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Stars: Hazel O’Connor, Phil Daniels, Jon Finch, Jonathan Pryce, Peter-Hugo Daly, Mark Wingett | Written and Directed by Brian Gibson

Punk music burst on the scene in the mid-70s. It took the world by storm, and it made superstars and legends of groups like The Ramones, Blondie, The Patti Smith Group, The Talking Heads, The B-52’s, Suicide, Mink DeVille, The Fleshtones.

In 1980, the gritty underworld of post-punk Britain was captured on film with Breaking Glass; and this year the film is celebrating its 45th anniversary! And Fun City Editions was not going to let this epic anniversary go by without a wonderful Blu-ray release.

A rebellious young singer-songwriter Kate Crowley (Hazel O’Connor) is determined to rise to the top of the music profession. Kate’s socialist ideals are juxtaposed to her pragmatic rock manager, Danny, the streetwise hustler who discovers her and develops her into a star. The...

I, Madman and Sugar Hill are returning to Blu-ray in June as spines #31 and #32, respectively, in Kino Lorber‘s Kino Cult line.

1989 supernatural slasher I, Madman will be released on June 17.

Tibor Takács (The Gate) directs from a script by David Chaskin (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge). Jenny Wright, Clayton Rohner, and Randall William Cook star.

Special Features:

Audio commentary by Director Tibor Takács and Actor and Artistic Supervisor Randall William Cook Much of Madness, More of Sin – Visual Essay by Chris O’Neill Ripped From the Pages: The Making of I, Madman – Interviews with Director Tibor Takács, Actor and Artistic Supervisor Randall William Cook, Screenwriter David Chaskin, and Actors Clayton Rohner and Stephanie Hodge Behind the Scenes Footage with Commentary by Randall William Cook Theatrical Trailer

Book store clerk Virginia loves to lose herself in a good novel, but when she cracks the spine of a horror pulp called I,...

After dying in the future, Finn and Jake want to be reincarnated for more adventures. Finn is reincarnated as Penelope in the Adventure Time comics, bridging show and comic continuity. The Adventure Time comics, though debated, are validated by Penelope's presence as a must-read for fans.

Finn and Jake's legacy doesn't end with their last canonical appearances in Adventure Time. Audiences will recall that the episode "Together Again" of Adventure Time: Distant Lands reveals that Finn and Jake have both died in the distant future and that they reunite in the afterlife. Before passing on, Finn asks Death to be reincarnated and fans can see Finn's reincarnated form in a comic published seven years earlier.

Finn's wish comes to fruition in the Adventure Time comics through a new character named Penelope, a future version of Finn, who makes her on-panel debut in Adventure Time #25 by Ryan North, Dustin Nguyen, Jess Fink,...

Kathryn Bigelow’s 1990 film Blue Steel flirts with contrivance from the start. Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) joins the NYPD out of a desire to overcome an abusive childhood with a position of civic authority, then finds her job immediately threatened when a fatal shootout at a convenience store places her under internal-affairs review. To make matters more outlandish, Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver), a commodities trader whose theft of a gun from the crime scene prompted Turner’s investigation in the first place, begins to romantically pursue and eventually outright stalk her.

These are a lot of farfetched narrative strands to pile onto a B movie, but Bigelow uses this setup to deconstruct the eroticized violence of 1980s action cinema in a manner as striking and confrontational as her earlier Point Break. But if that film examined the homosocial bonds between men, Blue Steel leans into complex, insoluble gender politics...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection: Volume 3 4K Uhd Box Set from Universal

Five more Alfred Hitchcock movies are coming to 4K Ultra HD: Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Torn Curtain, Topaz, and Frenzy. They’ll be available both individually ($19.99) and together in the third volume of The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection box set ($69.98) on October 31 via Universal.

1948’s Rope stars James Stewart, John Dall, and Farley Granger. 1956’s The Man Who Knew Too Much stars James Stewart and Doris Day. 1966’s Torn Curtain stars Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. 1969’s Topaz stars Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, and John Forsythe. 1972’s Frenzy stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster.

All five thrillers have...

Lionsgate has announced that the next film to reach Blu-ray as part of their Vestron Video Collector’s Series is the 1990 thriller Blue Steel! The release date is November 14th and copies are already available for pre-order at This Link.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who crafted the screenplay with her Near Dark co-writer Eric Red, Blue Steel centers on newly minted NYPD officer Megan Turner, who responds to a grocery store robbery – and kills the perpetrator – her first day on the job. But Megan’s uncorroborated story of the shooting gets her suspended from active duty when the stickup gun mysteriously vanishes. Enter a charming-but-disturbed commodities trader, whose obsession with Megan threatens to destroy everything she holds dear, pushing her into a desperate fight to salvage her reputation… and save her own life.

The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher, Philip Bosco, Richard Jenkins,...

The impact of George A. Romero’s Dead movies reached far and wide. After 1968’s Night of the Living Dead defined the modern zombie as we know it, 1978’s Dawn of the Dead kick-started zombie cinema in earnest. Not only did it herald a horde of undead movies domestically, the infection spread internationally — although the outbreak took longer to reach some regions than others.

While Italy was first to strike with Lucio Fulci’s Zombie in 1979, Hong Kong wouldn’t get its first zombie movie until two decades later. A zombie film set in a mall, 1998’s Bio Zombie is a direct descendant of Dawn of the Dead. It also draws influence from the original Resident Evil game (which is featured in the film), although the zombie comedy plays more like a Return of the Living Dead sequel by way of early Kevin Smith (think Clerks or Mallrats).

Bio Zombie...

Citing her desire to give them more control over their lives, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark has relieved four of her grandchildren of their royal titles, the royal palace revealed on Sept. 28.

"With her decision, Her Majesty The Queen wishes to create the framework for the four grandchildren to be able to shape their own lives to a much greater extent without being limited by the special considerations and duties that a formal affiliation with the Royal House of Denmark as an institution involves," the palace's statement read.

The queen originally bestowed royal titles on all of her grandchildren, per the palace's statement. As of today, Margrethe's second son Joachim's children will no longer be referred to as prince and princess and "his/her highness." This means that Nikolai, 23, and Felix, 20, whom he shares with his first wife, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, and his children with current wife Princess Marie - Henrik,...

Multiple people are dead after a mass shooting outside of Chicago, NBC News reports. Authorities confirmed that gunfire rang out at a Fourth of July parade in the Illinois suburb of Highland Park, killing at least six people and injuring 24 individuals. According to NBC News, Highland Park police Commander Chris O'Neill confirmed that a rifle has been found but authorities are still "searching for a gunman who opened fire" just after 10:14 a.m. local time. The Lake County Sheriff's department also tweeted on July 4 that they are "assisting Highland Park Police with a shooting in the area of the Independence Day parade...

U.K. broadcaster ITV has commissioned “Six Four,” a four-part crime thriller inspired by the bestselling novel by Hideo Yokoyama.

Set primarily in Glasgow, the drama follows the O’Neills, police detective Chris and his wife, former undercover officer Michelle, whose teenage daughter goes missing. Chris is finds out that fatal mistakes were covered-up in the disappearance of another local girl and revisiting the case, he uncovers a series of errors, corruption and unbridled ambition. Michelle takes matters into her own hands using her skills. Meanwhile, the daughter of the justice minister is suddenly kidnapped, just as the minister is on the cusp of achieving an election victory.

It is created by BAFTA Scotland-winning screenwriter Gregory Burke (“’71”) and Clare McQuillan (“Impulse”) will also write on the series.

Burke said: “At its heart, ‘Six Four’ is a human story about two people under incredible amounts of pressure, who both choose to try and address their pasts.

The disturbing British coming-of-age thriller I Start Counting (1970), starring Jenny Agutter, makes its US Blu-ray debut on a pristine remastered Region A disc, loaded with fresh extras, courtesy of boutique label Fun City Editions.

Adapted from the 1966 novel of the same name by Audrey Erskine Lindop, I Start Counting is a welcome relic of its era: it is distinctively late-1960s in its fashions and characterizations, and it is decidedly British in its affectations, despite harboring a rather risque subject matter.

I Start Counting

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1970 / Color / 1.85:1 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date November 24, 2020 / available through Vinegar Syndrome / 24.99

Starring: Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Simon Ward, Clare Sutcliffe.

Cinematography: Alex Thomson

Film Editor: Keith Palmer

Composer: Basil Kirchin

Written by Richard Harris

Produced by David Greene and Stanley R. Jaffe

Directed by David Greene

Lovesick, imaginative 14-year-old Wynne Kinch (a young Jenny Agutter) is convinced that her much older, 32-year-old...

If you've ever been involved in post-production on a film, you'll know that there's a moment during the early stages of editing when one cannot help but be aware that one is looking at multiple stories, not just one - that fragments of the same material can be rearranged to create very different narratives and very different moods. Chris O'Neill's experimental reworking of found footage from an old, little-seen horror film stays within genre but brings this glorious uncertainty to light, highlighting the fact that film is a fractal medium and that the only real truths to be found within it are those we choose to construct.

It begins with a man screaming. This being what it is, there's a lot of screaming, but you won't hear it; until the very end, when a brief snippet of wisdom is shared, all you'll hear is Gabbie Bam Bam's vibrant electronic soundtrack,...

Princess Madeleine and Chris O'Neill of Sweden celebrated Princess Adrienne's royal christening in Stockholm last week, and now we have a glimpse of the official portraits. On Tuesday, the Royal Court released four photographs from the affair, which were snapped by photographer Erika Gerdemark at Drottningholm Slott Palace.

The pictures feature Adrienne with her proud parents, as well as Madeleine's parents, King Carl Xiv and Queen Silvia, and Chris's mother, Eva Maria Walter. Adrienne's six godparents - Coralie Charriol Paul, Nader Panahpour, Natalie Werner, Anouska d'Abo, Gustav Thott, and Carlotte Kreuger Cederlund - also make a special appearance in one of the portraits. And as an added bonus, a solo photo of Madeleine was included in honor of her 36th birthday, which was on June 10.

Madeleine and Chris welcomed Adrienne into the world back in March. The little one joins the couple's other kids, Princess Leonore, 4, and Prince Nicolas, 2, however,...

The Swedish royal family stepped out to support the christening of Princess Adrienne at the Royal Chapel in Stockholm on Friday. The adorable tot, who was welcomed into the world in March to parents Princess Madeleine and Chris O'Neill, wore the same gown worn by her siblings Princess Leonore and Prince Nicolas at their christenings, People reports. King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia were in attendance to witness their granddaughter's baptism, along with Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel, Prince Carl Philip, and Princess Sofia, who posed for a group photo outside the chapel. While we wait for Prince William and Kate Middleton's christening of baby Prince Louis, which will likely take place in July, scroll through to see more sweet photos from Adrienne's big day.

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