Episode 281: Into The Deep, Sunray: Fallen Soldier, Rippy, Elite Force B.R.I., MR-9: Do Or Die, Blackwater Lane, Queen of Hearts, Avenging Force

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve take on six new releases; as usual, click the link to check out the trailer for each film!
We kick off with INTO THE DEEP (Signature Entertainment), the latest DTV shark movie. Christian Sesma directs, Chad Law wrote the script and Richard Dreyfus makes an appearance!
In SUNRAY: FALLEN SOLDIER (Vertigo Releasing), a grizzled ex soldier gets his unit back together to go hunt the drug gang responsible for the death of this daughter. You may not have heard of this but we advise you do not miss it!
RIPPY (Altitude) is an Australian creature feature featuring a mutant/zombie kangaroo! We recommend checking out the original short film its based on: WATERBORNE!
We follow this with reviews for ELITE FORCE: B.R.I. (101 Film) and MR-9: DO OR DIE (Plaion Pictures). One is an ultra low budget action film, the other seems to have ten times the budget. We debate which is the poorer and which should be commended!
Lastly is BLACKWATER LANE (Plaion Pictures), a suspenseful thriller in which a woman suspects she's a killer's next target!
 
Our Short Shot is QUEEN OF HEARTS, a western confrontation in a saloon - click the link to watch the whole 9min short!
Our DTV Throwback is AVENGING FORCE - a Cannon Film, starring Michael Dudikoff and Steve James - do we need to say more?? You can find this on Amazon Prime, as well as other platforms.
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Episode 279: Gunner, Voice of Shadows, Devil's Knight, Out of Body, Mumbai Saga

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle three new titles going straight to home media - as usual, click the links below to see a trailer for each one:
We kick off with the biggest film of the week, GUNNER (Vertigo Releasing) sees Luke Hemsworth tackling a local gang of drug dealers when they kidnap his two sons....
in VOICE OF SHADOWS (Miracle Media), a young woman stands to inherit an estate as long as she abides by a strange set of rules...
DEVIL'S KNIGHT (Mahal Empire) is from producer Sonny Mahal, who gave us the insane Bermuda Island. Will he reach the same giddy heights with this men-on-a-mission tale to destroy a demon?
Our Short Shot is OUT OF BODY, about a young woman who can astral-project outside her body during sex. Click the link to watch the whole short film!
Our DTV Throwback is MUMBAI SAGA, starring John Abraham as a crime lord being targeted by a corrupt policeman. This film is currently available on Amazon Prime!
 
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Episode 278: The Silent Hour, #AMFAD - All My Friends Are Dead, Winner, The Imposters, Batman Beyond: Year One, Angel Town

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle four new releases - as usual click the links to view the trailers for each!
We kick off with one of the strongest films of the year: Joel Kinnaman stars as a detective who has recently become deaf after an accident in THE SILENT HOUR (Signature Entertainment).
ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD (#AMFAD) (101 Films) sees a group of young people being picked off by a returning serial killer....
WINNER (Signature Entertainment) is based on the real-life experiences of Reality Winner, who was charged with leaking classified documents to the media...
THE IMPOSTERS (Miracle Media) finds a young woman falling in love with another woman, only to find she has an ulterior motive...
 
Our Short shot is a fan film: BATMAN BEYOND: YEAR ONE finds Terry McGill meeting a young woman who may not be as she seems. Click the link to check out the whole film!
Our DTV Throwback is Olivier Gruner's first feature film, ANGEL TOWN, in which he plays a college student who gets involved in the dirty dealings of the neighborhood where he is renting. This is currently available on Amazon Prime in a decent widescreen print (certainly better quality than the trailer!)
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Episode 277: Slingshot, Dark Feathers, The Stoic, The Avenger, The Engineer, Trapo Sucio, Enemies Closer

This week Mike, Rich and Steve take a look at five new reviews: click the links to see the trailers for each!
Kicking off with SLINGSHOT (Signature Entertainment) - Laurence Fishburne and Casey Affleck star in this sci-fi movie about astronauts on a mission to Titan.
DARK FEATHERS - DANCE OF THE GEISHA (Miracle Media) is one of the strangest films to head our way in a while, in which a detective investigates an enigmatic dancer after several of her dance partners mysteriously die...
THE STOIC (High Fliers) has an interesting cast and the makings of a good script, as a gang of hardened mercenaries are hunted by an elite assassin/smuggler.
THE AVENGER (Miracle Media) is a low budget tale a la Taken, in which a brawler must rescue his daughter when she is kidnapped on holiday!
THE ENGINEER (High Fliers) is set in Israel, and finds mercenaries and CIA operatives trying to capture a bomb-maker following a terrorist attack.
 
Our Short Shot is TRAPA SUCIO, in which a family tries to protect their land from corrupt developers. Click the link to watch the whole film!
Our DTV Throwback is ENEMIES CLOSER -  JCVD takes the villainous role, trying to recover a shipment of drugs and running into the local park ranger... the version we watched is available on Amazon but didn't have subs for the French language parts.
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Episode 274: The Convert, Take Cover, Prom Car '91, The Rage

Its been a while, but we're finally back on track! And to kick off we have two new films to talk about!
First up is THE CONVERT (Vertigo Releasing), directed by Lee Tamahori. Guy Pierce stars as a lay preacher who arrives in a British colony in New Zealand and must deal with the threat of neighboring warring Maori tribes.
Next is TAKE COVER (Signature Entertainment), in which Scott Adkins finds himself trapped in a penthouse suite with a sniper trying to get him in his sights!
 
Our shot shot is PROM CAR '91, an awesome horror comedy - click the link to watch the whole film!
Finally our DTV Throwback is THE RAGE, starring Lorenzo Lamas as a FBI agent on the hunt for a serial killer. This film had loads to recommend it and its available to stream on Amazon Prime.
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Episode 272: Poolman, Deadland, The Last Breath, Jade, Axel F, The Baku, Reptilian

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve  tackle five main releases - as usual, click the link to check out the trailers for each film!We kick off with POOLMAN (Signature Entertainment), starring, directed by and co-written by Chris Pine. Check out our review to find out if its worth a watch!
Set on the US/Mexican border, DEADLAND (Lightbulb Film Distribution) follows a conflicted Border Patrol officer dealing with a mysterious dead body and the sudden appearance of his estranged father.
THE LAST BREATH (Signature Entertainment) is the latest entry into the Shark Attack genre, as some old college friends become trapped inside the wreck of WW2 battleship, surrounded by sharks!
Director James Bamford had already  proved himself to be a decent DTV director with Airforce One Down. JADE (101 Films)  doubles down on that, making him a director to look out for and serves up a new action star, Shaina West!
Going straight to Netflix, AXEL F is exactly the nostalgia piece you'd expect. Check out our review to see whether we enjoyed it!
Our Short Shot this week is THE BAKU - click the link to see the whole 30min short. Former Power Ranger Jonny Yong Bosch made the excellent short Ark Exitus a few years back, so we were eagerly anticipating his latest film!
Finally, our DTV Throwback is REPTILIAN, aka Reptile 2001, aka Yongary. This is a Korean produced Kaiju, featuring a giant dinosaur resurrected by invading aliens. You have to dig hard, but it is available on Prime and other locations.
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Episode 270: Among the Willows, Sorry, Charlie, You Can't Run Forever, Lackadaisy: Ingenue, Samurai Cop

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve check out three new releases:
 
AMONG THE WILLOWS (Miracle Media) is a western in which two old guys must put aside their own feud in order to hunt down a gang of killers...
SORRY, CHARLIE (Miracle Media) is another film in which an actor spends most of the running time on her own, talking to people on a phone. Can this film do enough to stand out from the rest? Check out our review!
YOU CAN'T RUN FOREVER (Signature Entertainment) finds the always excellent J K Simmons as a psychotic killer hunting down a traumatised teen...
 
Our Short Shot is LACKADAISY: INGENUE - this is the latest animated short about a gang of bootleggers in the  Prohibition era. We covered a lengthier cartoon featuring these characters back in episode 229 and most certainly recommend you check them out!
Our DTV Throwback is SAMURAI COP - a film which defies expectation. Its been lampooned before (There is a RiffTrax version out there) and friend of the show Rob Hill has recently made a 40 minute documentary on it. Please note that the version we've linked to, on Youtube, is edited for nudity - there are full versions available to rent. We urge you to watch the film, then check out Rob's documentary, HERE.
 
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Episode 267: Jericho Ridge, The Bad Shepherd, Prey!, Land of Bad, Alberto and the Beast, Pulse

This week Mike and Rich tackle four new releases - click the links to see the trailers for each:
 
We kick off with JERICHO RIDGE (The Movie Partnership) a film which many of our US colleagues had on their top ten lists for 2023, and finally makes its way to the UK! Take a listen to see if we agree!
THE BAD SHEPHERD (Scatena & Rosner Films) finds four friends on a hunting trip turning on each other when they come across a bag full of cash...
PREY! (Signature Entertainment) finds Ryan Phillippe and Emile Hirsch crash-landing in an African nature reserve...
LAND OF BAD (Signature Entertainment) sees Liam Hemsworth on a mission in the Philippines, with Russel Crowe as his eyes in the sky...
 
Our Short Shot is ALBERTO AND THE BEAST, in which a sound engineer discovers BigFoot - click the link to watch the whole film!
 
Our DTV Throwback is PULSE, in which a young boy has to convince his dad and stepmom of a malevolent electrical presence in their house... this can be found on Youtube - click the link to watch the film!
 
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Short Shots Episode 23 - Arrow Showcase!

In this episode of Short Shots, Mike and Rich take a look at twelve short films which are currently available on the Arrow streaming channel - which is currently offering a 14 day free trial via its website, HERE
The shorts covered in this episode are:
ARM (Katherine Markwick/Jill Worsley)A woman suffering from loneliness during Lockdown orders a device to sooth her sleep…
BAD ACID (Sam Fox)Set during the 1980s, and our protagonist awakens to conduct her morning aerobics exercise - only to fall foul to a toxic chemical which gets mixed in with her morning soda!
BARK (Ryan Irving)A sentient tree wishes for some excitement in its life and gets more than it bargained for!
BLEEP (Ben S. Hyland)A husband and wife awaken in the middle of the night to a strange bleep coming from their kitchen…
ITCH (Susannah Farrugia)A novice nun suffers from an extreme itchiness which may be a manifestation of her sexual frustration…
KEITH (Alex Baro-Cayetano)A young girl has a chat with the monster under her bed…
MEAT FRIEND (Izzy Lee)When young Billie microwaves some hamburger meat, she creates a creature called Meat Friend who has some very dodgy lessons for her to learn…
SMILE (Joanna Tsanis)A manic depressive young woman is visited by a malevolent supernatural creature in the middle of the night….
TERRIBLE THINGS (Ciaran Hickey)In the post-apocalypse wasteland, a young scavenger spends the night talking to the dead resident of a house…
THE ANATOMY MAESTRO (Drew Maxwell Weiss)On the dark New York city streets, a killer stalks his latest victim…but there is more to his quarry than meets the eye…
THE MONKEY'S PAW (Ben Caplan)A family is visited upon by an old acquaintance who leaves them with a cursed gift…
THE WYRM OF BWLCH PEN BARRAS. (Craig Williams)Three men find themselves with a harrowing task deep in the Welsh Valleys…
 
 

Episode 265: Road House, Restore Point, Ship of the Damned, Wanted Man, Vice Grip, Solo

This week, Mike and Rich tackle four new releases - as usual, click the links to see the trailers for each...
 
ROAD HOUSE (Amazon) has been a massive hit for Amazon Prime, but how does it hold up to the original and what did we make of it? Take a listen to find out!
RESTORE POINT (Plaion Pictures) is a Czech sci-fi thriller as a female detective investigates a mysterious double homicide.
SHIP OF THE DAMNED (High Fliers) is the latest Steve Lawson film, and in a break from his usual literary adaptations, this is an original tale set in contemporary England!
WANTED MAN (Signature Entertainment) sees Dolph Lundgren star, direct and co-write a tale of a racist cop on a path of redemption as he attempts to escort a witness across the Mexican border....
 
Our Short Shot is VICE GRIP, from director Dillon Vibbart, whose work we've covered before. Click the link to check out this supernatural tale of an influencer being attacked in her nightmares!
We round off with our DTV Throwback, SOLO, starring Mario Van Peebles as a cyborg soldier who develops a conscience and goes rogue! 
 
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