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- Typo on Third Window Films delivering a Blu-ray for the bloody revenge thriller ‘Mermaid Legend’ from ‘Evil Dead Trap’ directorI wanted to like it. I was sure to like it. But it was simply boring, well, a…
- Tory on ‘Out for Justice 2’? Not quite… but legendary action star Steven Seagal is back with ‘In the Name of Justice’(Look up Mr. Seagal’s song “Strut” if you’re confused.)
- Tory on ‘Out for Justice 2’? Not quite… but legendary action star Steven Seagal is back with ‘In the Name of Justice’But…but, him want the poonani!
- Andrew Hernandez on Bill… it’s your baby! Artwork for 4K UHD Editions for Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill Vol 1-2’ and ‘Jackie Brown’ revealedAs 4K UHD can hold more footage, it would be nice to have both volumes of Kil…
- CitronAtomik on The legend returns! Jackie Chan and Stanley Tong’s ‘A Legend’ heading to Blu-ray from Well Go USA in JanuaryLike Stanley Tong's recent films like Vanguard, Jackie Chan is almost a walk-…
- Eric on ‘Out for Justice 2’? Not quite… but legendary action star Steven Seagal is back with ‘In the Name of Justice’This man is a dishonor to both cinema and to the western world. I don’t feel…
- Kevin on The legend returns! Jackie Chan and Stanley Tong’s ‘A Legend’ heading to Blu-ray from Well Go USA in JanuaryThis one is bad and that why it was a massive flop in china. Barely made a fe…
- Laurine White on Legend has it that Eureka is releasing a Blu-ray for Kinji Fukasaku’s all-star fantasy actioner ‘Legend of the 8 Samurai’Awesome!
- dakuan on Tony Jaa makes America great again! Watch the New Trailer for ‘Striking Rescue’ arriving in December from Well Go USAhappy to see Tony Jaa still kicks asses, and he's still awkward when speaking…
- Jorge Ronald Torres Morla on Recoil Blu-ray & DVD (Nasser)¡La última de la saga de Películas de: "RETROCEDER NUNCA, RENDIRSE JAMÁS! ¡La…
- Typo on ‘Godzilla Minus One’ filmmaker signs on for his first English-language film ‘Grandgear’ for Sony and J.J. AbramsAnd another one Asian going to Hollywood! I hope his Doreamon - Stand by me 3…
- Typo on No further questions your honor! Watch Well Go USA’s Trailer for Donnie Yen’s latest action thriller ‘The Prosecutor’"on the style/photography levels"
- JJ Bona on Jackie Chan’s GREATEST Lo Wei flick just got better! Here’s what 88 Films’ ‘Dragon Fist’ 4K UHD will look like…Edited, thank you!
- Kiril Valkov on Jackie Chan’s GREATEST Lo Wei flick just got better! Here’s what 88 Films’ ‘Dragon Fist’ 4K UHD will look like…The release date (as per 88 Films website) has been moved to 24.02.2025. Appa…
- Andrew Hernandez on No further questions your honor! Watch Well Go USA’s Trailer for Donnie Yen’s latest action thriller ‘The Prosecutor’Well, John Wick was mostly gunplay, jiujitsu and judo. The Prosecutor seems t…
- Typo on No further questions your honor! Watch Well Go USA’s Trailer for Donnie Yen’s latest action thriller ‘The Prosecutor’Looks OK. But...too much like Wick & Co, and of course like A bittersweet…
- Typo on All aboard!? ‘Shin Godzilla’ co-director Shinji Higuchi to remake 1975’s ‘Bullet Train’ for Netflix! Watch a Teaser…The original has aged badly... But frankly I can easily wait for a remake.
- Typo on No further questions your honor! Watch Well Go USA’s Trailer for Donnie Yen’s latest action thriller ‘The Prosecutor’"Funny" to see Michael Hui there... In Hong Kong, he's in "The last dance", a…
- Andrew Hernandez on No further questions your honor! Watch Well Go USA’s Trailer for Donnie Yen’s latest action thriller ‘The Prosecutor’It’s amazing what 60 year old guys are still willing to put themselves throug…
- dakuan on No further questions your honor! Watch Well Go USA’s Trailer for Donnie Yen’s latest action thriller ‘The Prosecutor’i suspect i'll hate Yen's character just as much as i hated him in Raging Fir…
- Phil Chan on Don’t call it a comeback! Watch the Trailer for ‘Last Dance’ starring Hong Kong legend Michael Hui and Dayo WongAlready more than HK$50 million in local box office earnings after only a wee…
- Phil Chan on No further questions your honor! Watch Well Go USA’s Trailer for Donnie Yen’s latest action thriller ‘The Prosecutor’Both Michael Hui and Liza Wang as part of the cast? Donnie’s certainly bringi…
- Andrew Hernandez on Film Safari Ghana (2024) ReviewThis sounds like fun. My fiancé has family from Ghana, so she can tell me mor…
- Typo on Netflix ‘n KILL! Streaming giant awakens the English-language remake of Kim Jee-woon’s 2005 hit ‘A Bittersweet Life’I love the original. Perfect movie. They can shove their remake where the sun…
- Ska Martes on Tony Jaa makes America great again! Watch the New Trailer for ‘Striking Rescue’ arriving in December from Well Go USAGonna second this - surprised this site hasn't reviewed Aston Chen's Black St…
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Valentine | Blu-ray & DVD (Shout! Factory)
RELEASE DATE: May 14, 2019 On May 14th, 2019, Shout Factory will release the Blu-ray & DVD for Valentine: The Dark Avenger, a 2019 Indonesia martial arts action film, based on Sarjono Sutrisno, Aswin NC Siregar, and Ian Waryanto’s character Valentine, from Skylar Comics. Read the official details below: The movie is directed by Ubay Fox and Agus Pestol. Cast includes Estelle Linden, Arie Dagienkz, Matthew Settle (Criminal Minds: Beyond … Continue reading
Trailer for Kong Ergou’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Northeast China’
China will soon see the release of Love Song to the Days Forgone (previously known as Once Upon a Time in Northeast China), a crime thriller directed by Kong Ergou, who is mostly known for producing John Woo’s epic The Crossing saga, and The Three-Body Problem: I. The film stars Zhang Jingchu (Sky on Fire, The Adventurers), Xia Yu (Birth of the Dragon, Mojin: The Lost Legend), Hu Jun (Bodyguards and Assassins, Firestorm) and Wu Yue … Continue reading
Unity of Heroes | Blu-ray (Well Go USA)
RELEASE DATE: May 28, 2019 On May 28, 2019, Well Go USA is releasing the Blu-ray for Lin Zhen-Hao’s The Unity of Heroes (read our review), starring martial arts star Vincent Zhao (True Legend), who will once again be playing real-life folk hero Wong Fei-hung. Throughout the years, Wong Fei-hung has been portrayed by various stars, most notably Kwan Tak-hing (Story of Wong Fei-hung), Jackie Chan (Drunken Master), Jet Li (Once Upon A Time in … Continue reading
Trailer for ‘Quan Dao: A Journey of a Boxer’ starring ‘Ip Man 3’ star Danny Chan
Danny Chan Kwok-kwan (Keep Calm and Be a Superstar), the actor mostly known for portraying Bruce Lee in Legend of Bruce Lee, Ip Man 3 and the upcoming Ip Man 4 (not to mention the Bruce Lee-inspired goalie in Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer), is back in Willam So’s Quan Dao: A Journey of a Boxer. Quan Dao: A Journey of a Boxer also stars Ka Nin Ngo (Ip Man 2), Awayne Liu (Unbeatable), Ashina Kwok … Continue reading
Big Brother | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)
RELEASE DATE: May 21, 2019 On May 21st, 2019, be on the lookout for Well Go USA’s Blu-ray/DVD release for Donnie Yen’s Big Brother (read our review), an action/comedy directed by Kam Kar-wai (Color of the Game). In the film, Yen plays a high school teacher who is caught up by his dark past in the underworld and is forced to use his fighting skills to find and rescue one of his students who has been kidnapped. … Continue reading
HKFilmart 2019: International Film and TV Market News
Here’s a look at some of the titles that were presented at the HKFilmart 2019, which took place on March 18th-21st at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Minamata: HanWay Films is promoting Andrew Levitas’s Minamata, an upcoming thriller starring Johnny Depp. In the film, Depp plays celebrated WWII photographer W. Eugene Smith, who ventures to the sleepy Japanese town of Minamata, which was the scene of one of the world’s greatest … Continue reading
‘Old Boy’ director Park Chan-wook and ‘Bone Tomahawk’ writer Craig Zahler team up for ‘Brigands of Rattlecreek’
Visionary director Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Handmaiden) will be directing The Brigands of Rattlecreek (aka The Brigands of Rattleborge), an ultra-violent Western written by up-and-coming filmmaker S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99 and the upcoming Dragged Across the Concrete). The Brigands of Rattlecreek, which has been picked up by Amazon Studios, follows a sheriff and a doctor who seek revenge against a group of bandits who … Continue reading
Deal on Fire! Woochi: The Demon Slayer | Blu-ray | Only $7.98 – Expires soon!
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray Woochi: The Demon Slayer (aka Jeon Woochi: The Taoist Wizard), directed by Dong-Hoon Choi (The Thieves). Jeon Woo-chi (Gang Dong-Won of A Violent Prosecutor), an undisciplined, womanizing wizard unjustly accused of the death of his master, is trapped inside an ancient scroll until he is set free in 2009 by the wizards that imprisoned him to help fight against evil goblins that have taken over … Continue reading
Boogie Boy | Blu-ray (MVD Rewind)
RELEASE DATE: May 14, 2019 MVD Rewind has announced the Blu-ray for Boogie Boy, a Mark Dacascos thriller from director Craig Hamann (writer of Showdown in Manila) and producer Roger Avary, who is perhaps best known for 1993’s Killing Zoe, 2002’s The Rules of Attraction, and his co-writing credit for 1994’s Pulp Fiction. The film hits retail outlets on May 14th, 2019. Check out the official details below from MVD: This title has been out of print … Continue reading
Triple Threat | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)
RELEASE DATE: May 14, 2019 Well Go USA Entertainment is getting ready to unleash their deadliest weapon yet: Triple Threat (read our review), an upcoming action film by Jessie V. Johnson (Savage Dog, The Debt Collector) that’s best described as a martial arts-themed Expendables. Triple Threat is getting a Blu-ray/DVD release on May 14th (pre-order here), which will feature Interviews with the Cast, Trailers and English SDH subtitles. The anticipated movie features an ensemble cast of international action stars that includes Tony … Continue reading
Andrew Lau to revisit Hong Kong triads with ‘Teddy Boy’?
Director Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs, Legend of the Fist) will be revisiting Chinese gangsterism with a Live-action, English-language adaptation of the comic book series Teddy Boy, which was also the source material for Lau’s immensely popular Hong Kong franchise, Young and Dangerous. In addition to directing, Lau will also be producing Teddy Boy along with frequent collaborator Andrew Loo (Revenge of the Green Dragons). Backing the project is Pulse Films, the company behind Gangs of London, an upcoming … Continue reading
Deal on Fire! Gintama | Blu-ray | Only $8.99 – Expires soon!
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for the action comedy Gintama (read our review), a live-action adaptation based on the manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi. In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can. Gintama stars Shun Oguri (Lupin III), Masaki Suda (Love Song), Kanna Hashimoto (Assassination Classroom), Yuya Yagira (Unforgiven) and Masami Nagasawa (I Am a Hero). Order Gintama from Amazon.com … Continue reading
‘Headshot’ breakout star Sunny Pang has a ‘Kill-Fist’
Doghouse 73 Pictures’ Kill-Fist will finally be making its premier at the 9th Cambodia International Film Festival. This independent Malaysian martial arts thriller is headlined by Headshot breakout star, Sunny Pang (The Night Comes for Us) with Alan Yun (Possessed), Koe Yeet (The Hunter 3D), Mario Sebsam, and fight choreography by Chee Hong (via FCS). Kill-Fist involves “an underground fighting survival game where players beat the crap out of each other in order to win a cash prize and rise the … Continue reading
Deal on Fire! End of a Gun | Blu-ray | Only $9.99 – Expires soon!
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for Keoni Waxman’s End of a Gun (read our review), starring Steven Seagal (Exit Wounds). Seagal plays Decker, an ex-DEA agent who takes deadly action one night to save the alluring Lisa from an abusive boyfriend. She approaches Decker with a seductive proposition: help her steal $2 million from a car guarded by Parisian police and share in the bounty. But even if they outrun the cops, … Continue reading
Indonesian remake of ‘Whispering Corridors’ gets a Trailer
Indonesian horror filmmaker (Blok M, Asih) is back with another thriller titled Death Whisper, which will getting international distribution from Korea-based company CJ Entertainment at a soon to-be-determined date. The film is a remake/reimagining of Park Gi-Hyeong’s 1998 Korean horror hit, Whispering Corridors, which revolves around an evil spirit that runs amok in high school setting. Death Whisper stars Amanda Rawles (Something in Between), Angga Yunanda (Sajen), Teuku Ryzki (Generasi Micin) and Arya Vasco (Tembang Lingsir). Watch the Trailer … Continue reading
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