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At the end of September, JoBlo Media and Octane Multimedia teamed up to launch a new YouTube channel named JoBlo TV, which hosts multiple feature films to watch for free throughout the week. The genres we’ll be focusing on at JoBlo TV are Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Thrillers – and the free movies we shared this week were a sci-fi comedy and an action thriller!

The sci-fi comedy is called The Green Woman and the action thriller is Inferno: Skyscraper Escape. Here’s some information on both of them:

Written and directed by Kestra Nebula, The Green Woman tells the following story: Rommy is an unsuccessful alcoholic writer whose relationship is falling apart. When he begins to suspect that his partner, Mary, is having an affair, a green woman appears to Rommy. However, it is not long before The Green Woman begins to ask Rommy to do things… strange things…...

Nine Ladies Film is proud to announce the upcoming release of their highly anticipated Indie Horror film, “The Collector.” Directed, written, and edited by the talented Stuart Wheeldon, this spine-chilling production delves into the depths of human fear, showcasing the haunting consequences of a cursed music box. Synopsis: In “The Collector,” audiences will be taken on a harrowing journey through the shattered faith of disillusioned Father Raymond (played by Nigel Barber), who must confront his past and save the life of Sarah (portrayed by Rachel Prince). Ten years after losing a young woman named Cathy (performed by Cerys Woodall) to demonic possession, Father Raymond discovers that Sarah has stumbled upon the very same cursed music box that tormented his tragic past. With time running out and his own inner demons haunting him, he must fight against sinister forces to rescue Sarah and prevent history from repeating itself. “The Collector” is...

Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix is set in a dystopian version of the United States in 1992, controlled by a mega-conglomerate called Eden. The show follows Dolph Laserhawk, a technologically enhanced super soldier, as he tries to escape Eden and find a better life with his boyfriend, Alex Tayle. The show features an impressive voice cast, including Nathaniel Curtis, Caroline Ford, Balak, Boris Hiestand, and more. It is a love letter to the creator's favorite things from his childhood.

Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix is set in an alternate version of the United States during 1992, now known as Eden and controlled by a mega conglomerate of the same name. The show follows Dolph Laserhawk, a technologically enhanced super-soldier, as he tries to escape Eden to find a better life with his boyfriend, Alex Tayle. However, on their last heist, things go wrong, and Dolph ends up in prison, where...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the sci-fi drama Capsule, and you can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by Andrew Martin, who also wrote the screenplay with Felix Forrest, Capsule has the following synopsis: Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain’s first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space with a malfunctioning capsule. He has limited contact with the UK, some unusual communication with the US and some...

Stars: Maryam Hassouni, Mike Beckingham, Dougie Poynter, Derek Jacobi, Nigel Barber, Togo Igawa, Margo Stilley, Daniël Boissevain, Tom Wu, Jeroen Krabbé, Fabian Jansen, Reinout Bussemaker, Dominic Keating | Written by Finola Geraghty, Brendan Bishop | Directed by Andy Newbery

Robert Atkinson (Beckingham) is a young London banker and today the opportunity to show the lady in his life how great things could be with him has arrived. When locking up the bank for the weekend he takes a whole bunch of cash that he intends to make into a whole bunch more cash by gambling it all. Unsurprisingly and because you know, movies, He loses all the cash but is about to gain a new “friend” in Mr Lau (Togo Igawa). Robert’s new “friend” offers to clear all of his debts and then some if he just takes one briefcase to Amsterdam and brings another back. Next thing we know there...

"Beware - even those who look innocent can be dangerous." Vertical Entertainment has unveiled an official trailer for an indie crime mystery thriller titled The Host, the feature directorial debut of TV director Andy Newbery. There have been at least two other major films with the name The Host, including Bong Joon-ho's monster movie, and also the sci-fi flick from Andrew Niccol. Can we stop using this especially bland title, please? Newbery's The Host is about a London banker who risks everything taking on a job carrying a briefcase to Amsterdam. "But all is not as it seems in a city veiled by dark secrets. Fuelled by power players, drugs, seduction and violence Robert awaits his turn in a deadly game of choice and consequence." Starring Maryam Hassouni, Mike Beckingham, Dougie Poynter, Nigel Barber, & Suan-Li Ong. Watch out. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Andy Newbery's The Host, direct...

Michael Mayer’s West End production of Funny Girl starring Olivier Award winner Sheridan Smith will be broadcast in cinemas globally on Wednesday October 24. A trailer was released today.

The performance was filmed by Digital Theatre during the final week of the musical’s run at the Manchester Palace Theatre. The film will be released in cinemas for one night only by Trafalgar Releasing.

The October 24 screening had been set for the United Kingdom, but Trafalgar announced the global expansion today.

In addition to Smith’s Fanny Brice, the recorded performance stars Darius Campbell, Nigel Barber, Zoë Ann Bown, Martin Callaghan, Jennifer Harding, Rachel Izen, Joshua Lay and Myra Sands. The revised book is by Harvey Fierstein.

“I’m beyond excited to be able to share our production of Funny Girl with audiences across the pond in North America,” said Smith.

The Funny Girl revival opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory...

Stars: Claire Forlani, Jamie Bamber, Riley Jackson, Isaac Rouse, Nigel Barber, Atanas Srebrev, Nathan Cooper, Lorina Kamburova, Delly Allen, J.R. Esposito | Written by Regina Luvitt, Phillip J. Roth | Directed by Eric Summer

Disaster strikes a downtown skyscraper when a gas leak causes a ferocious explosion setting ablaze the towering mass of metal and glass. On the 60th floor Brianna (Forlani) and Tom (Bamber) a couple in the middle of a divorce settlement are forced to work together to help save their two children, Anne and Ben, who are both trapped in the building’s elevator hovering 20 stories above ground. Together Brianna and Tom must fight to stay alive while teaming up to save their children and escape the towering inferno.

Hmmmm, Inferno: Skyscraper Escape? Sounds very much like a product of The Asylum, timed to cash in on That other big-budget Skyscraper movie releasing in July. It’s not though.

"To find our place in the universe, we must venture beyond our boundaries." Gravitas Ventures debuted this full trailer for the space sci-fi The Beyond, one of the first features from Hasraf 'HaZ' Dulull, who got his start making cool sci-fi short films on Vimeo. We featured a teaser trailer for this earlier in the year, but the film has undergone extensive reshoots and re-edits, and this new trailer is a better look at what HaZ has cooked up. The Beyond is a low-budget sci-fi somewhat based on the idea first introduced in his short Project Kronos - first contact. It's about astronauts going through a wormhole ("The Void") to another part of the universe, who return early, and now everyone wants to know what they found on the other side. The cast includes Nigel Barber, Jane Perry, Brian Deacon, and David Bailie. Sci-fi geeks need to see this. Here's...

I've got a cool trailer for an upcoming indie sci-fi film being made called The Beyond. It looks like an interesting sci-fi thriller that's might be worth checking out. The film was written and directed by Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dullul, who is a veteran VFX artist that worked on The Dark Knight.

The Beyond is based on Dullul’s 2014 short film Project Kronos, which you can watch here. The feature film was announced four years ago, and it's cool to see that it's being released! I really enjoyed the short and I'm looking forward to seeing this feature-length version of it.

The story chronicles a space agency of the near future and its first contact with intelligent life on an interstellar space mission. The astronauts embark on this mission using advances robotics and they travel through a newly discovered wormhole known as the Void.

According to the press release:

Dullul self produced,...

One Man, One Mission, One Choice. If you haven't already seen this trailer, it might be worth checking out. Capsule is an indie film about Britain's first manned mission to space. It's not actually a true story (as they never sent anyone into space at that time), so this technically counts as "sci-fi", but considering it plays very much like a real thriller that's probably how it should be categorized. Edmund Kingsley plays Guy Taylor, the first British pilot ever sent up into space in 1959, but his capsule malfunctions and he starts to suffer from hypoxia (oxygen deprivation). The cast includes Lisa Greenwood, David Wayman, Nigel Barber and Michael Koltes. This looks like a nice contained thriller, there's just something off about it. See below. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Andrew Martin's Capsule, found direct on YouTube: The year is 1959. It is the height of the Cold War.

Stars: Corin Nemec, Yancy Butler, Stephen Billington, Robert Englund, Skye Lourie, Oliver Walker, Ali Eagle, Annabel Wright, Laura Dale, Georgina Philipps, Nigel Barber, Heather Gilbert | Written by Berkeley Anderson | Directed by A.B. Stone

Roger Corman and folks at The Asylum have a lot to answer for… That’s all I’m saying.

Sharknado. A film that proved you don’t have to have a lot of money or great CGI to pull in an audience on the Syfy channel. All you need is a giant creature and a ridiculous concept! Since the debut of That film, it seems like Syfy have greenlit any and all monster movie scripts that they’re sent. Hence we come to Lake Placid vs. Anaconda.

A few years ago the idea of these two monster-movie franchises coming together – especially given they weere originally made by two different studios (Lake Placid was a Fox production, whilst...

Roboshark Trailer. Jeffrey Scott Lando‘s Roboshark (2015) TV movie trailer “stars” Hristo Balabanov, Nigel Barber, Laura Dale, Vanessa Grasse, and Isaac Haig. Roboshark‘s plot synopsis: “All hell breaks loose when a great white shark sinks its teeth into an alien space probe in the Pacific, creating a roboshark that invades Seattle and devours everything in its way..” What happened to killer shark […]...

The Underwater Realm is an independent film project that will be launched in full on YouTube on Christmas Day.

Shot almost entirely underwater, the ambitious project has released a rather impressive trailer, giving us a great look at what we have to look forward to in just under a week’s time.

“The Underwater Realm is a series of five short films set and shot almost entirely underwater. They tell the story of five times throughout history when mankind has come into contact with an ancient race of people living beneath the sea. Reaching back across over two thousand years of our history, The Underwater Realm is truly one of the largest and most ambitious indie film projects ever completed in the UK. Having already completed principal photography, the films are currently undergoing advanced post-production processes.

The Underwater Realm is the creation of Realm Pictures; a group of independent film...