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Stuart Wright Talks With Lynda Reiss About Her Film READY TO GO

BritFlicks Podcast host Stuart Wright talks to Lynda Reiss about her directorial debut - the short film READY TO GO. Shot on the Isle Of Man, it stars KEVIN DOYLE (HAPPY VALLEY, DOWNTON ABBEY)....

DRAGONFLIES ONLY LIVE FOR 24 HOURS To Celebrate World Premiere At BAFTA195

“DRAGONFLIES” is a self-funded British crime film directed by Richard Anthony Dunford.Despite cinema screens worldwide being dominated by multimillion pound budget films, with huge studio backings, it has become increasingly more accessible for low budget independent filmmakers to see their creative endeavours come to fruition. It’s fantastic to see prestigious establishments, such as BAFTA, giving opportunities to grass roots filmmakers to have their work shown, by making their venues mor...

Trailer & Images Drop For British Action Movie ALL THE DEVIL'S MEN

ALL THE DEVIL'S MEN will be released on Digital Download Platforms from 3rd December 2018....

Britflicks Talks With DEANNA DEWEY About Her Comedy Feature DEAD FRED

Britflicks (BF) speaks with film director Deanna Dewey (DD) about her recently completed comedy feature, DEAD FRED.  Outline: When three older women take over the care of a dear friend who has dementia, they get more than they bargained for when they discover she’s hiding her dead husband in the freezer…...

FRANCK RIBIÈRE Talks About His Movie THE MOST ASSASSINATED WOMAN IN THE WORLD

Britflcks Podcast host Stuart Wright talks with French filmmaker Franck Ribiere about his directorial debut THE MOST ASSASSINATED WOMAN IN THE WORLD. Available Now via NETFLIX: www.netflix.com/gb/title/80159586...

THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS Released On DVD & Digital

In 1843, Dickens was a literary rock star, but struggling financially after the slow sales of his previous novel, Martin Chuzzlewit. Seized with the vision of a story that would fire the hearts of humanity, Dickens pitched his publishers, ‘A Christmas Carol’, but they passed. Desperate, Dickens declared he would publish it himself. Slipping into the world of his novel, he spent the next six weeks laughing and arguing with his characters, acting out scenes like a madman on the streets of Lond...

Trailer Drops For Douglas King's BIFA Discovery Award Nominated SUPER NOVEMBER

Josie Long stars in the mumble core comedy meets socio-political drama as a romance obsessed librarian in Glasgow. In the midst of an exciting new relationship she almost forgets about the mounting political turmoil and potential right wing coup. Described by Sight & Sound as a "portrait of the harshness of the abruptly changing world we live in”, Super November is an exhiliarating and ambitious debut for director Douglas King and writer Josie Long....

Eke Chukwu's ZOE AND THE ASTRONAUT Available Now On ReelHouse

Actor, filmmaker Eke Chukwu has just released his debut feature, ZOE AND THE ASTRONAUT on Digital film platform ReelHouse. ZOE AND THE ASTRONAUT is a romantic, science fiction drama starring, Kirsten Foster, Ian Reddington (Fanged Up), Lisa Moorish (Anti-Social) and Max Scully (Sasquatch). ...

Trailer Drops For Drew Cullingham’s Zomedy Horror SHED OF THE DEAD

7DM Studios have released the trailer for Drew Cullingham’s zomedy horror SHED OF THE DEAD, starring Spencer Brown, Ewen Macintosh, Lauren Socha, Emily Booth, Kane Hodder, Michael Berryman, Bill Mosely and Brian Blessed. ...

Trailer Drops For John Langridge's Hit-Man Horror 13 GRAVES

The trailer for Sussex-based Drop Dead Films’ first feature film 13 GRAVES has just been released. Shot entirely on location at Herstmonceux Castle and Branching Out Adventures, Hailsham, 13 GRAVES tells the story of two seasoned contract killers who are marching their latest victim to the ‘mob graveyard’ they have used for several years. When he escapes, leaving them no choice but to hunt him through the surrounding forest, they are soon hopelessly lost. As night falls and the shadows beg...

Review of Denis Delic's Battle of Britain Movie 303 SQUADRON

This film has the honourable intention of telling a glossed over piece of World War II history, the story of the Battle of Britain from the perspective of the Polish pilots and ground crew of 303 Squadron.The film opens promisingly enough, with a view of Spitfires soaring across a summer sky. Has there ever been a better looking aircraft in flight? If ones emotions are not sufficiently stirred by this sight alone, these images are held aloft to the rousing voice of Winston Churchill delivering t...

ANCHOR AND HOPE Film Review & Trailer.

Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet  Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance ANCHOR AND HOPE is a charming, modern, pre-Brexit rom-com. In years to come, we may marvel at the ease with which people crossed borders on a whim and lived and worked easily in each other's countries.  Eva (Oona Chaplin) and Spanish Kat (Natalia Tena) are a lesbian couple living on a barge moored in the Regent's Canal. Eva is a salsa teacher and Kat is a barge restorer. They're happy, jokey and – despite the fact t...

A LOVE THAT NEVER DIES Film Review

A LOVE THAT NEVER DIES is a documentary about loss. And when I say loss I mean real loss! Not the sort of loss of losing 50 quid, or your football club has been relegated… No this is about the loss of losing a child, brother or sister, suddenly and way before their time. A LOVE THAT NEVER DIES is a beautifully shot documentary made by Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds who tragically lost their son Josh in a motorcycle accident whilst he was travelling in South East Asia.  To help deal wi...

A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER Film Review

Director: Jon Sanders  Starring: Anna Mottram, Bob Good, Douglas Finch, Meret Becker, Emma Garden. Jon Sanders, the director of Painted Angels, has collaborated with Anna Mottram and Bob Good before on two previous films, Back to the Garden (2013) and Late September (2012). A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER is the fruit of their latest, longtime collaboration. Evolved through improvisation, the film blurs art and reality in its depiction of a dying marriage.  A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER is set in i...

STILL/BORN Film Review

Canadian horror, thriller STILL/BORN is the tragic tale of Mary (Christine Burke) who gives births to twins, but only one survives - Adam. The joys of being a new parent are subsumed by the understandable trauma and grief. The father, Jack (Jesse Moss) is less emotionally damaged by the experience. He’s a rising star with his employer and having stretched themselves to their financial limits to pay for their home, they need every penny he can earn. Consequently, the pressures of coping with th...

LOWLIFE Film Review

Ryan Prows organ harvest, crime caper deliriously explores a seedy microcosm of Los Angeles. The action orbits around a motel manager, a corrupt Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer (ICE), an ex-con with a swastika tattoo over his face, a coke fiend and a masked luchador-cum-hitman. It was born out of an anthology of short films Prows and his film buddies were compiling. But like Roger Avery and Quentin Tarantino did with Pulp Fiction before them, they decided to smash the composite parts...

BETTER WATCH OUT Film Review

It wouldn’t be Frightfest without a Christmas-themed horror to befuddle your sense of what day it is over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Better Watch Out is that film this year.  Babysitter Ashley (Olivia DeJonge) is the motherhood and apple pie 17-year old blonde woman twelve year olds’ Luke (Levi Miller) and Garrett (Ed Oxenbould) swoon over. The former has read a blog that tells him fear can get a woman wet and into a man’s arms. His naïve plan is simple. While she babysits him ...

CULT OF CHUCKY Film Review

Andy Barclay will be forever haunted by his childhood experiences at the hands of the infamous 80s ‘Good Guys’ doll Chucky. He’s the foundation on which writer/director Don Mancini has built and sustained a horror franchise. The shotgun blasted head from the end of 2013’s Curse Of Chucky is a trophy in Andy’s safe keeping, but this bodyless, supernatural form of serial killer Charles Lee Ray now taunts our hapless hero by refusing to die. Meanwhile wheelchair bound Nica (Fiona Dourif) ...

DEATH NOTE Film Review

Since he popped his Frightfest cherry with 2011’s Discovery Screen hit ‘A Horrible Way To Die’ the prolific Adam Wingard has fast become a regular fixture here. Death Note is his fourth feature film (his other two are You’re Next, 2013 and The Guest, 2014) to grace the festival. It’s a live adaptation of a Manga comic by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.  Nat Wolff (The Fault In Our Stars, 2014) is Light Turner - a typical outsider, at a typical USA high school, where bullies rule a...

FREEHOLD Film Review

Hussein is a wannabe ruthless, but ultimately naive estate agent. His bachelor flat is a slovenly shrine to his cash rich, time poor lifestyle. His cupboards are bare, and he’s on first name terms with his local pizza delivery service. Problem is his girlfriend, Mel, is moving in and curtailing this young buck's idyllic man cave existence. If only that was his sole concern. There's someone else living in the apartment, but neither Hussein nor Mel invited him to stay. Orlan (Javier Botet,) is a...

KILLING GROUND Film Review

Australian survivalist horror Killing Ground follows a smitten young couple on a camping trip to a remote woodland spot by a river. It’s picture postcard perfect apart from the 4x4, family tent, chairs and long burnt out fire that greets them. But where are the occupants? The answer to that question and the brutality that befell them is given to the audience before our heroes Sam and Ian find out for themselves.  To be frank, the dread Damien Power builds through this non-linear approach ...

ANOTHER MOTHER’S SON Film Review.

Director: Christopher Menaul Genre: Biography, Drama, War ANOTHER MOTHER’S SON is a fascinating film based on an incredible true story. During World War II, Jersey was under Nazi occupation and became a kind of prison island. Amid hardship and privation, some islanders led an unofficial UNDERGROUND resistance. Jenny Seagrove stars as one such ordinary individual – no-nonsense widow Louisa Gould, a village shopkeeper.   On Jersey Russian prisoners of war were used by ...

ANTI MATTER Film Review & Trailer

Director: Keir Burrows Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi ANTI MATTER is a lean-budgeted thriller which skirts the line of human drama and speculative sci-fi in the tradition of Primer, and Safety Not Guaranteed. The story follows a group of Oxford research students, who build a device and turn it on, without first fully understanding its repercussions. One of the three, Ana, finds herself without memory of the experiment, and begins to question the increasingly shifting motives of her two colleagues. ...

JAWBONE: Britflicks Reviews Boxing Drama Starring Johnny Harris, Ray Winstone, Michael Smiley & Ian McShane

It’s a shame, or rather a travesty, JAWBONE did not receive a wider release in this country. With all the recognisable talent involved in making the film, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, and Paul Weller, you would have hoped this alone would have been enough to secure a nationwide deal. But this is not the only reason why JAWBONE should reach an audience it deserves. The film is powerful. Beautifully shot, brutal and gritty in places and with pitch perfect performances, JAWBONE should be a classic ...

A QUITE PASSION Film Review & Trailer

Director: Terence Davies Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Jodhi May, Catherine Bailey From her quiet but determined rebellion against the imposition of religion at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary that she attended as a girl (Emma Bell) to the drawn-out agonies of her deathbed at the age of 56 (Cynthia Nixon), writer/director Terence Davies’ A QUIET PASSION takes us slowly through the small, significant details of poet Emily Dickinson’s narrowly constrained life, contrasting it...