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Jane Foster Reviews Philip Humm’s ‘Art House Rout’ THE LAST FAUST.

Right from the start it has to be said that what holds this imaginative retelling and development of the famous story by Goethe together, is dominated by two sincere and powerfully engaging performances. Steven Berkoff, who will no doubt act as a draw for, THE LAST FAUST, is in his mature element. Still as laser-like as ever, his performance as ‘Dr Goodfellow,’ has a warmth and depth as well as serving up a superbly paced narrative, which if this film is to reach a wider audience, is very mu...

Trailer Drops For Karen Gillan's Highly Anticipated Debut Feature THE PARTY'S JUST BEGINNING.

THE PARTY’S JUST BEGINNING is a darkly humorous and moving coming-of-age story from debut director Karen Gillan (Jumanji, Doctor Who, Avengers: Endgame). Synopsis: In the bleak Scottish winter, witty and sarcastic Liusaidh (Karen Gillan) is spiralling into a reckless, drunken, mid-twenties crisis. Filling her days and nights with casual joyless sex, junk food and a belief in ‘the power of positive drinking’ she’s plagued by visions of her best friend Alistair (Matthew Beard) throwing him...

GRIMMFEST 2020 Announces Dates, First Guest & Black Friday Passes.

2020 sees Grimmfest reaching the dirty dozen: Twelve years at the cutting edge of genre film. And to celebrate, next year's festival will be bigger, bolder, and bloodier than ever – running from the evening of Wed 7th Oct through to the evening of Sunday 11th Oct at Odeon Great Northern in Manchester UK. Hell has expanded itself: the festival will now run for five days, to cram in even more amazing genre content.www.grimmfestfilms.comhttp://grimmfest.com/grimmupnorth...

Stuart Wright & Mike Bradbury Look Back At 20 Years OF Digital Cinema And Their Favourite Cinematic Experiences Of 2019.

From THE PHANTOM MENACE to THE RISE OF SKYWALKER: 20 Years Of DIGITAL CINEMA is a two decade look back over cinema's most recent history and how an audacious decision by George Lucas in 1999 would irreversibly change the art of cinema projection forever. Britflicks takes a look, with Mike Bradbury, at how far we've travelled and consider what's happens to a moving image in 2019 that increasingly relies on powerful computer processors to cope with the bitrates and refresh rates - a far cry from t...

George Popov's Historical Horror HEX Now Available On Amazon Prime In UK & U.S.

George Popov's historical horror HEX is now available to watch for free with Amazon Prime in the UK and U.S. Starring Daniel Oldroyd, Suzie Frances Garton and William Young, HEX is set during the English Civil War, and is the story of two opposing soldiers who find themselves trapped in a forest controlled by a Witch. Watch HEX on Amazon in UK or the U.S....

Indie Filmmaker Mustapha Kseibati Talks About His Latest Film HATE, Favourite Films & Today's Film Industry.

BritFlicks Podcast host Stuart Wright talks with filmmaker Mustapha Kseibati about his latest short film HATE, favourite films, how he likes to direct comedy vs drama, the learning benefits of watching films on mute and much more for filmmakers to think about in today's film and TV industry....

Josh Fowler Launches Short Film STERVYATNITSA As A Prologue To Upcoming Feature, TWO GUNNED SAINT.

STERVYATNITSA. 6 months ago, an assassin walked into a St Petersburg nightclub to collect what was owed... Not everyone made it out. A TWO GUNNED SAINT story....

Trailer Drops For Jamie Adams' Colaborative Drama BALANCE, NOT SYMMETRY.

Using a groundbreaking concept, Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil worked alongside director Jamie Adams to create Balance, Not Symmetry, a film and album of the same name, using both as inspiration for each other to create two wonderful works of art. Using a groundbreaking concept, Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil worked alongside director Jamie Adams to create Balance, Not Symmetry, a film and album of the same name, using both as inspiration for each other to create two wonderful works of ar...

Film Producers Dominic Saxl & Ivo Scheloske Talk About 24 Days Of Christmas Horror Anthology, DEATHCEMBER.

BritFlicks Podcast host Stuart Wright talks with producers Dominic Saxl and Ivo Scheloske about their 24 days of Christmas Horror Anthology, DEATHCEMBER.  DEATHCEMBER is a cinematic Advent calendar, horror anthology consisting of 24 short films by 24 international film directors....

Andrew Peat’s SCOTCH - THE GOLDEN DRAM Released On DVD.

Andrew Peat’s handsomely crafted feature documentary, which tells the story of the Scotch whisky industry through its most ardent enthusiasts, is released on DVD on November 18 and available on Digital Platforms. While capturing stunning Scottish landscapes, the heart of the film is the fascinating characters who bring Scotch whisky to life. This includes the Cinderella tale of legendary master distiller Jim McEwan, an industry veteran who takes on a dilapidated distillery on his home island o...

Trailer Drops For Dan Brownlie's British Horror THE TOMBS Ahead Of U.S Release.

Synopsis: A live streamed, publicity stunt, filmed inside London’s most famous scare attraction takes a terrifying turn as the event awakes an evil spirit. Something relentless and seemingly unstoppable starts stalking the celebrity guests through the claustrophobic halls of this maze of terror....

Aaron Carter's Gangsterfied Horror Anthology AN HOUR TO KILL Released On Amazon Prime Video In U.S & UK.

Before they make the hit, these gangsters shoot the shit! SYNOPSIS: Two assassins have an hour to kill (so to speak) before their next hit. To help pass the time, they entertain themselves by sharing horror stories to one another. With bizarre titles such as "Valkyrie's Bunker" "Assacre" and "Hog Hunters" - which hit-man's story will be deemed most disturbing when all is said and done?  ...

Director & Founder Alex Stolz Talks About The First Ever FUTURE OF FILM SUMMIT To Be held At BFI South Bank.

BritFlicks Podcast host Stuart Wright talks about the first ever FUTURE OF FILM SUMMIT with the director and founder Alex Stolz. FUTURE OF FILM SUMMIT 2019 is on 26 November 2019 at BFI South Bank, London SE1 8XT. Britflicks listeners/readers get a 33% DISCOUNT off the full ticket price.  Email britflicks@futureoffilm.live and Future Of Film will send you details on how to get it....

New Title, Trailer & Poster Drops For Tom Paton's Action Sci-Fi THE ASCENT (Stairs).

Synopsis Blending sci-fi, action and horror, complete with bone-crunching fight sequences, time travel and existential dread, The Ascent follows a black ops team who find themselves trapped in a terrifying, never-ending stairwell.  Forced to climb or die, the group soon come face to face with their past sins in a desperate fight for survival....

Trailer Drops For Tim Thorne's British Gangster Film CARD DEAD.

Synopsis: Released from prison having served three of five years, Woody is out to get retribution for events that have unfolded in his life. So he visits his old boss Jack Crooks to set up a high stakes poker game, in order to get some closure....

Signature Entertainment To Release Agnieszka Holland's MR JONES In UK & Irish Cinemas February 2020.

Academy Award® nominee Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, In Darkness) brings to the screen the extraordinary and powerful story of the real-life Welsh journalist who uncovered Stalin’s genocidal famine in Ukraine, which killed almost 10 million during The Holodomor of 1932 and 1933. ...

Mark Williams Talks About His New Documentary That Looks At The Origins Of The Psychotronic Shop, VHS FOREVER? ONCE UPON A TIME IN CAMDEN.

BritFlicks Podcast host Stuart Wright talks with documentary filmmaker Mark Williams about his new film VHS FOREVER? ONCE UPON A TIME IN CAMDEN... The Sequel that's a prequel to his 2014 doc VHS FORVER? PSYCHOTRONIC PEOPLE....

New British Documentary Celebrates The GHOSTBUSTERS Legacy.

CLEANIN’ UP THE TOWN:  Remembering Ghostbusters, directed and produced by the UK brother and sister team of Anthony and Claire Bueno, receives its European Premiere at BFI’s IMAX Cinema on 3rd December ahead of its theatrical release with both filmmakers in attendance. Celebrating 35 years since Ivan Reitman’s cult favourite Ghostbusters manifested on the big screen, the film pays a fitting tribute to the whole creative team behind the global phenomenon that continues to enchant audie...

Indican Pictures Drop Trailer For Anne-Sophie Dutoit’s Horror, BALLET BLANC

Indican Pictures will bring Anne-Sophie Dutoit’s BALLET BLANC to U.S. theatres, this November.  Dutoit is one of youngest directors in the horror genre, with her first screenplay written at sixteen and her first feature shot at eighteen. This latest film is set to scorch screens across U.S. theatres, in just a few days....

​Munro Films & Lightbulb Film Distribution Drop Trailer & Poster For Sci-Fi Thriller, INVASION PLANET EARTH​.

Synopsis: "After the death of his young daughter, Tom Dunn is a broken man. When his wife falls pregnant again, he cannot believe their luck. However, his joy is short lived, as on the very same day, the people of Earth become plagued with terrifying visions of the end of the world. ...

BritFlicks' Top 10 Indie Film Trailers October 2019.

October 2019 saw a total of 438,080 trailer views on the BritFlicks YouTube Channel, with Chee Keong Cheung's zombie action movie REDCON-1 once again retaining top spot but not without some stiff competition from Hank Leigh Hump's horror 100 ARES OF HELL. The Top 5 countries tuning in were the UK (18.1%), United States (14.1%), India (4.8%), Indonesia (3.3%), and Greece (3.1%). By gender it was Male (73.8%), Female (26.2%). If you would like BritFlicks to host your feature fi...

TERROR FILMS Announce Their 2020 Horror Movie Release Slate.

The movies tackle topics from: possession, back-stabbing friends, agoraphobia, selling your soul for fame, vampires who sell an immortal narcotic, crazy intruders, killer animals, an anthology and much more.  The slate will also include the release of HELL HOUSE LLC III: LAKE OF FIRE, from the popular Hell House LLC franchise. The film, which is currently only available to stream on Shudder will hit digital platforms on January 3rd, 2020....

Jane Foster Reviews Damon Gameau's "Beautifully Structured" Climate Change Documentary 2040.

2040 is for everyone interested in climate change, whose feeling overwhelmed and in need of a big positivity shot about how to help. To start with, Damon Gameau is not only an accomplished filmmaker and actor; he is also a Father of a 4 year-old. And so no longer able to stand the immense, overwhelming pressure we all feel about ‘what to do’ about climate change, he decided, to do something about it. If nothing else, 2019 will go down as the year that climate change really hit home, and lef...

HALLOWEEN 2019 SPECIAL: Simon Rumley Talks About His Violently Harrowing RED WHITE AND WHITE.

HALLOWEEN 2019 SPECIAL: BritFlicks Podcast host Stuart Wright explores one of his favourite films RED WHITE & BLUE (2010) with the writer and director of this bleak and violent harrowing tragedy - SIMON RUMLEY....

RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER 4: MARBELLA – Exclusive Films Clips Featuring Craig Fairbrass In Violent Mood.

With the Cinema & Digital release of British gangster film heavy weight franchise RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER 4: MARBELLA being released by Signature Entertainment on 8 November 2019, BritFlicks is delighted to share some fantastic clips from the film. www.facebook.com/RiseOfTheFootsoldierFilm https://twitter.com/FootsoldierFilm...