The terrible and treacherous sorcerer Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by kidnapping The King s beautiful daughter – Elaine and forcing him to abdicate.

To achieve his goal, Pendragon uses his dark sorcery to create a giant called Cormoran tasked with abducting the Princess. When the giant seizes Elaine, brave farm lad – Jack slays the monster and rescues Elaine. In gratitude, King Mark makes Jack her protector and entrusts him to safely guide her to a convent across the sea. More

Quick, name a famous fictional speccy schoolboy! Wrong answer! (Unless you read the title of this review, in which case, you’re probably spot-on.) While he has not always been gifted with the kind of magical abilities that would merit a Hogwarts letter, the speccy schoolboy hero is by no means a recent phenomenon. Whether in novels or comic books, TV shows or movies, he has been taking plucky stands against authority figures and peer pressure alike ever since Billy Bunter made off with his first haul of tuck in the early 1900s (OK, so our speccy schoolboy hero wasn’t always exactly heroic!)–and positively flourished after 1948 when the birth of the NHS saw to it that corrective lenses became available to anyone—plucky schoolboy or not—who needed them. In 1985, the unlikely hero who stepped from the pages of a bestselling book series and onto our TV screens was one Adrian Mole (Gian Sammarco). More

This supernatural thriller is centred around an outgoing college student, Alexandra. After a night of drinking, Alex agrees to a psychic reading to learn about her future with her boyfriend, but during this a dramatic turn of events causes something to go drastically wrong. She begins to hear creepy noises, hallucinate, black out and receive unidentifiable scratch marks all over her body. Afraid she’s going crazy, she seeks help from her friends who are incapable of comprehending the scope of the darkness descending upon her. Instead, Alex receives help from a school professor and his father who have dealt with the supernatural before. But as Alex’s condition worsens, it becomes apparent that it may already be too late to stop the entity from using Alex’s body as a gateway into our world. More

Argent Films launches its new HD Collection of Cinema Classics with the first ever UK Blu-ray release of one of the most acclaimed films of all time. Presented uncut and digitally remastered in HD from the original 35mm print, this release of “The Battle Of Algiers” also commemorates the 50th anniversary of Algerian independence.

Set during the 1954 to 1962 Franco-Algerian conflict, the film effectively and authentically recreates the pivotal political events that took place in the city of Algiers between 1954 and 1957. More

In 2002, 11 months before the invasion of Iraq, the military captured and imprisoned a supernatural entity at Stormhouse, a secret underground base. This film documents the final four days of that experiment. ‘Ghost whisperer’ Hayley Sands is brought to Stormhouse by the government to make contact with the captured entity. Her arrival triggers a series of events which lead to the entity’s escape, plunging the base into a horrific nightmare. (more…)

THE CRASH WAS JUST THE BEGINNING

Two teenagers fly from New York to Los Angeles on New Years Eve, their nightmare begins when their plane hits extreme turbulence mid-flight. The relentless weather attack causes panic and terror amongst the passengers until the plane ultimately crashes in a remote government-testing area. The handful of survivors from the crash, bloody and disorientated, are then insistently pursued in the darkness by unknown predators that, unbeknownst to them, are part of the government s top-secret Mesa Experiment. More

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is an unusual project, as it spins a brief interlude in Bram Stoker’s Dracula — the voyage of the title character from Transylvania to England — into a feature-length thriller. The script has been kicking around for a while, and nearly got made a couple years back with David Slade directing and Noomi Rapace and Ben Kingsley in the lead roles.

Not long ago Neil Marshall was set to direct the film for Millennium Films, and now there is a report that he has offered the lead role of Henry Clemens to Viggo Mortensen. More

Between Heaven and Hell There’s Always Hollywood!

John Turturro shines in the lead role in Barton Fink the Coen Brothers’ (Miller’s Crossing, Fargo) hilarious satire set in the 1940s Hollywood. Fink is a New York playwright who reluctantly relocates to Hollywood to write screenplays. Ordered to write a low budget screenplay about wrestling, Fink manages to type one sentence and then…nothing! Although his chatty insurance salesman neighbour Charlie (John Goodman) helps out by teaching Fink about wrestling, the clock ticks, the temperature rises, and Fink’s life spins more and more out of control. More

From legendary action Director John Woo, Warriors Of The Rainbow is set against the breathtaking back drop Mount Chilai, Taiwan. It follows the story of an ancient tribe of sword wielding warriors fighting to regain their land from the ruthless occupying Japanese army as they prepare for the Second World War.

The film is divided into two parts – the full versions in Taiwan, the part 1 is called “太陽旗” (The Flag of Sun), and the part 2 is called “彩虹橋” (The Bridge of Rainbow), both running at a total of up to four and half hours. More

The Daddy of 70s Disaster Drama Epics Finally Comes to Blu-ray.

Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin head an all-star cast in this classic disaster film from producer Ross Hunter, for which Helen Hayes received her second Oscar. On the ground, manager Mel Bakersfield (Lancaster) juggles lover Jean Seberg and wife Dana Wynter while coping with a blizzard, aided by mechanic George Kennedy. More