Khost is Andy Swan (Iroha, Final, Atrocity Exhibition), and Damian Bennett (Carthage, Deathless).
Corrosive Shroud is the second album from Birmingham band khost, following the 2014 debut Copper Lock Hell. The album has a singular theme: inside the hand-me-down concrete relics in which we necessarily live and from which we draw perceptions. The music is the sound of lightless blocks, oxygen-starved sheds and apparitions, using stark and unrefined found sounds stacked against Khost's massively detuned guitars. The album includes Eugene Robinson of Oxbow and Syan who add their stories to the narrative, along with personnel Jo Quail, Daniel Buess, Gustave Savy and featuring a contribution from Tel Aviv-based Hostage.
They came from all over Africa. Across inhospitable country, war-zones, through deserts and savannahs, dodged corrupt police, violent and ruthless human traffickers and people smugglers, to make their escape, travelling like sardines in all manner of makeshift and unseaworthy vessels and boats… Discovery by the authorities, violence, robbery, risking their life savings and, ultimately, the very real threat of death are among the daily perils they face…
The tortuous journey of one group of Africans desperate to reach a new life is powerfully told in new documentary Adrift: People Of A Lesser God.
2015 has seen unprecedented numbers of African migrants making desperate voyages across the sea to seek refuge and a better life in Europe. Their plights, and the tragedies that so often accompanied them, make headlines across the globe. This is the story of one group for whom risking their lives is a necessity…
Directed, filmed and presented by multi Pulitzer Prize-nominated undercover journalist, Dominique Mollard, Adrift is the inside story of an incredible odyssey. This incredible documentary follows Mollard as he sails 38 African migrants, including a mother and baby just five months old, out of West Africa on a fraught quest to reach the safe shores of Europe.
They’d do anything to leave behind the poverty of their homeland, but adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, they soon realise that the sea is far larger and scarier than they ever imagined. This never seen before, eye-opening account makes its debut on DVD on 20 July 2015, courtesy of Simply Media.
Arrow Video is thrilled to announce the world premiere Blu-ray release of Japanese cult director Takashi Miike’ musical horror-comedy, The Happiness of the Katakuris. Described as The Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead, this wacky Japanese cult classic will debut on Blu-ray in all its crazy glory from 22nd June 2015.
A super-production by Japanese star standards, Miike’s film features a cast that the filmmakers compare to Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon and other Hollywood royalty! Taking a small Korean horror comedy as its inspiration (which Miike claims he watched on a poor quality VHS without subtitles) the renegade filmmaker re-made the film in his inimitable style, with the addition of music numbers for a truly bizarre concoction of genres that produces one of the finest comedy horrors of recent times!
Presented with new transfer of the film, this disc will come loaded bonus content, including an extensive brand new interview with Miike himself, a commentary by his biographer Tom Mes and much more including interviews and featurettes on the making of the film, the cast and their roles and a video essay profile of Miike’s sensational career.
Packaged with the release is newly commissioned artwork by the Twins of Evil and a fully-illustrated collector’s booklet featuring brand new writing by authors and critics on the film itself, The Quiet Family, the film’s star musicians (‘Elvis’ and ‘Jagger’) and a contemporary interview with Miike, illustrated with original stills.
Synopsis
From Takashi Miike, the prolific director of such shocking hits including Audition and Ichi the Killer comes “The Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead”!
The Katakuri family run a peaceful country inn at the foot of Mount Fuji. A little more peaceful than anticipated, their only visitors arrive in a series of suicides, murders and inexplicable deaths. In order not to ruin their reputation, the Katakuris decide to bury the bodies, but will the cover-ups come back to haunt them…
The Happiness of the Katakuris combines scenes of grotesque stop motion animation, surreal musical numbers and zombies to make one of the finest horror-comedies ever made
Special Features
New High Definition digital film transfer by Shochiku Co.
Presented in High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD
Original uncompressed Stereo PCM audio
Audio commentary by director Takashi Miike
Audio commentary by Miike biographer Tom Mes
Violent 'til I Die: A brand new interview with Takashi Miike
The Making of the Katakuris – An original documentary from the film’s production featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage with the cast and crew
Interviews with the Katakuris cast members Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano, Shinji Takeda, Naomi Nishida, Tetsuro Tanba and Miike
Animating the Katakuris – A look at the creation of the film’s stop motion effects with animation director Hideki Kimura and Miike
Dogs, Pimps and Agitators – A visual essay on Miike's career by Tom Mes
Trailer and TV Spots
Easter Egg
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by the Twins of Evil
Booklet featuring new writing on the film by author Johnny Mains; Stuart Galbraith IV on Katakuris' star musicians Kenji Sawada and Kiyoshiro Imawano; Grady Hendrix on Katakuris and The Quiet Family, the film it remade; and a re-printed interview with Miike conducted by Sean Axmaker, illustrated with original stills
Out on 8th July on Warner: the first season from THE 100
Creator:Jason Rothenberg
Stars:Eliza Taylor, Eli Goree, Thomas McDonell
The series is set 97 years after a devastating nuclear war wiped out almost all life on Earth. The only known survivors are the residents of twelve space stations in Earth's orbit prior to the war. The space stations banded together to form a single massive station named "The Ark", where about 2,400 people live. Resources are scarce and all crimes no matter their nature or severity are punishable by death ("floating") unless the perpetrator is under 18 years of age. After the Ark's life support systems are found to be critically failing, one hundred juvenile prisoners are declared "expendable" and sent to the surface in a last ditch attempt to determine if Earth is habitable again. The teens arrive on a beautiful planet they've only seen from space. Confronting the dangers of this rugged new world, they struggle to form a tentative community. However they discover that not all humanity was wiped out. There are people on Earth who survived the war, called "grounders" by the 100.
Onze goeie oude Aarde kreeg het in tal van films en series al hard te verduren, maar in het spectaculaire The 100 gaat men nog een stapje verder. Na een nucleaire ramp is de planeet herschapen tot een apocalyptische woestenij, waar zelfs lieflijke hertjes een potentieel gevaar vormen. 100 jeugddelinquenten krijgen daarom de twijfelachtige eer om te onderzoeken of leven er al dan niet mogelijk is. De serie is een hit in de Verenigde Staten en is gebaseerd op de gelijknamige bestseller van Kass Morgan. Ondertussen staat ook het derde seizoen in de steigers.
Het eerste seizoen van het fantastische The 100, genomineerd voor een Emmy, is vanaf 8 juli beschikbaar op DVD.
SYNOPSIS
Zevenennegentig jaar na een nucleaire ramp worden 100 jonge gevangenen vanaf een verouderd ruimtestation teruggestuurd naar de Aarde om de leefomstandigheden te testen. Onder hen zijn de zelfredzame Clarke, waaghals Finn en broer en zus Bellamy en Octavia. Ze moeten leren omgaan met onvoorspelbare omstandigheden, loerende roofdieren en vooral elkaar. Op het spel staat niets minder dan het voortbestaan van de gehele mensheid...
BONUSMATERIALEN
4 Creating the World of The 100 Featurettes: In the Beginning; The Ark; A New Earth and Grounders, Reapers and Mountain Men
2013 Comic-Con Panel
Audio Commentary and Unaired Scenes on the Season Finale
Vic Godard & Subway Sect film 'Derailed Sense' to be premiered at Hackney Picturehouse
Graham Bendel (director of Billy Childish is Dead – a film that was nominated for a British Independent Film Award) has completed a feature-length independent film about the legendary SUBWAY SECT and their enigmatic frontman Vic Godard – who famously retired from music to become a postman.
Subway Sect – with their distinctive, tense and jagged sound – were one of the most interesting bands from the original punk-era, and a major influence on The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pop Group, Felt’s Lawrence, and many an indie band.
Predating the monochrome, understated dress-code of bands like Joy Division, Subway Sect were a more detached and considered alternative to the rowdy glamour of the Pistols. They were managed by Clash impresario Bernie Rhodes, and that's where their bittersweet story really begins.
We follow singer Vic Godard, as he blazes his own musical trail – amidst an abundance of old photographs and some rare footage – and learn about his predilection for Northern Soul, Tony Bennett and the Royal Mail.
Derailed Sense includes appearances from Irvine Welsh, Edwyn Collins, Bobby Gillespie, Luke Haines, Sex Pistol Paul Cook, Viv Albertine plus many more.
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For fans of Billy Childish is Dead, Lawrence of Belgravia, Basically, Johnny Moped and Julien Temple’s Oil City Confidential. A must also for those interested in The Clash, Northern Soul, Sinatra and the emergence of Post-Punk.
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Derailed Sense is directed, edited, produced by Graham Bendel.
Film Length: 74 mins.
Made in: 2012, United Kingdom.
BIOG of Director: Graham Bendel is a writer and independent filmmaker living in London. He has written two novels, published two volumes of poetry and released soundtracks for the films of 60s director Robert Downey Snr. His previous film Billy Childish is Dead (2005) has been screened all over the world and was nominated for a British Independent Film Award.
