Great news for Hong Kong cinema fans! Shout! has announced a new label that will focus on Hong Kong cinema classics, many of which have been MIA from the market for years. Read on for the full press release:
It’s time for full-throttle action and exhilarating movie adventures this summer as Shout! Studios unveils HONG KONG CINEMA CLASSICS™, a new entertainment label spotlighting a treasure trove of Hong Kong’s most captivating and cinematic Continue reading
On July 29, 2025, Shout! Studios is releasing the 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray collection for The Jet Li Collection, which will include Fist of Legend, Tai Chi Master, Fong Sai Yuk, Fong Sai Yuk II and The Bodyguard from Beijing.
Among the icons of Hong Kong action cinema, few stars shine as brightly as Jet Li. Renowned for his graceful and fluid fighting style, Li’s illustrious filmography has established him as an international superstar. Continue reading
“The Old Woman with the Knife” Theatrical Poster
Writer/director Min Kyu Dong (Her Story) – who is perhaps best-known for co-directing 1999’s Memento Mori – is back with The Old Woman with the Knife, a revenge-thriller based on the novel of the same name by Gu Byeong-mo.
The upcoming film stars Lee Hye-young (No Blood, No Tears), Shin Si-ah (The Witch: Part 2. The Other One), Kim Sung-cheol (The Battle of Jangsari), Kim Moo-yeol (War of the Arrows) and Yeon Woo-jin (Special Delivery).
Hornclaw is a legendary assassin in her sixties who specialises in eliminating the scum of the earth. Her mundane but bloody life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Bullfight, a promising young killer who wants to work by her side. But an incident from their past casts a dark shadow on their collaboration, even when Bullfight reveals that he remembers her as the first person to ever show him Continue reading
“Havoc” Netflix Poster
Director: Gareth Evans
Cast: Tom Hardy, Timothy Olyphant, Forest Whitaker, Sunny Pang, Justin Cornwell, Luis Guzmán, Jessie Mei Li, Yeo Yann Yann, Quelin Sepulveda, Michelle Waterson, Gordon Alexander, John Cummins
Running Time: 105 min.
By Paul Bramhall
Most of the audience for Havoc will consist of the average Netflix subscriber looking for their latest action fix, which isn’t a bad thing. For some of us though, it’s a much bigger deal than just the latest straight to streaming action movie, marking the return of director Gareth Evans to feature length action movie making for the first time since 2014’s The Raid 2. While in-between the Welshman has directed the folk horror tale The Apostle in 2018, as well as helming several episodes of the TV series Gangs of London (which he created), for action fans he’ll always be known for the trilogy of movies he made in Indonesia with Iko Uwais, a silat practitioner who he discovered in 2007. Together they made 2009’s Merantau, 2011’s The Raid: Redemption, and the previously mentioned sequel from 2014, productions that would have a lasting influence on action filmmaking that continues to this day.
With Evans departure from Indonesia to return to his home country it felt unclear for a while if that meant he’d also put his action filmmaking days behind him, however if what’s on display in Havoc is anything to go by, then that clarity is now very much there – 11 years on he’s still very much an action filmmaker. Described by the man himself as being strongly influenced Continue reading
On July 21, 2025, Eureka is releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for The Tattooed Dragon, a 1973 Golden Harvest kung fu classic starring Jimmy Wang Yu (The One-Armed Swordsman).
Written and directed by Lo Wei, the man behind the Bruce Lee’s international hits The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, The Tattooed Dragon was designed to bring martial arts superstar Jimmy Wang Yu to a global audience still hungry for kung fu cinema in the aftermath Continue reading
“Yadang: The Snitch” Theatrical Poster
Director: Hwang Byeong-gug
Cast: Kang Ha-neul, Yoo Hae-jin, Park Hae-joon, Chae Won-bin, Ryu Kyung-soo, Kim Geum-soon, Yu Seong-ju, Lim Sung-kyun, Cho Wan-ki, Kim Mi Suk
Running Time: 122 min.
By Paul Bramhall
In Korea the term Yadang refers to a professional snitch, a role that exists as an unofficial liaison between the junkies and the cops, forming a kind of symbiotic relationship that allows the latter to leverage the former in extracting information on where the drugs they take are coming from. The snitch is paid for their services under the table, and technically everyone should walk away happy – the cops get a fast track to intel that would otherwise take months of investigative work, and the junkies escape jailtime thanks to the information they’ve given up. In Yadang: The Snitch the title role is played by Kang Ha-neul (The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure, Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet), who we meet in a fast-paced opening segment that shows how he came to exclusively work for an ambitious prosecutor played by Yoo Hae-jin (Exhuma, Confidential Assignment).
Keen to work his way up the ranks, the pair have become so good at what they do that Hae-jin starts getting to the criminals before the cops do, much to the chagrin of a detective played by Park Hae-joon (Heart Blackened, Believer), whose months of investigative work turn out to be for nothing. However when the trio’s paths overlap during a drug bust involving Continue reading
We’ll soon be seeing Indonesian martial arts star Iko Uwais (The Raid, The Raid 2, Headshot, Beyond Skyline) in Wings of Dread, an upcoming action thriller directed by Qin Pengfei (Fight Against Evil, Black Storm) and Ashton Chen (Ip Man 2, Blade of Fury), who will also co-star alongside Uwais.
According to AT, Wings of Dread is Iko Uwais’ first Continue reading
On April 28, 2025, Eureka is releasing a Blu-ray (Region B) collection for The Magnificent Chang Cheh, which will include 1966’s The Magnificent Trio and 1977’s Magnificent Wanderers.
One of the Shaw Brothers Studio’s most prolific directors, Chang Cheh – or the “Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema” – is the filmmaker behind Five Deadly Venoms, Chinatown Kid and Boxer Rebellion. Collected here are two films by this maestro of martial arts Continue reading
A sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – titled The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth – is brewing 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) will reprise his role as Cliff Booth, the tough-guy Hollywood stuntman Continue reading
Production has wrapped for The Farmer, an upcoming actioner starring Australian martial artist Bren Foster, who is hot off the heels of his impressive 2024 film debut, Life After Fighting (which he also directed, wrote, produced and choreographed).
The Farmer finds Foster once again taking the lead as an ex-fighter who, while making a living working on a farm and underground fighting, finds himself Continue reading
Shaolin Boxers | Blu-ray (Eureka)
Director: Huang Ta
Cast: James Tin, Lee Tin-ying, Li Min-lang, Chu Mu, Leung Tin, Tien Mi, Hon Kwok-Choi, Chu Mu, Choi Sui-Cheng, Cheung Chok-Chow, Mars
Running Time: 78 min.
By Ian Whittle
“The only problem with James Tien seems to be his weight. When we first saw him on screen he was slim and muscular but of late his girth seems to have increased somewhat. Perhaps his marriage early in 1974 had something to do with it. The studio claims he does not drink much but home cooking can spoil the form of a kung fu fighter.”
– Clash Magazine, 1975
Ouch!
James Tien is probably one of kung fu cinema’s big enigmas – since retiring in 1993 after Blade of Fury, he does not appear to have given a single interview on his career. The impression some film critics/historians like to cultivate is of him seething away at Bruce Lee having stolen his thunder, much in the manner that we know Bela Continue reading
“Yadang: The Snitch” Theatrical Poster
In Theaters April 25th and On Digital September 9th is Hwang Byeong-gug’s Yadang: The Snitch, the latest South Korean import from Well Go USA.
Framed and left for dead by the ruthless prosecutor he once served, Kang-su — a cunning drug informant — finds himself crippled and locked away. Years later, freed but broken, he teams up with a disillusioned detective to take down the corrupt power structure that betrayed him. Fueled by vengeance and a fierce will to reclaim his life, Kang-su’s fight for justice blurs the line between hero and villain. Ya Dang The Snitch — a gritty tale of betrayal and redemption.
Yadang: The Snitch stars Kang Ha-neul (Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet), Yoo Hae-jin (Confidential Assignment), Park Hae-joon (Heart Blackened), Ryu Continue reading
On July 21, 2025, Radiance is releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for 1980’s The Beast to Die. Directed by Toru Murakawa (The Game Trilogy) from a venomous script by Shoichi Maruyama (Yokohama BJ Blues), this unsettling dark thriller was Yusaku Matsuda’s farewell to his 1970s action hero persona.
Deeply scarred by what he witnessed on battlefields across Asia, a young war photographer (Yusaku Matsuda, Yokohama BJ Blues) returns to the bustling Continue reading
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On April 28, 2025, Third Window Films is releasing a Blu-ray (Region Free) for A Samurai in Time, a 2023 action-comedy from director Junichi Yasuda (Gohan).
With one strike of lightning, samurai Kosaka Shinzaemon accidentally teleports through time and finds himself in modern day Japan. However, his realisation doesn’t hit so quickly, because of all places, he happens to land on a period drama film set! After facing the director’s wrath for veering away from a script he has no idea about, Kosaka is saved by the kind Continue reading
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