Kino Lorber have confirmed that they will release on Blu-ray Robert Mandel's action thriller F/X (1986), starring Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, and Diane Venora, and Richard Franklin's
F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion (1991), starring Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, and Rachel Ticotin. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the U.S. market in June.
F/X
Dare to be duped! The world of movie make-believe meets the gritty New York crime scene in this "taut and clever suspense movie" (The New York Times). Bryan Brown (Cocktail) and Brian Dennehy (Romeo & Juliet) command the heart-pounding action in "the first-class, crackling excitement of F/X" (Los Angeles Times).
Rollie Tyler (Brown) is the best special effects artist in showbiz. But this time it's not the studios seeking him out...it's the Justice Department. His assignment: to stage the assassination of an important underworld witness. And after he pulls the illusion off - making the informant disappear - Rollie is dumbfounded to learn that he's being pinned for the murder! Double-crossed and now hunted by those who hired him, Rollie quickly learns that he can trust no one...and that the only thing left that can save his life is his unequaled mastery of illusion!
F/X 2 - The Deadly Art of Illusion
Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy are back for an all-new action-thriller that continues the F/X saga with stylish wit, unrelenting suspense and amazing high-tech action.
Five years after his first deadly adventure, Rollie Tyler (Brown) has left the special effects business and now designs sophisticated electronic toys for a living. But when his girlfriend's ex-husband (Tom Mason), a police detective, persuades him to devise an illusion to capture a serial killer, Rollie is once again lured into the lethal world of make-believe. And soon, he finds himself trapped in a murderous maze of deceit and treachery in which he must depend on his ingenious tricks - and his friendship with detective Leo McCarthy (Dennehy) - to expose a terrifying underworld conspiracy...but only if he can stay alive!