Has South Korea remade Abel Ferrara’s 1992 cult classic film Bad Lieutenant? Not quite, but close… Action director Lee Jeong-beom (Man from Nowhere, No Tears for the Dead) is back with his very own Bad Lieutenant (aka Bad Police), which follows a bad police officer (The Advocate: A Missing Body’s Lee Sun-Kyun) as he confronts an even more vicious society. The upcoming film (we’ve since then have reviewed it) also stars Jeon So-Nee (After My Death), Park Hae-Joon (Heart … Continue reading →

Vertical Entertainment will be releasing the action-thriller film Message Man (aka Kill Vengeance) in U.S. digital platforms on February 26. Premiere Entertainment Group had licensed the revenge film to Vertical last September during TIFF. Read the official details below: The film, which stars Paul O’Brien and Verdi Solaiman, follows an ex-hitman (O’Brien) whose violent brutality resurfaces when his past catches up to him, leading the assassin on one final killing spree … Continue reading →

We love Netflix. In fact, we love it a lot. Why? Because it brings us a lot of original content! Furthermore, it also has a few acquired shows in its library, like the classic but timeless Friends. We just had to do a little digging to find out what to expect this year. Below, we list the movies and TV shows coming to Netflix in 2019. Enjoy. Netflix Movies and … Continue reading →

For movie lovers around the world, 2018 was a very good year! Think Black Panther, Aquaman, A Quiet Place, Avengers: Infinity War and many others that were real hits. We had a mixed bag of everything, including horror, thrillers and mainly superhero movies. In fact, there was something for everyone. And trust us, 2019 is actually an awesome year. In this article, we feature the top 5 movie releases of … Continue reading →

While promoting his latest movie, The New King of Comedy, Hong Kong superstar Stephen Chow (Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, The Mermaid) confirmed that the long-runoured sequel to his 2004 box office hit Kung Fu Hustle is in-the-works. Chow said Kung Fu Hustle 2 will be a modern-day kung fu tale in a foreign country that will stand independent from the first film (via JS). The original took place in Shanghai, China in the 1940s, and followed a … Continue reading →

Hong Kong superstar Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) is back with a sequel to his 1999 seminal comedy hit, The King of Comedy, which he co-directed with Lee Lik-chi (God of Cookery). The sequel, titled The New King of Comedy, stars Wang Baoqiang (Monk Comes Down the Mountain), Yao Chen (Firestorm), Bruce Leung (The Fists, the Kicks and the Evil) and Lin Yun (The Mermaid). The film tells the story of an young woman who is dreaming … Continue reading →

Men Suddenly in Black and Dream Home filmmaker Pang Ho-Cheung is taking a stab at the martial arts genre with the popular wuxia series, Deer and Cauldron, which he’ll produce and direct. According to Variety (via AFS), the film will be set in the Qing Dynasty era, and ranging widely in a fashion comparable to Harry Potter or the Game of Thrones series, the books were written some 70 years ago by Louis Cha (aka Jin Rong), … Continue reading →

Japanese filmmaker Kazuaki Kiriya (Casshern) is set to direct The Mourner – based on script by Robin Shushan (AMC’s Feed the Beast) – adapted from the Japanese novel Itamu Hito by Arata Tendo. The Mourner follows a jaded homicide detective who undergoes a spiritual awakening upon meeting a mystical young man (Ezra Miller of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) whose calling in life is to mourn the dead who have no one else … Continue reading →

The good news: Titles from Johnnie To’s long-awaited Milkway Image film catalogue will finally be arriving on Blu-ray, thanks to French-based company Spectrum films. Spectrum will begin the launch with three of Milkway’s most popular films: 1998’s The Longest Nite, A Hero Never Dies and Expect the Unexpected – exact date to be determined, but expected this year. And now, the bad news: As with the A Hero Never Dies Japanese Blu-ray, the Spectrum Blu-rays will not have English … Continue reading →

Longtime James Cameron fans who have watched his post-Titanic career with curiosity know that the director has long mulled over a live-action adaptation of Kishiro Yukito’s manga Alita: Battle Angel, but it was another case where Cameron was waiting for technology to catch up with his vision – that is – until it was announced that Robert Rodriguez (Machete) would be helming the project with Cameron producing. Rodriguez is currently putting finishing touches on Alita: … Continue reading →