Cousins from New York, Vincent and Anton work in the cut-throat, volatile world of High Frequency Trading, and plan to build a fibre-optic cable between Kansas and New Jersey, which, if successful, will make them millions. They haven’t reckoned on their old boss, the powerful, manipulative trader Eva, who will stop at nothing to come…
Nowadays Disney might be best known for its ownership of Star Wars, Marvel films and live action versions of its classic animated films, but there was a time when for me Disney was associated with live action sci fi films that worked for kid (like me at the time) but also worked for adults (like…
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…
Writer, Director, Producer, Actor, you name it Mr Neil Johnson does it. He is a near one man film studio and appears in my DVD collection multiple times with his action packed, scifi adventure tales featuring familiar faces from the world of film. I have spoken to Neil on many occasions, for a few minutes,…
A disgruntled priest, conflicted with his faith, has his world turned upside down when an unlikely person enters his confessional in director Matthew Tibbenham‘s Surviving Confession, premiering on digital this July. Clayton Nemrow (Nymphomaniac: Vol I) and Jessica Lynn Parsons (“House of Lies”) star in a Nathan Shane Miller-penned comedy-drama that is set entirely in a…
On 15 November 2019, Lupita Nyong’o, fresh from the success of Jordan Peele’s Us, returns to the screens in another brilliantly inventive and fantastically entertaining horror comedy, LITTLE MONSTERS – but this time with laughs and musical numbers! Also starring Josh Gad (Olaf from Frozen) andAlexander England (Alien: Covenant), this is the funniest zombie horror since Shaun of the Dead, bolstered by a knowing self-awareness…
Experience the unexpected humour, heartbreak, and triumph of one young girl’s journey through modern adolescence in the award-winning comedy EIGHTH GRADE and one of my favourite films of recent years which is available on Digital Download on September 9* and on Blu-Ray™ September 23** from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Written and directed by breakout filmmaker Bo Burnham…
After being paid-off to take a murder rap, Frank (Nicolas Cage) receives an unexpected life sentence and spends the next two decades locked behind bars. After receiving a terminal diagnosis, he walks out of prison to live his final days as a free man, but with a thirst for revenge against those who wronged him.…
Horror Channel will be launching their massive 13-night FrightFest Season with the UK TV premiere of THE DEAD 2. Excited? Howard: Well it’s a surprise, but a lovely one! Until I was asked to do this interview, I had no clue The Dead 2 had even been picked up by Horror Channel! But yes, I’m very excited.…
Lothar Schramm, the so-called “Lipstick Killer”, lies dying in a pool of blood and paint. As he expires, fragments of his life flash before his eyes – his uneasy friendship with the prostitute that lives next door (Nekromantik 2’s Monika M); the brutal slaughter of a pair of doorstep evangelists whose bodies he poses in…
Easily one of the best war movies of all time and whilst I have owned the film on VHS as well not one but two different DVD editions. I have already preordered this UK release of Francis Ford Coppolas masterpiece.with a never-before-seen and newly restored cut of Apocalypse Now in a way which the director…
In UK cinemas 30 August on DVD & On Demand 2 September ‘An absolutely crucial entry in the about-ALIEN canon…lovingly demonstrates the alchemical creative process among O’Bannon, Scott and artist H.R. Giger’ Bloody Disgusting ‘Memory is most valuable for its fresh recontextualisation of Alien in the same feminist air space as Kramer vs. Kramer…
My Week with Shudder ,a new ‘series’ of articles launched here on frompage2screen.com will keep you updated with what I have watched on the horror streaming platform Filled with horror TV shows, classic horror films, and many Shudder exclusives such as the up and coming series ‘Creepshow’ which launches on the Shudder streaming platform this…
The Criterion Collection and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are delighted to confirm the titles to be released on Blu-ray in September 2019. On 2 September SHOCK CORRIDOR is released. In Shock Corridor, the great American writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller (The Naked Kiss, The Big Red One) masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and dementia. Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett…
After a searing summer, Arrow Video isn’t letting things flag in September, with the release of a pristine new print of an unsung early slasher; a superb sequel to a 70s horror classic; and a stunning boxset of films from an Italian horror master. As if it needs saying, the releases are beautifully packaged, and…
Arrow Academy’s August Blu-ray releases are an astoundingly innovative and legendary cult classic that turned Hollywood upside down and a beautiful box set featuring a stunning and sublime trilogy from a Japanese master. The releases include fascinating behind-the-scenes bonus features, brand new sleeve artwork, and lavish booklets with new insights on the films. First up…
This year, the Gothic Manchester Festival have joined forces with Grimmfest, Manchester’s festival of fantastic film to bring you the ultimate Halloween Movie Double Bill. On the evening of Friday the 1st November 2019, they will over take Number 70, Oxford Road for a night dedicated to the work of Clive Barker. Things kick off…
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…
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