UK Theatrical Poster
The plague (Black Death) is cutting a massive swath of death through Europe; it’s a horrific disease that shows no prejudice, striking down both the wealthy and affluent as well as clergy and commoners. At the command of the King, a small group of knights are sent to a local monastery to secure themselves the aid of a monk willing to lead them through a nearby swamp and to a village rumored to be free of plague. Their mission is to locate the town’s necromancer Continue reading »
UK Theatrical Poster
The future is now and it is bleak and hopeless; population, crime, death and disease have all risen while the food (munchies) necessary to feed everybody has diminished. Though the financial systems may have collapsed, three things still rule the streets of London: the gangs, the “munchies” gangs sell and the money gangs make from the “munchies” they sell. If you aren’t cliqued up with a street gang, you’re a victim being preyed on Continue reading »
Promo Still (2010)
The UK is truly blessed with the Empire Cinema’s (located in London’s West End) FILM4 FRIGHTFEST, showcasing the best in independent and upcoming horror-suspense and thriller films. Its official site declares its purpose: “Exploring daring ideas with an innovative flair, using fresh avenues of shock, and highlighting major new exciting talent.” The series graces the silver screen on the 26-30th of this August. One film in particular may strike your fancy – it’s KABOOM, from mindfuck director Gregg Araki.
“Kaboom” is a college sex comedy romp. It is also an apocalyptic harbinger of sci-fi doom. It is also yet another work from stunningly Continue reading »
R2 DVD Release
Woody, a street-level pimp and all-around hustler, is the subject of this faux documentary as it focuses on the day-to-day operations of the prostitution business, underground porn and a turf war with the local Chinese tong. Not only must Woody face the usual setbacks of a recession-driven sex trade downturn but his boss Stanley is putting pressure on him to step up his discipline game to keep the girls in line as well, especially their top earner Petra. Nothing can Continue reading »
Promo Poster
Jamie is a quiet, lonely bloke that lives with his mother in the fast decaying, crime-ridden streets of East London and works for his brother and nephew in a photography studio. Despite his desire to meet a girl and marry, most are unwilling to even look at him because of his startling appearance, marked by a massive birthmark on his face in the shape of a heart.
When a gang wearing demon masks appears at night on the streets of his neighborhood, bringing with them chaos and murder, events begin spiraling out of control forcing Jamie into a confrontation with the gang’s leader, a sinister man named Mister B. The terrifying gang leader offers the scared young man two choices, accept a gracious offer to help Jamie achieve his heart’s desire or face the wrath of the Continue reading »
DVD Release
Neurotic, mama’s boy, loner Adrian LeDuc (Colin Firth) is forced to take in a border for money in his mother’s apartment in Buenos Aires. The border may or may not be crazier than Le Duc, or is he actually a psychotic killer?
The roommate played by Hart Bochner no less, eighties heartthrob at one time but he’s great in this. You get a view of the talent that Colin would become from early on here. You are treated to a huge helping of attraction and chemistry between Firth and Bochner. This is similar in tone and look to Polanski’s The Tenant but it still completely stands on it’s own. Beware though, it is painstakingly slow moving and you need great patience as it is also long. The cat and Continue reading »
Theatrical Poster
It is always said that you should never judge a book by its cover. Fair point if you ask me. It should also be mentioned that you should never judge a movie by its poster artwork. Too often a movie will have a cool as hell poster then the movie turns out to be utter shite. All that aside I could not help but to be sucked into the artwork for A Day of Violence. I actually spied it on another very good website and was drawn to it like the proverbial fly to shit. There it was in all its Continue reading »
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Although it can be said that the Vigilante movie has never really gone away there has been somewhat of a revival of late, especially in mainstream cinema. Recent flicks such as The Brave One, Death Sentence and Law Abiding Citizen to name but a few have hit the big screen to varying degrees of success. Even Clint Eastwood struck gold with the excellent Gran Torino, nailing grizzly old bastard down to perfection.
So I must admit that I was just a little excited when I saw the previews for Harry Brown, which stars Michael Caine in the title role. The excitement for me was two-fold, firstly because I do love a good vigilante movie and secondly I was happy to see Caine get his teeth stuck into something a Continue reading »
U.S. DVD Release
If you came home one day only to be confronted with the news that your wife, or husband, was leaving you I imagine you would be mildly pissed off. Add to this the fact that they had been seeing someone else, I’d guess you would be really pissed off. Well, this is the situation Colin Diamond (Ray Winstone) is faced with and how he deals with it in this class movie.
Hang on though, before you think that it is going to be about him sitting around whining just hold your horses for a second. Sure, he is not a happy bunny and he does hit the bottle with a vengeance, however there is far more to it than that. For a start Colin and his friends decide to find the fella that his estranged wife was messing about with Continue reading »
R2 DVD Release
Justine is the head girl of her school, and as part of the role she is called to give a speech at the funeral of fellow student Darren Mullet; who has recently committed suicide. Jason, Darren’s only friend, is outraged as Justine didn’t actually know him and has an outburst during the ceremony and is violently tossed out by the schools PE teacher. After the ceremony the ‘it’ kids decide to throw a party, Alexis has a crush on Justine and decides to invite her along – she agrees.
At the party, all of the in crowd receive media messages containing insults from Darren’s phone, they assume its Jason and plan on getting him back. It transpires Continue reading »
