Unfortunately, it looks like the studios are using early May as a dumping ground for their cheap 3-pack Blu-ray sets. Oh well, maybe we’ll find a deal in here somewhere. Here are your Blu-ray and DVD releases for the week of 5/1/12: ASIAN CINEMA Fight the Fight (DVD) – Lionsgate brings the 2011 Chinese-language martial arts film known as “Choy Lee Fut” to Region 1 DVD. Starring Sammo Hung and … Continue reading →

Ace martial artist and actor Scott Adkins has updated his website with a new photo gallery from his upcoming film El Gringo which he is currently filming in Baten Rouge. The film also stars Christian Slater (Broken Arrow) and is produced by Joel Silver’s After Dark Pictures, one of their first ventures into action cinema. Scott is looking bad-ass in these new pics! Updates: After Dark Films’ new poster for … Continue reading →

The 3D release of James Camerons’ Titanic didn’t exactly make waves in the United States, but over in China it earned a whopping $58 million US dollars its first weekend back in theaters. The IMAX 3D re-release of the Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet-starring movie underscores just how well the IMAX format is doing in China. Although only 12 films were released in Chinese IMAX theaters this year, it is … Continue reading →

Long for the days when Dario Argento was unleashing his atmospherically-colored Italian terrors like Suspiria and Inferno onto the world? Well, you’re not alone, but Argentinean director Javier Diment may have us covered. Twitch Film has the full-length trailer for his new film La Memoria Del Muerto and it looks like a promising throwback to the glory days of the giallo. Unfortunately, not much is known about the plot or … Continue reading →

This Thursday, April 19th, the Cannes Film Festival announces its official lineup for 2012. A few days later, the film selection at the independent Directors’ Fortnight will be revealed. Website Film Business Asia speculates whether the new curator, Edouard Waintrop, will showcase any Mainland Chinese films at the Directors’ Fortnight. The article laments the fact that, in the past, the Cannes Film Festival has favored independent Chinese cinema to the … Continue reading →

Design of Death looks to be one of the most difficult to categorize Chinese movies on the horizon. Billed as a dark and absurd comedy, the film is based off the novel by Chen Tiejun and chronicles what happens to a village outcast when he is trapped by his fellow townspeople in an elaborate death maze. Over at Chinese Films, you can scope out the first trailer. Design of Death … Continue reading →

Dark Castle Entertainment’s foray into action cinema continues with Stash House, a new pulse-pounding thriller starring action icon Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV, The Expendables). Sean Faris of Never Back Down fame stars as a young husband who thinks he’s just bought his wife the perfect home – secluded, fortified, and safe inside a gated community. They discover only too late that a large stash of heroin has been sequestered away … Continue reading →

Beyond Hollywood has the scoop on a disturbing new movie out of China/Singapore, called Hotel69. Director Oman Dhaz’s film looks to trade in the ultra-transgressive territory of pictures like A Serbian Film and Human Centipede. The trailer features plenty of NSFW imagery and even has a quote from Aristotle. Here’s the synopsis: “A psychopath pimp takes revenge on a man by luring him into a depraved brothel, where a sexual … Continue reading →

April is winding down but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of Blu-ray and DVDs to get excited about. So let’s get cracking! Here are your Blu-ray and DVD releases for the week of 4/24/12: ASIAN CINEMA Let the Bullets Fly (Blu-ray/DVD) – Well Go USA presents this smash hit 2011 Chinese-language action-comedy starring Chow Yun Fat and director/actor Jiang Wen. Imagine an ultra-bloody Chinese homage to spaghetti Westerns and … Continue reading →

The official lineup for the 2012 Cannes Film Festival was announced yesterday and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the list is a bit sparse when it comes to Asian films. Website Film Business Asia has previously examined the difficulty Chinese filmmakers face in making it into Cannes. Regardless, there are a few Asian or Asian-related movies to look forward to this May 16. IN COMPETITION In Another Country – Korean director Hong Sang-soo’s (Night … Continue reading →