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- Andrew Hernandez on The Prosecutor (2024) ReviewI just watched The Prosecutor, and I liked it very much. I thought it was goo…
- dakuan on Jason Statham ‘n ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Fusion? Watch the Trailer for the Sly-penned actioner from director David Ayerlooks boring, and even if it wasn't the trailer already tells the whole story…
- Andrew Hernandez on Jason Statham ‘n ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Fusion? Watch the Trailer for the Sly-penned actioner from director David AyerI like this trailer. I thought Statham and Ayer were doing The Beekeeper 2, a…
- Scott Robinson on I will find someone with whom you can fight…. Bolo! Watch the New Trailer for ‘Chinese Hercules: The Bolo Yeung Story’Fuck Bolo.
- JJ Bona on I will find someone with whom you can fight…. Bolo! Watch the New Trailer for ‘Chinese Hercules: The Bolo Yeung Story’Exactly. I do like some of the content the Pop Cult Master website puts out.…
- Andrew Hernandez on I will find someone with whom you can fight…. Bolo! Watch the New Trailer for ‘Chinese Hercules: The Bolo Yeung Story’That was a rabbit hole I didn’t care too much for. I don’t know what that bas…
- Paul Bramhall on I will find someone with whom you can fight…. Bolo! Watch the New Trailer for ‘Chinese Hercules: The Bolo Yeung Story’I was enjoying that until I suddenly came across someone in the comments refe…
- Danny De Veto on I will find someone with whom you can fight…. Bolo! Watch the New Trailer for ‘Chinese Hercules: The Bolo Yeung Story’Strange that it took so long for the doc to be vetoed by Bolo. The timing is…
- Paul Bramhall on The Prosecutor (2024) ReviewMore like chunks. Substantial chunks.
- paul taggart on The Prosecutor (2024) Reviewugh courtroom drama bits?
- Andrew Hernandez on The Prosecutor (2024) ReviewYeah, no actor is immune to making a movie that sucks, but I would say Donnie…
- Tony G on The Prosecutor (2024) ReviewGood one haha
- John Doe on The Prosecutor (2024) ReviewHoly Night: Demon Hunters
- JJ Bona on The Prosecutor (2024) ReviewDon "the Dragon" Wilson has been consistent.
- Tony G on The Prosecutor (2024) ReviewIt's getting mostly good reviews everywhere so I'm not surprised, even though…
- Tony G on The Prosecutor (2024) ReviewInconsistent filmographies applies to every actor and director these days. It…
- dakuan on Don Lee vs demons? Watch the Trailer for the upcoming South Korean action thriller ‘Holy Night: Demon Hunters’should have called it The Roundup 5 and finally take the franchise into Fast…
- KayKay on Don Lee vs demons? Watch the Trailer for the upcoming South Korean action thriller ‘Holy Night: Demon Hunters’Be it zombies on a train, mutants in a post apocalyptic wasteland, scumbags i…
- KayKay on Don Lee vs demons? Watch the Trailer for the upcoming South Korean action thriller ‘Holy Night: Demon Hunters’Be it zombies on a train, mutants in a post apocalyptic wasteland or scumbags…
- KayKay on The Prosecutor (2024) ReviewAs always a great review Paul, especially since I agree with so much of it:-)…
- Andrew Hernandez on Don Lee vs demons? Watch the Trailer for the upcoming South Korean action thriller ‘Holy Night: Demon Hunters’I like the look of it. It almost has a 2002 (The HK film) thing going for it…
- Andrew Hernandez on The Prosecutor (2024) ReviewI’m glad this review and Kaykay’s has some good things to report. It’s intere…
- Ska Martes on The Prosecutor (2024) ReviewGlad to see this got a positive review. Yen's work has been so inconsistent a…
- Red on Korea goes full Nunsploitation! Watch the Trailer for Well Go USA’s ‘Dark Nuns’ (aka ‘The Priests 2’) in theaters in FebruaryI will be driving from Toronto Canada to see it in the states when it comes o…
- Leroy Nguyen on The bad boy of Indie action films is back! Leroy Nguyen’s award-winning ‘The Brokenhearted’ now on Prime VideoTry here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brokenhearted-Leroy-Nguyen/dp/B0CW6KK3JP?d…
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Gunfire, bullets, explosions and more gunfire…
… and that’s seriously all we know about this upcoming war film, titled The Warriors.
Attack on Titan: Part 2 | Blu-ray & DVD (Funimation)
RELEASE DATE: December 6, 2016 Funimation presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Shinji Higuchi’s live-action adaptation of Attack on Titan: Part 2. Attack on Titan: Part 2 (read our reviews for Part I and Part II) takes place in a strange, quasi-medieval world in which giant humanoid creatures named Titans appear and threaten the lives of everyday people. Civilization’s only line of defense against the Titans are teenage soldiers who traverse … Continue reading
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno | Blu-ray & DVD (Funimation)
RELEASE DATE: December 6, 2016 Funimation presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Keishi Ohtomo’s Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno, starring Takeru Satoh (Goemon), Emi Takei (Ai to Makoto), Yusuke Iseya (13 Assassins), Munetaka Aoki (Time Traveller) and Yu Aoi (Space Pirate Captain Harlock). Former assassin Kenshin Himura and his friends are called back into action when a ghost from the past era rises to wreak havoc across Japan. Makoto Shishio, another ex-assassin, … Continue reading
Remake of the Shaw classic ‘Magic Blade’ gets a teaser poster
Celestial is partnering with the newly-established Tencent Pictures to produce yet another Shaw Brothers remake titled Moonlight Blade, a re-working of Chor Yuen’s The Magic Blade, a 1976 swordfight-filled martial arts film starring Ti Lung (The Pirate) and Lo Lieh (Bruce’s Deadly Fingers). Tencent has hired Xu Haofeng (The Master) to direct the project, which he will shoot when he wraps up his current project, Hidden Blade. Xu made a name for himself … Continue reading
Looking for some blow? Find it in the ‘Blowback’ action short!
City on Fire is proud to present the action-packed short for Robert Yahnke’s Blowback, which is currently available to watch right now at no charge – and they say nothing is free anymore, not true! In Blowback, a spy breaks up with his girlfriend after another false accusation of infidelity, and in her rage, she discovers his true occupation as a spy and blows his cover to the arms dealer who is looking … Continue reading
Deal on Fire! Jet Li’s Fearless | Blu-ray | Only $6.92 – Expires soon!
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for Jet Li’s Fearless, directed by one of Hong Kong’s best filmmakers, Ronny Yu (The Bride with White Hair, Legacy of Rage) and featuring martial arts action by legendary choreographer Yuen Woo Ping (Magnificent Butcher, The Matrix). Fearless also stars Collin Chou (Special ID), Dong Yong (The Lost Bladesman), Chen Zhi Hui (14 Blades), Nakamura Shidou (Red Cliff), Nathan Jones (Muay Thai Giant), as well as a special appearance by Hong … Continue reading
Into the Badlands: Season One | Blu-ray (Anchor Bay)
RELEASE DATE: November 8, 2016 Anchor Bay presents the Blu-ray for Into the Badlands: Season One, starring Hong Kong film star Daniel Wu (Purple Storm, Shinjuku Incident) and Aramis Knight (Ender’s Game, Billy Boy). Set in a world centuries from now, Into the Badlands: Season One focuses on the spiritual journey of Sunny (Wu) and M.K. (Knight), a teenage boy who harbors a unique ability, and their growing relationship as teacher and student. Both discover their … Continue reading
Will Donnie Yen, Andy Lau and Chow Yun-Fat be ‘Invincible’?
During the 2015 Hong Kong Filmart, a new movie celebrating Wong Jing’s 100th film as a director, titled The Invincible 12 (aka Dirty Dozen), was announced. The plan was to cast 12 leading men whom he worked with previously. The actors he was considering include Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Huang Xiao Ming, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Ekin Cheng, Daniel Wu, Shawn Yue, Nicholas Tse and Tony Leung Ka Fai. Wong stated that The Invincible 12 would … Continue reading
Martial arts star Conan Lee to make a comeback in ‘MMA’
Martial arts star Conan Lee (Cyprus Tigers) – an actor known for the Hong Kong classics Ninja in the Dragon’s Den and Tiger on the Beat, and Hollywood films such as Eliminators, Armed Response and Lethal Weapon 4 – is making a comeback in MMA, an upcoming film he’s directing, writing and also starring in. According to SA, MMA is a semi-autobiographical tale about an action star “who is more than willing to put his career on hold to care for his ailing mother. He … Continue reading
Fists of Fury: Collector’s Edition | Blu-ray (Shout! Factory)
RELEASE DATE: December 6, 2016 Shout! Factory presents the Collector’s Edition Blu-ray for Fists of Fury (aka The Big Boss), featuring an all-new 4K scan and restoration from the film’s original negative. Fists of Fury stars martial arts legend Bruce Lee as Cheng Chao-an, a young man that moves to Thailand to take a job in an ice factory. One day, when a block of ice is cracked open, two co-workers find out … Continue reading
The Chinese Connection: Collector’s Edition | Blu-ray (Shout! Factory)
RELEASE DATE: December 6, 2016 Shout! Factory presents the Collector’s Edition Blu-ray for The Chinese Connection (aka Fist of Fury), featuring an all-new 4K scan and restoration from the film’s original negative. In The Chinese Connection Chen Zhen (Bruce Lee) returns to Shanghai to attend the funeral of his teacher. He vows to uncover what happened to his mentor and all signs point to the local Japanese Marital Arts school who have been … Continue reading
New ‘Magnificent 7’ Japanese poster is magnificent…
A remake of John Sturges 1960 classic, The Magnificent Seven, is shooting to theaters on September 23, 2016. Antoine Fuqua (The Equalizer) is directing the film, which is based off a script by John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) and Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective). The original The Magnificent Seven (read our review) – a remake itself of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai – starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert … Continue reading
Jackie Chan’s ‘Shanghai Dawn’ gets a dynamite filmmaker
It’s been over ten years since the release of 2003’s Shanghai Knights – and, indeed, it’s strange to reflect back on a time when Donnie Yen’s most high-profile gigs included a cameo in a Jackie Chan Hollywood movie – and rumors of a sequel have been long dormant. The franchise, which saw Jackie Chan’s Imperial guard teaming up with Owen Wilson’s laconic outlaw, was always viewed as something of an … Continue reading
Ultimate trailer for David Lam and Louis Koo’s ‘S-Storm’
Director David Lam (Street Angels) and superstar Louis Koo (The White Storm) are back with S-Storm, the sequel to 2014’s Z-Storm. S-Storm follows the further predicaments of William Luk Che Lim (Koo) – a lead investigator in the ICAC unit (Independent Commission Against Corruption) – and his war with naughty organizations. S-Storm features a mix of new and returning stars that include Julian Cheung (Flying Daggers), Vic Chou (Detective Gui), Ada Choi … Continue reading
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins | Blu-ray & DVD (Funimation)
RELEASE DATE: November 1, 2016 Funimation presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Keishi Ohtomo’s Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (aka Rurouni Kenshin, read our review), starring Takeru Satoh (Goemon), Emi Takei (Ai to Makoto), Kofi Kikkawa (Sword of Desperation) and Yu Aoi (Space Pirate Captain Harlock). When the sadistic drug lord Kanryu threatens the beautiful kendo instructor Kaoru, Kenshin can no longer stand idly by. Together with his street fighter comrade Sanosuke, Kenshin sets his … Continue reading
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