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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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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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Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
As we had a light slate this week Mike, Rich and Steve decided to take a look at some recent films added to Netflix. As usual, clicking the links below will take you to a trailer for each film...
But we start with our only physical release of the week, RIPPER'S REVENGE (High Fliers). Director Steve Lawson is a prolific low-budget film-maker and impressed us with RIPPER UNTOLD and his other films have all been entertaining (The Mummy in particular). Will returning to spin a new tale around the Ripper murders be a success? Check out our review to find out!
Set in the lead-up to the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, SEOUL VIBE (Netflix) finds a street-racing gang blackmailed by a well-meaning cop to go undercover as delivery drivers for a notorious loan shark.
KUTTEY (Netflix) is an Indian film about two corrupt cops who find themselves in hot water after being caught trying to assassinate a rival drug dealer and must come up with a more audacious heist in order to pay off the right people.
FURIES (Netflix) is a Prequel to Furie (In our review I was Adamant this was a sequel in name only, but i stand corrected!) Veronica Ngo takes over as director and proves to be a force to be reckoned with both in front and behind the camera.
Our Short Shot is LACKADAISY, an animated short about a trio of bootleggers during the prohibition set in New Orleans. Click the link to watch the whole short and please check out the other links on the page.
Our DTV Throwback is JARHEAD 3: The SIEGE (Netflix) - Universal 1440 are experts at delivering DTV Sequels to films which had originally received theatrical releases - such as Sniper, The Scorpion King and Death Race. This is directed by William Kaufman and co-stars Scott Adkins, so i need say no more!
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Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Episode 228: V/H/S 99, The Killer, Skin and Bone, Swelter
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
After the huge workload of the previous couple of episodes Mike, Rich and Steve take it easy with only two main films to cover. As usual, clicking the links below will take you to the trailer...
V/H/S 99 (Shudder) is the latest in the anthology series - this one centering around a single tape which has been recorded over several times resulting in a series of stories set in 1999.
THE KILLER (CineAsia UK) is director Jae-Hoon Choi's long-awaited follow-up to The Swordsman, a film highly regarded around here! Can lightning strike twice? All the signs are good, including the return of Jang Hyuk as his lead!
Our Short Shot is SKIN AND BONE, in which a drifter has a bizarre time when he takes casual work on a secluded farm... click the link to watch the whole film!
Our DTV Throwback is SWELTER - Lennie James and Jean-Claude Van Damme costar in a sweaty modern western about an amnesiac sheriff, some escaped convicts and a hidden bag of loot. This film can be found on Amazon Prime.
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Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
This episode sees Mike, Rich and Steve tackling a whopping eight new releases. As usual, click the link to see a trailer for each film:
BAD CITY (101 Films) is a Japanese action movie about a hand-picked squad of detectives taking on a corrupt businessman running for mayor!
NEXT EXIT (Blue Finch Releasing) is a road-trip for two strangers on their way to be euthanized as part of an experiment to prove there is life after death!
THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Signature Entertainment) is the latest re-telling of the Dumas classic!
THE NAMELESS DAYS (High Fliers Films) is set on the Mexican border where an Aztec demon preys on newly-borns!
THE IRISH MOB (101 Films) tries to be Goodfellas on a budget!
CONDOR'S NEST (Icon Film Distribution) - don't be fooled by the generic artwork, this is a well-made thriller set after World War 2!
DEAD BRIDE (Trinity Creative) - An Italian horror movie in which a woman and her family are plagued by ghosts from her past!
THE POSSESSED (High Fliers Films) - An Australian horror movie in which John Jarret does his best to "clear" people of demonic spirits!
Our Short Shot is DRAGON COP, an excellent homage to the Golden Age of HK Action. Click the link to watch the whole film and take a moment to consider helping out their Kickstarter campaign for Dragon Cop's Revenge!
Our DTV Throwback is ANDRON, another film in which a group of strangers find themselves together in a strange facility with no memories. Click the link to see the film for free on YouTube.
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Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Short Shots Episode 19 - Comic Book Fan Films Special!
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Since we launched the @DTVShortShots twitter page, Rich has curated over 100 fan films and to commemorate that, we have put together a selection of some of the best comic-book fan films that are currently out there. Some of these are quite well known (I'm sure a lot of people will have come across the Deadpool ones before) but all are very much worth your time.
Here's the list we cover, with links to each short:
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
4
Leo Kei Angelos
2013
bit.ly/ShortShot1
DEADPOOL THE MUSICAL
6
Julian Higgins
2017
bit.ly/ShortShot653
DEADPOOL THE MUSICAL 2
13
Julian Higgins
2018
bit.ly/ShortShot660
NIGHTWING: THE DARKEST NIGHT
23
Matthew Campbell
2015
bit.ly/ShortShot520
RIDDLE OF THE MASK
15
Justin Zagri
2013
bit.ly/ShortShot289
TRUTH OF THE MASK
20
Justin Zagri
2014
bit.ly/ShortShot296
BATMAN: PUPPET MASTER
15
Bryan Nest
2012
bit.ly/ShortShot156
PAMELA & IVY
16
Leah McKendrick
2020
bit.ly/ShortShot674
MARVEL ZOMBIES VS. ARMY OF DARKNESS
8
Brian Rosenthal
2013
bit.ly/ShortShot85
ASH VS. LOBO AND THE DC DEAD
21
Brian Rosenthal
2016
bit.ly/ShortShot86
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