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on 88 Films upholds their legacy with a Deluxe Blu-ray for Ronny Yu and Brandon Lee’s 1986 revenge thriller ‘Legacy of Rage’I couldn’t get into Legacy of Rage because of how slow the movie is. The Woo…
on 88 Films upholds their legacy with a Deluxe Blu-ray for Ronny Yu and Brandon Lee’s 1986 revenge thriller ‘Legacy of Rage’I always have championed this as Brandon Lee's second best movie (After The C…
on Sammo Hung controls the city walls in the Final railer for Soi Cheang’s actioner ‘Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In’Off the back of their Cannes debut, plans for both a prequel and sequel have…
on The legend is back! Check out the New Poster for Jackie Chan and Stanley Tong’s ‘A Legend’ (aka ‘The Myth Part 2’)88 films / Eureka will be prepping their new Stanley Tong/Chan trilogy of shi…
on The legend is back! Check out the New Poster for Jackie Chan and Stanley Tong’s ‘A Legend’ (aka ‘The Myth Part 2’)Looks decent enough to watch. He sure keeps busy with so many movies on his p…
on The Last Kumite | 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (MPI Home Video)It's available on Amazon Prime.
on Grindstone to distribute the devil’s work in Ernesto Díaz Espinoza’s ‘Diablo’ starring Marko Zaror and Scott AdkinsOh, yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. I want this. We got to watch Zaror play in the Adki…
on I see a ‘John Wick’ spin-off said the blind man? Donnie Yen to reprise his blind character Caine in a standalone filmI'm really not 100% sure the pay for a Caine movie would be as big as what he…
on The Last Kumite | 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (MPI Home Video)What the fuck!! is this Blu-ray release bullshit!! It's not the fucking 1980s…
on Chuck Norris IS BACK in the Trailer for ‘Agent Recon’ with Derek Ting and ‘Beastmaster’ star Marc SingerWow, Chuck at 83 and still kicking. This is a must watch for Norris, but take…
on Adapted by Alan Canvan: A Conversation with ‘Game of Death Redux’ FilmmakerFrom what I understand, the reason for the delay is because its now going to…
on Thor-ploitation? The action is on high gear in the New Trailer for George Miller’s ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’New featurette. https://youtu.be/xHTrvEnwfWY?si=ibHkw6f1fqq6gq2C
Category Archives: News
Avengement | DVD (Distribution Solutions)
RELEASE DATE: June 4, 2019 Hot off the recent release of Triple Threat, martial arts sensation Scott Adkins (Eliminators) will be back in action with Samuel Goldwyn Films’ Avengement, (read our review) which hits select theaters and VOD on May 24th – followed by a DVD release from Sony/Distribution Solutions on June 4th, 2019. The upcoming film marks the 6th collaborative effort between action star Scott Adkins (Accident Man) and filmmaker Jesse V. Johnson (Triple Threat). Avengement also stars … Continue reading
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Dragged Across Concrete | Blu-ray & DVD (Lionsgate)
RELEASE DATE: April 30, 2019 On April 30th, 2019, Lionsgate will be releasing the Blu-ray & DVD for Dragged Across Concrete, a crime thriller from director S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk). The film is currently available via VOD. Dragged Across Concrete is headlined by Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Don Johnson, Jennifer Carpenter and martial arts star Michael Jai White (Falcon Rising, Accident Man). Gibson portrays an old guard policeman while Vaughn plays … Continue reading
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Killing (2018) Review
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto Writer: Shinya Tsukamoto Cast: Yu Aoi, Sosuke Ikematsu, Kohji Katoh, Tatsuya Nakamura, Ryusei Maeda Running Time: 80 min. By Martin Sandison I think I was the tender age of 14 when I first saw Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo. At that point I had seen David Lynch’s Eraserhead, and the two really went hand in hand for me. Both share an otherworldly, DIY, black and white aesthetic, and push … Continue reading
Scott Adkins’ Egyptian-produced ‘No Surrender’ arrives on DVD
On April 2nd, 2019, ITN Distribution is releasing the DVD for 2018’s No Surrender, an Egyptian-produced period actioner starring… Actually, don’t let the DVD cover fool you! Although Adkins is front and center, the real lead of the film is Amir Karara, but that’s not to say that Adkins (Triple Threat) fans should skip this (just watch the Trailer below). Alexandria, Egypt. 1940. Three young Egyptians come to the aid of an Egyptian woman who is being attacked by … Continue reading
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JCVD’s ‘Full Love’ follows ‘The Eagle Path’ to a 3-Disc Blu-ray
It may have taken a long time to get here, but this year, newly established U.S. distributor JVD Rewind will finally release Jean-Claude Van Damme’s long gesticulating sophomore feature as a director, Full Love, as a 3-disc Blu-ray special edition. Read the official press release sent exclusively to City on Fire from JVD Rewind: After a career reviving turn in 2008’s JCVD, the Muscles from Brussels returned to the director’s … Continue reading
Deal on Fire! Yakuza Weapon | Blu-ray | Only $10 – Expires soon!
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for Yakuza Weapon, written and directed by both Tak Sakaguchi (star of Versus and Re:Born) and Yudai Yamaguchi (Battlefield Baseball). Based on the manga by the late Ken Ishikawa (Getter Robo), Yakuza Weapon revolves around Shozo Iwaki (Sakaguchi), who works as a mercenary in South America. Iwaki is informed of the death of his gang boss dad and discovers his former Yakuza henchman is … Continue reading
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One More Shot | DVD (MVD)
RELEASE DATE: June 11, 2019 On June 11th, 2019, MVD will be releasing the DVD for One More Shot, a 1984 South African action movie (with martial arts) written and directed by cult filmmaker Ronnie Isaacs (Cobra Force). Read the official details below: One More Shot stars Hector Rabotapi, Dominic Tyawa, Joe Foed, Stan Froom, Peter Stoneley, Joe Mustapha, Sharon Clarke, Ashlin Mccarthy, and Munro Smith. A criminal known as Ten-Ten is released from … Continue reading
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Valentine | Blu-ray & DVD (Shout! Factory)
RELEASE DATE: May 14, 2019 On May 14th, 2019, Shout Factory will release the Blu-ray & DVD for Valentine: The Dark Avenger, a 2019 Indonesia martial arts action film, based on Sarjono Sutrisno, Aswin NC Siregar, and Ian Waryanto’s character Valentine, from Skylar Comics. Read the official details below: The movie is directed by Ubay Fox and Agus Pestol. Cast includes Estelle Linden, Arie Dagienkz, Matthew Settle (Criminal Minds: Beyond … Continue reading
Trailer for Kong Ergou’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Northeast China’
China will soon see the release of Love Song to the Days Forgone (previously known as Once Upon a Time in Northeast China), a crime thriller directed by Kong Ergou, who is mostly known for producing John Woo’s epic The Crossing saga, and The Three-Body Problem: I. The film stars Zhang Jingchu (Sky on Fire, The Adventurers), Xia Yu (Birth of the Dragon, Mojin: The Lost Legend), Hu Jun (Bodyguards and Assassins, Firestorm) and Wu Yue … Continue reading
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Is that a Threat? – An Interview with Jesse V. Johnson
There’s an old adage that goes ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’, and Jesse V. Johnson’s latest action extravaganza, Triple Threat, comes loaded to the brim with cooks, and ones that can fight at that. Thankfully though, Johnson runs a tight kitchen, and against the odds the British stuntman turned director has delivered a dish that gives a plethora of martial arts talent their own individual moments to shine – … Continue reading
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Unity of Heroes | Blu-ray (Well Go USA)
RELEASE DATE: May 28, 2019 On May 28, 2019, Well Go USA is releasing the Blu-ray for Lin Zhen-Hao’s The Unity of Heroes (read our review), starring martial arts star Vincent Zhao (True Legend), who will once again be playing real-life folk hero Wong Fei-hung. Throughout the years, Wong Fei-hung has been portrayed by various stars, most notably Kwan Tak-hing (Story of Wong Fei-hung), Jackie Chan (Drunken Master), Jet Li (Once Upon A Time in … Continue reading
Trailer for ‘Quan Dao: A Journey of a Boxer’ starring ‘Ip Man 3’ star Danny Chan
Danny Chan Kwok-kwan (Keep Calm and Be a Superstar), the actor mostly known for portraying Bruce Lee in Legend of Bruce Lee, Ip Man 3 and the upcoming Ip Man 4 (not to mention the Bruce Lee-inspired goalie in Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer), is back in Willam So’s Quan Dao: A Journey of a Boxer. Quan Dao: A Journey of a Boxer also stars Ka Nin Ngo (Ip Man 2), Awayne Liu (Unbeatable), Ashina Kwok … Continue reading
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Project Gutenberg (2018) Review
Director: Felix Chong Cast: Chow Yun-fat, Aaron Kwok, Zhang Jung-Chu, Joyce Feng, Catherine Chow, Alex Fong, Liu Kai-chi, Yao-Qing Wang, Alien Sun, Carl Ng, Leung Kin-Ping Running Time: 130 min. By Paul Bramhall When a trailer gets released for a movie, it has one job – to make people want to come and see it. Most trailers do that through editing together some of the key moments in order to grab the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Kwok, Alex Fong Chung Sun, Chow Yun-fat, Felix Chong
Big Brother | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)
RELEASE DATE: May 21, 2019 On May 21st, 2019, be on the lookout for Well Go USA’s Blu-ray/DVD release for Donnie Yen’s Big Brother (read our review), an action/comedy directed by Kam Kar-wai (Color of the Game). In the film, Yen plays a high school teacher who is caught up by his dark past in the underworld and is forced to use his fighting skills to find and rescue one of his students who has been kidnapped. … Continue reading
HKFilmart 2019: International Film and TV Market News
Here’s a look at some of the titles that were presented at the HKFilmart 2019, which took place on March 18th-21st at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Minamata: HanWay Films is promoting Andrew Levitas’s Minamata, an upcoming thriller starring Johnny Depp. In the film, Depp plays celebrated WWII photographer W. Eugene Smith, who ventures to the sleepy Japanese town of Minamata, which was the scene of one of the world’s greatest … Continue reading
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