The Only Way Is… Horrible
The FrightFest seal of approval is, as we’ve oft noted before, all important for any horror film. Last year’s London Film 4 FrightFest event saw Anchor Bay screening a record number of films at the event, using the event as a launchpad for a strong slate of shockers. The last of the FrightFest Five, as [...]
Click here for more >More Bang For Your Buck
It’s a busy start of the year for Anchor Bay and here’s the latest from the company… The Big Bang stars Antonio Banderas returning to his roots and what he did best (and still does, if you ask us) before his ascent to blockbuster animated status as Puss in Boots in the eponymous CGI tale [...]
Click here for more >From B-Movies To The A-List
This little gem has just opened theatrically to the kind of rave reviews normally earned by a much wider release. But given that the documentary concerns a legendary character in film history, then maybe it’s no surprise that critics have received it so well (it even got a full 10 out of 10 in the [...]
Click here for more >Underground, Overground
Any regular readers of The Raygun will know that we’re big fans of lenticular sleeves. Not only do we like the things themselves – both as tactile objects and also because of the sheer childlike excitement we still get while waving them around (“Look! The picture’s changing!) – but we can also see what, when [...]
Click here for more >Luck Of The Irish
Kill The Irishman is one of those DTV titles that you stumble across every now and then that is worthy of mention and closer inspection. It’s an eminently commercial tale – a tough mob actioner with a period detail (it’s broadly set in the 1970s) – that boasts an impeccable cast. What’s more, it’s even more [...]
Click here for more >The Fright Stuff
It’s the Bank Holiday August weekend, the sun may be shining, Leicester Square and its environs will be packed full of tourists and holidaymakers, and in and around London there’ll be outdoor music events such as Reading and the world’s largest street party, Notting Hill Carnival, and all its surrounding brouhaha. But in one part [...]
Click here for more >In The City
Former Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall breezed into a different city last week, London, to help promote Anchor Bay’s late June release of Meet Monica Velour, the DTV title that sees her starring as a former porn star who is eking out a living stripping, and the obsessed teenage geek who travels halfway [...]
Click here for more >Postcards From Cannes
Scrambled eggs, football tournaments, parties galore… Oh and the odd film or two. The Cannes Film Festival is a sprawling two week event that can scale the heights of excitement and, at the same time, plumb the depths of misery, inspiring both “this is why I do my job” moments and frequent musing and mutterings [...]
Click here for more >Gladiators… Ready!
Shoppers along London’s Oxford Street and elsewhere in the busy West End were somewhat shocked on Monday to see this lot carousing about on the streets of London. This hardy bunch of gladiators and wenches were pounding the pavements to mark the release this week of Anchor Bay’s Spartacus: Blood And Sand. Their appearance outside [...]
Click here for more >The Complete Marketing Package
Its content is certainly shocking – the series has won plenty of devotees for its rip-roaring mixture of hunky men, gorgeous women, oodles of sex and buckets of blood – but Spartacus Blood And Sand has now managed to upset the powers that be for something far more innocuous than the content of the programme. [...]
Click here for more >The Season Of The Sword
It’s one of the most enduring genres and has been a staple of the video market for more than three decades, but swords and sandals are currently enjoying an even bigger resurgence. The Raygun talks to some of the key players and explains why sometimes, the sword is mightier than the pen… It can take [...]
Click here for more >Jumping The Shark
The B-movie has long been the preserve of the rental and latterly DTV markets, but few titles will ever own up to the name. Fewer still will revel in it, but there’s a new breed of low budget titles that positively enjoy being B-movies and proudly carry the mantle. One of the chief purveyors of [...]
Click here for more >10 Minute Solution In Numbers
It was the bestselling fitness brand in 2010 without even being TV advertised… And Anchor Bay firmly believes it can do the business in 2011 too, thanks to a big push for its latest release under the banner, Blast Off Body Fat. To celebrate its success, here’s the figures and the numbers that count… 10 [...]
Click here for more >Bullets Before Valentine’s
Jean Reno is an unlikely action hero and his acting chops stretch far beyond those of the average star of his ilk. He’s done comedy (The Pink Panther films among those), Oscar-worthy dramas (Hotel Rwanda), even animation (DreamWorks’ Flushed Away), but it’s for action and most notably one film that he’s best known. That is [...]
Click here for more >Storming Into London
The latest sign of the arrival of Q4 madness? The appearance of all manner of unemployed actors dressed up in bizarre costumes, pounding the pavements of central London, lurking in and around stores and visiting newspaper and broadcast outlets drumming up interest in their releases. We do love this picture, however, from Anchor Bay and [...]
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