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Thomas Lawes plays a synth score on screen as a teen drama plays out above – a bold experiment that doesn’t fully work

Director Thomas Lawes is the proverbial one-man band on this modern silent movie. He has not only written, filmed, edited and composed the music, but is also visible playing the keyboards, guitars and drums of the synthwave score in split screen underneath the action, like a funky sign-language interpreter. It’s a kitsch formal quirk that initially adds a kind of distancing effect to this simple urban fable, but it quickly becomes invisible (presumably less so in screenings with live accompaniment).

Ella McLoughlin plays Amaryllis, a sullen, beanie-hatted skater girl living with her alcoholic mum (Liz May Brice). After breaking into a warehouse where waifish drug dealer Roach (Adam El Hagar) is doing business, she manages to worm her way into running errands for him. Taking a cut,...

Stars: Jo Woodcock, James Cosmo, Cosmo Jarvis, Amy Ambrose, Suzy Bastone, Donna Berlin, Lee Boardman, Liz May Brice, Amelda Brown, Josephine Butler, Renée Castle, Darren Clarke, Richard Cordery | Written and Directed by Thomas Lawes

Emma Rose (Jo Woodcock) has just had her life turned upside down when here boyfriend has been arrested for some sort of Pyramid scheme that is not really important to the plot so we will keep it generic. Fearing that she may somehow be involved and the next suspect she obviously goes on the run.

In a bid to hide out undetected she finds herself in a quaint little town and offers herself to a wealthy land owner (James Cosmo) and prolific painter, the deal is he gives her somewhere to stay she works for free. However this movie is billed as a Dark British Thriller so get ready for the turn. The painter discovers her...

Thomas Lawes’ Monochrome premieres on VOD and DVD on June 6th from Gravitas Ventures. Screen Anarchy has been given an exclusive clip to share with you. Find it below along with the trailer for this UK thriller. This killer-thriller focuses on a disillusioned young woman who becomes a serial killer targeting wealthy land-owners, forcing a brilliant detective to use his unusual neurological condition to track her down. Monochrome stars James Cosmo Jo Woodcock (Dorian Gray), Singer songwriter Cosmo Jarvis, Patrice Naiambana (Highlander: The Source), Lee Boardman (Jack & The Giant Slayer), Steve Jackson (TV’s Coronation Street) and Liz May Brice (Alien vs. Predator). ...

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We have an exclusive featurette from the upcoming British crime drama Hard Boiled Sweets, debuting September 25 on VOD, Amazon, iTunes, Blockbuster, CinemaNow, Playstation, Vudu, XBox, and Zune. Scot Williams stars as Johnny, an ex-con forced into stealing $1 million from mob boss "Shrewd" Eddie (Paul Freeman). Johnny comes to learn that a host of other criminals are also planning on stealing the cash.

Hard Boiled Sweets - Exclusive Story Featurette

Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss 'Shrewd' Eddie has one million in dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn't know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money...

Hard Boiled Sweets was released September 25th, 2012 and stars Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Adrian Bower, Liz May Brice, Paul Freeman, Ty Glaser, Laura Greenwood, Ian Hart. The film is directed by David L.G. Hughes.

Writer/director David L.G. Hughes' British crime film Hard Boiled Sweets will be available On Demand Tuesday, September 25 and we've got an exclusive featurette that you can watch below. In the film, ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss 'Shrewd' Eddie has one million in dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn't know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money... Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Adrian Bower, Liz May Brice, Paul Freeman, Ty Glaser, Laura Greenwood, Ian Hart, Nathaniel Martello-White, Danny Sapani, Scott Williams, Peter Wrght and René Zagger star.

Check out the official poster for the upcoming independent drama Hard Boiled Sweets, featuring an ensemble cast including Paul Freeman, Ty Glaser and Scot Williams.

Ex-con Johnny (Scot Williams) is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie (Paul Freeman) has one million in dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn’t know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money…

Additional cast include Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Adrian Bower, Liz May Brice, Laura Greenwood, Ian Hart, Nathaniel Martello-White, Danny Sapani, Peter Wrght, and René Zagger.

Here’s the synopsis for the film:

Mob Boss is used to getting whatever he wants; he runs Southend, gets all the best women including the gorgeous, sought after Porsche The Sherbet Lemon and has one million pounds in dirty cash stashed in a briefcase at his home.

Hard Boiled Sweets

Stars: Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Adrian Bower, Paul Freeman, Liz May Brice, Laura Greenwood | Written and Directed by David L.G. Hughes

Guy Ritchie has a lot to answer for. Following the success of his British gangster flick Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels we’ve had a myriad of rip-offs and wannabes of which Hard Boiled Sweets is one. Taking inspiration from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Guy Ritchie’s aforementioned gangster flick, the film weaves together a number of different stories and characters into this tale of seaside gangsters – the trouble is right from the get-go you know exactly where the film is headed and how all the plot threads will come together; watching everything pan out as you’ve already guessed makes for very dull viewing!

The film follows mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie (Freeman), a Southend-on-Sea gangster who is used to getting whatever he wants; he runs the town,...

Hard Boiled Sweets is hitting DVD and Blu-ray 30th April. It has a great cast which includes Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Adrian Bower, Liz May Brice, Paul Freeman and Ty Glaser. In this exclusive clip from the movie, we get to see a particularly nasty Paul Freeman (who i will always knows as Dr. René Belloq from Raiders of the Lost Arc) enforcing his authority!

Mob Boss, ‘Shrewd’ Eddie – ‘The Gobstopper’ (Paul Freeman; Hot Fuzz, Raiders of the Lost Ark) is used to getting whatever he wants; he runs Southend, gets all the best women including the gorgeous, sought-after Porsche – ‘The Sherbet Lemon’ (Ty Glaser; Secret Diary of a Call Girl), and has one million pounds in dirty cash stashed in a briefcase at his home. However, nothing in this world comes without a price, and this weekend his boss and top-dog London Mobster, Jimmy The Gent (Peter Wight; My Week With Marilyn,...

When Torchwood's five-part mini-series Children of Earth aired on Britain's BBC One earlier this month, it trended on Twitter faster than Michael Jackson and Harry Potter — not shabby for a show that wore a "hokey Who-lite" label like a Hawthornian badge of shame for its first two seasons.

Tonight, Children of Earth begins on BBC America, and it will become apparent in the first ten minutes that while Captain Jack Harkness may have been in command at the time, this ain't your grandmama's Torchwood.

Children of Earth opens at a blistering pace that doesn't slow down until the last three minutes of the five-day event. The only mention of deceased teammates Tosh and Owen is a battered photograph taped to Gwen's workstation, and the only indication of a time lapse between seasons is that Jack and Ianto have finally begun calling themselves a couple.

Of course, there's not much...

Torchwood: Children Of The Earth Premieres Tonight!

BBC America’s highly popular Sf adventure Torchwood returns tonight and just as it did across the pond, plays five evenings in a row from 9 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. Est, as a mini-series with each previous episode encoring the next night at 8 p.m.

Subtitled Children Of The Earth, this third season of the successful Doctor Who spin-off centers on an ordinary day in which all of the well, children of the Earth stop their childlike activities and in one eerie voice announce to our world’s governments, “We are coming.” Whilst investigating, Torchwood is plagued by past sins as a trap closes around Captain Jack (John Barrowman) and not-so-forgotten events from 1965 threaten to reveal an awful truth. Soon, Torchwood is forced underground, being hunted down as the government takes swift and brutal action. In addition to the regular team,...

Chicago – Everyone with a TV should tune in tonight to one of the best hours of science fiction that the genre has ever seen, the opening night of the five-part “Torchwood: Children of Earth” mini-series. BBC America is broadcasting the Us debut of this five-night event and it is simply incredible, earning every bit of the glowing praise and buzz that has been building in anticipation of its debut.

TV Rating: 5.0/5.0 “Children of Earth” is essentially about the end of civilization. It is about a species - mankind - presented with a horrible situation and how bad decisions in the face of adversity simply add up over time. The sins of the past generation will be visited on the next one. It may sound deep for a sci-fi mini-series, but as any “Torchwood” fan will tell you, this is no ordinary sci-fi show.

Torchwood: Children of Earth - Day 1 - the children.

Sci-Fi fans of Britain, your wait is nearly over! With Doctor Who taking something of a hiatus over the Summer, your appetites now rely solely on the five part miniseries of the popular spin-off known as “Torchwood: Children of the Earth”.

Well thankfully the BBC have now released their schedule for week 27, and I’ll give you three guesses as to what has been found on the listings…

That’s right, Torchwood: Children of Earth Will be broadcast week commencing Saturday 4th July, meaning you only have two weeks before Captain Jack Harkness and what remains of his team combat a sinister new threat!

Check out the official BBC synopsis below, along with a fantastic new trailer And for extra suspense, I’ve thrown in the preview for the Doctor’s triumphant return coming this November…

Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones (John Barrowman, Eve Myles...

The BBC have released a short teaser trailer for the upcoming Torchwood miniseries, Children of Earth. Intended initially for Australian audiences where it was run after the conclusion to Series 2, the trailer has now been made available to British viewers via the BBC's Official Torchwood website. Running at just 9 seconds, the trailer is more than a little bit chilling... Starring John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd, who are joined by Peter Capaldi, Liz May Brice and...

Torchwood producer Peter Bennett told Digital Spy about 2009’s Torchwood: Children of Earth.

"Basically from a concept, we wanted to go down the children dilemma route,” he said of the title. “Because this storyline is a subject that's going to affect all the children of Earth, it was a natural title to come up with.”

As for the actual plot, Bennett explained, "It's different to every other year. It's not a story about spaceships, but it's about a government that did a deal with aliens back in the '60s, and they're now dealing with the consequences of that deal when the sins of their past come back to haunt them."

The biggest change is that the third season is a mere five episodes, to be broadcast across consecutive days. "Having done 26 standalone stories, we kind of wanted to take this series to another level and by making it one story over five nights,...

It all changes in 2009 and fans of "Torchwood" have got to be ready. One thing that won.t change, though, is the high standards and quality of writing the series has displayed from the first season. Series newcomer Liz May Brice explained to the official Torchwood Magazine that the most fantastic thing about joining the series is being a part of something that Russell T. Davies (who also created "Doctor Who") has a hand in. "It.s brilliant doing something where Russell.s at the helm because you just have an absolute confidence in the material," Brice said, according to excerpts published by Sci-Fi Pulse. In the third season of the series, collectively known as "Children of the Earth," Brice will provide a bit of tension to the Torchwood trio as an enigmatic government agent whose endgame ...

We recently reported that Torchwood has begun filming its highly-anticipated third season in Cardiff, Wales. In fact, the Doctor Who spin-off was renewed last month and was given a third season order, entitled Torchwood: Children of the Earth. This new season will be a single five-episode story arc, contrary to the regular 13-episode run. The new season will be following the Torchwood team as they head out to their biggest battle yet. In fact, series creator Russell T. Davies promises this season to be “bigger,” “bolder,” and “better” than ever before.

The third season, which Davies says he hopes to be a “gripping” chapter of the series, is now currently in production and BBC has released some details about who’s to appear in the upcoming season.

"This series is one big serial and the most ambitious story we've ever made, and we've got plenty of surprises in store,...

A trio of guest stars for the third season of Torchwood have been announced by the BBC. Peter Capaldi, Liz May Brice and Paul Copley will all have prominent roles in Torchwood: Children Of Earth, which will be shown over five consecutive nights on BBC One next spring. Capaldi, best known for The Thick Of It, will play civil servant Mr. Frobisher - a man trying to conceal a terrible secret. The renowned actor recently guest starred in the Doctor Who story 'The Fires Of Pompeii' as Caecilius. Brice, who played convicted murderer Pat Kerrigan in ITV's Bad Girls, will take on the role of Johnson - (more)...