MONDAY ROUNDUP: HANGMAN, TROLLS, ANGST, SHOWDOWN IN MANILA, SUPER TROOPERS 2, TWO SIDES and MORE!

TROLLS: THE BEAT GOES ON premiered on Netflix this weekend! Check it out!

Time for all-new stories and music featuring everyone’s favorite TROLLS! Picking up where the cheerful, glitter-filled hit movie DreamWorks Trolls left off, the Netflix original series DreamWorks Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, brings back Poppy, Branch, King Peppy, Smidge and the rest of the film’s beloved characters for more whimsical, musical adventures as they go about day-to-day life in Troll Village.

With original songs in each half-hour episode and immersive hand-drawn 2D animation, Trolls: The Beat Goes On! offers a unique musical and visual treat for all ages. The series features compositions by acclaimed songwriter and producer Alana Da Fonseca (the Pitch Perfect films, Alvin and the Chipmunks) as well as the voice talents of Amanda Leighton, Skylar Astin, Ron Funches, Gary Cole, David Koechner, and others.

Trolls: The Beat Goes On! comes from DreamWorks Animation Television. All six episodes of the animated series’ first season are available on Netflix TODAY!

Hangman, arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital February 27

Step into a serial killer’s twisted world when the dark crime thriller, Hangman, arrives on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital), DVD, and Digital February 27 from Lionsgate. The film is currently available On Demand. Academy Award^® winner Al Pacino (Best Actor, Scent of a Woman, 1992) stars as a homicide detective on the hunt to catch a psychotic and ruthless serial killer who is playing a deadly version of the hangman game. The film’s all-star cast also includes Karl Urban and Brittany Snow. From the producer of Live Free or Die Hard and Lord of War, director Johnny Martin, and writers Michael Caissie and Charles Huttinger, the Hangman Blu-ray and DVD includes two insightful featurettes and will be available for the suggested retail price of $21.99 and $19.98, respectively.

OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

Decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Al Pacino) partners with criminal profiler Will Ruiney (Karl Urban) to catch one of the city’s notoriously vicious serial killers, who is playing a twisted version of the child’s game hangman, while journalist Christi Davies (Brittany Snow) reports on the crime spree, shadowing the detectives.

BLU-RAY/DVD/DIGITAL SPECIAL FEATURES

• “Al Pacino: Insight from a Hollywood Legend” Featurette
• “Hangman: In Their Own Words” Featurette

CAST

Al Pacino                     The Godfather, Scarface, Heat

Karl Urban                   Dredd, Star Trek franchise

Brittany Snow              Pitch Perfect franchise, Hairspray

Cult Epic’s Angst – Blu-ray is Back by Popular Demand!

Cult Epic’s Angst �” Blu-ray is Back by Popular Demand!

Angst
1 Blu-ray disc
Label: Cult Epics
MSRP: $34.95
UPC: 881190014196
Catalog #: CE-141
Color, 87 minutes in English
All regions. Widescreen 1.85:1
DTS HD MA 5.1 Surround
Production year: 1983
Director: Gerald Kargl
Cast: Erwin Leder, Silvia Rabenreither

ANGST, photographed by legendary Oscar-winning Polish animator/experimentalist Zbig Rybczynski and scored by Krautrock synth god Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream), is one hell of a gorgeously stylized and shockingly visceral experience: a forgotten classic on the fringes of the slasher cycle. Erwin Leder (Das Boot, Schindler’s List) plays a maniacal killer based on the real-life serial murderer Werner Kniesek. As he stalks through the bland Viennese countryside, Schulze’s music pulses darkly, and Zbig’s innovative first-person camerawork grabs you by the throat, never letting go. Angst is one film that, without any empty hyperbole, we can guarantee you’ll never, ever forget.

Cult Epics presents for the first time since its original release, the Uncut, Uncensored (optically restored tunnel murder-scene) version in HD, with painstaking bonus features; including a new Interview with Erwin Leder, and Audio Commentary and an Interview with director Gerald Kargl conducted by Jorg Buttgereit (Nekromantik) and an Introduction by Gasper Noe (director of Irreversible, Enter The Void, Love), who cited Angst as an influence, ‘one that I have watched more than 40 times’.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• New High-definition Transfer
• Optional playback with or without Prologue
• New Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
• Introduction by Gaspar Noe (2012)
• Featurette: Erwin Leder in Fear (2015)
• Interview with Gerald Kargl by Jorg Buttgeriet (2003)
• Interview with cinematographer Zbigniew Rybzcynski (2004)
• Audio Commentary by Gerald Kargl conducted by film critic Marcus Stiglegger
• New HD Trailer
• BD Exclusive: 40 Page perfect-bound Booklet includes Interviews with Gerald Kargl, Erwin Leder, Silvia Rabenreither, and Illustrated with rare photos and Werner Kniesek original Kurier articles
  Collectible Blu-ray Slipcase and Sleeve

All-star Action Film SHOWDOWN IN MANILA in US Theaters TODAY!!

ITN Distribution just released action thriller SHOWDOWN IN MANILA  starring international action star Alexander Nevsky (Black Rose). The film marks the directorial debut of Mark Dacascos (Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”,  “Hawaii Five-0”) with a screenplay by Craig Hamann (My Best Friend’s Birthday, Boogie Boy).  SHOWDOWN IN MANILA cast includes Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers, Sleepy Hollow), Tia Carrere (True Lies, Wayne’s World) and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, Memoirs of a Geisha). The film is in limited US theaters starting today with Digital and On Demand release to follow on January 23, 2018.

The film follows private detectives Nick (Alexander Nevsky) and Charlie (Casper Van Dien) who live and work in Manila. A murder investigation leads them to the jungle camp of an international terrorist called The Wrath. Not trusting the police, Nick and Charlie assembly a team of daredevils to walk straight into the Wrath’s lair and fight an army of his goons.

Nevsky is a former Mr. Universe and an established movie star in Russia. He is based in Los Angeles and his credits include Black Rose, Undisputed, Treasure Raiders, Somewhere, and the upcoming film Maximum Impact. Nevsky represents Russia as a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

SHOWDOWN IN MANILA is produced by Nevsky through his production company Hollywood Storm and is executive produced by Andrzej Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die) and Alexander Izotov (Moscow Heat).  SHOWDOWN IN MANILA is a theatrical box office hit in Russia/CIS. CineTel Films which has the film’s foreign sales rights, has sold SHOWDOWN IN MANILA to 28 countries already.

Call Me By Your Name expanded nationwide this weekend.

SUPER TROOPERS 2 LANDS A NSFW TRAILER!

TV One’s ‘Two Sides’ Premieres Monday, Jan. 22 at 10 p.m. ET

WHAT:                 

During the summer of 2014, Eric Garner was choked and killed by NYPD officers while being arrested. On January 22 at 10 p.m. ET, the premiere episode of TV One’s new docu-series ‘Two Sides’ will evaluate and present multiple points of view of the highly-charged case that ignited the “I Can’t Breathe” movement.

The 43-year-old was standing outside of a beauty supply store in Staten Island, New York when police tried to arrest him for allegedly illegally selling loose cigarettes. The video of Officer Daniel Pantaleo putting Garner in a chokehold went viral. Although the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, a grand jury has thus far declined to indict Pantaleo.

Executive produced by Academy Award® winner Viola Davis, Julius Tennon (JuVee Productions), and Lemuel Plummer (L. Plummer Media) with narration by Davis, Two Sides explores watershed moments for law enforcement and the Black community at the crossroads between life and death. The series focuses on four headline-grabbing fatal police encounters during 2014 – 2015, including Ezell Ford, John Crawford, and Sandra Bland.

Trailer:

WHEN:

Monday, January 22 at 10 p.m. ET

WHERE:

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TV One

WHO:

• Garner Family
  • Gwen Carr, Mother
  • Ben Carr, Step-Father
  • Esaw Snipes-Garner, Wife
  • Ellisha Flagg, Sister
  • Jewel Miller, Mother of Garner’s youngest daughter
• Reverend Al Sharpton
• Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone reporter and Author of “I Can’t Breathe”
• Ron Hosko, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund Board of Directors, Former Assistant Director of the FBI
• Ed Mullins, President of the Sergeants Benevolent Association

CONNECT WITH US at www.tvone.tv or on social media using the hashtags #REPRESENT and #TWOSIDES

Into the Badlands: The Complete Second Season arrives on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD and Digital on March 13

AMC^® Channel’s visually stunning, martial arts, action-packed top-scripted show Into the Badlands: The Complete Second Season arrives on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital) and DVD March 13 from Lionsgate. Season two, which averaged 3 million viewers per episode, finds Sunny and M.K. separated and scattered to the wind, each imprisoned in unlikely places.  Into the Badlands: The Complete Second Season stars Daniel Wu, Aramis Knight, and Emily Beecham, and will be available on Blu-ray and DVD for the suggested retail price of $44.99 and $39.98 respectively.

OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

Season two of the martial arts drama finds Sunny (Daniel Wu) and M.K. (Aramis Knight) separated and scattered to the wind, each imprisoned in unlikely places. While M.K. struggles to control his powers, Sunny is determined to fight his way back into the Badlands to find his family — or die trying. On their journey, Clipper and Colt are assisted by new allies whose motivations may be anything but pure. Meanwhile, The Widow (Emily Beecham) continues to consolidate power against the other Barons, while a dark and mysterious threat prepares to exact revenge on them all. Alliances are struck, friendships betrayed, and by season’s end, Sunny and M.K.’s lives will be forever altered.

CAST

Daniel Wu             New Police Story, Warcraft: The Beginning

Aramis Knight      Ender’s Game, The Dark Knight Rises

Emily Beecham   Hail, Caesar!, The Thirteenth Tale, Daphne

Nick Frost              The Three Flavours Cornetto, Shaun of the Dead, The World’s End

BLU-RAY/DVD SPECIAL FEATURES

• Deleted Scenes

RICKY GERVAIS IS COMING BACK TO NETFLIX!

Ricky Gervais kicks off 2018 with a new original Netflix stand up comedy special, Ricky Gervais: Humanity.