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Dystopian Films Wrap On Blackly Comic Neo-Noir STEALING CHAPLIN.

Dystopian films have wrapped their latest feature shot entirely on location in Las Vegas, a blackly comic neo-noir titled STEALING CHAPLIN. Inspired by real events, the story centres around two Las Vegas based con men who dig up and steal the corpse of comedian Charlie Chaplin in order to ransom it. With the theft gaining the world’s attention and the reward rising daily, soon every local lowlife, criminal and dirty cop wants a piece of the action....

Jenna Suru Talks To BritFlicks About Her Film THE GOLDEN AGE (L’ÂGE D’OR) Ahead Of Its LIFF European Premiere.

I created L’Âge d’Or for two main reasons: pay tribute to the World-Changing Charms of 60s Saint-Tropez, and encourage the audience to change the world on their own scale. First, it was very important to me that the audience can experience that magical 60s Douce France atmosphere through the music and 35 exceptional locations in LA, Paris and on the French Riviera: Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Bir-Hakeim Bridge near the Eiffel Tower, the Saint-Tropez harbor, Ramatuelle beaches, a per...

BFI To Release Henry Blake's COUNTY LINES In UK/Ireland 17th April 2020.

COUNTY LINES, the highly acclaimed debut feature from director Henry Blake, premiered at the 2019 BFI London Film Festival.  Inspired by true events, COUNTY LINES is a vivid and moving coming-of-age film about a young mother and her 14-year old son who is groomed into involvement in county lines, the lethal nationwide drug dealing networks which exploit vulnerable children into trafficking drugs, mainly heroin and crack cocaine, from urban areas to rural or market towns or coastal locations...

DESOLATION CENTER: Stuart Swezey Talks About His Documentary On The Untold Story Of 80s Guerrilla Music In Southern California.

BritFlicks Podcast host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks with director Stuart Swezey about his documentary DESOLATION CENTER. DESOLATION CENTER is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have inspired Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, collective experiences that have become key elements of popular culture in the 21st century. The feature documentary splices interviews an...

Gareth Ellis-Unwin Head Of Film & Animation At ScreenSkills Talks About Training Opportunities In The British Film Industry.

BritFlicks Podcast host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to Gareth Ellis-Unwin, Head of Film and Animation at ScreenSkills about the work being done to encourage UK people to train for and/or switch over to the UK film industry. ...

A GUIDE TO SECOND DATE SEX Available To Stream For Valentines Day 2020 Only In UK Courtesy Of Marie Claire!

Watch A GUIDE TO SECOND DATE SEX today only Valentines Day 2020 for FREE here► https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/second-date-sex-film-685607A GUIDE TO SECOND DATE SEX is directed by Rachel Hirons & stars George MacKay and Alexandra Roach. Synopsis: Laura and Ryan are perfect for each other: they both love Meryl Streep, have been totally destroyed by previous relationships, and they have no idea what they are supposed to do tonight. They also both know that they'll have to pretend to be c...

ROGUE WARFARE: Explosive War Trilogy Receives Home Entertainment Release.

The Movie Partnership have released ROGUE WARFARE the first installment of  the ROGUE WARFARE TRILOGY across Digital Download platforms, The second and third instalments, ROGUE WARFARE: THE HUNT & ROGUE WARFARE: DEATH OF A NATION will be released monthly and made available from 16th March and 13th April respectively.Will Yun Lee (Altered Carbon) is Daniel, part of an elite task force made up of soldiers from across the world, united to eliminate ...

Adam Spinks' Award-Winning Short LIKE GLASS Now Free To View On The BritFlicks YouTube Channel.

Logline: A young woman, Kira, wakes in an abandoned wasteland, severely injured, with absolutely no recollection of how she got there. As she struggles to stay alive, strange events begin to unfold that lead her to confront a terrifying possibility....

Trailer Drops For Mark Lund's Sci-Fi FIRST SIGNAL.

Mark Lund executive producer, director and writer, has released the first official trailer for sci-fi FIRST SIGNAL. In FIRST SIGNAL when Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy. The independently produced science fiction feature was filmed at the McAuliffe Shepard Discovery Center in Concord, NH and the Massachusetts Military History Exposition in Orange.MA. "I'm thrilled to present t...

Lightbulb Film Distribution Drop Trailer For Neo-Western Thriller THE BYGONE.

Lightbulb Film Distribution have released the official trailer and poster for upcoming neo-western thriller, THE BYGONE.The film will be available On Demand and download across all major digital platforms – including iTunes, Amazon, Sky Store, Virgin Media, Google Play, Sony Playstation and Rakuten – from 2nd March 2020....

Simeon Halligan's Dark & Dingy Horror HABIT To Get Valentines Day TV Premiere On Horror Channel.

Feature film HABIT, directed by Grimmfest head honcho, Simeon Halligan has its UK terrestrial TV premiere this Friday (Valentine’s day) on the Horror Channel and will then be available on their catch-up service Horror Bites. Produced and set in Manchester UK, HABIT had its UK premiere at Grimmfest in Manchester and then toured film festivals around the World, winning best film and best screenplay awards at The New York City Horror Film festival. The film gained a limited UK release through Eve...

BILLY MURRAY Set To Star In British Gangster Film NEMESIS.

Billy Murray has appeared in some classic crime films over the years including Performance (1970), McVicar (1980), Essex Boys (2000), Rollin' with the Nines (2006), Rise of the Footsoldier (2007), The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan (2012), We Still Steal the Old Way (2016) and Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story (2017). Gamers will also know him for the voice of Captain Price in the Call of Duty video game franchise. In NEMESIS, Murray plays John Morgan, an underworld kingpin w...

Trailer Drops For Ciaran Cassidy’s Documentary JIHAD JANE.

Synopsis: In March 2010, two American women, including one who named herself ‘Jihad Jane’, were arrested in a number of high-profile arrests in Waterford, Ireland, which were trumpeted by the US attorney’s office as ‘the new face of terrorism’. Facing huge jail sentences, the two women pleaded guilty but now for the first time ever, with unprecedented access, JIHAD JANE tells the story of the most absurd terror cell ever to come together.JIHAD JANE is about the Internet and the online ...

LOVE YOU TO DEATH: Elizabeth McCafferty Cannibalistic Tale Of Love & Revenge Launches Indiegogp Campaign.

LOVE YOU TO DEATH Is the brainchild of Elizabeth McCafferty. A dark and twisted look into the world of relationships and the trust we put into them. This is a neo-feminist, cannibalistic, tale of love and revenge. Elizabeth has been working non stop to assemble a hungry, predominantly female, cast and crew looking to stamp their mark within the film industry. ‘’I want to support as many women in the industry as possible. It’s important we continue to make work and opportunities to lift eac...

Trailer Drops For Raffaello Degruttola's Romantic Drama TRANSFERENCE.

TRANSFERENCE tells the story of Katerina, a Norwegian nurse working in London, who falls in love with Anglo-Italian nurse Nic who is keeping a secret that could jeopardise their passionate, secret love affair. Touching on themes of emotional isolation, denial, cultural displacement and mental illness, TRANSFERENCE is a story of love, regret and eventual discovery and hope.  Featuring a talented cast of veteran European actors: Raffaello Degruttola ('Saving Private Ryan’, ‘Rush’’The ...

Scott Lyus To Direct Biblical Horror WALKING AGAINST THE RAIN.

This apocalyptic Biblical monster movie will be shot on locations in the UK over a three-week period and will star Cruel Summer’s Reece Douglas, newcomer Maisy Kay and James Swanton as monster creation ‘The Forsaken’....

PAINTBALL MASSACRE Exclusive Teaser Trailer Release.

Over the last of couple weeks, a British Independent film has come back onto our radar, the dark comedy horror PAINTBALL MASSACRE, brought to you by industry newcomers Infinity Film Studios and Boisterous Brothers Media. On their social media accounts they have been treating us to some sneak peak looks at for things to come. Here is the synopsis to wet your film fan appetite. Synopsis: True British dark comedy horror at its finest. Providing suspense, gore and a few laughs along the way. When a ...

Trailer Drops For Paul Raschid’s Live-Action Interactive Sci-Fi THE COMPLEX.

Wales Interactive, Red and Black Films, Good Gate Media and Little Jade Productions have announced the release of interactive sci-Fi THE COMPLEX – a completely live action, interactive sci-fi thriller filmed in the UK will be released worldwide through PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on 31st March 2020. Following Black Mirror’s ‘Bandersnatch’ and BAFTA-winning game Late Shift – THE COMPLEX is written by Lynn Renee Maxcy, part of the Emmy award-w...

Michael Venus & Thomas Friedrich Talk About Their Brooding Horror SCHLAF Ahead Of Berlinale 2020 World Premiere.

BritFlicks Podcast host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks with director/co-writer Michael Venus & co-writer Thomas Friedrich about their feature film - the brooding horror that will live in your dreams: SCHLAF (aka SLEEP). Synopsis: Marlene is suffering from recurring nightmares and believes that they are real. When she falls into a comatose sleep, her daughter Mona starts to look for the trigger and comes across a strange village hotel and an old family curse, that will follow her ...

RUN: Trailer Drops For Scott Graham's Scottish Urban Drama.

Synopsis: The daily grind of working in a fish factory has got at 30-something Finnie (Mark Stanley). Taking on too much responsibility too young, he longs to be that arrogant, carefree teenager again, who spent his nights racing cars through Fraserburgh’s neon-soaked streets. When his own car racing teenage son Kid (Anders Hayward) gets his girlfriend Kelly (Marli Siu) pregnant, Finnie gains an inescapable reminder of where he thinks his own life went wrong. Unable to articulate his depressio...

Indie Films Released In Cinemas & On Home Entertainment February 2020.

Here's a look at some of the films released in Cinemas, and on Digital, DVD & Blu-Ray February 2020.We'll be updating this page as new movie releases are announced so keep looking, plus if you have a film that we haven't listed then please get in touch. contacts@britflicks.com...

BritFlicks' Top 10 Film Trailers January 2020.

January 2020 saw a total of 578,063 views on the BritFlicks YouTube Channel and also a couple of firsts! For the first time we have two alternative trailers of same film making the top 10 in Paul Knight’s 24 HOURS IN LONDON, and two films from the same director, with Savvas D. Michael’s RED DEVIL & ORIGINAL GANGSTER also making the list. Add to that we also have a brand new number 1, with Mark Jenkin’s BAIT knocking Savvas Micheal's RED DEVIL off of the top spot.  If you would like Br...

Clive Frayne Talks About His Book THE PROCESS (OF SCREENWRITING) & His Writer Development SCHEME: THE PROCESS.

BritFlicks Podcast host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks with screenwriter Clive Frayne about his book THE PROCESS (OF SCREENWRITING) and his writer development scheme: The Process – Script Development Program 2020. ...

Random Media Release Tony Pietra Arjuna's Fantasy Thriller SHADOWPLAY On DVD In U.S.

Random Media have released the Malaysian fantasy, mystery-thriller, SHADOWPLAY, starring Tony Eusoff, Juria Hartmans, Radhi Khalid and Stephen Rahman Hughes on DVD, On-Demand and Digital Platforms.   Watch now on Vimeo www.facebook.com/ShadowplayMovie twitter.com/shadowplaymovie www.instagram.com/shadowplaymovie Buy SHADOWPLAY from Amazom...

Latest Gangster Films: A Look At Some Of The Crime Movies Hitting Screens & Production In 2020.

As news comes in this page will constantly be updated over the course of 2020, with the latest British gangster film news!....