Now shipping from Goodie Emporium is the Blu-ray (Region B) for Heroes Two (aka Bloody Fists), a 1974 martial arts film from legendary Shaw Brothers director, Chang Cheh (Five Element Ninjas).
The Shaolin Monastery has been destroyed. The rebels are on the run. The invaders are winning. But don’t give up hope: legendary freedom Continue reading
Best known to many fans as Kung Lao in 2021’s Mortal Kombat, Max Huang (A Legend, Chinese Zodiac) has quietly built an impressive career as an actor, martial artist, stunt performer, fight choreographer and singer, making him one of the more versatile talents working in action cinema today.
A member of Jackie Chan’s legendary stunt team, Huang brought his athleticism to productions like Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Foreigner, and Police Story 2013 before stepping further into the spotlight as a leading Continue reading
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Director: James Mark
Cast: Orphée Ladouceur-Nguyen, Alain Moussi, Tim Rozon, Mitra Suri, Lisa Berry, Jonathan Goad, Jeff Yung, Paul Braunstein, Jason Cavalier, Phi Huynh
Running Time: 93 min.
By Z Ravas
Canadian stuntman-turned-director James Mark has carved himself a reliable niche in the indie action space. He first made waves with 2017’s Kill Order, a compact Direct to Video effort that doubled as a 70-ish minute stunt demo reel for his brother, fellow stuntman Chris Mark. More recent efforts like Fight Another Day (2024) have continued to cement Mark as a cut above your average filmmaker in the DTV arena, with his movies offering a solid blend of dramatic moments and crisply-shot action. Fight Another Day boasted the added hook of an interesting science-fiction plot, in which time-displaced warriors were forced to fight in a futuristic reality show, but Mark didn’t necessarily possess the budget to execute such a high concept; perhaps wisely, his latest film Infiltrate pivots to a more grounded and realistic cloak-and-dagger tale, riffing on the likes of Taken and John Wick.
Long story short, uber-badass Canadian spy Lily Chen (played by Orphée Ladouceur-Nguyen) is forced to complete three deadly missions for a mysterious voice on the phone after her beloved husband is kidnapped. (The biggest hurdle for your average viewer is going to be ignoring the fact that the mysterious voice sounds a lot like the killer from Scream). And if the movie has a secret weapon, it’s Ms. Ladouceur-Nguyen, who displays a strong screen presence Continue reading
Filmmaker and star Louis Mandylor (The Debt Collector, The Doorman) – fresh off directing Scott Adkins in 2025’s Prisoner of War – is currently working on his next film, Marx.
Produced by Mandylor’s own Odyssey Motion Pictures, this upcoming actioner stars martial arts powerhouse Bren Foster (Life After Fighting, Mexicali) and Continue reading
Now available from Vinegar Syndrome is the 4K Ultra HD for Sun Chung’s 1982 horror/kung fu film, Human Lanterns (aka Human Skin Lanterns).
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This special limited edition 2-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Wes Benscoter), includes a 40-page perfect bound book and is limited to 8,000 units. Continue reading
Now available from Vinegar Syndrome is the Blu-ray for Chih-Hung Kuei’s 1976 Shaw Brothers thriller, Killers on Wheels.
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This spot gloss slipcase edition (designed by Haunt Love) is strictly limited to 5,000 units and includes a 40-page perfect bound book. This release Continue reading
“The Warrior’s Way” Blu-ray Cover
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for Sngmoo Lee’s all-star, highly underrated actioner, The Warrior’s Way.
Yang (Jang Dong-gun, Rampant), a swordsman from the Saddest Flute gang, is at the tail-end of his mission to kill every last member of a rival clan. Just as he’s about to complete his duties, he has a sudden change of heart when he learns the last standing member is a helpless baby.
Yang decides to let the baby live and take it under his protection. Knowing the rest of the Saddest Flute gang will be looking for him and the baby, Yang leaves Asia and retreats to a neglected Western town in America. During his stay, he befriends the town’s people, who happen to have Continue reading
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Shane Kosugi (9 Deaths of the Ninja, Pray for Death) makes his directorial debut with Seek, an upcoming martial arts actioner that stars Kansuke Asano (Barashi Fight), as well as Shane’s brother, Kane Kosugi (Tekken 2: Kazuya’s Revenge, Zero Tolerance).
In Seek, Kyohei Aizawa (Asano), an assassin for a covert non-governmental espionage group in Japan called “SEEK”, is grieving over the loss of his girlfriend from a tragic plane accident. The leader of “SEEK”, Ryo Mikumo (Nahara), contacts him for an emergency mission; save a fellow agent, recover a new highly explosive liquid called “RDX@”, stop a ruthless Yakuza leader, Sojiro Kotsuki (Kane Kosugi), and his gang before they take over Japan. Although the Ninjas were thought to have disappeared…the new breed of assassins live on helping to protect Continue reading
A Netflix sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – titled The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth – is currently in post-production with David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) directing a script written by Tarantino.
Frequent Fincher/Tarantino collaborator Brad Pitt (Fight Club, Inglorious Basterds) is reprising his role as Cliff Booth, the tough-guy Hollywood Continue reading
“Relentless” Poster
Hot off the heels of Bren Foster’s impressive 2024 film debut, Life After Fighting – which he also directed, wrote, produced and choreographed – Foster is now putting finishing touches on his starring/directorial effort, Relentless.
In the film, a former soldier/fighter (Foster) is forced back into the brutal underground arena when he’s faced with the fight of his life – not against an opponent, but against time itself. Driven by love and the desperate need to protect his family’s future, he steps into a world where every hit could be his last. As the line between sacrifice and self- destruction blurs, his journey becomes a raw and emotional battle for redemption, legacy, and the enduring power of love (via FilmInk).
As with Life After Fighting, Foster not only stars, but is also fight choreographer, producer Continue reading
“Black Creek: Retribution” Teaser Poster
Cult martial arts action screen icon Cynthia Rothrock (The Blonde Fury, No Retreat No Surrender II, Righting Wrongs) is returning to the wild west in Black Creek: Retribution, the sequel to her 2024 western/martial arts action movie, Black Creek.
This time around, Luke LaFontaine (Mexicali) is stepping in to direct, taking over from Shannon Lanier (Black Creek). LaFontaine is a former stuntman and second unit director with credits on action films like Jesse V. Johnson’s Savage Dog and The Mercenary, and he recently directed Bren Foster (Life After Fighting) in this year’s Mexicali, a standout entry in the direct to video action market.
Set in 1891 Arizona, Black Creek: Retribution follows a gritty frontier sheriff (Rothrock) waging a bloody war against a murderous cult leader Continue reading
On July 6, 2027, Arrow is releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) Double Feature for 1973’s Sex & Fury and Female Yakuza Tale. Following their genre-defining “female delinquent” classic Girl Boss Guerrilla, director Norifumi Suzuki and action star Reiko Ike would join forces once again for the shocking Sex & Fury. Pulpy and bathed in lurid violence of the highest order, the film would beget the sequel, Female Yakuza Tale directed by none other than the king of ero-guro, Teruo Ishii (Horrors of Malformed Men).
In Sex & Fury, deadly swordswoman Ocho Inoshika (Ike) is looking for the men who killed her father and finds herself infiltrating a sordid den of sexually deviant yakuza, involving a British secret agent (Christina Lindberg, Thriller: A Cruel Picture) and a twisted Continue reading
The Touch | Blu-ray (Imprint)
Director: Peter Pau
Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Ben Chaplin, Richard Roxburgh, Dane Cook, Kenneth Tsang, Brandon Chang, Margaret Wang, Winston Chao, Zhenhai Kou
Running Time: 103 min.
By Paul Bramhall
Imagine for a minute that the year is 2000 and you’re Michelle Yeoh. You’ve just gained an international level of fame thanks to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, garnering far more attention than when you were cast in a 007 movie, and the question of what to do next looms large on the horizon. The answer of course was to strike while the iron is hot. Set up your own production company – Mythical Films – and produce an epic Indiana Jones (or an updated take on Magnificent Warriors for those who were already fans!) style action adventure. Take on the starring role, contribute to the script, bring in established actors from Hollywood, shoot the whole thing in English, and let’s hire Skywalker Sound for the sound design! While we’re at it, grab CTHD’s director of photography Peter Pau to helm it, and spend the next 2 years travelling around the farthest reaches of China to film it. The result could only be one thing – epic.
Instead though, the result was The Touch, and if you were going to call it epic anything, then epic disaster would be the most accurate. It’s hard to call Yeoh’s next film after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon anything other than a misfire, and it never did become the next global box office smash it was intended to be. Miramax purchased the rights for U.S. distribution, who were so shocked at the horrendous CGI dominated finale, they included a clause allowing them to re-shoot the special effects themselves. Is that the first time for such a thing to happen Continue reading
Iron Mask | Blu-ray (Lionsgate)
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for Iron Mask (read our review), which also goes by the titles The Mystery of the Dragon Seal: Journey to China and Journey to China: The Mystery of the Iron Mask, a Chinese-Russian produced adventure film featuring Jackie Chan (The Shadow’s Edge, The Foreigner) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Maggie, Aftermath).
The Iron Mask is a sequel to 2014’s Viy 2 (dubbed “the highest grossing Russian movie of all-time”) is directed by Russian filmmaker Oleg Stepchenko.
The Iron Mask is set in the 18th century and focuses on the adventures of English traveler Jonathan Green (Jason Flemyng), who is assigned to draw a map of Russia’s Far East. However, his travels Continue reading
Two years ago, director Soi Cheang Pou Soi (SPL II: A Time for Consequences), alongside producers Wilson Yip (Paradox) and John Chong (Paradox), revealed plans for both a prequel and a sequel to 2024’s Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. And today, those plans are in full effect!
Twilight of the Warriors: The Final Chapter, the sequel to the aforementioned Hong Kong martial arts thriller, is now filming, featuring yet another massive recreation of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City while also utilizing real locations across the city, including abandoned buildings.
Whereas Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In takes place in the 1980s, Twilight of the Warriors: The Final Chapter is set in 1993, the year the Walled City was demolished.
This time around, Daniel Wu (Caught in Time, Sky on Fire) is joining returning cast members Raymond Lam (Back to the Past), Terrance Lau (Stuntman), German Cheung (Kung Fu Jungle) and Tony Wu (Raging Fire). There’s no Continue reading
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