The DTV Digest

The DTV Digest

News and Reviews of films that didn't make it to the cinema

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August 29, 2025 82 mins

In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve review 8 films which are all receiving their premier at this year's London Fright Fest! NB - we normally mention the distributor for each film, but some have yet to find a home. Nevertheless, click the link to see the trailer for each movie!

We kick off with THE HOME (Signature Entertainment), where Pete Davidson starts work as a care assistant, only to learn the place has some dark secrets!

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In this episode, Mike and Steve tackle six new films - as usual, click the links to see the trailer for each!

We kick off with the highest profile film of the week, RED SONJA (Signature Entertainment), in which Revenge's Matilda Lutz plays the titular hero while MJ Bassett (Solomon Kane, Strike Back) directs. Did we enjoy it? Take a listen to find out!

THE LAST RITUAL (Miracle Media) is a Nepalese police procedural, following a you...

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In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle 8 new releases - as usual, click the link to see a trailer for each film.

We kick off with TIN SOLDIER (Signature Entertainment), which finds Scott Eastwood as an ex cult member recruited by a shadow ops team to re-enter his former home, a compound run by an ex army General. (NB: this is now available to stream on Amazon Prime).

40 ACRES (Vertigo Releasing) is one of 2 contenders this wee...

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In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve cover 8 new releases - as usual, click the links to see the trailer for each film!

We start and end with a boxing movie, kicking off with SALVABLE (Vertical), in which boxer Toby Kebbel tries to reconnect with his daughter (good) & shady old pal Shia LaBeouf (bad!)

Up next is the western, THE UNHOLY TRINITY (Signature Entertainment) where the arrival of a young man bent on revenge stirs up a...

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In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle seven new releases; as usual, click the links to see the trailers for each film!

We kick off with RUST (Signature Entertainment) - a film which carries a lot of baggage due to the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, but is it any good regardless? Check out our review to get our opinion!

FINAL RECOVERY (Buffalo 8) deals with the cyclical nature of drug addiction and rehabilita...

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After a short break, we are back with EIGHT main reviews! As usual, click the links to see the trailers!

First up is CONSECRATION (Vertigo Releasing), a supernatural mystery set on a rural Scottish island, directed by Christopher Smith (Black Death).

HIGH ROLLERS (101 Films) is a sequel to the John Travolta led heist movie, Cash Out!

AMONGST THE WOLVES (Vertigo Releasing) sees a homeless ex-soldier at odds with a drug dealing gang!

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In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle five new DTV releases - as usual, click the links to watch the trailer for each film!

We kick off with FEAR BELOW (Signature Entertainment) - a period thriller from Australia, where a team of divers have to salvage a submerged truck under the watchful eye of a bull shark!

Next is IT FEEDS (Signature Entertainment), in which a teenage girl and her psychic mother must help a young girl who ...

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After a prolonged break, we're back! And, to make up for lost time, Mike Rich and Steve are covering NINE new releases as well as our usual Short Shot and DTV Throwback. Click the links on each to see the trailer and more!

We kick off with the biggest film, HAVOC - Gareth Evans' long awaited feature following his series Gangs of London. After being so long in gestation, can it live up to the anticipation?

Next is BLACK CAB (Acorn M...

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In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle 7 new releases: As usual, click the links to see the trailers for each film!

 

We kick off with LONG GONE HEROES (Signature Entertainment) which sees Frank Grillo as a Special Forces soldier leading a small team to Venezuela to rescue his niece from crime lord Andy Garcia.

END OF THE ROPE (High Flier Films) is a dramatised account of the infamous lynching of Charles Bannon in 1931 North D...

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This week Steve is off on holiday so its left to Mike and Rich to tackle five new releases - as always, click the link to see the trailer for each:

We kick off with FIGHT OR FLIGHT (Sky), starring Josh Hartnett as a former agent brought back to find a hacker, and then must protect them from wave after wave of assassins!

Next is ESCAPE FROM THE 21st CENTURY (Signature Entertainment) - a mind-melting visual experience in which three ...

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This week Mike, Rich and Steve tackle three new releases - as usual, click the links to see the trailer for each!

We kick off with PROJECT SILENCE (Altitude Film Distribution) - A Korean disaster/action movie where commuters become stranded upon a bridge, and surrounded by genetically engineered military attack dogs!

Next is IN TENEBRAS: INTO THE DARKNESS (Miracle Media), a film which has some great locations in and around Gibralta...

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In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle three new releases: as usual, click the link to see a trailer for each film!

We kick off with THE BABY IN THE BASKET (High Flier Films), from Nathan Shepka and Tom Jolliffe, both of whom have form with our podcast! This is quite an ambitious project for the pair, but what do we make of it? Tune in to find out!

Next up is SCARLET WINTER (Miracle Media), a psychological thriller with a coup...

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In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle three new DTV releases - as usual, click the link to see a trailer for each film!

First up is a surprising one - THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER (Dazzler Media) somehow skipped the UK's cinemas and has, eventually, found its way to DTV land! Check out our review to hear what we make of it!

Next is GOLD RUN (Dazzler Media), a Norwegian/Danish film about the true events around Norway's missi...

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In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve take on six new releases; as usual, click the link to check out the trailer for each film!

We kick off with INTO THE DEEP (Signature Entertainment), the latest DTV shark movie. Christian Sesma directs, Chad Law wrote the script and Richard Dreyfus makes an appearance!

In SUNRAY: FALLEN SOLDIER (Vertigo Releasing), a grizzled ex soldier gets his unit back together to go hunt the drug gang respons...

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

In our first show back, we (Mike, Rich and Steve) catch up with seven new releases. As usual, check out the trailers for each film by clicking the link.

We kick off with WEREWOLVES (Signature Entertainment), Stephen C Miller's schlocky lycanthrope movie starring Frank Grillo!

BEEZEL (Dazzler Media) covers different decades as people encounter an eternal witch living in the basement of a suburban home...

DETAINED (Pl...

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In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle three new titles going straight to home media - as usual, click the links below to see a trailer for each one:

We kick off with the biggest film of the week, GUNNER (Vertigo Releasing) sees Luke Hemsworth tackling a local gang of drug dealers when they kidnap his two sons....

in VOICE OF SHADOWS (Miracle Media), a young woman stands to inherit an estate as long as she abides by a strange ...

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In this episode Mike, Rich and Steve tackle four new releases - as usual click the links to view the trailers for each!

We kick off with one of the strongest films of the year: Joel Kinnaman stars as a detective who has recently become deaf after an accident in THE SILENT HOUR (Signature Entertainment).

ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD (#AMFAD) (101 Films) sees a group of young people being picked off by a returning serial killer....

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This week Mike, Rich and Steve take a look at five new reviews: click the links to see the trailers for each!

Kicking off with SLINGSHOT (Signature Entertainment) - Laurence Fishburne and Casey Affleck star in this sci-fi movie about astronauts on a mission to Titan.

DARK FEATHERS - DANCE OF THE GEISHA (Miracle Media) is one of the strangest films to head our way in a while, in which a detective investigates an enigmatic dancer aft...

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In this episode Mike and Steve tackle five new releases - click the links to see the trailers for each film!

As its Halloween week, what better way to start than...with an action movie? in CLASSIFIED (Signature Entertainment), Aaron Eckhart is a CIA hitman who discovers a dark secret about the Division he works for!

Next is GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS: DEATH AND PORRIDGE (High Fliers) - a group of friends arrive at the wrong loc...

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This week Mike, Rich and Steve tackle five new releases! As usual, click the link to see the official trailer for each...

We kick off with AZRAEL: ANGEL OF DEATH (Signature Entertainment), starring Samara Weaving as a woman trying to survive in a post-Rapture apocalypse!

In BLOOD STAR (Plaion Pictures), a young woman is trapped in a game of cat and mouse with a murderous sheriff out in the desert!

SUBSERVIENCE (Vertigo Releasing) s...

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