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Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle three new films - Click the link to view the trailers...
Kicking off with OPERATION NAPOLEON: FROZEN CONSPIRACY (Signature Entertainment), an Icelandic thriller based on a novel...
THE INHABITANT (The Movie Partnership) finds a troubled teen haunted by her ancestor, the axe-murderer Lizzie Borden...
LOCK AND LOAD (High Fliers Films) is a low budget film by Nathan Shepka, whose film When Darkness Falls we reviewed back in Episode 202!
Our Short Shot is THE GATEWAY DRUG, a contender for short of the year! Click the link to check it out!
Our DTV Throwback is STARRY EYES, in which a young actress comes to terms with how far she is willing to go for stardom. This is available on a couple of free-with-ads sites such as FreeVee and Plex!
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Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve check out four new releases. As usual, click the link to see the trailer for the film:
THE LAIR (Acorn): director Neil Marshall returns with a creature feature!
SAKRA (Signature Films): Donnie Yen stars and co-directs this epic martial arts, wire-fu movie!
ARTISTS IN AGONY (Global Digital Releasing): An independent mockumentary about the massacre of four reknowned hitmen at the Coda Teahouse!
WHAT THE WATERS LEFT BEHIND: SCARS (Minerva Pictures) - a sequel to the Argentinian torture/slasher hybrid, in which a dysfunctional rock band falls prey to a family of cannibals in a deserted town!
Our Short Shot is RED VALLEY - Click the link to watch the whole short from Mighty Fox Productions!
Our DTV Throwback is THE THAW: A bunch of scientists discover the corpse of a woolly mammoth after a glacier recedes but are horrified to find it contains the eggs of a prehistoric parasitic bug! You can find this film streaming for free (with Ads) on PLEX.
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Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle four new releases...
THE GATES (101 Films) is a horror set in a 19th Century prison, and stars John Rhys Davis as a paranormal investigator...
CALL HER KING (BET+) is a Die Hard-style film set in a courthouse, where a gang of criminals attempt to free their leader's brother, who's just been sentenced to death...
BAD GIRL BOOGEY (Dark Star Pictures) finds a serial killer wearing a possessed mask killing members of the LGBT community...
SKINAMARINK (Acorn) sees two young children trapped in a nightmare...
Our short Shot is WE HUNT GIANTS - click the link to watch the short, about prehistoric hunters...
Our DTV Throwback is THE BLACK PLAGUE, in which Lena Heady tries to discover why the local villagers are suddenly dying when soldiers return from war with France.
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Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve cover six new titles. Click the links to check out the trailers for each!
BLACK LOTUS (The Move Partnership) - set in Amsterdam, kickboxer Rico Verhoven makes his film debut opposite Frank Grillo who has kidnapped his friend's daughter...
THE BLACK DEMON - Josh Lucas takes his family to Mexico, gets trapped on a decaying oil rig by a demonic shark...
SUPERCELL (Vertigo Releasing) - a young teen travels to storm country to follow in the footsteps of his late father, a renowned stormchaster...
THE DEVIL COMES AT NIGHT (Uncork'd Entertainment) - an ex boxer awakens alone in his late father's house, besieged by a cannibal cult...
PURSUIT (The Movie Partnership) - Emile Hersch and John Cusack get involved in computer hacking, kidnapping, and lots of missing drugs.
FIRST CONTACT (Uncork'd Entertainment) - siblings Casey and Dan arrive at their missing father's farmhouse only to learn he may have been building a device base on extraterrestrial instructions...
Our Short Shot is STRANDED 3, starring the illusionist Zach King and Terry Crews - click the link to watch this fantastic short!
Our DTV throwback is CLASS OF 1999 2: THE SUBSTITUTE starring Sasha Mitchell as a killbot working as a substitute teacher in a rundown highschool.
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Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle four new releases...
Starting with ROADKILL (Reel2Reel Films), an Australian thriller in which a petty highway robber crosses paths with a serial killer, with terrifying consequences....
Also from Australia is WRATH OF SOULS (Bulldog Films), in which a young man comes to regret taking a job at the local crematorium when supernatural shenanigans start kicking off...
MK ULTRA (High Fliers Films), stars Anson Mount and is about the CIA's covert experiments with LSD during the 1960s. As we mention in the review, LAST PODCAST ON THE LEFT did a great job of documenting the actual history - check out their ep 482.
Finally, Stephen Lang stars in OLD MAN (Plaion Pictures UK) - a cantankerous loner whose world is intruded upon by a lost hiker...
Our Short Shot is OATH OF HONOR - two brothers working as undercover cops clash when they are both involved in a drug bust gone wrong...
Finally - our DTV Throwback is TREMORS 2: AFTERSHOCKS. Fred Ward and Michael Gross return for this entertaining sequel. This is currently streaming on NETFLIX but for a limited time only....
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Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
This week Mike, Rich, Steve and Will take a look at six new films...
RESTART THE EARTH (Dazzler) is a Chinese blockbuster set after plants have become sentient and taken over the world - its certainly not The Happening!
BOON (101 Films) is an old fashioned and familiar tale about a stoic loner trying to keep out of trouble but who comes to the aid of a woman in need.
LITTLE BONE LODGE (Signature Entertainment) is a neat little thriller where a couple of crooks end up at a strange farm.
1915: LEGEND OF THE GURKHAS (High Fliers Films) is low budget dramatisation set during the First World War...
THE RESURRECTION OF CHARLES MANSON (The Movie Partnership) involves a young couple visiting a remote cabin in the desert, where not everything is as it seems....
KILLER KITES (Film Hub) may be the lowest budget film we've EVER reviewed and we kind of love it.
Our Short Shot is JO, a revenge western directed by the excellent Katherine Hughes, who also directed Happy Mart, which we covered in episode 232.
Our DTV Throwback is REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS - this is a period set, Asian gangs in New York story - no wonder it was co-produced by Martin Scorcese! This can be found free to stream (with ads ) on PLEX - click the link!
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Saturday May 20, 2023
Episode 233: Night of the Bastard, Sayen, Otherkin, Gunmen
Saturday May 20, 2023
Saturday May 20, 2023
In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve check out 2 new releases....
NIGHT OF THE BASTARD (High Fliers Films)is a sordid tale of a reclusive man and his pet turtle under siege by a satanic cult when he begrudgingly helps a young woman they intend to sacrifice...
SAYEN (Amazon Prime) follows a young woman who comes home to her village in Chile only to find it under attack from rich land-grabbers looking to exploit their jungle. You can find this on Amazon Prime.
Our Short Shot is OTHERKIN - a young woman finally gets to meet her birth parents but finds they and their house are kind of creepy... click the link to watch the whole film.
Our DTV Throwback is GUNMEN - Christopher Lambert and Mario Van Peebles kind of team up to search for a huge amount of loot stolen from Patrick Steward, who sends Dennis Leary on their trail...You can find a very good print of this on YouTube - click the link to watch it!
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Saturday May 13, 2023
Saturday May 13, 2023
In this episode Mike, Rich, Steve and Will tackle six new films. - as usual, clicking the links below will take you to the trailer for each...
Starting with A SMALL FORTUNE (101 Films) a familiar tale of greed and bad luck with a unique isolated setting...
then we look at low budget horror movie, CRAVING set in a road-house besieged by an armed gang of drug addicts....
HELL'S HALF ACRE (Terror Films) finds the crew of a youtube channel investigating an abandoned prison only to find it isn't completely empty...
SPACE WARS: QUEST FOR THE DEEPSTAR (Uncork'd Entertainment) is an indie space opera starring Michael Pare, Sarah French and Olivier Gruner...
WHAT REMAINS (High Fliers) finds Kellan Lutz as a murderer just out of prison, befriending the husband of his victim...
PILLOW PARTT MASSACRE (Breaking Glass Pictures) is a love-letter to the classic slashers of the 1980s...
Our Short Shot is HAPPY MART - click the link to watch the whole film!
Our DTV Throwback is RAZE, starring Zoe Bell, one of 50 women kidnapped and forced to fight to the death for the delights of an uber rich audience. (note - I mention Mike Fury's book, life of Action - of course, Zoe Bell appears on the cover of volume 2, not the first).
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Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
This week, Mike and Rich tackle six new releases...
LAST SENTINEL sees Kate Bosworth and three crewmates trying to discover why their relief ship was abandoned...
NIGHTMARE RADIO is a horror anthology, centred around a late-night DJ challenging her listeners to call in with spooky tales...
WIRE ROOM is the last Bruce Willis-featuring film to be made (although there are still some to be released)...
THE INTEGRITY OF JOSEPH CHAMBERS finds an insurance salesman trying to prove his manliness with an ill-advised trip into the wilderness...
THE LOCKSMITH is the second film this week to star Kate Bosworth - this time the focus is on Ryan Philippe as he tries to go straight after a prison sentence...
THE QUANTUM DEVIL is from the director of Girl Next, which divided the panel when we reviewed it last year. A small group of scientists are summoned to Eastern Europe to help finish off a quantum portal into another dimension...
Our Short Shot is the festival crowd-pleasing RINGWORMS - click the link to watch the whole short!
Our DTV Throwback is UNLUCKY STARS, a love-letter to the Hong Kong golden age of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. Click the link to watch the whole film on Youtube!
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Saturday Apr 22, 2023
Episode 230 - Colonials, The Walk, Kickstart My Heart, TimeBomb
Saturday Apr 22, 2023
Saturday Apr 22, 2023
In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve check out two new films....
First is COLONIALS (Reel 2 Reel Films), an independent sci-fi action movie which sees a recently-graduated cadet sent on a dangerous mission...to Earth!
Second is THE WALK (High Fliers Films) - set in 1974, this is a fictional take on Boston's enforced bussing policy to force its schools to become racially integrated, and some of the people that it affects.
Out Short Shot is KICKSTART MY HEART - a film we saw last year at Fighting Spirit Film Festival and are very happy to be able to share it with you here - click the link to see the whole film.
Our DTV Throwback is TIMEBOMB. Michael Beihn stars as a mild-mannered watchmaker who finds himself targeted by a shadowy organisation when he's shown in a tv news show. As this film is available on YouTube, click the link to watch the whole film!
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