Visionary filmmaker Yeon Sang Ho (Psychokinesis) – director of the 2016 hit Train to Busan and its follow up Peninsula – is back with The Ugly, a thriller based on Yeon’s own 2018 graphic novel Face, which he also illustrated. One day while overseeing a documentary crew filming his blind father at work, Im Dong-hwan gets a phone call that his missing mother’s remains have been found after forty years. Determined to find the truth of … Continue reading →

If Jalmari Helander is the guy who’s directing the upcoming Rambo movie, then count us in! Later this year, we’ll see Sisu: Road to Revenge hit theaters. The film is Helander’s sequel to his celebrated 2022 Finnish action film, Sisu. Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, “the man who refuses to die” (Jorma Tommila) dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is … Continue reading →

Now available for pre-order exclusively from Goodie Emporium is Rising Tiger’s Limited Edition Blu-ray and DVD for The Brokenhearted, an award-winning indie thriller from writer, director and star, Leroy Nguyen (of the acclaimed Black Scar Blues). Supplies are extremely limited, given its small production on physical media. As a bonus, the first 25 copies of The Brokenhearted will be hand-signed by the director himself. So few legitimate independent, DIY-action feature … Continue reading →

Arriving in U.S. theaters in October from Neon is No Other Choice, the latest movie from visionary director Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave, Old Boy). This South Korean thriller is an adaptation Donald E. Westlake’s best-selling crime novel, The Ax (aka I Can’t Help It). After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition. No Other Choice stars Lee … Continue reading →

On August 25, 2025, 88 Films will release a Blu-ray (Region B) for Devil Fetus, a 1983 Hong Kong horror film from director Lau Hung-Chuen (Those Were the Days) and producer Lo Wei (The Big Boss). In the film, a woman becomes possessed and dies after a monster is released from an antique vase she had purchased. Twelve years later the monster

Now available is Radiance Films’ Blu-ray (A/B) for the second Shinobi collection, which includes 1964’s Siege and Return of Mist Saizo, as well as 1965’s The Last Iga Spy. Three more spectacular tales of ninja action in this continuation of the hugely influential series. This time, Raizo Ichikawa (Shinobi 1-3) stars as Mist Saizo, a ninja

South Korean superstar Gianna Jun (My Sassy Girl, Assassination) is back with a vengeance in Tempest, an upcoming series that will premier exclusively on Disney+ worldwide and on Hulu in the U.S. Tempest features an all-star cast that includes Gang Dongwon (Broker, Peninsula), John Cho (Harold & Kumar), Lee Mi-Sook (An Affair), Park