Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey returns to the screen with the sci-fi actioner Holiguards Saga: The Portal of Force, the opening chapter in the ambitious Statiguards vs. Holiguards franchise. In addition to starring, Spacey also directs the film. In a divided future, ancient Holiguards and Statiguards fight secretly for humanity. A woman discovers she’s born to rival leaders as a Statiguard

Visionary filmmaker Yeon Sang Ho (Psychokinesis) – director of the 2016 hit Train to Busan and its follow up Peninsula – returns to the zombie subgenre with Colony, an upcoming thriller that stars Gianna Jun (My Sassy Girl, The Thieves), Koo Kyo-hwan (Escape, Peninsula), Ji Chang-wook (Fabricated City) and Shin Hyun-been (The Ugly). Colony follows Se-jeong (Gianna Jun), a biotech professor attending a conference that suddenly turns deadly when a fast-mutating virus is released. … Continue reading →

Martial arts star Scott Adkins (John Wick 4, Ip Man 4, Triple Threat) is re-teaming with action director Jesse V. Johnson (Boudica: Queen of War) for FishCorb Films’ Irish Dog, an upcoming thriller that starts shooting this fall. In the film, a London nightclub bouncer reluctantly agrees to chaperone an old friend, now a suave but untrustworthy gangster, on a “legitimate” trip

Arriving in the U.S. and Canada from China Lion on July 3 (US) and July 10 (Canada) is I Know Who You Are, a period drama directed by Feng Xiaogang (Back to 1942, The Banquet), When a military officer comes to believe that a local schoolteacher is a spy, he embarks on an obsessive, four decade pursuit to uncover

Independent filmmaker Ara Paiaya (Instant Death), best known for his cult kung fu action series Dubbed & Dangerous, has just released a newly digitally remastered and restored version of his 2006 martial arts film, Death List. Death List was made in the spirit of the classic “cut and paste ninja” films popularized by Godfrey Ho (Manhattan Chase, Ninja Destroyer). It blends newly

Martial arts fans will soon get to see Iko Uwais (Timur, The Raid) and Lewis Tan (Wildcat, Mortal Kombat II) go head to head once again in Survive the Night, an upcoming action thriller from writer/director Keoni Waxman, the filmmaker behind Steven Seagal vehicles such as Force of Execution and Contract to Kill. After failing to carry out a hit on rival crime boss, Paine (Uwais) is forced to flee … Continue reading →

On July 31, 2026, Janus Films will bring Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (Before We Vanish) latest feature, The Samurai and the Prisoner, to U.S. theaters. This period samurai noir thriller stars Masahiro Motoki (Gemini), Masaki Suda (We Made a Beautiful Bouquet), Yuriko Yoshitaka (Gantz) and Munetaka Aoki (Rurouni Kenshin). When Lord Murashige Araki rises up against the tyrannical Nobunaga Oda, he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. Isolated, … Continue reading →