Rex is based on the true-life story of young Marine Corporal Megan Leavey (Kate Mara) whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and…
Academy Award® nominee Ellen Page (Best Actress, Juno, 2007), Diego Luna (Rogue One) and Nina Dobrev (“The Vampire Diaries”) star in the contemporary take on the 90’s fan favourite FLATLINERS, available on Digital Download January 22 and on Blu-ray™ and DVD February 5 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The supernatural thriller follows five medical students obsessed with what lies…
UK indie Hereford Films (the We Still Kill the Old Way series) has finished production of its latest feature film: US-set supernatural horror AURA. The film stars Shane Taylor (Band of Brothers), Rula Lenska (Inside No. 9, Coronation Street) and newcomer Janine Nerissa. Revolving around the concept of Kirlian photography (a process whereby the visible auras of objects and living things are captured), the film – which is described as…
★★★★★ The Daily Mail “Powerful” ★★★★ The Times “A tale of triumph over adversity” ★★★★ The Observer “Incredibly moving, sensational performances” Tatler “Truly heart-warming” ★★★★★ OK! “Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy are great together” Time Out Marking the directorial debut of Andy Serkis (War For The Planet of the Apes), BREATHE arrives on digital download on February 19, 2018, and on Blu-ray™ and…
Altitude Film Distribution announce that THE FLORIDA PROJECT, by acclaimed writer-director Sean Baker (Tangerine, Starlet), will be released on Digital Download on the 5th March, and on Blu-ray and DVD from the 12th March. You can pre-order the film now from HMV – hmv.co/hN2FfD , Amazon – www.amazon.co.uk and iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/the-florida-project/id1311579146. The Florida Project is an extraordinary, powerful and moving coming of age drama starring…
This January, there’s a new demonic doll in town. Curse of the Witch’s Doll conjures up a digital release this February from High Octane Pictures. Adeline Gray’s attempt to escape bombing in her home town leads her to a derelict, creepy manor in the woods. When Adeline’s young daughter goes missing during a game of hide-and-seek, a…
I remember when I first began to concentrate on UK filmmakers more than I previously had (not that I ignored them, just that as a film fan, Hollywood always seemed to be the focus of film entertainment) but I digress. When I changed my focus from the world of films to include the UK filmmakers…
They Came from another World. Time to Send them Back. This January, get behind enemy lines with sci-fi actioner Battalion on VOD from 9th of January Pacific Rim meets Independence Day in writer-director Michael Miller’s special effects thrill ride filmed in Queensland, Australia. When a devastating attack on Los Angeles by an army of machines from a parallel universe sparks…
From Academy Award®-nominated director Denis Villeneuve (Best Achievement in Directing, Arrival, 2016) comes BLADE RUNNER 2049, the much-anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed film Blade Runner, available on digital download and Sky’s Buy & Keep program on January 28 and on 4K Ultra HD™, Blu-ray™ and DVD on February 5 courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The film stars…
Based on the true story of the 1983 mass breakout of 38 Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners from the Maze high-security prison in Northern Ireland. This powerful drama will blow your socks off. As Larry Marley (played by Tom Vaughan-Lawlor), the chief architect of the escape, schemes his way towards pulling off this…
What a great start to the new year, spending a little time learning about filmmaker Matt Mitchell, writer director of the film The Rizen, a tale of secret, occult experiments in the 1950s, a tale of Allied Forces and Arms races. Matt Mitchell, writer/director of The Rizen (out now via Uncork’d Entertainment), talks to us about…
Writer/director Tyler Amm’s frighteningly funny Butcher the Bakers arrives on VOD January 16 from genre specialists Dark Cuts. Recently fired, a grim reaper terrorizes a small town, killing and collecting souls for a purpose only he knows. Sam and Martin, slackers who work at the local bakery, are hired by a mysterious stranger to stop him from…
This February, witness the ruthless result of minor wrongdoing with the acclaimed sci-fi thriller Defective. From writer-director Reese Eveneshen, director of Dead Genesis, and genre specialist Uncork’d Entertainment comes the highly-anticipated Defective, premiering on VOD February 13. In the near future, the corporation S.E.A., has implemented North America’s first and only police state. Uniformed, anonymous Preservers of Peace…
This new collection features revered films across all genres celebrated in a premium package set containing the film on Blu-ray, DVD and a Digital Copy giving fans a must own version that allows them to watch however they choose. Each release also includes a collectible slipcase and artcards featuring the films’ key art and lobby…
Blake Lively (The Shallows, The Age of Adaline, Gossip Girl) and Jason Clarke (Everest, Zero Dark Thirty) shine in a disturbing and obsessive love story that defies genre, when ALL I SEE IS YOU reaches digital platforms on 26th February and DVD from 5th March, 2018, courtesy of Signature Entertainment. Gina (Lively) and husband James (Clarke) have an almost perfect marriage. After being blinded as a child in a nearly…
Orion Pictures, recently relaunched by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) as a new, stand-alone U.S. theatrical marketing and distribution company, has acquired the North American and Latin American rights to John McPhail’s award-winning zombie holiday musical Anna and the Apocalypse. The announcement was made today by John Hegeman, President, Orion Pictures. Orion plans to release Anna and the Apocalypse in the…
Starting off with a scene of what i can only describe as a very Christmassy version of Harley Quinn, I wasnt sure what sort of film I would get with Once Upon A Time At Christmas, the latest film by Paul Tanter whose work for me was more associated with crime films such as the…
“What a way to start a day”; states Tess (played by Victoria Hopkins) in the opening moments of the film ‘A Landscape of Lies’ just after Brannigan (played by Danny Midwinter) has beaten someone near to death for failing to laugh at his joke (that we didn’t hear the beginning of). The start of my…
In the tradition of Blade Runner, and starring the always wonderful Jane Badler (V, V : The Final Battle, ) and Mike Dupod (X-Men : Days of Future, Mission :Impossible – Ghost Protocol), comes ‘’a classic neo-noir that will make you gasp in wonder’’* 2047 : Virtual Revolution. The year is 2047. Most of the world’s population…
Based on David Harrower’s celebrated, Olivier Award- winning play Blackbird, Benedict Andrews’ UNA stars the Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara (Carol, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) and Emmy-nominated Ben Mendelsohn (Animal Kingdom, Starred Up, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), following a young woman’s journey to reclaim her past. Fifteen years earlier, teenage Una (Mara) ran…
The romantic lovers’ triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), his beautiful wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), is still the same old story, but it’s never looked better! Casablanca’s new 4K resolution scan achieves the richest, most dynamic image possible, rendering the…
China’s deadliest Special Forces operative, known as the Wolf Warrior (Wu Jing – Wolf Warrior, Call of Heroes, Kill Zone) is lying low. But when he crosses paths with a ruthless band of mercenaries led by a volatile and sadistic leader (Frank Grillo – Warrior, Captain America: Civil War), he must reaffirm his duty as a soldier and…
Attraction is the latest movie by Fedor Bondarchuk, the director of the Russian box-office smash Stalingrad. It’s a bold, epic sci-fi story following the devastating crash-landing of a mysterious flying object in Moscow, after it is shot down by the Russian Air Force. The drama unfolds in the ruins of a working-class suburb overwhelmed by…
This January experience the joy and spectacle as writer-director Stephen Kogon dances towards his dream. Beverley Mitchell (“Seventh Heaven”), Jim O’Heir (“Parks and Recreation”), Carlos Alazraqui (Despicable Me 3) and Stephen Kogon star in the first feel-good film of 2018, DANCE BABY DANCE, in theaters and available on Amazon from 1/19 via Indie Rights. Have…
GHOST STORIES writer and director team Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson will join Hex Studio’s Lawrie Brewster, FrightFest’s Paul McEvoy and Glasgow Film Festival head honcho Allison Gardner on the judge’s panel for the FrightFest Glasgow 90 Second Challenge. Aspiring filmmakers living in Scotland are invited to create an entertaining Horror, Sci-Fi or Fantasy film within just 90 seconds. Films must be shot in…
A young Thurgood Marshall, who was to become the 1st African American Supreme Court Justice, battles prejudice in one of his early career-defining cases. Directed by Reginald Hudlin, the key cast includes Chadwick Boseman (Get On Up, Captain America: Civil War), Josh Gad (The Wedding Ringer, Murder On The Orient Express), Kate Hudson (Almost Famous, Bride Wars)…
On Halloween night, two malevolent children terrorize a young innocent couple in their home, subjecting them to a Halloween they will never forget in Bad Apples, premiering on VOD this February from Uncork’d Entertainment. It’s Halloween night, and two “bad apples” decide to play some wicked tricks on the one house in a suburban cul-de-sac that…
Heartbreaking and violent in equal measure, Bad Day for the Cut is a powerhouse of a revenge story that wowed audiences and critics at the Belfast Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival – the first feature length film from Northern Ireland to be presented there – and on its recent tour of Northern Ireland. Brutal…
Ive seen a lot of films over the years, thousands of them and on average watch around 200-350 films a year so when sometimes I forget if I have seen a film, then thats not a case of memory loss or anything, its just a case of a fact of life and spending more hours…
One of the highest grossing horror franchises of all time is back, taking Jigsaw’s signature brand of twisted scenarios to the next level. After a series of murders bearing all the markings of the Jigsaw killer, law enforcement find themselves chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade and embroiled in a new…
Johnny Rico returns to the world of the ‘bugs’ in the latest installment of the Starship Troopers franchise. is back! Casper Van Dien and Dina Meyer return as the voices of Johnny Rico and Dizzy Flores alongside comedian and Starship Troopers superfan DeRay Davis in an all-new military adventure from the writer of Starship Troopers…
After a massive shootout, a mysterious stranger (Van Damme) arrives at a local hospital on the brink of death. Then, a foreign gang brazenly comes to the hospital to hunt him down. His nurse, the sole surviving witness to the follow-up shootout, must face an FBI interrogation that unlocks a plot of international intrigue and…
When a break-in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle-maker Franco Arnò , who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute’s scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani to crack the case. But before long the bodies begin to pile up and the two amateur sleuths find…
The Harrowing, from director Jon Keeyes (American Nightmare) and starring genre icons Michael Ironside (Total Recall, Starship Troopers) and Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy, G.I Joe : The Rise of Cobra), premieres on VOD Christmas day from Film Mode Entertainment. Haunted by the ritualistic killing of his best friend, a vice detective (Matthew Tompkins, Sicario) determined to…
After David Kim’s (John Cho) 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter’s laptop. In a hyper-modern…
An isolated cult prepare for the prophesied apocalypse in Patrick O’Bell’s frightening The Blessed Ones, now available on Amazon Prime from Wild Eye Releasing. An isolated cult hiding in a desert enclave prepare for an prophesied apocalypse, led by a charismatic Jim Jones-like leader. As the end of the world allegedly approaches, he binds them…
Sound the siren! the critically acclaimed, internationally award-winning Driving While Black, from filmmaker Paul Sapiano, opens in theaters February 1. Based on the real life experiences of writer and lead actor Dominique Purdy, this arresting new comedy explores Purdy’s real life experiences growing up as a person of color in LA and his run ins with…
Hex Media, the outfit behind Lord of Tears, The Unkindness of Ravens and The Black Gloves, today announced they are to establish Hex Studios, the UK’s only dedicated genre studio, committed to developing, producing and distributing horror and fantasy content, with a focus on bold, original storytelling, and nurturing diverse voices in the genre. Having acquired a historic Gothic…
FrightFest, in association with Glasgow Film Festival, are delighted to announce an exciting new initiative to discover the next wave of emerging Scottish talent. FrightFest has always championed new film-makers since its inception in 2000. Now, for the very first time they are encouraging talent to rise to the challenge of creating an entertaining film…
WILL YOU COME OUT TO PLAY? House of Salem on VOD this January from Wild Eye Releasing The Devil Has A New Playground. Don’t Breathe meets You’re Next in writer-director James Crow’s ‘’brooding and compelling horror with a crime thriller twist”* HOUSE OF SALEM, streeting on VOD 1/23/18 from Wild Eye Releasing. A group of kidnappers become a child’s unlikely…
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