On December 3rd, 2019, Well Go USA will release the Blu-ray for Savage, an action-thriller starring Chang Chen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Ni Ni (Enter the Warrior’s Gate) and Liao Fan (Black Coal, Thin Ice). Savage marks the directorial debut of Cui Siwei, who is perhaps best-known for penning Jackie Chan’s Bleeding Steel. The film also stars Huang Jue (The Final Master), Liu Hua (The Monkey King) and Li Guangjie (The Wandering Earth). Buried by treacherous conditions at the … Continue reading →

On October 11th, 2019, audiences will finally see the return of filmmaker Roger Avary, who is perhaps best known for 1993’s Killing Zoe, 2002’s The Rules of Attraction, and his co-writing credit with Quentin Tarantino for 1994’s Pulp Fiction. In Lucky Day, Avary’s first directorial project since 2004’s Glitterati, Red (Luke Bracey), a safe cracker who has just been released from prison, is trying to hold his family together as his past catches up … Continue reading →

If you’ve read Paul Bramhall’s article Made (& Remade) in Asia, this next bit of news is hardly a surprise. In 2013, a South Korean thriller film called Montage was released; in 2016 it was remade in Hindi as Te3n; now a Chinese remake, titled The Guilty Ones, is on its way this year (via AFS). The Guilty Ones (aka You Are the Murderer) follows a terminally ill mother who finds renewed … Continue reading →

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Disaster filmmaker Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Godzilla) is at it again with Midway. The film stars Patrick Wilson (Hard Candy), Woody Harrelson (Natural Born Killers), Mandy Moore (47 Meters Down) and Nick Jonas (Camp Rock). Midway centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life … Continue reading →

Louis Koo (Paradox, Three) returns in A Witness out of the Blue, an upcoming action-thriller from writer/director Andrew Fung Chih-Chiang (Concerto of the Bully) and producer Derek Yee (Sword Master, Shinjuku Incident). The film also stars Jessica Hsuan (1997’s Hero), Andy On (League of Gods), Annie Liu (Hungry Ghost Ritual), Cherry Ngan (The Midnight After), Patrick Tam (Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy) and Louis Cheung (The Trough). According to … Continue reading →

This Friday, Lionsgate Enterainment is unleashing Rambo V: Last Blood, the follow up to 2008’s 4th Rambo movie, starring Sylvester Stallone as the ultimate killing machine. The film is directed by Adrian Grunberg, the filmmaker best-known for directing the 2012 Mel Gibson actioner Get the Gringo – and written by both Matt Cirulnick (Paid in Full) and Stallone (Rambo 4). This time around, John Rambo (Stallone) takes on the Mexican drug cartels (headed by Sergio Peris-Mencheta) after … Continue reading →

Over the years, many casino-themed films have made an impression on audiences all over the world. As entertaining (and rewarding) the act of gambling may be in real life, scenes of gambling in movies are equally as entertaining on the big screen. This year, India is giving the world a glimpse of The Great Indian Casino, a Hindi-language thriller from writer/director Rupesh Paul (Kamasutra 3D, Saint Dracula 3D) that stars Asif Basra (Outsourced), Pankaj … Continue reading →

Hong Kong star Shu Qi (The Assassin, The Adventurers) and Lu Han (The Great Wall) are leading Shanghai Fortress, a sci-fi disaster film from director Teng Huatao (The Matrimony), which his currently streaming on Netflix. Set in the future, the city of Shanghai China battles to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that has attacked that has laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in it’s quest to harvest … Continue reading →