Lee B. Golden III

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In Memoriam: Albert Pyun (1953-2022)

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If there’s one regret that I have, it’s never getting to meet legendary filmmaker Albert Pyun. The 69-year-old Hawaii-born filmmaker died on Saturday according to his wife Cynthia Curnan, after years of battling dementia and multiple sclerosis. Pyun rose to excellence since his 1982 feature debut, The Sword And Ths Sorcerer, and continued churning out low-budget films with brevity and success that made him a star in the independent film arena. That legacy ultimately continued with films like one of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s earlier breakout hits, Cyborg, the Matt Salinger-led 1990 rendition of Captain America, two DTV sequels to 1989’s Kickboxer starring Sasha Mitchell, and all four installments of the action-packed cyberpunk franchise, Nemesis, among others. He had directed over three dozen features, and even had plans to remake Cyborg at one point, as well as pay a revisit to the Kickboxer franchise that would have hopefully seen Mitchell back […]

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GANGS OF LONDON Bring The Fight Home In Both Seasons On UK DVD, Blu-Ray And Download-To-Own In December!

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I think Gangs Of London is probably the one series that’s recently caught my eye since it launched several years ago. Thankfully I’ve been able to screen most of the season two episodes ahead of its release here in the states five days ago, and though I’d been doing my best to cover the episodes without spoiling them for anyone who hasn’t seen the series quite yet, I think it’s safe to discuss a lot of the series revelations with fans on my own time. That especially includes folks in the UK who are currently in the market for some physical media to own in the not-too-distant future as Dazzler is proudly rolling out both seasons and the isolated second season starting next month. That means pre-orders are now available for Gangs of London: Season Two which willbarrive on Blu-ray, DVD and Download-to-Own from December 19, with Gangs of London: […]

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REPEATER Lands This December From Saban Films

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R. Ellis Frazier’s new action thriller, Repeater, is finally making way this month with a new trailer out of Saban Films. The Paul Sidhu, Corbin Bernsen, Kristanna Loken, Nick Moran, and Gary Daniels-led flick is now on deck for a theatrical release on December 9, followed by a digital and on-demand release on December 13. Penned by Frazier and by Benjamin Budd, and produced by Robert Beaumont, the official logline for Repeater reads as follows: “A hired hitman is in the crosshairs when rival contract killers come gunning for him. For hired hitman Smith, his directive is straightforward: seek, locate, and terminate. But rival assassins have him in their sites as they track and target each other and aim for their latest assignment, a hacker who threatens to expose the malicious criminality of a conglomerate head.

RUPTURE Review: Mark Strange’s New Cyberpunk Revenge Actioner Toils Through Messy Direction

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Rupture is now available on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S. to rent or buy, as well as on Tubi to stream for free. The early days showed an optimistic air of promise as director Ranjeet Marwa emerged with an ambitious slate of projects that eventually took extended periods to develop into fruition. Less so with Exiled: The Chosen Ones as time passed, he remained steadfast having brought aboard U.K. actor and martial artist Mark Strange of Ip Man 4 fame with a lead role in the new revenge sci-fi action thriller, Rupture, a film which Marwa himself designated as a project that would finally cement him as a director to keep on the radar. This endeavor encapsulates a vision set in the fictional BioShock City which immediately sees our protagonist, Raven (Mark Strange), chewing through nearly all of an apartment’s residents with nothing short of violent intentions. His choices […]

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In Memoriam: Jason David Frank (1973-2022)

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If you’re like me and you’ve grown up with the Americanized suit action series incarnation that is the “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers,” then chances are you share an equal fondness for its cast, including and especially actor Jason David Frank. I remember always trying to replicate the number of jump spinning-hook kicks, as he’s seen doing in the show, as well as its opening credits. It’s because of this that I credit him as producer Haim Saban’s answer to Donnie Yen, as fun as he was to watch between his multiple occurrences and phases of the show as in some form or fashion. Frank shares screen credits on other projects as well, so it will come often as no surprise that these will be topical discussions in the immediate future on numerous fan forums and blogs in the wake of the sudden news of the actor and mixed martial artist’s […]

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THE BROKENHEARTED Pounds Away At The Violence With A Dark, Moody Teaser

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The first official teaser is now online for The Brokenhearted, the new independent action crime thriller from actor and filmmaker Leroy Nguyen. The film marks his latest return to film after leaving some feature notches on his belt with titles like Black Scar Blues, Silverback, and Joey Min’s 2019 action comedy, Yes, Auntie!, and the recent quiet release of James Boss’s indie actioner, Money Fight, on Tubi. Produced by Nguyen out of his Rising Tiger label, The Brokenhearted chronicles the violent aftermath of what happens when money becomes a factor between three former childhood friends – a struggling martial artist whose school fails after taking out a loan, and two gangsters: one intent on collecting on the debt, and the other looking to quell the fallout before it’s too late. Development on the pic began in August 2020, and I am told that the film is at least 75% complete […]

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Take A Brutal Trip Through BAD CITY In The Newest Trailer

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The long and patient road grows ever closer to its end with the newest trailer above to signal the forthcoming release of crime thriller Bad City, the sophomore feature from Hydra director, stunt multi-hyphenate and filmmaker Kensuke Sonomura. Tickets are currently on sale for advance screenings at select locations in Japan according to Comic Natalie, with the film’s nationwide release in Japan on January 20, 2023. Bad City marks the latest pairing between Sonomura and V-Cinema legend Hitoshi Ozawa (Shoot, My Darlin’, Score, High & Low: The Worst) who shot the film to celebrate his 60th birthday. Ozawa, credited as OZAWA in the film, also penned and executive produced the film in addition to opting to perform all his stunts, as noted by Sonomura in my interview with him back in September. Ozawa plays tough, grisled ex-cop Torada, who gets furloughed by the crime-plagued Kaiko City’s beleaguered top prosecutor to […]

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ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK Reimagining Lands ‘Ready Or Not’ Directors

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It’s been close to fifteen years since efforts began to try and revamp John Carpenter’s 1981 classic, Escape From New York. Rights have been changing hands with different directors and stars circling the film and now the latest movement sees Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella – a.k.a. Radio Silence (Ready Or Not, Scream 2022) on board to direct the film for 20th Century Studios. The trio will produce the pic alongside The Picture Company’s own Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman. Carpenter, who directed the original featuring Kurt Russell as outlaw war hero Snake Plissken, forced to infiltrate the dystopian walled prison city of New York and rescue the U.S. President or face death from an explosive device in his neck, is exec producing the title whose rights in other territories outside of the U.S. will be handled by France’s Studiocanal. Read more at Deadline.

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Trailer: Nicolas Cage Does Things THE OLD WAY In The New Western Revenge Thriller

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Acts Of Violence and No Tell Motel helmer Brett Donowho is back with the new Western revenge thriller, The Old Way. The official trailer is now online with a cast led by Nicolas Cage and Firestarter remake actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong leading the cast from a script by Carl Lucas. Academy Award® winner* Nicolas Cage stars in his first-ever Western as Colton Briggs, a cold-blooded gunslinger turned respectable family man. When an outlaw and his gang put Colton and his family in peril, Colton is forced to take up arms with an unlikely partner — his 12-year-old daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) — in this action-filled film that builds toward its fateful showdown with pulse-pounding suspense. Noah Le Gros, Clint Howard, Abraham Benrubi, and Nick Searcy also star. Lionsgate will release The Old Way in theaters from January 6, 2023, followed by a premium VOD and Digital release beginning January 13, […]

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New BULLITT Movie In The Works

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Actor Bradley Cooper and director Stephen Spielberg are officially teaming up to revisit Bullitt, according to the trades on Thursday. While not a remake, it is reported to be a new idea centered on the character from the 1968 original film. As Justin Kroll’s Deadline exclusive notes, Cooper and Spielberg had been working on partnering together on something for years whether it was Cooper’s American Sniper which eventually went to Clint Eastwood to direct, or the actor’s latest own acting/directing endeavor, Maestro – about the life and times of Leonard Bernstein which bows on Netflix in 2023 – which Spielberg offered to Cooper after impressing him with his work on A Star Is Born (2018). Based on author Robert L. Fish’s 1962 paperback, “Mute Witness”, Bullitt featured Steve McQueen as no-nonsense cop Frank Bullitt, forced to go to town on the criminals who murdered his informant. I managed to finally […]

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Michael Jai White Leaves The Bad Guys AS GOOD AS DEAD In The Latest Trailer

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R. Ellis Frazier’s had a good run this year with the campaign currently revving up for his new action thriller, As Good As Dead. Collider broke the official trailer on Wednesday with Samuel Goldwyn Films releasing it publicly a few hours later which you can view above. In the film, White plays an ex-cop looking for a new life away from his violent past. When he meets a troubled kid and vows to keep him on the straight and narrow, it’s not long before his complex past catches up with him. The film also stars Tom Berenger, Louis Mandylor, Luca Oriel and Guillermo Iván for the film’s theatrical and digital release from December 16.

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Trailer: Vietnam Reveals THE LEGEND OF KING DINH!

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Here’s a little something out of our way presently: The Legend Of King Dinh, a new period Vietnamese action epic from director Anthony Vo. The film is slated for a November 18 release in Vietnamese cinemas and the official trailer is online. Best of all – aside from its big-scale appeal and ambitious sword-and-shield allure – is that it’s got a logline that tells us what it’s about, which usually helps when absorbing this type of content when it’s new on our radar like this. Cool stuff! The Legend of King Dinh describes the process of Dinh Bo Linh quelling the rebellion of 12 warlords to unify the country, beginning with Dinh Bo Linh quelling the internal rebellion and stabilizing the family. Next is the process of King Dinh step by step allied, solicited or destroyed the envoys other army. Throughout are intellectual battles, brave battles, thrilling intrigues, dark scenes […]

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THE ROUNDUP: NO WAY OUT Punches In With New Stills From The Upcoming Don Lee Action Threequel

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Actor Don Lee took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a few new stills from The Roundup: No Way Out, from director Lee Sang-yong. Production is reportedly wrapped on the pic according to Lee who stars in the film as well as produces the multi-film franchise, including the next title also filming which is now revealed as The Roundup: Punishment. Kang Yoon-sung directed the first two entries, The Outlaws (2017) and The Roundup (2022), toplining actor Lee as Ma Suk-do, the head unit detective in Seoul’s Chinatown district. The first film saw Ma punch down on a brazen drug dealer looking to make his move in the underworld. The sequel saw our burly hero track a vicious killer from Vietnam back to South Korea in a riveting lead-up to a banging showdown of fisticuffs on a bus. The new film now sees the “beast cop” himself in a regional investigation […]

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S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR Is In Sequel Development!

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It’s quite possibly some of the best news that everyone running a film blog should jump on, because it involves famed director S.S. Rajamouli, his newest hit action epic, RRR, and a possible sequel in the works. Rajamouli, who also directed hits like the two-part Prahbas-led Baahubali in 2015 and 2017, confirmed the film’s development while attending a screening of RRR in Chicago, as reported by The Film Stage‘s Jordan Raup and confirmed by Variety on Monday. “My father is the story writer for all my films. We discussed a bit about [RRR 2] and he’s working on the story,” said Rajamouli. The hit Telugu action adventure, rejoining Rajamouli with two actors from his previous works – NT Rama Rao Jr. (Yamadonga) and Ram Charan Teja (Magadheera) – was developed as a thought experiment by Rajamouli with a script that pits together two historical figures, Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju […]

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Streaming Sleepers: Catch KCCNY’s Korean Movie Night At Home’s Master Series: Song Kang-Ho For Free Now!

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I’m late to the party on this but I don’t get these announcements sent to me directly so I only managed to stumble upon this update over the weekend, but The Korean Cultural Center New York is already underway with its newest virtual screening series celebrating the work of actor Song Kang-ho. Six titles are streaming per Korean Movie Night at Home’s Master’s Series: Actor Song Kang-ho which kicked off on October 28, and as of this report, that leaves a little under two weeks for everyone to take a gander at some free viewing with some required membership which is a cinch to finish up in the process. Titles include Joint Security Area, Secret Reunion, The Face Reader, The Attorney, A Taxi Driver, and The King’s Letters. I’ve seen at least three of these already in the last few years, including A Taxi Driver and JSA – Joint Security Area, and […]

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NIGHTSHADE: Neil Marshall, 108 Media Partner For Live-Action Supernatural Thriller Series

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London/Singapore-based international content investment studio 108 Media will finance, co-develop, and produce the upcoming premium live-action supernatural action series, Nightshade. Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Hellboy, “Games of Thrones,” “Westworld,” “Timeless,” “Hannibal,” “Lost in Space,” “Constantine”) is teaming up with Simon Uttley, who conceptualized the world-building with Marshall. The two will serve as showrunners with Marshall directing the pilot, and are exec producing next to 108 Media’s Abhi Rastogi, Justin Deimen, and Rod Smith. Per the press announcement, Nightshade is set “in a bustling 18th century English port city visited by a diverse manner of international traders, rogues, and vagabonds. We meet our heroine – the half-English and half-Indian outcast Lizzie Monroe who transforms herself into a defiant masked outlaw avenger – Nightshade – to rescue her brother James from the treacherous underworld realm of The Veil, where werewolves, demons, warlocks, and evil creatures beyond our imagination reside, after he is slain […]

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SHADOW FIST 2: AXE GANG: Fists And Steel Clash In The New Kung Fu Thriller Short

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Indeed it’s Friday and I would imagine you’d need an escape if you’ve had a long week. Welp, if a little indie kung fu cinema is more your speed then you’re welcome to try your hand at Shadow Fist 2: Axe Gang following its recent arrival in time for this year’s star-studded tenth Urban Action Showcase & Expo in Times Square in New York City. The latest chapter hails from directors Robert Samuels and Robert Jefferson whose R4 Films LLC produced the project in collaboration with Nicholas Ortiz’s Deviant Children Productions – a near half-hour of pure, expressive cinematic indie-produced and hip-hop infused kung fu thrills that follow things up nicely from Samuels’s first installment in 2020 which you can check out here. And all by way of an expert stuntman honing in on his craft since his heyday working with some of the best of the best in 1990s […]

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FATHER & SOLDIER (TIRAILLEURS): Don’t Miss The Official Trailer For The New War Drama Opening In France This January

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The campaign has officially begun for the upcoming release of Mathieu Vadepeid’s new war drama, Father & Soldier now includes a trailer courtesy of French distributor Gaumont. The French/Senegalese flick features Omar Sy, Alassane Diong and Jonas Bloquet from a script by Vadepeid and co-scribe Olivier Demangel. During World War I, a father enlists himself in the French Army in order to be with his 17-year-old son who was recruited against his will. Sent to the front, they find themselves facing the war together in the French colony of Senegal. Father & Soldier opens in France on January 4.

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NIGHT OF THE TOMMYKNOCKERS Scares Up The Old West In The Official Trailer

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Death Count and Bridge Of The Doomed director Michael Su’s newest horror offering comes by way of Gravitas Ventures with the official trailer for Night Of The Tommyknockers. Starring Richard Grieco, Tom Sizemore, Robert LaSardo, and Jessica Morris, the new Western horror flick arrives November 25, 2022 on VOD, Blu-Ray and DVD. When miners blast for gold in the 1870’s, they accidentally release ancient creatures known as Tommyknockers. The Town of Deer Creek, Nevada is soon under siege with only a handful of survivors held up in the local saloon.

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German Black Comedy HOLY SHIT! Gets Nabbed By Cinedigm For Early 2023 Release

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Director Lukas Rinker’s latest black comedy, Holy Shit! has reportedly been acquired by Cinedigm for an early 2023 release in the company’s Screambox platform. The news comes following the film’s rousing festival run in the past year including at Fantaspoa – where the film received an Honorable Mention for the “Best Blood (and Shit) Bath” among its accolades – and its subsequent theatrical German release in September. The film, about a man trapped in a porta potty by his corporate rival and racing against time to expose his crimes and save his pregnant girlfriend, was picked up for international sales over the summer by The Playmaker Munich for its May presentation at the Marche du Film. Neopol Film backed the pic in association with Studio Hamburg Enterprises, with support and funding by the HessenFilm und Medien GmbH. Read more at Variety.