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on Life After Fighting (2024) ReviewAwesome! I remember when he said he didn’t want to do the sequel right away,…
on Life After Fighting (2024) ReviewAccording to Bren Foster, a sequel to Life After Fighting is coming! The stor…
on The King’s Warden (2026) Review12 M tickets sold. 14 M = almost sure. After that...
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.
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.
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…
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…
on Duel to the Death | Blu-ray (88 Films)Where is the 4k version? We’re waiting 😀
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…
on Dead Camping the Live (2022) ReviewThe review was based on the Korean DVD (no English subtitles unfortunately).
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…
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…
on Dead Camping the Live (2022) ReviewWhere did you view this? Can't find it anywhere. thx
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,…
on Asian DVD retailer SensAsian.com closes its doorsSad news, at least we still have YesAsia
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…
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!
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Once Upon a Time in Mexicali! Watch the New Trailer for Bren Foster’s martial arts actioner ‘Mexicali’
On March 13, 2026, Goldwyn Films is releasing Mexicali (aka The Farmer), an upcoming action film starring martial arts powerhouse Bren Foster – fresh off his acclaimed 2024 film, Life After Fighting. Ex-fighter Joe (Foster) helps run his partner Estrella’s farm in Mexico. After taking underground fights to support workers, he’s forced to defend himself and Marco when Chavez’s gang attacks them on the road. Mexicali marks the debut feature … Continue reading
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Ping Pong | Blu-ray (88 Films)
On June 23, 2026, 88 Films is releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for 2002’s Ping Pong. Adapted from Taiyo Matsumoto’s cult manga series, the debut feature of Fumihiko Sori (Vexille, Fullmetal Alchemist) is a zero-to-hero tale of friendship, dedication and sportsmanship, featuring exhilarating table-tennis battles that will make you never look at the sport in quite the same way again. Punkish ping pong prodigy Peco (Yosuke Kubozuka; Go, Silence) is on a losing … Continue reading
Martial arts screen icon Cynthia Rothrock and Tatiana Neva go nuclear in the New Trailer for ‘Prey of Wrath’
Martial arts action screen icon Cynthia Rothrock (The Blonde Fury, No Retreat No Surrender II, Righting Wrongs) returns in ITN Studios’ Prey of Wrath. Rothrock stars alongside Tatiana Neva (The Wide West), Gray Michael Sallies (Die Fighting), Louis DeStefano (A Wiseguy Christmas), Leonard Zhang (Amityville Cop) and Lovie Johnson (The Sins). Prey of Wrath (aka Lady Spetsnaz) involves an elite special forces operative who is sent by Russian Intelligence to hunt … Continue reading
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly Collection | Blu-ray (Arrow)
On April 6, 2026, Arrow is releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for Wandering Ginza Butterfly Collection, which includes 1971’s Tokyo: Wandering Ginza Butterfly and 1972’s She Cat Gambler. On the same year that she defined the action heroine with her role in the Female Prisoner Scorpion series, Japanese screen legend Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood) teamed up with future Sister Street Fighter director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi for a diptych
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The Base and The Base 2 | Blu-ray (Kino Lorber)
On May 19, 2026, Kino Lorber is releasing a Mark L. Lester (Commando, Showdown in Little Tokyo) Blu-ray double feature that includes 1999’s The Base and its 2000 sequel, The Base 2: Guilty as Charged. The Base (1999) – When an officer is gunned down on the Camp Tillman Army base, the Pentagon sends in their top Army Intelligence man, John Murphy (Mark Dacascos, John Wick 3). Murphy discovers that a … Continue reading
Which is worse: Cop killer or killer cop? ‘Drive’ director Nicolas Winding Refn to shoot ‘Maniac Cop’ this year?
Nicolas Winding Refn, the writer/director behind The Pusher Trilogy (1996-2005), 2009’s Valhalla Rising and 2011’s Drive is reportedly moving forward with his long-awaited remake of William Lustig’s 1988 cult classic, Maniac Cop. In an interview with Icons of Fright, Lustig – who is producing the remake – revealed that filming is set to begin this fall. He also confirmed that a distributor
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Always bet on WHITE! Martial arts star Michael Jai White joins Taimak in the upcoming martial arts thriller ‘Paper Made’
Martial arts star Michael Jai White (Triple Threat, Accident Man) has joined the cast of Paper Made, an upcoming thriller from writer/director Ryan Watson (Paper Line). The story centers on Tavon Watkins (Myles Truitt, Dragged Across Concrete), whose life takes a turn after a brutal hazing lands him inside an underground
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I Love Maria | 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (Shout!)
On May 26, 2026, Shout is releasing the 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray for I Love Maria, a 1988 sci-fi actioner from director David Chung Chi-Man (Royal Warriors, Magnificent Warriors). The Hero Gang, a nasty group of thugs, are terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots. But when one of the robots gets damaged during a mission to kill an outcast, an inventor on the police force takes her and … Continue reading
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Lethal human experimentation? Well Go USA goes all in with the gripping 731′ arriving on Digital April 7th
History’s darkest experiment arrives on Digital on April 7th from Well Go USA! Directed by Linshan Zhao (The Assassins), 731 (aka Evil Unbound) revolves around a real-life facility that was responsible for large-scale biological and chemical warfare research, as well as lethal human experimentation. 731 will most definitely be compared to the similarly themed 1988’s Men Behind the Sun, as being one of the most controversial movies ever made. 731 … Continue reading
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Samurai, Swords, and Steeds: Equestrian Symbolism in Japanese Cinema
Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/shallow-focus-of-a-man-and-woman-in-their-game-character-costumes-7780083/ When we think of Japanese samurai films, we often imagine that the focus is on the warrior who appears on screen, sword in hand, honor on the line, and the story unfolds through duels. But for Japanese samurai movie lovers, another presence subtly shapes the atmosphere. We’re talking about the horse. A true samurai always has a horse on his side. In many samurai stories, … Continue reading
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Donnie Yen, nuns, priests, exhumed bodies and real kung fu! Here’s what’s streaming on Hi-YAH for the month of March
Hi-YAH!, Well Go USA’s very own Asian/martial arts streaming channel has just announced their New Releases for the month of March. If you want to give Hi-YAH! a go, visitors of this site can use the promo code “CITYONFIRE” for a FREE 30 Day trial! Read on for the full list of New and Exclusive
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WTF? Watch the NEW blood-soaked Trailer for Joko Anwar’s Indonesian martial arts-horror-comedy ‘Ghost in the Cell’
Joko Anwar, the writer and director of films such as 2019’s Impetigore and Gundala, comes Ghost in the Cell, an upcoming Indonesian horror-comedy (despite being sub-labeled a comedy, this one looks brutal!). Inside a notorious prison, an unseen force begins slaughtering inmates in brutal fashion, forcing rival gangs and corrupt guards to unite in a desperate fight to survive the escalating bloodshed. The film features an ensemble cast that includes … Continue reading
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Five Major Aspects To Keep In Mind When It Comes To Picking Your Next Online Casino Platform Gambling Experience
Have you heard about how popular the online casino market has become? You have? Well, that’s fair because it is a fact. No matter which country or state’s stats you look at, you’ll notice that the figures are consistently rising in their revenue amounts. This is because online casino platforms are more accessible than ever. They are also safer and more secure than before and platforms often offer a large … Continue reading
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Born a Ninja & Commando the Ninja | Blu-ray (Visual Vengeance)
On May 12, 2026, Visual Vengeance is releasing the Blu-ray for Born a Ninja and Commando the Ninja (aka American Commando Ninja), two martial arts films from 1988 that star Meng Fei (Face Behind the Mask) – secure your copy today from Goodie Emporium! This shot-on-video martial-arts double feature from Joesph Lai and IFD Films unleashes pure 1980s ninja chaos as two unlikely heroes are dragged into a war over stolen germ-warfare secrets. … Continue reading
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How Asian Action Cinema Shaped the Modern Language of Fight Choreography Worldwide
Watch a good fight scene today and you can almost read it like a sentence. The camera shows you where the bodies are, the movement has a beat, and the action can easily tell you who is confident, who is desperate, and who is changing. That shared sense of what reads as good action did not appear by accident. It traveled. In the same way people now connect across borders … Continue reading
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