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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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Eleven Samurai DVD (Animeigo)
RELEASE DATE: November 6, 2012 Animeigo presents the DVD for Eleven Samurai. Eiichi Kudo, the director of the original The Thirteen Assassins, closes his chapter of the Samurai Revolution trilogy with Eleven Samurai. The plot is very similar to the previous films in the trilogy (The Thirteen Assassins and The Great Duel), which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
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Watch out for the ‘Boulevard Warriors’ – watch the extended trailer!
Rene Carson and Hand Media presents a new martial arts documentary titled Boulevard Warriors (aka Home Made Kung Fu). Through a series of interviews, movie clips and historical documents, this documentary tracks a history that evolved from a combination of natural ability, the desire for change, societal exclusion, and basic human instinct. The search for power, hope, identity, haphazard entertainment, reflective heroes and respect, triggered a confluence of events that … Continue reading
Watch Gyllenhaal and Pena bust hella caps in ‘End of Watch’ – another new trailer
THE MOVIE: David Ayer – the award-winning writer of The Fast and the Furious, Training Day, Dark Blue, S.W.A.T., and writer/director of Street Kings and Harsh Times – is back with End of Watch. This time, Ayer is teaming up with Source Code’s Jake Gyllenhaal and World Trade Center’s Michael Pena to bring you another tale of cops, gangsters, drugs, money and firearms. Lots of ’em. Judging from the trailer, End … Continue reading
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Phantom: The Submarine (1999) Review
Director: Min Byeong-Cheon Cast: Choi Min-Su, Jeong Wu-Seong, Yun Ju-Sang, Son Byeong-Ho, Go Dong-Up, Han Ban-Do, Park Gil-Su, Seol Gyeong-Gu, Jeong Eun-Pyo Running Time: 110 min. By Equinox21 Well, Crimson Tide this ain’t. Phantom: The Submarine and Crimson Tide have very similar plots, with obvious major differences between them. They both take place on nuclear submarines where the Captain attempts to launch nuclear missiles. In Crimson Tide there’s good motivation … Continue reading
Midnight FM DVD (Cinema Asia Releasing)
RELEASE DATE: October 23, 2012 Cinema Asia Releasing presents the DVD for Midnight FM. When her young daughter needs a surgical operation overseas, a popular radio DJ calls it quits and broadcasts her final show. But during this broadcast, things go awry when a mysterious caller starts giving her orders and threatens her family if she rejects him. Check out the trailer.
Troubleshooter DVD (Cinema Asia Releasing)
RELEASE DATE: October 23, 2012 Cinema Asia Releasing presents the DVD for Troubleshooter. Ex-detective, now private eye, Kang Tae-Sik (Sol Kyung-Gu) enters a love motel to take pictures of a couple for an unknown client. Kang Tae-Sik is then shocked to discover a bloody slain woman on the bed. Kang Tae-Sik flees the scene when the police arrive and mistakenly believes he is the killer. Check out the trailer.
Nicolas Cage has ‘Stolen’ from ‘Taken’
I couldn’t resist the play on words, but the headline to this post is far-fetched. It’s not like Taken was the first movie to revolve around a father – a skilled badass – who has to save his daughter from a bunch of assholes (remember Commando?). Directed by The Expendables 2’s Simon West, Stolen stars Nicolas Cage as a former thief who frantically searches for his missing daughter. Turns out, she … Continue reading
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Prometheus Blu-ray + Blu-ray 3D & DVD (20th Century Fox)
RELEASE DATE: October 11, 2012 20th Century Fox presents the Blu-ray + Blu-ray 3D & DVD for Prometheus. Ridley Scott, director of Alien and Blade Runner, returns to the genre he helped define. With Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a … Continue reading
Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku DVD Set (Criterion Collection)
RELEASE DATE: November 20, 2012 Criterion Collection presents the DVD set for Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku. Following years of a certain radioactive rubber beast’s domination of the box office, many Japanese studios tried to replicate the formula with their own brands of monster movies. One of the most fascinating dives into that fiendish deep end was the short-lived one from Shochiku, a studio better known for its … Continue reading
Rashomon Blu-ray & DVD (Criterion Collection)
RELEASE DATE: November 6, 2012 Criterion Collection presents their new editions of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon on Blu-ray & DVD. The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove seen from four different perspectives. Toshiro Mifune explodes as the feral bandit who may or may not be guilty of these crimes. Watch the trailer.
Heaven’s Gate Blu-ray & DVD (Criterion Collection)
RELEASE DATE: November 20, 2012 Criterion Collection presents Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate on Blu-ray & DVD. This controversial Western is based on the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s. It stars Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Mickey Rourke, Willem Dafoe and many more. Check out the trailer.
The Duellists Blu-ray (Shout! Factory)
RELEASE DATE: January 29, 2013 Shout! Factory presents the Blu-ray for Ridley Scott’s The Duellists. Set during the Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity. The two officers, D’Hubert (Keith Carradine) and Feraud (Harvey Keitel), cross swords time and time again in an attempt to preserve their honor. Check out the trailer.
Wu Tang: The Iron Fist Blu-ray 25-Film Collection (First Look Pictures)
RELEASE DATE: November 6, 2012 First Look Pictures presents the Wu Tang: The Iron Fist Blu-ray Collection. If anyone knows what 25 films are contained in this set, please let us know (in the meantime, see comments below). They’re obviously a bunch of old school flicks packaged together to capitalize on RZA’s upcoming The Man with the Iron Fists. Please check back for details.
Slice DVD (Asian Media Rights)
RELEASE DATE: October 23, 2012 Asian Media Rights presents the DVD for Slice, a thriller directed by Kongkiat Komesiri (Muay Thai Chaiya). When sliced up bodies packed in suit cases start to show up, police desperately try to find the killer. A former hit man (Arak Amornsupasiri) tries to help solve the murders with a detective (Chatchai Plengpanich). Check out the trailer.
Posted in Asian Titles, DVD/Blu-ray New Releases
Tokyo Playboy Club DVD (Asian Media Rights)
RELEASE DATE: October 23, 2012 Asian Media Rights presents the DVD for Tokyo Playboy Club. When Katsutoshi finds trouble at work and hides out at his friend’s titular nightclub, lives intersect. Starring Ichi the Killer’s Nao Omori. Beyond Hollywood says it “strongly resembles something cult legend Takashi Miike would have crafted during his hungrier days”. Check out the trailer.











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