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Movie Review: Division 19 (2017)

In the astounding future year 2039, vox populi decides what prisoners wear, consume, watch…and most importantly who they fight via an online service called Panopticon TV. Before you can say “Fuck…The Running Man was a great film, ol’ PTV decides to increase their scope and make a whole town under their consumer’s whims as their most famous convict superstar, Hardin Jones (Jamie Draven), has gone rogue, escaped, and joined up with an underground resistance movement dedicated to put the kibosh on Panopticon. Filled with hyperactive editing, jarring tonal shifts, and an ultra-derivative plot (as well as The Running Man, District 9 is cribbed liberally as well), Division 19 has a lot going against it right out of the gate. For all of it’s high-concept, just a few minutes from now, social commentary…those elements aren’t given a chance to simmer and develop due to the fact that every time things get interesting in the ol’ world building department along comes a

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DanXIII
Mar 11, 2019
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Dystopian Thriller ‘Division 19’ Headed Our Way Next Month

The award-winning sci-fi dystopian thriller Division 19, starring Mandy’s Linus Roache and Alison Doody (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), heads to theaters and digital this April from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the future, prisons have been turned into online portals where paying subscribers vote on what felons eat, watch, wear and who they fight. Panopticon TV is so successful it is about to be rolled out to a whole new town. When the world’s most downloaded felon escapes, the authorities set a trap to reel him in. The bait is his little brother who has so far managed to avoid detection. Jamie Draven (Billy Elliot), Lotte Verbeek (“Outlander”), Clarke Peters (“Jessica Jones”), L. Scott Caldwell (“Lost”) and Will Rothhaar (“Grimm”) star in District 19, written and directed by S A Halewood. The film scored several awards including t Critics’ Award at the Fantasporto Film Festival. Suzie Halewood took home the award for Best Director at the Boston Science Fiction Film

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 8, 2019
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‘Mandy’ Makes Its Streaming Premiere Exclusively On Shudder This November

Mandy, hailed by Newsweek as a “fable from an alternate dimension,” is set to make its highly anticipated streaming premiere exclusively on Shudder later this month. Directed by Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow) and produced by SpectreVision, XYZ Films, and Umedia, Mandy stars Oscar and Golden Globe-winner Nicolas Cage in a stunning performance that critics are celebrating as one of the best in his long and illustrious career—and which Entertainment Weekly raves is “insane (in all the right ways).” Cage stars as a man whose peaceful woodland existence with his wife is brutally shattered by a nightmarish religious cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling him into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance. Andrea Riseborough (Birdman, Bloodline) and Linus Roache (Homeland, Batman Begins) also star. AMC’s streaming network for horror and thrillers, Shudder has acquired the exclusive streaming rights to Mandy in the U.S. from RLJ Entertainment and the Canadian rights from Elevation Pictures. Mandy is the latest in a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 14, 2018
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‘Mandy’ Starring Nicolas Cage Coming To Shudder

The film that IndieWire called “astonishing,” Newsweek hailed as a “fable from an alternate dimension,” that has a 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic named a “must see” is coming soon to Shudder! AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for thrillers, suspense, and horror has acquired the exclusive streaming rights to Mandy in the US from RLJ Entertainment earlier this Spring. It also acquired the Canadian rights from Elevation Pictures. Craig Engler, GM Shudder, said: “We were blown away by Mandy at Sundance and immediately knew we had to get this mind-bending masterpiece, which features an absolutely astonishing performance by Nicolas Cage, exclusively for Shudder members. We can’t wait for our members to see it”. Mandy has been playing to sell-out crowds in the US since its limited release in September. The film has already been hailed as a new cult classic, and Cage’s performance is being called one of the best in his long and illustrious career. Directed

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 21, 2018

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Movie Review: Division 19 (2017)

In the astounding future year 2039, vox populi decides what prisoners wear, consume, watch…and most importantly who they fight via an online service called Panopticon TV. Before you can say “Fuck…The Running Man was a great film, ol’ PTV decides to increase their scope and make a whole town under their consumer’s whims as their most famous convict superstar, Hardin Jones (Jamie Draven), has gone rogue, escaped, and joined up with an underground resistance movement dedicated to put the kibosh on Panopticon. Filled with hyperactive editing, jarring tonal shifts, and an ultra-derivative plot (as well as The Running Man, District 9 is cribbed liberally as well), Division 19 has a lot going against it right out of the gate. For all of it’s high-concept, just a few minutes from now, social commentary…those elements aren’t given a chance to simmer and develop due to the fact that every time things get interesting in the ol’ world building department along comes a

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DanXIII
Mar 11, 2019
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Dystopian Thriller ‘Division 19’ Headed Our Way Next Month

The award-winning sci-fi dystopian thriller Division 19, starring Mandy’s Linus Roache and Alison Doody (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), heads to theaters and digital this April from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the future, prisons have been turned into online portals where paying subscribers vote on what felons eat, watch, wear and who they fight. Panopticon TV is so successful it is about to be rolled out to a whole new town. When the world’s most downloaded felon escapes, the authorities set a trap to reel him in. The bait is his little brother who has so far managed to avoid detection. Jamie Draven (Billy Elliot), Lotte Verbeek (“Outlander”), Clarke Peters (“Jessica Jones”), L. Scott Caldwell (“Lost”) and Will Rothhaar (“Grimm”) star in District 19, written and directed by S A Halewood. The film scored several awards including t Critics’ Award at the Fantasporto Film Festival. Suzie Halewood took home the award for Best Director at the Boston Science Fiction Film

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 8, 2019
Horror Fuel

‘Mandy’ Makes Its Streaming Premiere Exclusively On Shudder This November

Mandy, hailed by Newsweek as a “fable from an alternate dimension,” is set to make its highly anticipated streaming premiere exclusively on Shudder later this month. Directed by Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow) and produced by SpectreVision, XYZ Films, and Umedia, Mandy stars Oscar and Golden Globe-winner Nicolas Cage in a stunning performance that critics are celebrating as one of the best in his long and illustrious career—and which Entertainment Weekly raves is “insane (in all the right ways).” Cage stars as a man whose peaceful woodland existence with his wife is brutally shattered by a nightmarish religious cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling him into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance. Andrea Riseborough (Birdman, Bloodline) and Linus Roache (Homeland, Batman Begins) also star. AMC’s streaming network for horror and thrillers, Shudder has acquired the exclusive streaming rights to Mandy in the U.S. from RLJ Entertainment and the Canadian rights from Elevation Pictures. Mandy is the latest in a

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 14, 2018
Horror Fuel

‘Mandy’ Starring Nicolas Cage Coming To Shudder

The film that IndieWire called “astonishing,” Newsweek hailed as a “fable from an alternate dimension,” that has a 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic named a “must see” is coming soon to Shudder! AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for thrillers, suspense, and horror has acquired the exclusive streaming rights to Mandy in the US from RLJ Entertainment earlier this Spring. It also acquired the Canadian rights from Elevation Pictures. Craig Engler, GM Shudder, said: “We were blown away by Mandy at Sundance and immediately knew we had to get this mind-bending masterpiece, which features an absolutely astonishing performance by Nicolas Cage, exclusively for Shudder members. We can’t wait for our members to see it”. Mandy has been playing to sell-out crowds in the US since its limited release in September. The film has already been hailed as a new cult classic, and Cage’s performance is being called one of the best in his long and illustrious career. Directed

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 21, 2018