For those of you looking to beef up your Asian cinema or martial arts Blu-ray/DVD collection, it’s going to be one hell of a month! Since March is filled with so many high profile releases, we decided to put together a list of movies that every cityonfire.com visitor should know about: Wong Kar Wai, Van Damme, Korean remakes/originals, Jackie Chan, Akira Kurosawa, Cung Le, Dolph Lundgren, Takeshi Kitano, Exploitation, B-movies, Indie … Continue reading →

Zomboobies! is an upcoming boobs-to-the-walls horror-comedy. It combines a love for insane Japanese horror movies with traditional creature FX, modern digital FX, comedy, action, drama, gore and of course boobies! Zomboobies! stars Cathy Shim (Oishi High School Battle), Marisa Tayui (Balls of Fury), Diana Toshiko (Bad Milo) and Greg Watanabe (Only the Brave). In conjunction with the new full length trailer, Mike L. Taylor, the film’s director and creator, launched … Continue reading →

There’s a new rumor going around that The Wachowski siblings – the duo behind The Matrix, Cloud Atlas and the upcoming Jupiter Ascending – are in the process of developing a new trilogy of Matrix films. Latino Review broke the news with this information: We’ve been told that the Wachowski’s have already started the writing process with early treatments and outlines already turned into the studio. No word if they … Continue reading →

Despite Dredd’s dreadful box office reception, Blu-ray and DVD sales for violent comic book adaptation have been sky rocketing. So now, Lionsgate has been having conversations about a Dredd sequel with Karl Urban, screenwriter Alex Garland and director Peter Travis – who are all reprising their talents, if the sequel happens. From Screen Rant: Urban said what we’ve been saying since the film first released: that the studio completely fumbled its marketing and theatrical … Continue reading →

Tired of the new and want the old? Currently on Amazon.com is a string of Hong Kong Retro Cinema flicks from Asian Crush – all remastered and subtitled. Titles include John Woo’s Last Hurrah for Chivalry, Lau Ching Wan’s Return to a Better Tomorrow, Stephen Chow’s Fight Back to School and many more! Asian Crush also has a variety of newer films, including ones from Korea and Japan. Many of the … Continue reading →

Why go straight-to-DVD when you can go straight-to-Redbox? That’s right. Steven Seagal’s Dark Vengeance will be making its debut to Redbox on February 27th. And, not to mislead you, but Dark Vengeance isn’t exactly a new “movie” per se – it’s actually two episodes of Seagal’s TV series True Justice merged together to make a 90-minute (or so) presentation, hence the trailer. Here’s the plot according to Expendables Premiere: Seattle’s darkest … Continue reading →

THE MOVIE: When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman (Gina Carano) sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible. In the Blood is directed by John Stockwell (Into the Blue) and stars Gina Carano, Stephen Lang, Luis Guzman, Amaury Nolasco, Cam Gigandet, Danny Trejo, Treat Williams, Ismael Cruz Cordova and Yvette Yates. Updates: “This role will showcase not only Gina’s fighting skills, … Continue reading →