Bits & Pieces: The Stringfellows Edition

7th June 2018

The world’s most famous blue engine and pre-schoolers’ favourite, Thomas the Tank Engine, is gearing up for his biggest adventure yet in Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie – the brand new 80-minute CG-animated special showing from 20th July, 2018 in UK & Irish cinemas. Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie features a fun-packed plot full of wonder and curiosity, plus tons of animals and several musical songs that will captivate the imagination of young Thomas fans and parents alike. This is the biggest Thomas movie to date and one not to be missed!

Portola Pictures has announced the June 15th Digital HD release of Tyler Savage’s Inheritance. Savage directed from his own script, putting a chilling twist on the universal feeling of being trapped by your family history, for better or worse. Following the world premiere at Dances with Films, Inheritance has received high marks at festivals around the country. Dread Central raved, “Savage uses the dark essences of an even more gloomy past to highlight this modern-day ghost story.”

In The Ciambra, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the regions’ factions – the local mafias, the African immigrants and his fellow Romani. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets of their hometown. When Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he’s ready to step into his big brother’s shoes and in the process he must decide if he is truly ready to become a man.

septeMber is a new short horror film that is brought to you by the creators of Michael Myers verses Jason Voorhees. That iconic battle has over 100,000 views and is murdering the internet. The new short, septeMber is the first in a series of 7 films that will surely get your blood pumping and your mind racing. If septeMber is any indication of the horrors that await us in this series, then we are all in store for one hell of a ride. Writer/Director, Mason McDonald crafts a studio quality piece of horror. Jeff Payne portrays a character that is simply chilling to watch and reminds us a bit of Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) in American Psycho.

Jim Carrey commands the screen in this exciting new direction for the iconic actor, bringing to life a broken and well-weathered detective desperate to fan the last passionate ember that remains before his self-destruction. Carrey more than holds his own even opposite the equally powerful Charlotte Gainsbourg (Nymphomaniac Vol. I, Antichrist) and Marton Csokas (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), whose own stand-out performance conjures a charismatic, yet tormenting antagonist who is as unpredictable as the twisted story.

During World War I, Scottish soldier Private Plumpick (Alan Bates; Women in Love, The Fixer) is sent on a mission to a village in the French countryside to disarm a bomb set by the retreating German army. Plumpick encounters a strange town occupied by the former residents of the local psychiatric hospital who escaped after the villagers deserted. Assuming roles like Bishop, Duke, barber, and circus ringmaster, they warmly accept the visitor as their ‘King of Hearts’. With his reconnaissance and bomb-defusing mission looming, Plumpick starts to prefer the acceptance of the insane locals over the insanity of the war raging outside.

Everything’s Gonna Be Okay is Matt Soson’s directorial debut. Soson stars as the brave backpacker Jake, alongside Erika Soto, who is about to feature in Starz new TV show Vida. This intense film recently played at the prestigious Florida Film Festival and has been selected to screen on Short of The Week.

Faced with a full-blown mid-life crisis, accountant Eric (Rob Brydon) joins an all-male group of synchronised swimmers and discovers that making patterns in a pool can, for a couple of hours at least, gives him escapism from the bumps in his work and marriage. Initially keeping their personal lives in the locker, the ramshackle squad and coach Susan slowly begin to reveal their inner lives, as well as their paunches. But can they get their routines, not to mention their lives, in sync as they embark on an unlikely journey to Milan to compete in the World Championship?

Get a sneak peek of the action in brand new clip “The Prize” from the upcoming intense thriller Sicario 2: Soldado, starring Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro. The mission is unfinished, and the war has just begun…Sicario 2: Soldado, the drug war on the US – Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) reteams with the mercurial Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro).

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