Alice Lowe
Prevenge – the directorial feature debut from Alice Lowe – is available on dvd and blu-ray now. To celebrate, TVO cornered Alice once more to talk in depth about the Prevenge experience from conception to completion. With major spoilers (you have been warned), this is the
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June 5, 2017 // 0 Comments
Today marks five years since The Velvet Onion Live, and as luck would have it, we recently managed to salvage some footage previously thought lost forever from the star-studded one-off live event. On 31st May 2012, we packed 21 Velvet Onion regulars, and the disembodied voice of one other, into
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May 31, 2017 // 1 Comment
Alice Lowe’s smash hit film Prevenge is released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK on 5th June, which gave TVO an ample excuse to revisit a film we’d previously called “a startling debut from an incredibly talented individual”. With the film also available to download from
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May 29, 2017 // 0 Comments
Jinsy praise him! The second series of This Is Jinsy is out now on DVD. Sky Atlantic’s much-missed surreal comedy took place on the fictional island of Jinsy, which creators/stars Chris Bran and Justin Chubb based on their own home Guernsey. With its original, distinctive style and a
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May 21, 2017 // 0 Comments
The Rio Cinema in Dalston, London, will be showing a Velvet Onion-flavoured double bill this Sunday, with a combined screening and Q&A for Aaaaaaaah! and Prevenge. With both films emerging from of the hearts and minds of two of our favourite people, and each of them featuring a whole host of
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May 10, 2017 // 0 Comments
Alice Lowe‘s sensational directorial debut Prevenge will be released on dvd and blu-ray in June. For the uninitiated the film stars its writer and director as Ruth, a downtrodden mum-to-be who lost her partner on the very day she found out she was pregnant, and now believes that their
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April 3, 2017 // 0 Comments
Coverage for Alice Lowe‘s Prevenge keeps coming! And this time, it has a musical twist… James Griffith of Toydrum, the Brighton-based composing duo (and former UNKLE band members) who created the soundtrack for the film, has been interviewed by horror website, Dread Central. In the
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April 1, 2017 // 0 Comments
Alice Lowe talks Prevenge and more on podcast Ctrl Alt Delete. In the podcast episode, host Emma Gannon asks Alice all about Prevenge, taking a particular focus on her position as a woman in the rather male-dominated film industry. The conversation covers Alice’s experience of writing,
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March 22, 2017 // 0 Comments
Horror streaming platform Shudder is holding a New York screening of Alice Lowe’s Prevenge on Monday, with free admission for pregnant women! Alice Lowe herself will be at the screening for a Q&A about the film which she wrote, directed and starred in while pregnant. The screening will
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March 17, 2017 // 1 Comment
Alice Lowe‘s sensational film Prevenge is in UK cinemas this weekend, with US distribution to follow next month. We’ll be catching up with Alice for an in-depth natter soon, but while our combined diaries continue to wrestle it out to find a suitable slot, we couldn’t let the
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February 10, 2017 // 0 Comments
Alice Lowe has provided online horror streaming service Shudder with a specially curated list of her favourite flicks available via the platform. Lowe is currently on the promotional trail for Prevenge – her incredible directorial debut feature (more on that here), and as such, is no doubt
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January 30, 2017 // 0 Comments
The Ghoul and Trespass Against Us are to screen across the UK as part of the BIFI Independents season. For the uninitiated The Ghoul is the directorial debut by Gareth Tunley and stars a bevy of TVO regulars including Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Dan Skinner, Geoffrey McGivern and Rufus
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January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments
WARNING: This post contains spoilers for Season 4 of Sherlock and references to episodes in previous series. It’s one of the biggest shows in television and as secretive as its stars are lucrative, so it was a pleasant surprise even to TVO that Katy Wix appeared in the latest episode of
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January 11, 2017 // 0 Comments
Alice Lowe will be touring the UK in the new year to promote her forthcoming film Prevenge, which is to be released in UK cinemas on February 10th 2017, and you can see the brand new trailer below. Prevenge is Alice’s directorial debut, which she has also written and starred in whilst 7-8
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December 20, 2016 // 1 Comment
Alice Lowe’s Prevenge has won the Monster Innovation Award at cult film festival Monster Fest 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. For those of you who aren’t already familiar with Prevenge (and clearly need to visit The Velvet Onion more often!) it’s a dark comedy-horror in which
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November 29, 2016 // 0 Comments
The full list of nominations for the 2016 British Independent Film Awards has been released. Here’s a roundup of the many nominations received by TVO-connected films and artists: Notes On Blindness – Best British Independent Film, Best Director (James Spinney & Pete Middleton),
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November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments
Ghosts and ghouls are on the prowl this weekend, as Halloween approaches on Monday evening, and everyone gets to play ‘Count The Harley Quinn Costumes’ in their nightclub of choice. Yes, it’s time for some grisly fancy dress, far too many sweets, and some kick-arse horror movies
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October 28, 2016 // 0 Comments
Alice Lowe is the latest TVO-connected guest to appear on Dan Clark’s Fubar Radio podcast Screen Talk. In the podcast, Alice is accompanied by baby daughter Della as she chats to Dan about her new film Prevenge. For those of you not in the know (who obviously haven’t visited the TVO
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October 27, 2016 // 0 Comments
The film selections have been announced for the three categories for new film talent in the 2016 British Independent Film Awards, and we’re delighted to report that there’s a strong showing from TVO-connected projects! So far the long list of nominees have been revealed in the
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October 22, 2016 // 0 Comments
Last week, Alice Lowe’s Prevenge made a big splash at the London Film Festival, as well wowing audiences during screenings in Spain. Next week, it comes to Manchester, and there will be further screenings before general release in the New Year. Featuring a cast primarily made up of TVO
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October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments
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