After the success of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow which released in the Summer of 1986, lead actor Chow Yun Fat further cemented his reputation as Hong Kong’s hottest new action film megastar with his electrifying performance in Ringo Lam’s City on Fire released only 6 months after the John Woo classic. City On Fire…
Boogie Nights, the critically acclaimed 1997 New Line film from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Mark Wahlberg, will be available for purchase on 4K UHD, 4K UHD Steelbook, and Digital on 15th December. From an original screenplay by Anderson, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards – Best Supporting Actor (Burt Reynolds), Best…
Whenever the discussion of ‘what are the best shot films ever’ crops up. One of the films that is always in the conversation is 1975s Barry Lyndon, directed by Stanley Kubrick with cinematography by John Alcott and it deserves to be in that conversation, every single time. Barry Lyndon is a film that I didn’t…
Adapted for the screen and directed by renowned filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, The Haunting of Hill House), The Life Of Chuck stars Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan and Mark Hamill, alongside an ensemble cast including Jacob Tremblay, Matthew Lillard, Mia Sara and Nick Offerman. I knew nothing about The Life Of Chuck before viewing and so went in, not knowing…
A horror film like no other, Andrzej Żuławski’s seminal Possession is an intense and shocking experience that was originally banned in the UK and placed on the notorious ‘Video Nasties’ list. Now, this hugely controversial film gets a long-awaited and highly anticipated Limited Edition release in a stunning new 4K restoration, from physical media masters Second Sight Films. Nominated for a Palme…
One of the films that always finds itself on the ‘what are the best horror films ever made’ lists is 2009’s Martyrs. from director Pascal Laugier and it 100% deserves to be there. I used to listen to a lot of horror focused podcasts and the topic would come up a lot ‘what horror films…
Four celebrated works by Yakutian filmmaker Stepan Burnashev, Black Snow, Our Winter, Cursed Land-Fate and Aita, are now streaming worldwide on Amazon Prime Video via Rising Sun Media – marking a major milestone in the global visibility of Sakhawood cinema. Burnashev, a pioneer of Sakhawood, represents an Indigenous filmmaking tradition rooted in the Sakha Republic of Siberia, widely known as one of…
Starting out as a short film (starring Owen Llewelyn and August Porter) The R.I.P Man (which has been described as “Halloween meets Silence of the Lambs.”) has now grown and has become a full length feature and the creative team behind the film are now planning to shop the feature to film festivals on both sides of…
Who is Carl Cane? Well there are several answers to that which are unveiled in the latest Shogun Films production Helloween which has now arrived here in the UK on Digital and which was released earlier in September in the US. In the latest film from writer/director Phil Claydon (Lesbian Vampire Killers) we first meet…
Another film gem has been found! Deadly Justice which I watched recently on Prime Video. I did complete a non spoiler review video over at the frompage2screen YouTube channel and ill post that video at the bottom of this article but for those who would rather read my thoughts then please do carry on with…
Hammer Films, in collaboration with The Warner Archive Collection, is proud to present the UK theatrical release of the brand new 4K restoration of the iconic 1957 horror masterpiece The Curse of Frankenstein from Thursday 2nd October. Following its premiere at the same site that once hosted the film’s original theatrical premiere almost 70 years ago…
Once again, GRIMMFEST is the place to be this October. As the festival grows ever closer, the guest list has been announced and its great! I’ve been a fan of Grimmfest for years and whilst I haven’t been able to attend every year (due to circumstances outside my control) I have always loved attending…
The award winning legal thriller MURDER IN THE FIRST – starring Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, and Gary Oldman – makes its UK UHD and Blu-ray debut on November 17, with a superb brand new 4K restoration. Directed by Marc Rocco (Where the Day Takes You) and written by Dan Gordon (Rambo: Last Blood) MURDER IN THE FIRST, a combination of prison thriller and courtroom drama, stars Kevin Bacon (The…
Cockerel Entertainment have now released Michael Wright’s latest feature, The Undertaker onto Amazon Prime. The Undertaker is a multi award Best Film winning crime drama that has enjoyed a great festival run around the world including Belize International Film Festival where it won Conchshell Award for Best Film, Marbella Film festival where it picked up…
Hammer Films, in collaboration with The Warner Archive Collection, are proud to present the world premiere of the brand new 4K restoration of the iconic 1957 horror masterpiece The Curse of Frankenstein on Wednesday 1st October. The world premiere will allow audiences to see The Curse of Frankenstein for the very first time ever in breath-taking 4K on the big…
Leading Hollywood sales company Film Bridge After Dark has closed a raft of international deals on Helloween, an ambitious British clown horror movie with a dash of The Purge starring Ronan Summers (MI-5) and Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott (Knightfall), from Lesbian Vampire Killers director Phil Claydon and trailblazing British indie studio Shogun Films. Directed by Claydon…
After a record-breaking box office debut, JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH is now available to buy or rent for the first time exclusively on Digital platforms, from August 18, 2025, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Amblin Entertainment. JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH is “a thrilling, action-packed ride” (Claire Rowden, MTV UK) hailed as “the best Jurassic in a decade” (RADIO TIMES). I enjoyed Jurassic…
Ill be honest, I hadn’t even heard of the film Enemy Territory before Id seen the film even though that during the 80s when the film was released I pretty much watched everything that I could get my hands on. Somehow over the years Enemy Territory became one of those ‘lost films’ that didnt…
Yes this is sci-fi but its not spaceships or laser battles type sci-fi. No, Variant is a full on head scratching ‘hmm whats going on’ type sci-fi and its a type of sci-fi I do enjoy. Straight from the opening scene where we meet our main character Aria (played by Ashlynn Yennie), an artist…
The Conjuring, the 2013 New Line Cinema supernatural horror film from filmmaker James Wan will be released for the first time on 4K UHD, 4K UHD SteelBook and as a 4K UHD Collector’s Edition on August 25. The Conjuring launched the highest grossing horror franchise to date with more than $2.2 billion at the worldwide…
July is an explosive month on LEGEND, with seven high-octane primetime Channel premieres guaranteed to keep audiences on the edge of their sofas. Leading the way is IN THE LINE OF DUTY, an explosive, round-the clock, real-time thriller starring Aaron Eckhart, and D.O.A., a suspense neo-noir thriller, a remake of the 1950 film, starring Dennis Quaid, Meg…
Busy UK indie production company Shogun Films, which specialises in high concept genre movies, has a busy second half of 2025 with no less than 5 movies due for release. Lets take a look at each one in this picture-packed preview. HELLOWEEN Pitched as The Purge meets The Terrifier with a Michael Myers twist, this…
From Blumhouse, producers of M3GAN, and Platinum Dunes, producers of A Quiet Place, comes DROP, the action-packed thriller that proves dating can be deadly and that meeting new people face to face can be a little unnerving to say the least. From acclaimed director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day franchise, Heart Eyes) DROP will be available to buy on…
LEGEND, the TV destination for fans of action, sci-fi, and thriller, is dialling up the nostalgia with two iconic titles, following a wave of strong performance for classic programming. Joining LEGEND’s line-up are the cult ‘80s series The Fall Guy – which inspired a 2024 film adaptation – and the original 1970s Charlie’s Angels, the show that launched…
Not just a cornerstone of 80s horror/scifi but also a foundation block for my own love of movies and the first David Cronenberg film that I ever saw. 1981’s Scanners is set for a feature filled Second Sight Films edition this March. Scanners was a film that as a kid growing up in the 70s…
Micheal Jai White and ABM Sumon join forces as the Bangladeshi James Bond and a slick CIA badass to take down a global terrorist organisation in this action-packed spy thriller Get ready for the all-new, high-octane, kick-ass spy thriller MR–9: Do or Die. This action-packed thrill-ride sees two elite CIA agents, one from the US…
Hailed as ‘Sundance’s most shocking feature’ by Dread Central and as ‘the most amazing thing I have seen in I don’t know how long… It’s crazy and it’s crazy good’ by The Guardian; the original Speak No Evil garnered praise and awards galore on its release in 2022, and now this unnerving, dread-inducing and unrelentingly gripping social…
The Sixth Sense and Signs, two iconic thrillers from Oscar -nominated director, M. Night Shyamalan, will be available for the first time ever in stunning 4K UHD Blu-ray disc on 16th December. The original negatives for both films were scanned at 4K resolution and restored in High Dynamic Range (HDR). Hollywood superstar Bruce Willis brings a powerful…
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