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In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to film producer Charlotte Atkinson of Our Daughter Productions about what a producer wants from writers and “3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life,” which includes:

Little Women (1994) Saving Mr Banks (2013) Cats (2019)

“3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life” is about those films that made you fall in love with film. The guest selects their trio of movies and we talk for 5 minutes, against the clock. When the alarm goes off for five minutes we move on to the next film.

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Tagline: "Your Worst Fears Have Come Home for the Holidays." Christmas Presence aka Why Hide? will release this November. To show on DVD for the first time in the U.S., Christmas Presence is a holiday horror film. In the story, a group of friends gather to celebrate the holiday season, when one guest goes missing and then another and then...James Edward Cook ("Disclaimer") is the director on this feature, with Karen Taylor co-writing the script. As well, Charlotte Atkinson (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and Elsie Bennett (Control) centrally star. The film's early release details are here. The DVD release will be available in an unrated format. At eighty-seven minutes, this release will not offer much, if anything, for bonus features. Finally, this title was produced as a Shudder original and has been available in some territories, since 2018. Christmas Presence will show on DVD this November 3rd. Rlj Entertainment will host the U.

Tagline: "Christmas with Friends Can be a Bloody Nightmare." Why Hide? is an indie horror film, by way of Plenitude Productions. To show at this year's American Film Market, Why Hide? takes place during the Christmas holidays. In a remote country house, partiers' festivities are upended by the presence of a dead body. This title has recently shown in Madrid, at the Nocturna International Film Festival. Here, a trailer was release for the film (found below). And, Why Hide? was developed by the writing team of James Cook ("Disclaimer") and Karen Taylor. Also, the film stars: Danny Webb, Charlotte Atkinson, Lorna Brown, Mark Chatterton and many others. Fans of supernatural thrillers can find the latest, on Why Hide?, below. The trailer shows guests having a wild time. When morning breaks, a drama begins to unfold, involving one woman's past. As the details emerge, another presence emerges from beneath the house,...

Stars: Tom Hopper, Jack Reynor, Eoin Macken, Rebecca Night, Liam Carney, Charlotte Atkinson, Melia Kreiling, Brian Fortune, Laura Hopper, Anthony Murphy | Written and Directed by Eoin Macken

Anyone who listens to our podcast knows that while Chris and myself love the fanfare of the huge blockbuster Marvel/DC/Star Wars releases. But nothing can quite compare to the smaller independent films that you just know every second of screen time came straight from one persons passion to make a piece of cinema that is all their’s. A movie that can display such mastery of their craft and hit you square in the heart (or balls) and make you feel something that… In my opinion capes and spandex just can’t do that.

Leopard is exactly that type of movie.

A true passion piece that is driven by the wonderfully carefully calculated mind of its writer/director/actor, but smashed...