The DTV Digest

• Episode 301: Bride Hard, Shark Island, The Naughty List of Mr Scrooge, M: Beyond the Wasteland, Bone Lake, Nazi Supersoldier, Director's Cut, A Desert, Full Moon Gloryhole, From Beijing With Love

  This week Mike, Steve, Amanda and Will tackle the latest films to be hitting home media. As usual, click the links to see trailers for each of the films!   We kick off with BRIDE HARD (Signature Entertainment) in which superspy Rebel Wilson must thwart Stephen Dorff and his mercenaries when they gate-crash her best friend's wedding! SHARK ISLAND (High Fliers Films) finds a group of supermodels on a tropical island, surrounded by sharks and hunted by a killer after a $20Million necklace... THE NAUGHTY LIST OF MR SCROOGE (Miracle Media) sounds cringe but is actually about a group of ex-college friends being hunted by a masked killer during a holiday weekend! M: BEYOND THE WASTELAND (GrimmVision) is a Serbian post-apocalypse tale which follows a young boy seeking answers about his past... BONE LAKE (Signature Entertainment) - finds two couples double-booked at the same luxury weekend getaway... NAZI SUPERSOLDIER (4Digital Media) is a German Independent horror about some journalism students discovering a secret bunker.... DIRECTOR'S CUT (Miracle Media) is about a local metal band agreeing to make a music video with a strange director... A DESERT (Blue Finch Film Releasing) finds a photographer crossing paths with a dangerous couple out in the desert... Our Short Shot is FULL MOON GLORYHOLE - warning, this is NSFW! Click the link, to watch the whole 5 min short! Our DTV Throwback is FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE, starring and co-directed by Stephen Chow (Chow Sing Chi) in his love-letter to all things Bond, mixed with a 90s HN aesthetic. You can find a high quality version 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 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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