The DTV Digest

• Episode 300! The Bitter Taste, Please Don't Feed The Children, The Cellar. The Partisan, Borley Rectory: The Awakening, Forgive Us All, The House at Hallow End, Guns and Moses, Snow Angel

  Nearly nine years in the making, we have reached our 300th episode! To mark the occasion, we invited some guests to join the regular team: Tom Jolliffe is a screenwriter and producer, who has appeared on the show before; Nathan Lunn, who has recently completed his book on Kaiju films which will be published next year, and Will Bentley, who has also contributed in the past! We have a lot to get through this week so take a deep breath and lets dive in! Kicking off with THE BITTER TASTE (4Digital Media), in which a former pentathlete must rely on her old skills to survive strange goings-on at an old castle! PLEASE DON'T FEED THE CHILDREN (Signature Entertainment) is the latest post-apocalypse-set film and one of two on this episode! THE CELLAR (4Digital Media) is an independent horror film in which a young woman tries to outwit and escape from her captors. THE PARTISAN (High Fliers) is a WW2 thriller set in rural France and based upon the true-life spy, Krystyna Skarbek. BORELEY RECTORY: THE AWAKENING (Kaleidoscope Film Distribution) is the latest of a long line of films made about the most haunted place in England! FORGIVE US ALL (Lightbulb Film Distribution) is the 2nd post-apocalypse set film for this week, albeit this one is set in Australia... THE HOUSE AT HALLOW END (Signature Entertainment) is a horror film in which a young mother finds her baby at risk from supernatural forces! GUNS AND MOSES (4Digital Media) is an off-kilter detective story about a Rabbi trying to solve a murder. SNOW ANGEL (4Digital Media) finds a young woman dealing with a traumatic event that she can't seem to escape from STRANGE HARVEST (Vertigo Releasing) is a faux documentary about the manhunt for a serial killer who may have a supernatural agenda. Our Short Shot is the excellent THE SECOND TIME AROUND, in which a young waitress is visited by an old woman at closing time. Usually we would place a link for the film, but you can find it on the Channel 4 streaming app! Our DTV Throwback was chosen by guest Tom Jolliffe: CONUNDRUM is a police procedural/murder mystery starring Michael Beihn and Marge Helgenberger as cops trying to bust a triad smuggling operation. You can find this on Amazon Prime, and no doubt other streaming services... Follow the Short Shots  on X where you will find hundreds of links to awesome short films! Don't forget to also check out our main show, the DTV DIGEST on X and FACEBOOK! We are also now on Bluesky! Follow us here: @thedtvdigest.bsky.social and @dtvshortshots.bsky.social  

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• Episode 299: Beast of War, London Calling, Delivery Run, Red Plague, The Severed Sun, Helloween, Night Shift, Downtime

  In this episode Mike, Rich, Steve and Amanda tackle six new releases: as usual, click the links to see a trailer for each film...   We kick off with BEAST OF WAR (Signature Entertainment) - set during WW2, it finds a bunch of army recruits at the mercy of a great white shark when their ship is sunk... LONDON CALLING (Signature Entertainment) stars Josh Duhamel as a down-on-his-luck hitman having to take his boss's son under his wing... DELIVERY RUN (Plaion Pictures) is a Duel-like tale of a food delivery driver beset by an unknown snowplow driver... RED PLAGUE (4Digital Media) is a post-apocalyptic zombie story as a grizzled survivor has to escort a young woman across the desert... THE SEVERED SUN (Blue Finch Film Releasing) is set in a secluded religious community where a young woman is accused of killing her husband and cavorting with the devil... HELLOWEEN (Miracle Media) is a British mash-up of several genre sources and sees a psychotic clown escaping an asylum and wreaking havoc! Our Short Shot is NIGHT SHIFT, about bonds of friendship, becoming an adult and other Life Changes - and a werewolf. Click the link to watch the whole 30min short! Our DTV Throwback is DOWNTIME. This is an off-shoot of the Dr Who Franchise, and features several actors and characters from "classic" Dr Who. You can find it on Amazon Prime... Follow the Short Shots  on X where you will find hundreds of links to awesome short films! Don't forget to also check out our main show, the DTV DIGEST on X and FACEBOOK! We are also now on Bluesky! Follow us here: @thedtvdigest.bsky.social and @dtvshortshots.bsky.social

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• Episode 298: Prisoner of War, A Breed Apart, Bone Face, Devil In The Dust, Scurry, The Drowned, Diablo, First Sight, Dollman vs Demonic Toys

  In this episode Mike, Rich, Steve and Amanda tackle seven new releases, including two Scott Adkins movies! As usual, click the links to see a trailer for each film. We kick off with the WW2 set PRISONER OF WAR (Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment) in which Scott Adkins is shot down over the Philippiines, captured by the Japanese and forced to fight for the commandant's entertainment. Scott's co-star in the Debt Collector films, Louis Mandylor, directs! A BREED APART (Signature Entertainment) sees a bunch of influences invited to a tropical island to help rescue some feral dogs. Its as dumb as it sounds, but is it entertaining? BONEFACE (High Fliers Films) takes the usual summer camp slasher scenario and turns it into a murder whodunnit... DEVIL IN THE DUST (Signature Entertainment) finds Guy Pearce having to help a mother and daughter trek across the old west to find a faith healer for the daughter, who may be possessed or a carrier for a deadly contagion... SCURRY (Signature Entertainment) is set during an alien invasion of sorts and focuses on two people trapped in underground tunnels... THE DROWNED (Vertigo Releasing) takes the premise of Reservoir Dogs and adds a supernatural element to it... DIABLO (Signature Entertainment) is our second Scott Adkins film, here teaming up with the awesome Marko Zaror and director Ernesto Díaz Espinoza for some mayhem in Colombia! Our Short Shot is FIRST SIGHT, a futuristic dating story with a dark twist. Click the link to see the whole 20 minute short! Our DTV Throwback is DOLLMAN VS DEMONIC TOYS - possibly the most cynical cash-in ever conceived. You can see it on Amazon Prime and other platforms.   Follow the Short Shots  on X where you will find hundreds of links to awesome short films! Don't forget to also check out our main show, the DTV DIGEST on X and FACEBOOK! We are also now on Bluesky! Follow us here: @thedtvdigest.bsky.social and @dtvshortshots.bsky.social  

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• Episode 297: Mission Alarum, Americana, In Vitro, Psycho Therapy, Sovereign, Riff Raff, The Astronaut, The Shephers Code II: Road Back, The Milk Situation, Open Grave

  This week Mike, Rich, Steve and Amanda take a look at eight new releases; as usual, click the links to see a trailer for each film! We kick off with MISSION ALARUM (aka Alarum) (Signature Entertainment), in which two enemy agents fall in love and go off-grid in Poland, only to have the CIA hunt them down... AMERICANA (Lion's Gate UK) is the story of a group of strangers all trying to get their hands on a priceless artefact in South Dakota... IN VITRO (Plaion Pictures) finds husband and wife farmers trying to use clone technology on cattle...and other things... PYSCHO THERAPY: THE SHALLOW TALE OF A WRITER WHO DECIDED TO WRITE ABOUT A SERIAL KILLER (The Movie Partnership) finds a retired serial killer accidentally becoming a marriage therapist for a writer. SOVEREIGN (Signature Entertainment) finds a father and son battling against the judicial system and ending up on the run from the police. RIFF RAFF (Signature Entertainment) sees a retired crime boss having to deal with his kids, ex wife and mobsters on the warpath at his Christmas family getaway.  THE ASTRONAUT (Signature Entertainment) follows a female astronaut recuperating after her first solo mission, only to start to think that an alien has come back to Earth with her... THE SHEPHERD CODE II: ROAD BACK (M and M Film Productions) finds former agents coming out of retirement when one of their own is kidnapped. Our Short shot is THE MILK SITUATION, in which two guys offer their cleaning services to an office block littered with demons. Click the link to watch the whole short film! Our DV Throwback is OPEN GRAVE, in which an amnesiac awakens in an open mass grave, with no idea who he is or why he is there. This is available on Amazon Prime, as well as other platforms such as Plex. Follow the Short Shots  on X where you will find hundreds of links to awesome short films! Don't forget to also check out our main show, the DTV DIGEST on X and FACEBOOK! We are also now on Bluesky! Follow us here: @thedtvdigest.bsky.social and @dtvshortshots.bsky.social  

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• Episode 296: Bad Man, Little Jaffna, Don Q, Purgatory Jack, Resurrection Road, The Invisible Raptor, The Occupant, Unsinkable, Howl at the Dead, Perfect Target

  This week Mike and Rich are joined once more by Amanda, whose work over on Eastern Kicks you can find HERE! This week we tackle 8 new releases - click the links to see the trailers for each movie!   We kick off with BAD MAN (Vertigo Releasing) in which Seann William Scott plays a no nonsense cop who travels to a small town to rattle some cages and egos along the way. LITTLE JAFFNA (Blue Finch Releasing) is about an undercover cop investigating Sri Lankan gangs using organised crime to fund the Tamil Tigers back home... DON Q (Reel2Reel Films) see's Armand Assante as an aging gent living in Little Italy and pining for the old days... PURGATORY JACK (4Digital Media) is an odd tale about a private eye living in Purgatory RESURRECTION ROAD (High Fliers) is set during the American Civil War and follows a squad of black soldiers on a suicide mission - which is about to get worse! THE INVISIBLE RAPTOR (The Movie Partnership) sets a Paleontologist up against a genetically engineered velociraptor...which is invisible... THE OCCUPANT (Signature Entertainment) is a film which starts as a survival movie but veers into different genres.... UNSINKABLE (High Fliers) documents the findings of a sub-committee held to discover the evens leading up to and during the tragic sinking of the Titanic.   Our short shot is HOWL AT THE DEAD - click the link to watch the whole short film!   We round off with our DTV Throwback: PERFECT TARGET stars Daniel Bernhardt as an ex-soldier hired to assist in a South American president's security but finds himself framed for his assassination. You can find this film on Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms.  Follow the Short Shots  on X where you will find hundreds of links to awesome short films! Don't forget to also check out our main show, the DTV DIGEST on X and FACEBOOK! We are also now on Bluesky! Follow us here: @thedtvdigest.bsky.social and @dtvshortshots.bsky.social  

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