced by Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor Rob Lowe (The West Wing, Parks and Recreation, Wayne’s World, Austin Powers franchise), Wild Bill is a fish-out-of-water comedy drama following a high-flying American cop who is parachuted into rural England. It’s out on DVD on 29th July 2019 and is available on Digital Download now. Wild…
Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment present SEEDS, in theaters September 13 and on VOD/DVD September 24. Starring Trevor Long, star of Netflix drama Ozark, which was this week nominated for 9 Emmy Awards, director Owen Long’s SEEDS is a gothic horror about a man haunted by his dark past while pursuing some self-care…
Justin Hayward is an actor and producer with a great list of credits behind him and am sure there are more great ones in front of him too.First appearing in one of my favourite films Cockneys v Zombies in 2012, Justin has gone onto appear in over 40 roles including Adventure Boyz, 13 Graves,…
Gripping, weighty drama is a triumph…timely, bleak, intelligent and compelling’ ★★★★★ The Independent ‘A drama so powerful you can almost feel the radiation pumping out of the screen’ ★★★★★ The Times ‘Compelling, vital television… a staggering, unmissable achievement which will haunt you for weeks… one of the most affecting and haunting shows to emerge this…
Ten years after the film’s initial release, the extreme, provocative performances from Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist still have the power to shock, repulse and divide audiences. The sound design by Kristian Eidnes Andersen with Lars Von Trier, was composed using only natural sounds and samples (including internal body recordings). Each element was…
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 first July title from Criterion and Sony is SWING TIMEIn this irresistible musical, the legendary dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (Top Hat) are at the pinnacle of their art as a feckless gambler and the shrewd dancing instructor in whom he more than meets his match. Director George Stevens (Womanof the Year)…
Arrow Academy’s July Blu-ray releases are a classic Hollywood romantic drama making it’s hi-def debut, and a magnificent Dostoyevsky adaptation, both with lavishly illustrated collector’s booklets, video appreciations and rare radio plays, along with much, much more. First in July is Hold Back the Dawn (1941), a heart-rending romantic drama, from one of the most underrated directors…
This summer a writers retreat takes a very dark turn when its obsessive showrunner manipulates his team into playing along in his disturbed, hidden-camera “masterpiece”. American Killing on VOD and DVD August 6 from High Octane Pictures. Jeb’s cartoon is on the verge of cancellation, so the studio sends him and an eclectic team of…
Its not the first time that a film studio has changed footage within a film thats already out in the wild. Universal did it with ET and Star Wars has been done countless times, as has Blade Runner and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. but its been a while since we learned about tweaks…
With FrightFest entering its 20th year, the search is set to resume for new writers in the horror genre. For the third year running, New Blood reunites FrightFest with Giles Edwards of Queensbury Pictures with its mission to find emerging UK-based writers dedicated to the genre and nurture their projects from script to screen. Queensbury is ultimately interested in buying the finished script rather…
In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Al Reinert’s documentary FOR ALL MANKIND is the story of the twenty-four men who travelled to the moon,…
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