Another look at Chuck Norris’ last released action film ‘Agent Recon’ with Derek Ting and ‘Beastmaster’s’ Marc Singer

"Agent Recon" Theatrical Poster

“Agent Recon” Theatrical Poster

It’s been a somber last few days for fans of action and martial arts cinema, but Chuck Norris (Slaughter in San Francisco) leaves behind a lasting legacy of films we can revisit and enjoy for years to come.

Our favorites of his will always be 1982’s Silent Rage, 1983’s Lone Wolf McQuade, 1985’s Code of Silence, 1985’s Invasion U.S.A. (it’s essentially “Die Hard in South Florida!”) and 1986’s Delta Force, but if you’re curious about one of his last released action films, it was Agent Recon, a 2024 production that had the iconic martial arts star team up with Marc Singer (The Beastmaster, V) and Derek Ting. 

In Agent Recon (the follow-up to Ting’s Agent Revelation and Agent), a covert military task force tracks a mysterious energy disturbance at a secret base Continue reading

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Deal on Fire! Under Siege | Blu-ray | Only $24.99 – Expires soon!

Today’s Deal on Fire is the 4K Ultra HD for 1992’s Under Siege. Action icon Steven Seagal serves up his signature brand of bone-crunching justice in Under Siege, the ultimate 90s action spectacle from director Andrew Davis (The Fugitive), co-starring Tommy Lee Jones (Black Moon Rising) and Gary Busey (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) at their most unhinged.

When a gang of mercenaries hijack the USS Missouri during its farewell voyage, their plan is simple: steal the ship’s nuclear warheads and hold the world Continue reading

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Chuck Norris, martial artist and iconic action star known for ‘Way of the Dragon’ and ‘Missing in Action’, has died at 86

Chuck Norris, the legendary martial artist, actor, and pop culture icon, has passed away. Rising to fame through films and the hit TV series Walker, Texas Ranger, he became known for his tough-guy persona and unmatched screen presence.

Beyond Hollywood, Norris was a real-life karate champion and later an enduring internet legend thanks to the viral “Chuck Norris facts.” He leaves behind a legacy of strength, discipline, and lasting influence on martial arts and action cinema.

Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to his family and loved ones.

Watch interviews and Trailers of his most memorable and recent roles Continue reading

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Quentin Tarantino makes Sylvester Stallone an offer he can’t refuse! The two stars to team up for a gangster series

Hollywood giants Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) and Sylvester Stallone (The Expendables) are reportedly getting together for an upcoming gangster series.

According to TMZ, Tarantino is set to write and co-direct with Sylvester Stallone. Not only that, it will be shot in black and white using 1930s cameras. No plot details have been revealed, but it’s being described as a six-part limited series featuring Continue reading

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Ghost Train (2025) Review

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“Ghost Train” Poster

Director: Tak Se-woong
Cast: Joo Hyun-young, Jeon Bae-soo, Choi Bo-min, Kim Woo-kyum, Kim Na-yeon
Running Time: 94 min.

By Paul Bramhall

Spend any amount of time in the world of 21st century Asian horror cinema, and you’ll soon realise that practically any enclosed space can become haunted. From elevators to toilet cubicles to school corridors – nowhere is safe if a vengeful spirit is on the loose. So it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that in 2025 the latest dose of supernatural activity turns its focus to public transport, with the appropriately titled Ghost Train (and for those Asian horror aficionados out there, it’s worth pointing out that it isn’t a remake of the 2006 Japanese horror of the same name). It’s not the first time for Korean horror to unfold in the subway system, with 2005’s Red Eye offering up timeslip related ghostly happenings on a train, and the much more recent Ghost Station from 2022 revolving around a series of mysterious deaths in a particular train station.

In fact on paper Ghost Station and Ghost Train sound largely interchangeable. The 2022 production gave us a young female journalist working for a gossip magazine who’s investigating the mysterious deaths that have been occurring in Oksu station. Ghost Train gives us a young female YouTuber working for a broader YouTube channel who, facing declining viewership Continue reading

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Calling all pill-poppers! ‘Project Hail Mary’ writer Drew Goddard teams up with Lana Wachowski for ‘Matrix 5’

Director Drew Goddard, who is perhaps best known for co-writing this year’s Project Hail Mary, 2015’s The Martian and directing 2011’s The Cabin in the Woods, is working on a 5th Matrix film for Warner.

Lana Wachowski, who created The Matrix trilogy with Lilly Wachowski (the two visionary directors are collectively known as “The Wachowskis”) will executive produce the project.

“Drew came to Warner Bros with a new idea that we all believe would be an incredible way to continue the Matrix world, by both honoring what Lana and Lilly began over 25 years ago and offering a unique perspective based on his own Continue reading

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He’s BAK! Action-comedy ‘Thai Fighters’ featuring Dan Chupong and Ip Man 3’s Simon Kook heads to the U.S.

U.S. distributor 3388 Films has acquired North American rights to Thai Fighters, an action-comedy co-directed by Chaiwat Sitalasai (who also stars) and Tawatchai Ladloy (Spirited Killer).

Set in the heart of Thailand, Thai Fighters follows two feuding villages that must bury their long-standing conflict when a brutal crime boss threatens them Continue reading

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That’s why they call this thing bloodsport, kid! ‘Black Panther’ actress to write and direct A24’s ‘Bloodsport’ remake

A remake of Newt Arnold’s 1988 film Bloodsport, the martial arts extravaganza that launched Jean-Claude Van Damme to superstardom, has been in development-hell for well over 14+ years.

Director Phillip Noyce (Salt) and screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen (Taken) were once attached. Then the project came into the hands of James McTeigue (Ninja Assassin) and Craig Rosenberg (The Uninvited), who would re-shape the “Frank Dux” narrative into the lives Continue reading

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Deal on Fire! The Final Master | Blu-ray | Only $10.13 – Expires soon!

The Final Master | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)

The Final Master | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)

Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for Haofeng Xu’s highly-anticipated, award-winning martial arts film, The Master, re-titled as The Final Master (read our review) from Well Go USA Entertainment.

Xu made a name for himself by penning the screenplay for Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmaster. But it was 2011’s The Sword Identity, his directorial debut, which showed Xu’s true talent. Then came his acclaimed second film, 2012’s Judge Archer (aka Arrow Arbitration).

Xu’s trend in both films was presenting the martial arts in a less stylized and more realistic manner, perhaps not unlike the 2007 Japanese film Black Belt or David Mamet’s 2008 MA-themed Redbelt.

The Final Master stars Continue reading

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Who wants food? Eureka announces 4K Ultra HD for ‘Wheels on Meals’ starring Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao

"Wheels on Meals" Japanese Poster

“Wheels on Meals” Japanese Poster

Later this year, Eureka will be releasing a 4K Ultra HD for Wheels on Meals (aka Spartan X), a 1984 Golden Harvest classic directed by and starring Sammo Hung (Eastern Condors).

From a brand new 4K restoration comes Wheels on Meals, starring Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuen Biao as the most exciting triple act in action-comedy movie history!

Fast food chefs Thomas (Chan) and David (Biao) find themselves cooking up trouble when detective Moby (Hung) involves them in the case of a missing heiress. The three friends need all of their daring and physical dexterity when they find themselves Continue reading

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More CG animal mayhem? Jackie Chan set for ‘Pawfect Agents’ and has joined the in-development film ‘Retired Cop’

Legendary martial arts icon Jackie Chan (The Shadow’s Edge, The Foreigner) will soon begin work on Pawfect Agents, an upcoming action-comedy that re-teams Jackie with his Bleeding Steel director, Leo Zhang (Chrysanthemum to the Beast). Following the footsteps of 2024’s Panda Plan and its sequel, Pawfect Agents will be a live-action/CG hybrid feature.

The film – from LinKEY Sanxing and Zhang’s Shangjia Film companies, with Cappu Films handling sales – follows a veteran agent (Chan) on the verge of retirement who is pulled back into the field after the Sanxingdui Golden Mask – one of China’s most prized Continue reading

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Deal on Fire! Ninja Trilogy | 4K Ultra HD | Only $58.99 – Expires soon!

Today’s Deal on Fire is for the 4K Ultra HD collection for Kino Lorber’s Ninja Trilogy, consisting of Menahem Golan’s Enter the Ninja (1981), Sam Firstenberg’s Revenge of the Ninja (1983), and Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

Though not connected in story, these three films popularized the image of the ninja in Western pop culture (known as the 80s “ninja boom” or “ninja craze”) with Continue reading

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NO NEW WARS… unless ninjas are involved! Watch the Trailer for ‘Ninja Wars’ featuring Kane Kosugi and Yasuaki Kurata

"Ninja Wars: Blackfox vs Shogun's Ninja" Poster

“Ninja Wars: Blackfox vs Shogun’s Ninja” Poster

Craving some ninja action? Then today’s your lucky day. There’s a lot to unpack, so we’ll let the film’s official press release take it from here…

Nihon Eiga Broadcasting Corp. has unveiled the first visual and teaser trailer for Ninja Wars: Blackfox vs Shogun’s Ninja, a new action period film from internationally renowned director Koichi Sakamoto (Power Rangers, Ultraman, Kamen Rider).

The film stars Chihiro Yamamoto (Alice in Borderland Season 2), Kanon Miyahara (Ninja vs Shark), Nashiko Momotsuki (Mashin Sentai Kiramager Spin-Off: Yodonna), Kane Kosugi (Bang), Miki Mizuno (Guilty of Romance), and legendary martial arts actor Yasuaki Kurata (Eastern Condors), bringing together some of Japan’s leading action performers.

The project unites Continue reading

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Mexicali (2026) Review

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“Mexicali” Theatrical Poster

Director: Luke LaFontaine
Cast: Bren Foster, Tania Raymonde, Plutarco Haza, Kris Van Damme, Louis Mandylor
Running Time: 99 min. 

By Z Ravas

Mexicali is a movie that knows precisely what its audience wants and decides to give it to them without delay. It’s been two short years since Bren Foster broke out on the international action scene with Life After Fighting, and the filmmakers behind Mexicali understand that fans are likely curious if that movie was a one-off or if Foster will continue to cement his status as a rising star in the martial arts world; therefore, Mexicali opens with Foster in the ring for not one, not two, not three, but four fights in a row. Befitting a movie with a former stuntman in the director’s chair, the fight choreography here is top notch, and Foster very quickly proves that Life After Fighting was no fluke, as the man seems incapable of not going Beast Mode whenever a scene calls for him to throw a punch or kick.

Needless to say, the wait for Bren Foster’s follow-up to Life After Fighting was worth it. Mexicali arrives from Luke LaFontaine, the aforementioned former stuntman and second unit director with past credits on many Direct to Video action efforts like Jesse V. Johnson’s Savage Dog and The Mercenary. It’s likely no coincidence, then, that Jesse V. Johnson wrote the script Continue reading

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Forbidden City, The (2025) Review

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Director: Gabriele Mainetti
Cast: Yaxi Liu, Enrico Borello, Marco Giallini, Sabrina Ferilli, Shanshan Chunyu, Elisa Wong
Running Time: 139 min.

By Paul Bramhall

Is there another city in Europe that has more connection to the kung-fu genre than Rome? I’m going to say no. From providing the classic backdrop to Bruce Lee’s directorial debut Way of the Dragon in 1972, it would go on to inspire several other productions to film in its historical streets. Seasonal Films founder Ng See-Yuen would team up with Bruce Leung for 1974’s double bill of Kidnap in Rome and Little Godfather from Hong Kong. See-Yuen would return again for the Bruce Lee biopic Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth in 1975. The 1982 Bruceploitation production Bruce Strikes Back would film there, swapping out Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris for Bruce Le and Hwang Jang Lee in an epic colosseum showdown. So it’s perhaps fitting that, in 2025, Italy decided to film its very own kung-fu movie there, in the form of The Forbidden City.

Following his superhero themed feature length debut with 2015’s They Call Me Jeeg Robot, and similarly themed sophomore production Freaks Out from 2021, The Forbidden City marks the 3rd outing for director Gabriele Mainetti. Turning his attention to a more grounded style of action, with the casting of Yaxi Liu as the lead it would seem he means business when it comes to having genuine martial arts talent onscreen. Continue reading

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