Author: Alton Williams

  • John Boyega Edition: Bits & Pieces

    John Boyega Edition: Bits & Pieces

    John Boyega Edition: Bits & Pieces – Space is hard, but this podcast makes it look easy. Join host and star Jimmy O. Yang starting May 29th as he welcomes the cast and crew behind the new Netflix series SPACE FORCE for a 10-part podcast exploring the stories behind the show. New episodes Mondays and Thursdays each week, with guests like Steve Carell, Greg Daniels, John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, Tawny Newsome, Diana Silvers and many more.

    Jack Tyson is a young man partaking in an illegal Mexico to California car race when a desperate woman, fleeing from her abusive gangster boyfriend who is financing the tournament, jumps into his car pleading for his help and who has an incriminating USB drive that could send her thug boyfriend, among others, to prison.

    CK Films in association with Red Rock Entertainment announces today the digital release of its award-winning feature, Steven Berkoff’s Tell Tale Heart starring Steven BerkoffHenry GoodmanHugh Skinner and Dudley Sutton, directed by Stephen Cookson and adapted by Berkoff and Cookson from the short story by Edgar Allan Poe.  The film, which has garnered multiple awards in film festivals across the world, including Best Feature Film in the Videoscream Film Festival, Best In Show – IndieFest Film Awards, Best Feature – Independent Horror Awards, and Best Actor (Steven Berkoff) – Independent Horror Awards, will be available on DVD from June 11 2020 and on various digital platforms including AmazonApple TV and Google Play in the subsequent weeks.

    ROGER WATERS: US + THEM, a film documenting the acclaimed 2017-2018 tour of the iconic Pink Floyd artist, comes to 4K, HD and SD Digital on Tuesday 16 June from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Viewers on digital will have access to all-new post-feature content including two additional concert songs not included in the original feature (“Comfortably Numb” and “Smell the Roses”) as well as A Fleeting Glimpse, a documentary short featuring behind-the-scenes moments from the tour.

    In 2009, fed up with increased poverty and widespread corruption, Madagascar’s citizens took to the streets in protest. After the president was forced to resign, the international community terminated most foreign assistance to this chronically impoverished island nation. Over 60% of the country’s revenues were immediately wiped out, resulting in the dramatic curtailment of education, health care, sanitation and access to food. 

    Funny Pains” follows stand-up comedian Wendi Starling, whose career, working process and life areclosely examined in the film, as she navigates one of the entertainment’s toughest, most competitive professions – all during the height of the #MeToo movement, feminism, and the infiltration of stand-up comedy by the politically correct. Above all else, the film delves into serious issues of sexual assault and mental health, with Starling revealing her not-so-private personal traumas.  

    The Social Thriller Anthology “Tales from Da Ville” is now available for FREE on Youtube hosted by Brooklyn’s own Rapper, Bam Vito.  Bam is widely known for performing the theme song for the popular web series, Money & Violence. The rest of the talented New York cast are actors on the rise seen on stage and screen.  Credits include Blue Bloods, Hell House 3 Lake of Fire, and many more! 

  • 1917 Makes Triumphant Return

    1917 Makes Triumphant Return

    1917 returns to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart following its release on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD. The award-winning WW1 flick racked up 146,000 physical copies this week, knocking last week’s chart-topper Bad Boys For Life down to Number 2.

    Onward hangs on at 3 as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker climbs two places to Number 4. Little Women drops one place to Number 5.

    Two big debuts are up next. The Call of the Wild lands as this week’s highest new entry at Number 6. Harrison Ford stars as John Thornton in this remake about a dog named Buck whose life is uprooted when he is removed from his home and ends up in the wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the 1890s Gold Rush. 

    Our second Top 10 new entry comes from the star-studded big-screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical, Cats, in at 7. Taylor Swift, James Corden, Jason Derulo and Dame Judi Dench all star as tribe of cats, the Jellicles, must decide which one of them ascends for the yearly reincarnation.

    Finally, Frozen 2 (8), Jumanji: The Next Level (9) and Jojo Rabbit (10) hang on in the Top 10 for another week.

    This week’s Official Film Chart features a preview of Robert Downey, Jr. and Antonio Banderas in the new adaptation of Dolittle, available to Download & Keep from June 1.

    The Official Film Chart Top 10 – 27th May 2020

    LWPosTitleLabel
    211917ENTERTAINMENT ONE
    12BAD BOYS FOR LIFESONY PICTURES HE
    33ONWARDWALT DISNEY
    64STAR WARS IX: THE RISE OF SKYWALKERWALT DISNEY
    45LITTLE WOMENSONY PICTURES HE
    NEW6THE CALL OF THE WILDWALT DISNEY
    NEW7CATSUNIVERSAL PICTURES
    78FROZEN 2WALT DISNEY
    99JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVELSONY PICTURES HE
    510JOJO RABBIT20TH CENTURY FOX HE

    © Official Charts Company 2020

    VIEW THE FULL TOP 40 – https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/film-chart/

  • It’s Bad Boys For Life Top Of The Charts

    It’s Bad Boys For Life Top Of The Charts

    Bad Boys For Life debuts at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart, seeing off competition from OnwardLittle Women and last week’s chart topper 1917.

    Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are reunited in their roles as detectives Mike Lowry and Marcus Burnett for the first time since 2003, in the third installation of the Bad Boys series; the pair must face off with a familial team of drug lords taking revenge on the city of Miami. The film knocks last week’s Number 1, WW1 epic 1917 to Number 2, more than doubling its sales.

    Pixar adventure Onward slips to Number 3, just ahead of a brand-new entry from Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women at Number 4 on digital downloads only. Starring Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen, the latest film version of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott was nominated for six academy awards this year, winning one for Best Costume Design.

    A third new entry comes in at Number 8: based on true accounts, Bombshell stars Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie as a group of women who set out to expose the CEO of Fox News for sexual harassment.

    More titles firmly holding on to a Top 10 placing this week are Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit (5), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (6) and Frozen 2 (7). Finally, Jumanji: The Next Level drops to Number 9 and The Gentlemen closes off the countdown at 10.

    This week’s Official Film Chart features a sneak peek at Tom Hanks in the Fred Rogers biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, available to Download & Keep from May 25.

    The Official Film Chart Top 10 – 20th May 2020

    LWPosTitleLabel
    NEW1BAD BOYS FOR LIFESONY PICTURES HE
    121917ENTERTAINMENT ONE
    23ONWARDWALT DISNEY
    NEW4LITTLE WOMENSONY PICTURES HE
    45JOJO RABBIT20TH CENTURY FOX HE
    36STAR WARS IX: THE RISE OF SKYWALKERWALT DISNEY
    67FROZEN 2WALT DISNEY
    NEW8BOMBSHELLLIONSGATE
    79JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVELSONY PICTURES HE
    810THE GENTLEMENEIV

    © Official Charts Company 2020

    VIEW THE FULL TOP 40 – https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/film-chart/

  • Anne Boleyn Edition: Bits & Pieces

    Anne Boleyn Edition: Bits & Pieces

    Anne Boleyn Edition: Bits & Pieces – The body of a legendary Manchester DJ is discovered twenty years after his mysterious disappearance from Ibiza. When his sister returns to the beautiful Spanish island to find out what happened, her investigation leads her through a thrilling world of dance clubs, lies and cover-ups, forcing her to confront the darker sides of her own character in a place where people live life on the edge.

    A father faces a personal crisis when he discovers his estranged son fleeing a botched drug deal. The two men embark on a violent odyssey that grapples with themes of fatherhood, family and fate.

    Grace Greene is clawing her way back to the middle.  Five years after her big break turned out to be a big flop, a struggling actress asks herself how much humiliation she’s willing to endure for another chance to make it.

    BANANA SPLIT is a heartfelt and hilarious coming of age story about teenage relationships and what happens when friendships and romance get in the way of each other. Starring, produced and co-written by Hannah Marks (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective AgencyDaniel Isn’t Real),one of Rolling Stone’s ‘25 Under 25 Young Musicians, Actors, Activists Changing the World’, and starring Dylan Sprouse (The Suite Life of Zack & CodyDismissed) and Liana Liberato (To the BoneLight as a Feather), BANANA SPLIT comes to digital download in the UK on 8th June 2020.

    With Brittany Snow making her debut as producer, HOOKING UP is a fresh take on modern romance and relationships starring Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect, Someone Great), Sam Richardson (Good Boys, Bad Neighbours 2) and Jordana Brewster (Fast And Furious franchise). With a thrillingly clever and funny script from co-writer and director Nico Raineau, HOOKING UP comes to digital download in the UK on 8th June 2020.

    On the same day in 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by a billionaire who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. Now, the six surviving members reunite upon the news of their father’s passing and must work together to solve a mystery surrounding his death. But the estranged family begins to come apart due to their divergent personalities and abilities, not to mention the imminent threat of a global apocalypse.

    Eureka Entertainment to release MR. VAMPIRE, Ricky Lau’s influential and genre bending horror-comedy, presented from a brand new 2K restoration making its worldwide debut on Blu-ray as part of the Eureka Classics range from 20 July 2020. The first print-run of 2000 copies will feature a Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase and Collector’s Booklet.

    Anne Boleyn Edition: Bits & Pieces

  • CherryPicks Launches CINEMASTROLOGY

    CherryPicks Launches CINEMASTROLOGY

    TheCherryPicks® (TheCherryPicks.com), a multi-platform brand focused on highlighting female-identifying and non-binary film reviews launches a weekly podcast movie horoscope series: CherryPicks presents: CINEMASTROLOGY. This weekly series will suggest movies to watch based on the astrological planetary transits.

    The podcast kicks off on Sunday, May 17, co-founders Miranda Bailey and Rebecca Odes announced today.

    Hosts Kate Santos and Stevie Anderson, well-known for their movie review podcast The Shiterion Collection have joined forces with CherryPicks to present Cinemastrology, the first of its kind podcast to explore astrology through film. Cinemastrology will educate listeners on the current astrological transits and help them navigate their day-to-day with insightful information delivered in a fun way, all while suggesting great films to watch! When Mars, the warrior planet, moves into nurturing Libra, we may find ourselves swept in the romance of it all and putting our guards down.

    We’d recommend watching Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) to unleash all the strong possibilities that have been waiting to be explored.
    Stevie Anderson and Kate Santos add, “we always hear about Mercury Retrograde, but now through Cinemastrology we can navigate how to best channel the energy of these planetary cycles. The planets give us clues on how we are feeling and also what genres of movies are calling to us.” 

    Kate Santos is a writer, producer, and film critic at the movie review podcast The Shiterion Collection. She guides her audience on what to watch – from lesser-known independent films to classic films to now-forgotten blockbusters of the 1990s. Santos’ fellow The Shiterion Collection co-host Stevie Anderson also hosts the popular comedic astrology podcast What’s Your Sign? Anderson is an astrologer, writer and film critic.

    Through the What’s Your Sign? platform she has done natal chart readings for clients and has led live astrology Q&As for fans around the globe. 
    To launch the podcast, CherryPicks will host a giveaway on Instagram (@thecherrypicks) starting Thursday, May 14th. The giveaway includes prizes from CherryPicks, What’s Your Sign and 101 Cider. The contest ends Saturday, May 16th at 11:59PM PST. Winner will be announced on Sunday, May 17th at 5PM PST via Instagram LIVE (@thecherrypicks).