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Andrew Hernandez on Life After Fighting (2024) ReviewAwesome! I remember when he said he didn’t want to do the sequel right away,…
Guest777 on Life After Fighting (2024) ReviewAccording to Bren Foster, a sequel to Life After Fighting is coming! The stor…
Typo on The King’s Warden (2026) Review12 M tickets sold. 14 M = almost sure. After that...
Typo on War of the Arrows (2011) Review7,5/10
Muhammad Faisal on Timu(r) Genghis Khan? Don’t miss the Trailer for Well Go USA’s ‘Rise of the Conqueror’ arriving to Digital on April 14thHe looks a Persian here, not a Turko Mongol.
Ningen on Protect Ya Neck! Watch the New Trailer for RZA’s Quentin Tarantino-backed thriller ‘One Spoon Of Chocolate’Opening shot makes me think of Attack the Gas Station.
Andrew Hernandez on Martial arts screen icon Cynthia Rothrock and Tatiana Neva go nuclear in the New Trailer for ‘Prey of Wrath’This Tatiana Neva seems like a good martial artist as demonstrated in her onl…
JJ Bona on A female RAID? Livi Ciananta tears through gangsters in the New Trailer for the Iko Uwais-produced ‘Ikatan Darah’The Shadow Strays was pretty solid. Better than anything Hollywood as produce…
Vernardo Lau on A female RAID? Livi Ciananta tears through gangsters in the New Trailer for the Iko Uwais-produced ‘Ikatan Darah’Ugh actually, Indonesia are lacking of action movies since they mostly domina…
Typo on James Wan to direct remake of ‘The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil’ with Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee) reprising his roleAnother useless remake. Next!
Tai on Duel to the Death | Blu-ray (88 Films)Where is the 4k version? We’re waiting 😀
Millan on Nothing is over! Sylvester Stallone steps in as Executive Producer for Jalmari Helander’s ‘John Rambo’ prequelTHE RAID films easily blow away the JOHN WICK films,along with THE FAST AND T…
Paul Bramhall on Dead Camping the Live (2022) ReviewThe review was based on the Korean DVD (no English subtitles unfortunately).
Martin Fennell on To Kill with Intrigue (1976) ReviewI got it out of the library. I had to look up on imdb which guy was Jackie. W…
Throwdown on This you can trust… Christopher McQuarrie to write and direct Arnold Schwarzenegger in ‘King Conan’?I can see how a powerful and elegiac sendoff, like Logan, with Conan reckonin…
Sixx on Dead Camping the Live (2022) ReviewWhere did you view this? Can't find it anywhere. thx
Kung Fu Bob O'Brien on This you can trust… Christopher McQuarrie to write and direct Arnold Schwarzenegger in ‘King Conan’?YES! I want this! If they do it right, playing him as ruggedly aged, slower,…
Andrew Hernandez on Jade (2025) ReviewI saw that Jade is on Hi-Yah, and I watched it preparing for a bad movie with…
Martin Fennell on The Black Panther of Shaolin | Blu-ray (AGFA)I just watched this. Thought it was pretty average, but good fight sequences.…
Dawud on Asian DVD retailer SensAsian.com closes its doorsSad news, at least we still have YesAsia
Typo on G.I. Samurai | Blu-ray (Arrow)The new artwork is pretry good (you can recognize the actors, not like in som…
Andrew Hernandez on Witness Japan’s most lethal assassin in a NEW action clip from Well Go USA’s ‘Revolver Lily’ arriving on Digital Jan 17It was a pretty good movie. I liked the visuals and how everything was shot a…
Tory on Once Upon a Time in Mexicali! Watch the New Trailer for Bren Foster’s martial arts actioner ‘Mexicali’The good shit! Yeah, you can always see stuff like The Wild Bunch, The Getawa…
Pap on Always bet on WHITE! Martial arts star Michael Jai White joins Taimak in the upcoming martial arts thriller ‘Paper Made’Damn, Taimak? I can't wait to check it out!
Ningen on The Killer | 4K Ultra HD (Shout)Theatrical trailer. https://youtu.be/UBjnv3C-g5o?si=apNtaGvAcQfSJHhr
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Jackie Chan takes it easy in the Trailer for ‘Namiya’
If you’re a Jackie Chan fan who can’t wait to see him in action, his appearance in Han Jie’s upcoming fantasy, Namiya, probably won’t be on your must-watch list. Based on Keigo Higashino’s novel Miracles of the Namiya General Store, the film follows three orphaned youths who stumble upon a letter slipped under the door as they hide out in a food store. They write a response thus beginning a correspondence with people … Continue reading
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A sequel to ‘Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai’ in the works?
A sequel to Jim Jarmusch’s 1999 action film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is apparently in-the-works, at least according to musician / actor / director, RZA. The original film starred Forest Whitaker (Bloodsport) as a modern day samurai employed by the mafia as a hit man. The movie is highly influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï, and is known for its references to Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill. Here’s the scoop from RZA himself, according to BMD … Continue reading
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Legend of the Naga Pearls | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)
RELEASE DATE: January 30, 2018 Ready for a heavy dose of fantasy-infused martial arts action? If so, then Yang Lei’s Legend of the Naga Pearls is right up your alley. And even more – Well Go USA is releasing its Blu-ray & DVD on January 30, 2018. Legend of the Naga Pearls stars Darren Wang (Railroad Tigers), Crystal Zhang (The Founding of an Army), Sheng Guansen (City Monkey), Simon Yam (The Midnight … Continue reading
Longstreet: Complete Series | DVD (Visual Entertainment)
RELEASE DATE: December 1, 2017 On December 1, 2017, North American distributers, Visual Entertainment, will release the DVD for the complete Longstreet series (including TV movie), a semi-obscure ABC TV show that aired in 1971-72. Longstreet follows the adventures of Mike Longstreet (James Franciscus), a blind insurance investigator who’s on a mission to capture the people responsible for killing both his wife and his ability to see. For kung fu cinema fans, Longstreet … Continue reading
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‘Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler’ offers cryptic look into modern society
Reuniting the colorful cast of the much-loved Death Note (2006), Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009) is a manga adaptation which presents the story of a young protagonist rife with debt, doing whatever he can to pay back the money he owes. Kaiji Ito (played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) finds himself in heaps of debt, and then Rinko Endo (Yuko Amami) cons him into boarding a ship to play a game to … Continue reading
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Ready for the edge of tomorrow on a fury road in ‘Pathfinder’
Zhang Xiaobei, the writer of An Inaccurate Memoir and Time to Love, is making his directorial debut with a sci-fi actioner that bears resemblance to popular films such as Alien/Aliens, Mad Max, and even features powered exoskeleton suits, as seen in recent productions like Elysium and Edge of Tomorrow. So what can be expected of the film’s plot – who cares!? With an aforementioned description like that, you’ve probably already made up your mind whether you wanna see it, right? The film stars … Continue reading
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Deal on Fire! The Deadly Duo | Blu-ray | Only $9.82 – Expires soon!
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for 1971’s The Deadly Duo, directed by Chang Cheh (Five Element Ninjas), It’s the Sung Dynasty versus the Chin invaders as David Chiang (New One-Armed Swordsman) and Ti Lung (The Pirate) truly hit their stride with this crowd-pleasing kung fu epic. When a handsome prince is taken captive and guarded by a martial arts master, it’s up to two powerful patriots to fight … Continue reading
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Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Wu Jing, Sammo Hung & Tony Jaa are ‘GSD’
Back in September, rumors were running wild that Jet Li (League of Gods), Donnie Yen (Kung Fu Jungle) and Wu Jing (Wolf Warrior II) would be getting together for a project. It looks like those rumors were true, plus more (plus less)… The project is a short film titled GSD, or Gong Shou Dao, which is derived from and influenced by Taiji, kung fu, and martial arts. The meaning represented in Chinese characters roughly translate into … Continue reading
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‘Headshot’ star Sunny Pang shines bright in ‘Diamond Dogs’
Gavin Lim, director of the acclaimed-short film Subtitle, is getting ready to unleash his full feature debut with Diamond Dogs, a martial arts thriller starring Headshot star, Sunny Pang. A stage three cancer diagnosis leaves deaf and mute Johnny with little to lose when he is lured into a deadly underground social experiment. Funded by the uber rich, it pits fighters against one another in a test of animalistic aggression and adrenaline. … Continue reading
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CJ Entertainment to adapt French book ‘The Vanished’
CJ Entertainment, South Korea’s leading entertainment conglomerate, announced today that the company will produce a feature film adaption of best-selling French nonfiction book The Vanished for the U.S. market. The Vanished deal comes on the heels of CJ Entertainment revealing its plan last month to produce and release a minimum of 20 local films overseas in more than 10 languages annually by 2020. The deal also marks the second French novel … Continue reading
‘Oldboy’ star Choi Min-Sik gets his ‘Heart Blackened’
On November 10, 2017, CJ Entertainment will be releasing Heart Blackened to theaters. The film is a South Korean thriller directed by Jung Ji-Woo (Fourth Place). A man (Choi Min-Sik of Oldboy and Admiral: Roaring Currents) who has everything risks it all in order to protect his daughter, who becomes a suspect in his fiancée’s murder. Heart Blackened also stars Park Shin-Hye (The Beauty Inside), Ryoo Joon-Yeol (A Taxi Driver) and Lee Honey (Fabricated City). … Continue reading
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‘Ip Man 3’ star Max Zhang is Jeff Lau’s ‘Heavyweight Assassin’
Veteran Hong Kong director/writer Jeff Lau (Treasure Hunt) is currently putting finishing touches on Assassins and the Missing Gold (aka Heavyweight Assassin), a martial arts film starring Max Zhang (SPL 2), Ada Choi (Fist of Legend), Andy On (Outcast) and Hung Yan Yan (Double Team), who is also handling the film’s action choreography. Assassins and the Missing Gold is about a group of assassins attempting to track down a stash of hidden gold, according to … Continue reading
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Black Eagle | Blu-ray & DVD (MVD Rewind)
RELEASE DATE: February 27, 2018 The MVD Rewind Collection have announced an upcoming 2-Disc Blu-ray/DVD release for Black Eagle, a 1988 actioner starring Sho Kosugi (9 Deaths of the Ninja) and Jean-Claude Van Damme (Kill ’em All). The film is directed by cult director Eric Karson, who helmed Chuck Norris’ The Octagon and Olivier Gruner’s Angel Town. One of the US Air Force’s most modern tactical aircrafts, a F-100 with … Continue reading
Schwarzenegger’s ‘Killing Gunther’ hits Blu-ray in December
After decades of muscle-bound mayhem, Arnold Schwarzenegger still continues to pump out the goods in a consistent manner. Although he may not be the box office sensation he once was in the 80s and 90s, he’s still giving the fans what they desire most: Action. After a couple of serious outings (Aftermath, Maggie) – and fresh off his recent announcement to reunite with James Cameron for a future Terminator movie – Schwarzenegger gets back to blowin’ … Continue reading
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