31st Jan2017

‘Deep Space’ DVD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Sunny Mabrey, Lance Broadway, T.J. Hoban, Christian Pitre, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Ursula Mills, Weetus Cren, Michael Nouri | Written and Directed by Ian Truitner The deep space mining vessel Atromitos has been adrift for two years. It is suspected that most of the crew had brutally killed each other for reasons unknown. Genetically modified […]

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31st Jan2017

‘Night of Something Strange’ comes home… to VHS!

by Phil Wheat

Night of Something Strange, a homage to 80’s horror directed by Jonathan Straiton (Big Fish in Middlesex) and co-written by Ron Bonk (She Kills), stars Trey Harrison, Rebecca Kasek, Michael Merchant, Wayne Wilbur Johnson and Toni Ann Gambale. It has played major film festivals around the world and secured spots in many top 10 horror […]

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31st Jan2017

Take a [Pixel] Trip back in time with retro game ‘The Videokid’

by Phil Wheat

Is Paperboy back? Heck no, this is The Videokid, a bodacious new retro skategame from Pixel Trip Studios. Test your skills to the max with this gnarly and challenging arcade style skate game set in a retro 1980s neighbourhood filled with bogus dangers… Players can skate, hitch and grind their way through hazardous streets; dodging […]

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31st Jan2017

First look at Jeff Lemire’s ‘Royal City’

by Phil Wheat

Image Comics have released interior artwork from Royal City, a new ongoing monthly series written and illustrated by New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lemire (Descender, Sweet Tooth), which is set to launch in March 2017. Royal City promises to be a sprawling, serialized graphic novel that will chart the lives, loves, and losses of […]

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30th Jan2017

SRS Cinema announce Blu-ray debut of ‘Vampire Cop’

by Phil Wheat

Donald Farmer’s cult classic, Vampire Cop has delighted B-movie fans for over two and half decades since debuting in 1990. It also marked one of the earliest appearances of popular scream queen Melissa Moore. Yet to this day, it’s only been released on VHS… Now SRS Cinema have announced not only Vampire Cop‘s Blu-ray debut […]

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30th Jan2017

From VHS to VOD #1

by Phil Wheat

I don’t know if you’re anything like me, but I can often spend hours upon hours trawling through iTunes looking for new movies to buy… Usually I’ll randomly come across a title I haven’t seen in years and use the “Cast & Crew” links to make my way down the rabbit hole to the more […]

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30th Jan2017

Iko Uwais & The Mo Brothers give the UK a ‘Headshot’

by Phil Wheat

Acclaimed Indonesian genre directors Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel, aka The Mo Brothers (Macabre, The ABCs of Death), have enlisted the brilliant Iko Uwais, star of Gareth Evan’s incredible The Raid films, for their latest film, Headshot. Which features Uwais as Ishmael, a man with a bullet lodged near his brain and a special set […]

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30th Jan2017

‘LEGO Star Wars’ Review – Set No.s 75173 / 75174

by Phil Wheat

The release of a new Star Wars movie is, these days, accompanied by a fresh wave of LEGO sets to accompany the film. This year we had the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, a film that not only saw new LEGO sets produced featuring vehicles and minifigures taken straight from it, but […]

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30th Jan2017

Felicity Jones & Nicholas Hoult ‘Collide’ in new poster and trailer

by Phil Wheat

Starring Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins, Collide is a new action thriller from director Eran Creevy (Welcome to the Punch). Well, I say new, but Creevy’s film is one of handful of movies trapped in release limbo folowing the bankruptcy issues faced by Relativity Media. Picked up by Open Road Films, […]

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30th Jan2017

Feature: The Essential Must-See U.S. Tough Guy Cinema

by Phil Wheat

American cinema in the Seventies through to the early Nighties was populated with the kind of leading characters you don’t see enough of any more – no nonsense, amoral tough guys, often on the wrong side of the law, rugged complexions lines with life, who start off mean and don’t get any nicer by the […]

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30th Jan2017

365Flicks Podcast – Episode 60: Kev Has Beef With La La Land?

by Phil Wheat

Here’s the latest episode of the 365Flick podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on Podomatic and Libsyn, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres. 365Flicks Podcast – Episode 60: Kev Has Beef With […]

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28th Jan2017

Nerd Buy: ‘Spider-Man Homecoming’ action figures

by Phil Wheat

Spider-Man: Homecoming isn’t in cinemas until the Summer, but that doesn’t stop Hasbro from unveiling their action figures tie-ins from the film… Which actually give us a closer look at the films Vulture, played by Michael Keaton, and his outfit. Hasbro’s toy line includes a series of action figures, including Spider-Man in both his Tony […]

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27th Jan2017

Competition: Win the Arrow Video release of ‘Raising Cain’

by Phil Wheat

To celebrate the release of Raising Cain – out Dual Format 30th Jan. 2017 – we are giving away a copy courtesy of Arrow Video! Having spent the latter half of the eighties trying out new styles of filmmaking – Wise Guys’ knockabout comedy, The Untouchables’ prestige gangster pic, Casualties of War’s Vietnam movie and […]

27th Jan2017

Details & artwork for Screenbound’s first 6 Euro-horror releases

by Phil Wheat

UK distributor Screenbound are set to take the plunge into the sleazy world of Euro-horror with not one but TWO new labels dedicated to the genre(s). Launching in March, Black House looks to cover the more horrific side of European cinema, whilst – at least based on their first releases – Maison Rouge offers up […]

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27th Jan2017

Severin detail their new Blu-ray of ‘Drive-In Massacre’

by Phil Wheat

It was one of the few true slasher movies to pre-date Halloween and Friday the 13th, and remains the closest you’ll ever come to an actual seedy ‘70s drive-in experience: Drive-In Massacre; coming from Severin Films in a feature-packed Blu-ray with all-new special features and restored from the original camera negative recently discovered in the […]

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27th Jan2017

First Look: Monsters Unleashed #2

by Phil Wheat

Giant monsters are raining from the skies and you can have a front row seat to the action in Monsters Unleashed #2, coming to comic shops everywhere next Wednesday, with creators Cullen Bunn and Greg Land dialing the mayhem up to eleven as the heroes of the Marvel Universe look to repel wave after wave […]

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27th Jan2017

‘The Rezort’ DVD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Dougray Scott, Jessica De Gouw, Martin McCann, Jassa Ahulwalia, Claire Goose, Shane Zaza, Elen Rhys, Lawrence Walker | Written by Paul Gerstenberger | Directed by Steve Barker Post-apocalyptic zombie movies are ten-a-penny these days, it often seem like we get a new one every month, thankfully The Rezort (also known as Generation Z) gives […]

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27th Jan2017

‘Terror Birds’ DVD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Jessica Lee Keller, Lindsey Sporrer, Greg Evigan, Leslie Easterbrook, Dillon Cavitt, Evan Miller, Sarah Joy Byington, Heath Allyn, Mark Hanson, Craig Nigh, Sam Stinson, Carlton Caudle | Written by Jake Helgren | Directed by Sean Cain OK, when you buy a film called Terror Birds you surely know what you getting… A film horror […]

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26th Jan2017

New TV spot and poster for ‘Logan’

by Phil Wheat

Set for a release this Spring (March 1st to be precise), Logan is the latest and last(?) film in the standalone Wolverine movies. Set in the near future, Logan sees an aging Wolverine and Professor X working together to protect a young female clone of Wolverine – aka X-23 from the Marvel comic of the […]

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26th Jan2017

First clip from Gore Verbinski’s ‘A Cure for Wellness’

by Phil Wheat

Directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs and Mia Goth, the psychological thriller A Cure For Wellness is set for a US cinema release on February 17th and UK debut on February 24th, from 20th Century Fox. In anticipation of the films debut, Fox have released a new clip from the film […]

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26th Jan2017

Watch Now: First 5 minutes of ‘Sadako vs. Kayako’

by Phil Wheat

Hideo Nakata’s Ringu and Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge are known worldwide as two of the most terrifying and groundbreaking horror films ever made. To this day, horror fans debate: “Which of the two is truly scarier?” and “Whose curse is stronger, Sadako’s or  Kayako’s?” No one ever thought that these questions would get answered, […]

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26th Jan2017

Interview: Actor/producer Marcia Do Vales (Ibiza Undead, Heretiks)

by Phil Wheat

In his latest interview, host Stuart Wright talks to Brasilian born actor/producer Marcia Do Vales  – a graduate of the prestigious Instituto Del Cine Madrid school for both film acting and film directing – about her journey to the UK via Spain; starring in Ibiza Undead, producing Heretiks and preparations for New Orleans where she’ll […]

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