TOPAKK Review: A Salute To The Brave And Belagured With Plenty Of Brutal Action In Richard V. Somes’ Thriller
TOPAKK is currently available to watch in the U.S. from Freestyle Digital Media.
TOPAKK is currently available to watch in the U.S. from Freestyle Digital Media.
Arjo Atayde, Julia Montes, Kokoy De Santos, and Sid Lucero star in the explosive action crime thriller.
Freestyle Digital Media will release the film on multiple platforms, including digital, cable, satelite and DVD next month.
Writer/director Rajaram Rajendran’s new sci-fi drama, Rani Rani Rani, is poised to release on VOD and DVD on May 28 from Freestyle Digital Media. The film stars Tannishtha Chatterjee, Asif Basra, Danny Sura, Alexx O’Nell, and Abid Anwar, and is produced by Rahendran. Sidestepping mystical and spiritual influences while reveling in a science fiction world, RANI RANI RANI follows Rani, the caretaker at an abandoned factory, in an almost-abandoned Indian village. It’s just an ordinary day for Rani — trapped in a struggle for survival between a feckless husband on one hand, and her husband’s brother and ruthless sister-in-law on the other. But when Rani happens upon a group of opportunists seeking to prove the efficacy of their mysteriously-acquired mechanical device to a potential buyer, her fortunes seem set to change. All these opportunists are looking for is a volunteer, a test subject, and for a small sum of cash […]
The official trailer is out for writer/director Apolline Traoré’s new film, Sira. Starring Nafissatou Cisse, Mike Danon, and Lazare Minoungou, Freestyle Digital Media is heading up its U.S. release on VOD and DVD from May 7. Set in the Sahel region of North Africa, Sira stars Cisse in the title role of a young nomad, who, after a brutal attack, refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight and instead takes a stand against Islamist terror. Thw film is also produced by Traoré and by Denis Cougnaud. SIRA follows the journey of a beautiful young Peul girl, Sira, and her tribe cross Northern Africa’s Sahelian desert to take refuge in her fiancé’s village. In the middle of the journey, Sira sees her tribesmen violently massacred. After being humiliated by Sira, the chief, Yéré, decides to kidnap her and leaves her for dead in the middle of the desert. Sira […]
Freestyle Digital Media is heading up North American VOD rights to action thriller Day Labor. The R. Ellis Frazier-directed pic will release to rent or purchase on all digital HD, cable, and satellite platforms, and on DVD, starting on May 3. In DAY LABOR a regular day turns into a deadly game of survival when a Latino American veteran who seeks work as a day laborer in order to keep his family afloat, is mistakenly dropped off at a private ranch in El Paso, Texas to be hunted for sport. Frazier directs from a script by Sean Crayne and Brian Frank Visciglia. Day Labor stars Amy Johnston, Danny Arroyo, Roberto Sanchez, and Louis Mandylor, along with Corin Nemec, Gary Cairns, Chris Ashworth, and Kevin Gage. and directed by R. Ellis Frazier. Ojan Missaghi and David Wachs produced the film with Solmaz Kermani as exec producer. “Making DAY LABOR was a team […]
Freestyle Digital Media is proudly announcing its latest upcoming release, Nicolás Di Blasi’s 6 Hours Away. The official trailer arrived last week for the action thriller starring Guillermo Iván (Shrapnel, As Good As Dead) from a script by Garry Charles (The Getback, Lights Out). 6 HOURS AWAY tells the story of ex-Marine Chris Montano (Guillermo Ivan) and the struggle he faces when his wife is kidnapped by a drug cartel leader. Chris then travels to Mexico where he is confronted with an ultimatum – he must assassinate the cartel leader’s six rivals, or never see his wife again. But what will Chris do when he discovers the truth about the love of his life? Chris has 6 hours to take 6 lives… however he can. 6 Hours Away was produced by Ruben Ozuna Gallardo. It also stars Roberto Sanchez, Lara Wolf, Zach Rose, Oscar Lopez, Oscar Torre, Osvaldo de Leon, […]
Good Guy With A Gun is available on Digital and VOD from Freestyle Digital Media. Some films with stories tethered to political undertones are able to maintain an identity ambiguous enough that the story can carry over to audiences without hitting viewers over the head. Others have the exact opposite effect, particularly in an age where conservative pundits are willing to step into the arena to produce whatever kind of unintended self-depricating schtick translates adequately on a screen to help manifest right-wing fantasies into palatable and appealing “cinema.” In my view, these are precisely what give movies like John Mossman’s latest, Good Guy With A Gun, purpose. Mossman writes and directs a story that centers on Tessa (Tiffany Bedwell) and Will (Beck Nolan), a mother and son recovering from a few recent tramatic events in their lives. Driving miles away from their Chicago home to a rural town to oversee […]
Invariably, the festival crowd has had its fill with Iranian-Finnish action adventure Layers Of Lies and now folks keen on catching it at home can expect to do so with a digital, cable, satelite and DVD release set for January 23. The film stars and is directed by actor and martial artist Ramin Sohrab, headlining the first ever action production out of Iran for a production with more than its fair share of stories on how the movie came to pass, details to which Sohrab alludes to openly in our 2022 interview. Written by Sohrab and co-writer Christopher Larsen, Layers Of Lies centers on Sam, a firefighter thrust into a life-or-death forced to take matters into his own fighting hands when a mysterious foe looking for vengeance kidnaps his wife while on a couples’ getaway in Tehran. Also starring are Finnish actress, martial artist and recording artist Jessica Wolff, along […]
Brazilian kung fu stoner comedy, The Smoke Master, is finally on track to start the new year with a U.S. release from Freestyle Digital Media. VOD rights were announced by the company earlier this month will plans to release the film on DVD, and all stateside digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms from January 2. THE SMOKE MASTER follows the journey of Gabriel and Daniel, two brothers cursed by the Chinese mafia with its feared Three Generations Revenge, who has already reaped the life of their grandfather and their father. To survive, one of the brothers must learn the Smoke Style secrets, a little-known controversial martial art, based on cannabis usage and taught by a single master, high in the mountains of the far reaches of China. In other words, THE SMOKE MASTER is a stoned Kung-Fu movie. Starring Daniel Rocha, Thiago Stechinni and Tony Lee, The Smoke Master […]
Jason Abrams’ feature debut has since landed home at Freestyle Digital Media with neo-noir Western crime pic, Hungry Dog Blues. Abrams penned the script as well, also joining a cast led by Amy Hargreaves, CJ Wilson, and Irina Gorovaia for the film’s release on April 25 on AT&T U-Verse, DirecTV, Dish Network, Sling TV, Amazon, iTunes /Apple TV, Vudu, Xbox, Google Play, YouTube Movies, and Cable VOD. Hungry Dog Blues tells the story of a small-town crime thriller set in rural Missouri, about two estranged half-brothers who kidnap the lead witness testifying against their incarcerated father in order to prove their father’s innocence. Charlie (Jason Abrams, “Luke Cage”) and Terrence Withers, (CJ Wilson, “The Blacklist,” The Trial of the Chicago 7), plan to expose the lead witness, Ronnie Amy Hargreaves (“13 Reasons Why,” “Homeland”), testifying against their father for embezzlement as the true guilty party. They enlist the help of […]
Freestyle Digital Media is releasing Max Strand’s new thriller, Goodbye Honey, via cable and digital HD beginning May 11. Strand directs from a script he wrote and produced with Todd Rawiszer, with Josh Michaels producing, and with a cast that includes Pamela Jayne Morgan (Just Say Goodbye) and Juliette Alice Gobin (Look At Me). Dawn, a truck driver, pulls into a state park to get some sleep when she is ambushed by Phoebe, a young woman who claims she is fleeing from an abductor. Dawn is wary of Phoebe’s story, leading to a struggle that leaves her phone broken, the keys missing, and nothing but darkness between them and help. As the night progresses, it becomes clear they are not alone. Bonding over a shared history of trauma, Dawn and Phoebe realize they must learn to trust each other if they want to survive a night full of unexpected twists […]
Freestyle Digital Media has acquired director Andy Palmer’s (Camp Cold Brook) mobster zombie comedy, Witness Infection. The film had a festive run during festivals last year since premiering at the 2020 HA Comedy Arts Festival. It went on to pick up awards for Best Feature at HorrorHound and the Die Laughing Film Festival, Best Director at Die Laughing and the Frostbite Film Festival, and the Audience Choice Envy Award the Sin Film Festival Witness Infection tells the story of two rival mob families who are transferred from the Witness Protection Program to the same city by mistake. Life has always been pretty protected for Carlo Serrelli. But his past is about to come back and bite him. Carlo’s father has kept him out of the deadly mob business by giving him a job at the family dog groomers, while his younger brother, Dominic, has always done the dirty work. All […]
Completely doing away with the noble and heroic Turbo Kid image is consumate actor Munro Chambers now poised to creep us all out this Fall in Michael Peterson’s new thriller, Knuckleball. After screening at this year’s Fantasia Festival, the new contained thriller will release in select theaters abd on VOD and Digital HD beginning October 5. After his Grandfather unexpectedly dies in the night, 12 year old Henry finds himself cut off and alone on an isolated farm. When his nearest neighbor, Dixon realizes that the boy has no one to protect him, Henry becomes a target for reasons he cannot understand. With his parents at least 24 hours from returning, and a massive snowstorm brewing Henry retreats into the house and prepares for a siege. What follows is a desperate battle for survival that will also unlock the terrifying connection between his family and the killer next door. Penned […]
Elliott Feld’s directorial feature debut, KILLER KATE, is set to release this Fall starring Alexandra Feld, Danielle Burgess and Tiffany Shepis.
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