Lee B. Golden III

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Native New Yorker. Been writing for a long time now, and I enjoy what I do. Be nice to me!

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THE OTHER FELLOW Explores The Phenomenal Impact Shared With The Name Of Ian Fleming’s Superspy Brainchild

THE OTHER FELLOW Explores The Phenomenal Impact Shared With The Name Of Ian Fleming’s Superspy Brainchild

It’s imaginable that there are people in the world by now who might otherwise be affected in some way shape or form by having the same name as that of an otherwise fictitious character created nearly seventy years ago. How so? Welp, leave it to Matthew Bauer to document this phenomenon in the new exploratory feature study, The Other Fellow, which will release in theaters and on-demand beginning February 17 from Gravitas Ventures. 1952. ‘Goldeneye’, Jamaica. When British author Ian Fleming creates the character of 007, he needs to christen him with a “really flat, quiet name”. Perusing one of his favourite books BIRDS OF THE WEST INDIES Fleming steals the name of a Philadelphia ornithologist by the name of James Bond… 2022. Seventy years later. In SWEDEN we meet GUNNAR SCHÄFER. A superfan of all things 007 with his own James Bond Museum, there is more to his persona […]

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SHIN ULTRAMAN Brings The Epic Kaiju Battlefront To The U.S. From Cleopatra Entertainment

Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Ultraman has been hard at work in the past year, running the gamut with every major and minor news outlet and film reporting site since taking off in Japan last summer. The film has especially been a treat for both me and contributing writer Edward Orndorff during its festival run leading up to its limited theatrical run this week via Fathom Events, and is now on track for a Spring rollout including theatrical and VOD, followed by a Deluxe Home Entertainment Blu-Ray and DVD from Cleopatra Entertainment. Written by Hideaki Anno (Shin Godzilla) and directed by Shinji Higuchi (Shin Godzilla, Attack on Titan), the film stars Takumi Saitoh (Shin Godzilla, 13 Assassins), Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car, The Wind Rises), Masami Nagasawa (Before We Vanish, Mother), Daiki Arioka (Innocent Curse), and Akari Hayami (Gintama, Forget Me Not). As Shin Ultraman begins, we learn the appearance of giant […]

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SHOTGUN WEDDING Fires Away With An Official Trailer

Jason Moore’s long-awaited action comedy, Shotgun Wedding, will release on Amazon Prime from January 27. Lionsgate is releasing the film in multiple territories outside the U.S.. In Shotgun Wedding, Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) gather their lovable but very opinionated families for the ultimate destination wedding just as the couple begin to get cold feet. And if that wasn’t enough of a threat to the celebration, suddenly everyone’s lives are in danger when the entire party is taken hostage. “’Til Death Do Us Part” takes on a whole new meaning in this hilarious, adrenaline-fueled adventure as Darcy and Tom must save their loved ones—if they don’t kill each other first. Also starring are Jennifer Coolidge, Sonia Braga, Cheech Marin, Selena Tan, D’Arcy Carden, Callie Hernandez, Desmin Borges, and Steve Coulter, and who for some reason they have wielding a spear near the end, Lenny Kravitz? Seems like it.

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LINE OF FIRE: Australian Crime Thriller Hits VOD And Digital This Month!

Last year’s Pivot Pictures release, Darklands, hailed the coming of actor and debut filmmaker Scott Major whose freshman outing is now in the hands of VMI Releasing for its U.S. release on January 27 on VOD and Digital as Line Of Fire. When policewoman Samantha Romans (award-winner Nadine Garner, “Savage River”, “The Doctor Blake Mysteries”) fails to intervene in a shooting where her own son dies, she draws the condemnation of her colleagues and community as well as the attention of ambitious journalist, Jamie Connard (Samantha Tolj). Keen to reignite the career she put on hold to have children, Jamie ignores Romans’ pleas to be left alone and pursues her relentlessly. And with nothing to lose, Romans retaliates by forcing Jamie into a night of terror that threatens everything Jamie holds dear. Nominated for Best Indie Feature at the 2022 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, LINE […]

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UK Trailer For PROJECT WOLF HUNTING Unleashes For Icon, Theaters, Disc And Digital This Year

I’ve only recently said a mouthful and then some about director Kim Hong-sun’s action horror thriller, Project Wolf Hunting. If you’re curious then my thoughts are here to read in full, but the hype train just about welcomes you all the same, including in the UK where the film will enjoy an exclusive premiere firstly over at the Icon Film Channel from January 30. Kaleidoscope will then release the film in select cinemas on March 10 before rolling out the flick on Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital from April 10. Buckle up for this brutal, bloody and no-holds-barred South Korean action-horror from Kim Hong Sun, the veteran director known for The Chase. Following its world debut at TIFF Midnight Madness in 2022, it has quickly become a firm global festival favourite, having also been selected for Sitges International Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival and San Sebastian Horror & Fantasy Film […]

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VIRGO AND THE SPARKLINGS Trailer: Adhisty Zara Uses Fireballs And Rock And Roll To Save The World!

Director Ody C. Harahap is ready to test the latest induction of comic brand Bumilangit’s theatrical viability with none other than Adhisty Zara, the titular frontwoman of superhero adaptation, Virgo And The Sparklings. The production teased footage late last year along with some cool promo art and now the official trailer and brand-new poster are here for all to take a gander at, just as local Indonesian moviegoers prep themselves for its March 2 release. For this, here’s a description, albeit translated, courtesy of Screenplay Films: After changing schools many times because they were ‘different’, Riani met Ussy, Monica, and Sasmi at her new school. They have the same likes and aspirations, to play music and form the famous band, The Virgos! However, their dream is hindered by the chaos that occurred in the city. Young people are exposed to evil magic that makes them rage and go crazy. Can […]

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ECHO 8 Review: A Lean, Inspiring DIY Psych Action Drama With A Beating Heart

Echo 8 is currently circulating festivals and will screen this Spring as part of the “Badlands” series at The Art Gallery of New South Wales. Click here for more info, and ollow the movie on Facebook for future updates. I’ve been writing about Maria Tran for about as long as I’ve been… well… writing. Her 2013 action comedy short with Adrian Castro, Hit Girls, was a fine catch at the time and provided ample introduction for me to the kind of artist and performer Tran is, further highlighting her caliber as a film creative with a number of short film projects, and often collaborating with fellow independent film cohort Castro in the process, along with select television projects and a few feature film appearances to top off her resumè nicely in the meantime. Such credits include working with the likes of legendary producer Roger Corman on Antony Szeto’s Fist Of […]

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Trailer: ALL GONE WRONG Goes Ballistic This Month From Buffalo 8

Writer/director Josh Guffey’s All Gone Wrong has an official trailer out and about from U.S. distro label Buffalo 8. The new action crime drama featuring Jake Kaufman and Tony Todd will be released on January 27 to Apple TV+, iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, and Cable On Demand. After a rookie undercover cop is gunned down in a drug bust gone wrong, the veteran agent in-charge, Chris Halvorsen (Kaufman), is put on leave. Away from his desk, Halvorsen begins an unauthorized investigation into the failed deal, leading him to a pervasive drug network operating under the surface in a rural town. Now it’s him against an ugly cast of characters and the town heavy, Lamont Hughes (Todd), on a potentially fatal mission to make everything right. All Gone Wrong also stars Krystal Torres (“For All Mankind”), Law X (“All the Queens Men”), Antonio St. James (“The Chi”), Peter Mayer (“Casting […]

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Prepare To Be Greeted With Violence And Spectacle In The Official Trailer For PATHAAN!

War director Siddharth Anand is sparing little ridiculousness in the fun he looks to exude with his new action adventure, Pathaan. Celebrating fifty years of success for Yash Rah Films, Shah Rukh Khan toplines the film next to Deepika Padukone and John Abraham for the film’s January 25 release in theaters and IMAX, bolstered to be YRF’s first Dolby Cinema release and the first Bollywood film to be shot with IMAX cameras. Per Regal Cinemas: Somewhere in the dystopian Middle East, grand houses that once housed the wealthy are now homes of the city’s most-dangerous criminals. An undercover cop, his ex-con, and others will take down the drug lord who killed his own father. The film will release in Hindi, as well as Telugu and Tamil dub. Check your local listings for early bird tix, and while you’re at it, peep the trailer below!

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Saudi Action Comedy SATTAR Wrestles To Box Office Fruition. Check Out The Trailer!

Currently enjoying a run in Saudi Arabian cinemas is Sattar, the latest action comedy blazing a trail for cinema in the region from director Abdullah Al Arak. The film stars Saudi actor and stand-up comedian Ibrahim Al Hajjaj and serves as the launchpad for Tefaz11’s AlShimaisi Films who produced the pic alongside Muvi Studios. Saad, a young man who loves professional wrestling, gets excited when EEW, a professional wrestling promotion, announces that they’re holding auditions in Riyadh. Saad goes to the audition hoping to become a Saudi wrestler and then start his global journey from Riyadh to success. He fails in the auditions conducted by EEW, but his luck has not completely run out as he meets Ali Hogan, an eccentric man who offers to be Saad’s manager and promises to change his life. Saad, with the help of Ali, joins smaller wrestling promotions in Riyadh, filled with different Saudi […]

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BADLANDS: Art Gallery Of NSW Delivers A Fistful Of Western Thrills, Drama, Swordplay Action And More This Spring

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is kicking off 2023 with Badlands, a new film series currently curating a list of nineteen titles from now through March and ranging from Westerns and crime dramas of the 50s, 60s and 70s to classic wuxia and chambara; from auteurs like Sergio Leone and John Ford to King Hu and Akira Kurosawa. Peppering things up a bit is the inclusion of Jim Jarmusch whose modern-day cult classic, Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, is screening in March, followed by actress and filmmaker Maria Tran’s psych action thriller, Echo 8, which just won Best Feature at this year’s Tokyo Film Awards, and is presently slated to screen for the Art Gallery NSW in April during its festival circulation this year. More on the programme: Badlands tours cinema’s outlaw zones. We meet Marilyn Monroe in the Nevada Desert, Bruce Lee on a Hong […]

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THE WANDERING EARTH 2 U.S. Trailer Arrives For The Frant Gwo-Directed Space Epic!

Well Go USA is taking the reins this week with the first title on its 2023 roster, The Wandering Earth 2. The company announced its acquisition of the film a few days ago via Instagram with a teaser poster, launching a brand new campaign that now has its first official trailer dating its January 22 release which which you can view below, just beneath the company’s description. The much-anticipated prequel to 2019 sci-fi blockbuster THE WANDERING EARTH—the #5 highest-grossing non-English film of all-time—lands in North American theaters just in time for Chinese New Year. In the near future, after learning that the sun is rapidly burning out and will obliterate Earth in the process, humans build enormous engines to propel the planet to a new solar system, far out of reach of the sun’s fiery flares. However, the journey out into the universe is perilous, and humankind’s last shot at […]

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LAST KING OF THE CROSS Takes You Into The Land Of Crime Down Under In The Official Series Trailer

John Ibrahim’s best-selling autobiography finally comes to life as the first official trailer is live for upcoming Paramount+ Australia series, Last King Of The Cross. The ten-episode crime drama stars Lincoln Younes, Claude Jabbour and Tim Roth along with Callan Mulvey, Tess Haubrich, Maria Tran, Matt Nable and Damian Walshe-Howling among others. For this, it’s Younes who takes the lead in the role of John Ibrahim as the show follows his “rise from a poverty-stricken immigrant with no education, no money, and no prospects, to Australia’s most infamous nightclub mogul in Sydney’s Kings Cross – a mini-Atlantic City, barely half a mile long with every form of criminality on offer.” Paramount+ will stream the show exclusively beginning February 17, with streaming dates TBA for Italy, the UK, Ireland and Germany via Sky Atlantic.

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A Case For Better Action Movies: Kim Hong-Sun’s PROJECT WOLF HUNTING Is A Rousing, Gory Action Horror Spectacle

Project Wolf Hunting arrives on Digital, Blu-ray & DVD February 14 from Well Go USA Entertainment. TIFF programmer Peter Kuplowsky’s use of the term “bloody bedlam” in his notes for director Kim Hong-sun’s Midnight Madness title, Project Wolf Hunting, is something I never thought would stick with me. Its recurrence comes now, juxtaposed alongside citations in various online blurbs and reviews comparing the film’s propulsive violence to that of Timo Tjahjanto or even Jesse Johnson. They’re not wrong, and to add, the levels of violence this film reaches certainly serve as a visual compliment to the film’s nascency as a potential franchise starter for action horror moviegoers looking to get their kick. I haven’t seen any of Kim’s prior work before this film either, although the five-time filmmaker’s representation at WME as of last September following the film’s Toronto premiere, and the grand reception and ceremony it’s been receiving since […]

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ASTÉRIX AND OBÉLIX: THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: Catch The Trailer For The Latest French Comic Adaptation Coming In February!

Fans of the longstanding French Astérix and Obélix franchise whose screen history dates back to the 60s will find themselves in good company at the start of February with Astérix and Obélix: The Middle Kingdom. A sequel to Laurent Tirard’s own 2012 Edouard Baer/Gerard Depardieu starrer, actor Guillaume Canet not only directs this newest venture but stars as well, joined by actor Gilles Lellouche for the banner comedy pair based on the classic comic book line. It’s the year 50 BC. The Empress of China has just been imprisoned following a coup d’état incited by Deng Tsin Qin, a traitorous prince. Helped by Finalthesis, the Phoenician merchant, and her faithful bodyguard Mai Wei, the Empress’ only daughter Princess Sass-Yi flees to Gaul to ask for help from two valiant warriors Asterix and Obelix, who are endowed with superhuman strength thanks to their magic potion. Our two inseparable heroes gladly accept […]

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CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON Trailer: Re-Live The Classic Action And Romance This February!

Sony Pictures Classics is handing wuxia fans an encore presentation with Ang Lee’s decorated 2000 release, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in theaters everywhere on February 17. The studio made the announcement several days ago via social media and a brand-new trailer which you can view at the bottom of the page. The film toplines actress and Time Magazine’s Icon Of The Year 2022, Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy) along with actor Chow Yun-Fat, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen for a story adapted for the screen from author Wang Dulu’s serialized novels in the 1940s. Set during the 19th-century Qing Dynasty, the film unravels a soaring, sweeping, and poetic epic revealing long-lost romance, and betrayal, ensuing battles of martial skills when a beautiful aristocrat catches the attention of two warriors in the wake of the theft of a legendary sword. There’s plenty to learn […]

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Shin Hyun-Joon Kills It As THE ASSASSIN In The First Teaser!

Part of my hope nowadays as we get a look at this newest South Korean sword slasher, The Assassin, is that it’ll help spotlight another film featuring the same star at the time. Indeed it was Kim Young-jun’s Bichunmoo: Warrior Of Virtue that put actor Shin Hyun-joon on my radar a little over fifteen years ago, and with a film wholly indicative of the types of wuxia and kung fu productions the likes of fans of Wong Jing and Tsui Hark could take a liking to, and frankly it deserves a place somewhere on one of today’s current streaming mediums if not a renewed physical release at some point. At any rate, we now leave it to the efforts of director Kwak Jeong-deok in what seems like his debut feature film after years of hacking away at the keyboard as screenwriter for titles like 2019 disaster thriller, Ashfall, and Kim […]

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ANONYMOUS Pops Off With Tony Leung And Wang Yibo In The Newest Teaser [UPDATED]

The past year has been a little bit interesting with a few teasers making the rounds for director Cheng Er’s new World War II spy thriller, Anonymous. Not much happens in either of those teasers, save for offering little pieces here and there of characterization to go by, along with the casting of celebrated actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai to boost the film’s wider marketability. That all changes just a little more for the better now with a brand new teaser making the rounds, and footage suited to entice fans of espionage and spy warfare. That means quite a bit of hallway footage, dudes in suits, lots of walking, and more walking, all peppered in the latter half with some gunplay to whet the appetite. Fun! The logline via Letterboxd: On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The following day, the Wang False Government followed Japan’s declaration of war against […]

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Well Go USA Nabs THE WANDERING EARTH 2 For North American Release

It continues to be a blaring mystery how actor Wu Jing will somehow manage to reappear in The Wandering Earth 2, director Frant Gwo’s sequel to his blockbuster 2019 adaptation of Liu Cixin’s novel. In the meantime, moviegoers in China are already poised for its Chinese New Year relaase on January 22, will folks in North America can now rest its sights on Well Go USA who’ve acquired the pic, as announced via Instagram in the post below: The sun is about to be destroyed, and humans have built huge engines on the earth’s surfaces to help them find a new home. However, the road out into the universe is perilous. In order to save the earth, a group of young people of the wandering earth era again stepped forward to begin a battle against life and death. That’s the official logline for the film out of the mainland as […]

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THE POINT MEN Trailer: Hyun Bin And Hwang Jung-Min Battle Terrorists In North American Theaters This Month!

815 Pictures is proudly releasing The Whistleblower and Little Forest helmer Yim Soon-rye’s new espionage thriller, The Point Men, in select theaters in the U.S. and Canada on January 27. The official trailer is up and running along with a new character promo featuring actor Hyun Bin who stars in the film along with Hwang Jung-min. The year is 2007 and in Afghanistan, 23 South Korean missionaries get captured and held hostage by the Taliban. South Korean government dispatches Dae-sik(Hyun Bin), a National Intelligence Service agent, and the diplomat Jae-ho(Hwang Jung-min) to the warzone to negotiate for the group’s lives. It’s a dangerous mission, and soon not only are the hostages at risk, but also their two would-be rescuers. There might be another character promo which I’ll add at some point if it comes to it, but check out the footage below!

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