The DTV Digest

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve check out three new releases:   AMONG THE WILLOWS (Miracle Media) is a western in which two old guys must put aside their own feud in order to hunt down a gang of killers... SORRY, CHARLIE (Miracle Media) is another film in which an actor spends most of the running time on her own, talking to people on a phone. Can this film do enough to stand out from the rest...

This week Mike, Rich and Steve check out three new releases:   SILENCE OF THE PREY (The Horror Collective) mixes a bit of folk horror and uncomfortable right wing politics a la Get Out... THE LAST KUMITE (Altitude Film Distribution)  brings together a stellar DTV cast for a love letter to tournament movies gone by... BREATHE (Signature Entertainment)  also brings together a great cast in what is a...

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve look at four new films - as usual, click the link to view the trailer for each: FOUNDERS DAY (Blue Finch Film Releasing) is a slasher from the people behind last year's She Came From The Woods - a film highly regarded by us. Will their latest reach the same heights? Louis Mandylor stars as a contract killer sent to Thailand in HELLHOUND (Miracle Media). Could t...

This week Mike and Rich tackle four new releases - click the links to see the trailers for each:   We kick off with JERICHO RIDGE (The Movie Partnership) a film which many of our US colleagues had on their top ten lists for 2023, and finally makes its way to the UK! Take a listen to see if we agree! THE BAD SHEPHERD (Scatena & Rosner Films) finds four friends on a hunting trip turning on each...

In this episode of Short Shots, Mike and Rich take a look at twelve short films which are currently available on the Arrow streaming channel - which is currently offering a 14 day free trial via its website, HERE The shorts covered in this episode are: ARM (Katherine Markwick/Jill Worsley) A woman suffering from loneliness during Lockdown orders a device to sooth her sleep… BAD ACID (Sam Fox) Set...

This week Mike, Rich and Steve tackle three new releases - as usual, click the link to watch the trailer!   We kick off with TIL DEATH DO US PART (Plaion Pictures), in which a runaway bride must fight for her life when besieged by her jilted fiancé and his grooms! THE STOLEN VALLEY (Lightbulb Film Distribution) is a modern western in which a Mexican/Navajo woman teams up with a female cowboy to ta...

This week, Mike and Rich tackle four new releases - as usual, click the links to see the trailers for each...   ROAD HOUSE (Amazon) has been a massive hit for Amazon Prime, but how does it hold up to the original and what did we make of it? Take a listen to find out! RESTORE POINT (Plaion Pictures) is a Czech sci-fi thriller as a female detective investigates a mysterious double homicide. SHIP OF...

This week Mike, Rich and Steve tackle three new releases - click the links to check out the trailers!   We kick off with HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (Raven Banner), a film which garnered a lot of attention last year on the festival circuit. Check out the episode to find out our thoughts on it! Next is ALL SOULS (Signature Entertainment) - the title and artwork might have you thinking this is a horror film...

In this episode, Mike and Rich take a look at DOGMAN (Altitude), the latest film from Luc Besson, starring Caleb-Landry Jones. Take a listen to see how we rate it and click the link to watch the trailer! Our short shot is the horror film, ELLIOT'S CRADLE , in which a grieving mother seeks out a medium to get in contact with her dead child...click the link to watch the whole film! Our DTV Throwback...

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle five new releases...   Starting with FRANKENSTEIN: LEGACY (101 Films) - this starts in familiar territory but heads off to be its own thing - check out what we thought of it! THE ABYSS (Netflix) is a disaster movie set in the mining town of Kiruna, Sweden.... THE BLACK MASS (Cleopatra Entertainment) is a stylised account of Ted Bundy's killiing spree at...

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle six of the recent releases; click the links to watch the trailers for each!   We kick off with FREAKS VS THE REICH (Dazzler) - not the best film title, but boy, what a movie!  Next is MONOLITH (Blue Finch Film) - a story about a journalist who investigates a strange phenomenon and discovers her past is tied to it. This is one of the best "Covid" films so...

This week Mike, Rich and Steve tackle five new releases - as usual, click the link to watch the trailer for each film... We kick off with THE BRICKLAYER (Sky), the latest thriller in which a man with an innocuous profession turns out to be a bad-ass retired agent! Hot on the heels of Warblade, which we covered in episode 257, comes FORTUNES OF WAR (101 Films), another WW2 movie about a disparate g...

We kick off this episode with an interview with director JAMES COUCHE, whose film Lost Phoenix we reviewed in episode 256. We've covered a lot of films which were made under COVID conditions but i believe Lost Phoenix was the first action movie made during Lockdown - and only for $10K at that! You can find examples of James' work on Youtube, HERE .   We then start on the reviews, beginning with th...

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve take a look at four new releases - as usual clicking the links will take you to the trailers... Kicking off with ' ON THE LINE ' (Miracle Media), in which a telephone operator finds herself involved in a murder and kidnapping... ' PUNCH ' (Miracle Media) is set in an off-season seaside town and deals with a young woman being hounded by a killer wearing a "Mr Pu...

In this episode we cover one film going to physical media and three which are available on streaming services - click the links to see the trailers.... We kick off with WAR BLADE  (101 Films), a WW2 thriller set in Occupied France as a team of resistance fighters locate a secret enemy bunker... Next we cover LIFT (Netflix)- the latest big budget heist movie, spearheaded by Kevin Hart... SHEROES (P...

Happy New Year! For our first ep of 2024, we kick off with a bang - Scott adkins returns with ONE MORE SHOT (Signature Entertainment), directed by James Nunn and co-starring Tom Berenger and Michael Jai White!   We follow this with LOST PHOENIX , (Gunsaviour Pictures) an indie thriller in which an amnesiac crosses paths with his old comrades from a covert team looking to disrupt society...   Our S...

In our final recording of 2023, Mike and Rich take a look at five recent releases...   The anticipation for John Woo's much delayed SILENT NIGHT (Sky Cinema) has been pretty high, is the film able to live up to its hype? John Cena and Alison Brie join forces in the action comedy, FREELANCE (Amazon Prime)... ALICE IN TERRORLAND (High Fliers) is a modern take on the classic Lewis Carrol story... BLA...

In this episode Mike and Steve tackle three new releases - click the links to check out the trailers for each...   Emile Hirsch turns up in DTV land for the third time this year in INSIDE MAN (101 Films) The Australian thriller THE COST OF VENGEANCE (High fliers Films) sees two men taking justice into their own hands to get revenge on a murder-rapist... Victoria U Bell stars, writes and directs th...

This week Mike, Rich and Steve tackle two new releases - click the links to see the trailers!   First up is DESPERATION ROAD (Signature Entertainment), in which a young woman and her daughter get caught up in small town crime... ...and in WICKEDLY EVIL (101 Films), some desperate criminals pick the wrong house to hide out in!   Our Short Shot is THE HATCHLING , where some children try to keep a ba...

In this episode Mike and Rich take a look at five new releases - click the links to see the trailers for each! We kick off with SHOWDOWN AT THE GRAND (Signature Entertainment), in which theatre owner Terence Howard battles with property developers and gets a little help from a genuine action hero! MERCY FALLS (101 Films) finds five friends at the mercy of a deranged killer in the Scottish highland...

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle three new releases - click the links to see the trailers for each! First up is the latest film from Jesse V. Johnson, BOUDICA (Signature Entertainment) starring Olga Kurylenko as the titular warrior queen! Next is BITE (Bulldog Film Distribution), a British horror in which two young con-artists get mixed up with the wrong elderly couple! Finally in THE R...

In our 250th episode Mike, Rich and Steve wax lyrical about some of the stand-outs we've covered to date, before kicking off with four main reviews. As usual, click the link to see the trailer for each of the main films:   We kick off with DANGEROUS WATERS (Signature Entertainment), in which a teen girl goes head-to-head with her mother's boyfriend on a sailing trip gone wrong! Next is THE PRICE W...

As a tribute to the Fighting Spirit Film Festival (@FSFilmFestival) Mike and Rich take a look at no less than 30 short films centering around Martial Arts. We've grouped them around some basic themes, but the first one seemed not to fit in with any of the groups (in retrospect I'd have put it with "shot in the woods").  Clicking the links below will take you to each film: So the "anomaly" we kick...

In this episode, Mike and Rich discuss five new releases - click the links to view the trailers! We kick off with my favourite film of the week - FIST OF THE CONDOR (Dazzler Media)  is a Chilean flavoured, traditional styled martial arts film starring Marko Zaror! NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU (Hulu/Disney+)finds a young woman besieged by ETs in her secluded home... THE HAUNTING OF THE QUEEN MARY (Vertigo...

This week Mike, Rich and Steve tackle three new releases - click the links to view the trailers.... We start - like we did last episode - with Nic Cage, this time in THE RETIREMENT PLAN (Signature Entertainment). We weren't convinced by Sympathy for the Devil, will this be more to our taste? Tune in to find out! Next is Maggie Q in FEAR THE NIGHT (101 Films) , in which a bachelorette party is atta...