Win Kelly + Victor On DVD

The surprise critical British independent film Kelly + Victor will be released this Monday, 13th January on DVD and Bluray. We have teamed up with Verve Pictures and have 3 copies of the film on DVD up for grabs.

Kelly+Victor is a haunting, candid depiction of a young couple embarking on a passionate and transgressive love affair, from the acclaimed novel by Niall Griffiths. The film is set against the backdrop of a highly cinematic Liverpool, to a searing soundtrack featuring music by a host of acclaimed artists including the Mercury Music Prize-nominated artists King Creosote & Jon Hopkins and Wild Beasts as well as the gifted guitar work of Bill Ryder-Jones (ex-The Coral).
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When Kelly (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) meets Victor (Julian Morris) on the dance floor of a Liverpool nightclub, the attraction is instant. After wandering through the night they find themselves at her flat, making love with a passion and urgency that neither had experienced before. Both Kelly and Victor are struggling to get by as best they can, while the people around them are choosing illegal lifestyles; she is escaping a brutish former lover, while he is being dragged into a world of drugs. It’s when they make love that their darker instincts take over.

Directed by Kieran Evans, Kelly+Victor is a devastating story of obsessive love anchored by two complex but tender performances.To win Kelly + Victor please answer the following question...

Q.What BAFTA was Kelly + Victor nominated for Along with Shell Earlier this week for ?

Deadline is 2nd February 2014 (23:59pm),If you haven’t done already Like us and stay with us at our Facebook page (if you are already liking us just share this post on twitter and facebook). Must be 18 or older to enter.

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Frifghtfest Glasgow 2014 - Battle For Supremecy In New Extended Trailer For Mo Brothers KILLERS

In 2012 Gareth Evans certainly put Indonesia on the map when it comes action thrillers with the superb The Raid and will again deliver that mayhem with The Raid 2: Berandal. Next week Evan's film will make it's world premier at Sundance Film Festival and it won't be the only Indonesian film at the festival. The Mo Brothers (Macabre, V/H/S 2) are set to showcase Killers and ahead of that premiere a brand new extended trailer has dropped online.

The brothers better known as Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel are releasing one of the highly anticipated films of 2014 a film that's been described as 'the new I Saw The Devil' and that's what excites us about this film. Killers is a frenetic story of 2 men one a sociopathic serial killer in Tokyo another in Jakarta  a failing journalist & father both only connected due to their lust for blood. They pair post their crimes online it becomes clear the pair are battling for notoriety sending them both on a uncontrollable journey of ferocious self discovery.

Killers is a dark, twisted psychological battle of wits  is one film we cannot wait to see, no word on when this one will arrive on UK shores. Their is a little rumour it may make Film 4 Frightfest line up either next month at Glasgow Film Festival if not London Frightfest. Killers stars Kazuki Kitamura, Epy Kusnandar,Rin Takanashi, Ray Sahetapy who is better known as the crime boss from The Raid!

[update 21st January Killers has just be announced part of the line up for Film4 Frightfest @Glasgow Film Festival 2014...Yesssss!!!!]

Synopsis

Mr. Nomura is an eerily handsome, sharply dressed, sociopathic serial killer who preys on the women of Tokyo. In Jakarta, a world-weary journalist named Bayu finds himself unexpectedly falling into vigilantism after brutally killing two sadistic robbers. When each posts videos of his violent sprees online, the pair find one another on the Internet and begin a toxic and competitive duel. While Bayu clings to the hope that he can resume a normal life, Nomura continues to spill blood without remorse. Killing, advises Nomura, is something everyone ought to consider.
Timo Tjahjanto, codirector of the V/H/S/2 segment "Safe Haven," returns to Park City at Midnight, collaborating with longtime filmmaking partner Kimo Stromboel on their bleak and blood-soaked second feature as creative team The Mo Brothers. Killers uses energetic camerawork and a wildly varied musical score to vividly capture brutality in ways both bone-rattlingly frenetic and serenely transfixing, while always keeping audience members aware of their complicity with the characters' own bloodlust.

Sundance 2014 - Colonel Herzog Is Back! Watch Blood Soaked Trailer for Dead Snow: Red Vs. Dead aka Død Snø 2

I should have went to Specsavers! How did we miss this one!!!In 2009 pardon the punt just when you thought the Zombie genre was dead Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow gave hope to the sub-genre. Nearly 4 years on Colonel Herzog  and his legion of undead nazis are back , he's pissed off, enjoy the first trailer for Dead Snow: Red Vs. Dead aka Død Snø 2

If the worst day of your life consisted of accidentally killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your own arm off, and watching in horror as your closest friends were devoured by a zombified Nazi battalion, you’d have to assume that things couldn’t get much worse. In Martin’s case, that was only the beginning.

Picking up immediately where the original left off, Dead Snow; Red vs. Dead wastes no time getting right to the gore-filled action, leaving a bloody trail of intestines in its wake. Director Tommy Wirkola returns to the helm with a vengeance, coming up with more inventive ways to maim and dismember than you ever thought possible. Combining wry humor with horrific worst-case scenarios, this follow-up to the 2009 Midnight classic is sure to shock the weak-of-heart and delight even the most hard-core fans of the horror genre. Colonel Herzog is back, and he is not to be fucked with.

After a mediocre Hollywood feature debut with Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters, Wirkola will be keen prove his cult breakout film was not a one hit wonder. This trailer is thankfully with English Subtitles as it's to promote not it's cinematic release but the films World premier at this month's Sundance Film Festival. No UK release date has been set yet but do expect that to change after the festival with the film possibly playing the festival circuit. The trailer delivers a glimpse at the blood soaked snowy  carnage Film's Nazi Zombie will deliver.



Dead Snow: Red Vs. Dead stars Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Martin Starr, Ørjan Gamst, Ingrid Haas, Jocelyn DeBoer. [Offical Sundance Festival Page]

source: Shocktilyoudrop

Reynir Lyngdal's Icelandic Horror FROST Delivering 'Chills' On DVD This February

Genre:
Horror
Distributor:
eOne UK
Release Date:
10th February 2014 (UK)
Buy Frost: DVD[Amazon]

‘The Thing’ meets ‘The Blair Witch Project’ in this terrifying tale of arctic survival! Reynir Lyngdal's Frost is a highly suspenseful and visually captivating addition to found footage horror sci-fi and Next month will freeze it's way onto home release in UK.

Filmmaker Gunnar (Björn Thors) arrives at a remote glacier camp on the outskirts of the Arctic Circle to meet up with physiologist Agla (Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir) to make a documentary about the research being conducted there. The next day they discover the camp mysteriously abandoned and their co-workers gone without a trace.

As darkness descends and the camp is shaken with ear-splitting shrieks and violent flashing lights, the couple bravely venture out into the vast nothingness frantically following a trail of blood in the snow in the hope that it’ll lead them to their missing colleagues, unaware of what they’ll find at the other end…

‘Frost’ keeps the found footage genre alive with its edge-of-your-seat tension and visually ominous atmosphere. In fact, the breathtaking landscape of the desolate icy glaciers superbly adds to the suspense especially when the dark of the night descends, making ‘Frost’ one of the most tense expeditions into the snowy unknown we’ve ever encountered!



Entertainment One UK releasing this blood drenched snow  covered chiller on DVD on 10th February starring Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir and Björn Thors.

Watch New Trailer For Japanese Drama Otona Drop

Nipponcinema have gotten their hands on the latest trailer for Ken Iizuka’s Otona Drop based on the 2007 novel from Naoya Higuchi.

Starring Sosuke Ikematsu, Ai Hashimoto, Tomoya Maeno, and Ryoko Kobayashi about 4 school students sharing a summer holidays in their final year at school. Hajime (Maeno)has a longtime crush on classmate Anne (Hashimoto)who seems to be offended by his his love for her, but during the holiday Hajime hears Anne has moved away and struggles to cope with the news.At the same time his friend Haru (Kobayashi), wants to grow up quickly which sees Hajime decide to take that drastic step to go confront Anne to see why she has left school.

Otona Drop (Adult Drop)will be released in Japan 4th April co-starring Daichi Watanabe, Minami, and Erika Mabuchi.

Watch Martin Scorsese's Student Short Film 'It’s Not Just You, Murray!'

Later this month Martin Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street will arrive in UK cinemas  and to get us into the mood for that much anticipated movie, Filmschoolrejects have dived into archives and unearthed a Scorsese gem. Dating back to film maestro's days at University and a short film called 'It's Not Just You, Murray!'

The film dates back to 1964 Scorsese was a student at NYU Film School and like any film student a number of short films are made and this 50 year old gem has a familiar feel to it. It's Not Just You, Murray! is a 16 minute film which showcases many traits seen in the directors future films like Goodfellas, even the new one The Wolf Of Wall Street especially. Leonardo Di Caprio plays Jordan Belfort starts the film narrating how he got from rags to riches before corruption took over, In It's Not Just You, Murray!, Murray played by Ira Rubin does likewise. As Murray progresses it becomes more evident it becomes more a template for Goodfellas, Casino with the multiple narrations with even a  Fellini's 81/2 homage too.

Bizarre Terror Roams In The Trailer For Nikolas List's Tombville

From body horror to a bizarre townfolk's welcome to the first trailer for Nikolas List's Tombville. If any wannabe filmmaker thinks taking the route into feature films via short film is a non starter you may just have to look at your plans again. History has proven many established directors have taken the short film route with success ,welcome to Tombville.

Last time we met Belgium director List was away back in 2006 with his body horror Ange, a beautifully crafted macabre film that convinced many that this director has a positive future. In Tombville  we follow a young man who finds himself trapped in the town of 'Tombville' but it's a town of bizarre residents who are not willing to show a escape route.

Short film into feature film is not a easy transition and List hasn't dived headfirst into his debut feature with a big budget proving that a micro budget can easily show off his talents perfectly. Check out the trailer courtesy of the good people at Twitch.

Iron Sky 'Dictator's Cut' Set For A Theatrical And UK Blu-Ray Release

Cinehouse & The People's Movies have been sent the news that Film 4 FrightFest and 4Digital Media are to preview the UK premiere of Iron Sky: Dictator's Cut, ahead of its special collector's Steelbook Blu-Ray release on February 10th 2014.

The 'Dictator Cut' of Iron Sky features an additional twenty minutes of never seen before footage, will screen with Director Timo Vuorensola and Producer Tero Kaukomaa in attendance at a special one off event at the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square on Saturday 1st Februay 2014 at 6.00 PM.

The films director Vuorensola said, "This is the cut that I always wanted for the film - I can't wait for everyone to see this version, it's crazier,bigger and more fantastical than the first!"

On behalf of Film4 FrightFest co director Ian Rattray added "FrightFest are very pleased to be co-hosting this event with 4Digital Media.. We know our fans will love this event and it's always a pleasure to be back at the Prince Charles Cinema - FrightFest's spiritual home"

Iron Sky, a partly fan funded feature, stormed box office charts last year causing widespread buzz for perhaps one of the most surreal storylines in cinema history. This new Dictator'S Cut is bigger and better, with this one-off screening followed by a Q&A with the director and producer team behind Iron Sky.

The event will include special meet and greets, signing opportunities, one of a kind FRIGHFEST posters and chance to purchase signed copies of the film on limited edition, special steelbook format AHEAD of its general release on February 10th... Tickets, £13.50 and £11.00 for members are available from the Prince Charles Cinema or on line at Princes Charles Website 

Blu-Ray Review - Il Bidone (1955)

Genre:
Comedy, World Cinema, Drama
Distributor:
Eureka! Entertainment
Rating:
12
BD Release Date:
30th December 2013(UK)
Director:
Federico Fellini
Cast:
Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
Buy: Il Bidone [Masters of Cinema] Dual Format [Blu-ray & DVD]

Il Bidone is one of Fellini’s early films and came out after the worldwide success of La Strada. It was a big flop in the film’s native Italy and abroad. It was made when Fellini for all purposes was still working in the school of Italian neo-realism. Fellini from the 60s onwards would be known for surrealist satires, which I prefer.

Il Bidone is about a group of small time swindlers (the title translated is The Swindlers) called Augusto (Broderick Crawford), Picasso (Richard Basehart), and Roberto (Franco Fabrizi) who prey on poor farmers and slum dwellers. The role of Augusto was originally intended for Humphey Bogart, which would have been interesting. Fellini always a mischievous director in the opening scene dresses up his swindlers as Catholic priest. They trick some poor farmers out of their money by in exchange for some bogus buried treasure.

The film has a great set piece in which the conmen pretend to be city officials. They go to a slum and pretend to be city officials and scam everyone by saying they will give them a council house if they put down a deposit. It’s perfect shows the lengths that the 3 conmen will go to get a quick buck.

The film isn’t Fellini at his finest see his masterful 8 ½ but it’s a interesting slice of neo-realism which a slight film noir edge. It was criticised by some for just being a crime film but it’s a scathing attack on the greed. It’s worth checking out and as usual Masters of Cinema has done a very nice package.

★★★★☆

Ian Schultz

DVD Review - Upstream Colour

Genre:
Sci-fi, Drama, Arthouse
Distributor:
Metrodome Distribution
Rating:
15
BD/DVD Release Date:
30th December 2013 (UK)
Director:
Shane Carruth
Cast:
Amy Seimetz, Frank Mosley, Shane Carruth
Buy Upstream Colour:
[DVD] or [Blu-ray] [Amazon]

Upstream Color is without a doubt the strangest film of 2013 and there have been some strange films this year. It’s the 2nd film by Shane Carruth who made a splash in the indie world 9 years ago with the incredibly overrated Primer which was made for $7,000 but it was unnecessarily complex for it’s own good. Carruth worked on a highly ambitious science fiction epic for the years in-between films but it eventually gave up due to lack of funding.

The film starts with a woman being tasered and kidnapped by a man called “The Thief” in the credits. She is under his mind control and forfeits her money to him and she is only allowed to small portions of water. The Thief performs surgery on her which involves putting a live roundworm in her which has blue tinged orchid leaves dust in it which infects her system.

She awakes and the roundworm is attracted by infrasound waves and she goes to a pig farmer/field recorder’s farm in trance. The farmer performs a transfer of the worm into one of his pig’s. She awakes and has no memory of what happened in her SUV. The woman finally realizes that all her money has been stolen and her employer fires her.

The film picks up a year later and she meets a man on a train (played by the director) and they bond and fall in love. They may have more in common than they initially thought. It then becomes increasingly stranger and stranger.

Carruth literally served as director, writer, producer, actor, cinematographer, editor, composer, casting director, production designer and sound designer… take that Orson Welles! His cinematography is reminiscent of the recent Terrence Malick films at times. The sound design is outstanding which he won a special jury award at Sundance for his sound design. Carruth is being a very talented director and he has the makings of a real auteur but give it a couple more films before calling him one.

It’s a very admirable film even though it’s extremely pretentious at times and utterly baffling. Despite some of the film’s problems it’s a breath of fresh air in a time of endless sequels and comic book films than somebody makes a film this out there. I don’t full understand what the film is about and it’s quite possibly Carruth himself doesn’t. It’s a pretty unforgettable film with plenty of ideas and an endlessly fascinating story that surprisingly wraps itself up in the end. There are still many unanswered questions and people will debate them for years to come.

★★★★☆

Ian Schultz