Lee B. Golden III

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ON-GAKU: OUR SOUND Rocks Out In Select Theaters This Friday

Making good on their word with Kenji Iwaisawa’s rockin animated feature, On-Gaku: Our Sound will be released in select theaters on December 11. Anime staple GKIDS made the announcement last month and are streaming a new trailer to boot. When you’re a bored teenager looking for thrills, sometimes the only thing you can turn to is rock ‘n roll. Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend Aya, avoid a rival gang, and – most importantly – jam out. Animated almost entirely by director Kenji Iwaisawa, and featuring a lead performance by Japanese alt-rock legend Shintaro Sakamoto, ON-GAKU: OUR SOUND brings its own sound and vision to the Hiroyuki Ohashi manga from which it was adapted. With pitch-perfect deadpan humor, the film presents a […]

MAX CLOUD To Save The Universe On Digital From December, On Disc In January From Well Go USA

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The pending release of Killers Anonymous director Martin Owen’s latest sci-fi adventure, Max Cloud, is officially out with word from Well Go USA as of Tuesday. The fine print and details are below with official key and cover art just beneath, so check it out below and keep an eye out for our review when the embargoes lift next week. When a teen gamer opens a portal into her favorite side-scroller, she becomes trapped in an intergalactic prison that’s home to the galaxy’s most dangerous villains in the sci-fi action-adventure MAX CLOUD, debuting on Digital December 18 before hitting Blu-ray™ and DVD January 19 from Well Go USA Entertainment. Director Martin Owen (Killers Anonymous) teams up with rising action star Scott Adkins (Ip Man 4, Triple Threat) for “a comedic sci-fi adventure for all to enjoy” (ScreenRant). MAX CLOUD also stars John Hannah (“Spartacus,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”), Tommy Flanagan (“Westworld,” Guardians […]

PAINTBALL MASSACRE Targets US DVD And Digital Next Week From Uncork’d

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Action horror comedy Paintball Massacre is coming next week in North America from Uncork’d Entertainment, and the official trailer is now making the rounds. Our own Christina Ortega Phillips is circling this one as we speak and as such, will have her own review up-and-running in due time. Until then, here’s the gospel: From Uncork’d Entertainment comes the most colorful carnage of 2020, Paintball Massacre on DVD and Digital December 15, 2020. Old school friends go on a paintball trip, miles away from civilization. Things go horribly wrong when they discover a cold-blooded masked killer is among them. Soon the paint is mixed with blood as they fight to survive their school reunion. Katy Brand, Lee Latchford-Evans, Robert Portal, Nicholas Vince, Ian Virgo, Cheryl Burniston, Lockhart Ogilvie, Natasha Killip, Joe Hallett, Nathan Clough, Ryan Winsley, Aoife Smyth, Tony Banham, Brendan Carr, and Paul Holbrook star in a film written by […]

AMERICAN SKIN: Nate Parker Arrests Social Injustice In The Official Trailer

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It’s fitting that after an affair like the Cannes Grand Prize-winning BlacKkKlansman that Spike Lee would attach his name to actor, writer and director Nate Parker’s latest pic, American Skin. The product of Parker’s own inspiration to cast a resounding light on some of today’s important issues through film, The Birth Of A Nation now precedes Parker’s sophomore offering at the helm here following his travels to Missouri in 2014 in the wake of the murder of Michael Brown. “The most tragic moment of this trip arrived when I stood downtown between two infuriated groups of citizens.” he said. “From one side came yells of ‘Justice for Mike Brown’ and on the other ‘Support Our Police’. It became clear to me, instantly, the disconnect in our understanding of citizenship, law enforcement, and our responsibility to preserve American life.” That brings us to American Skin, a new crime drama with a […]

New MONSTERS OF MAN Trailer: Mark Toia’s Man V. Machine Survival Thriller Now Available

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The period of over twenty years or so behind the lens have certainly done Mark Toia quite the justice in lieu of his latest freshman feature, Monsters Of Man. The new sci-fi action thriller has already generated review buzz in 2020, and is hailed as a milestone for independent cinema with Toia entirely self-financing the pic via Indiegogo, and with Toia ramping up his own rollout plan as of December 8. MONSTERS OF MAN is an action packed, suspenseful sci-fi thriller that reveals the terrifying dangers of sophisticated AI robotics used for military applications when a corrupt CIA agent (Neal McDonough – Minority Report, Captain America, Netflix’s 1922 and Altered Carbon) conspires with a robotics company to field test highly advanced prototype robots with the aim of winning a lucrative military contract. Their plan is to drop the robots into the infamous Golden Triangle to test their battle skills on […]

THE HIT LIST: December 7, 2020

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It’s been a long time coming for those of you who waited to see if the Hit List would return. Welp, if only for a different pace than usual, I can most certainly say that it is. And to start, as always, is a hefty playlist of stunt reels by some of today’s best and brightest of their field, beginning with Alyma Dorsey who just recently earned a new notch on her belt for her first stunt coordinator credit on a new shortfilm project coming soon. Following Dorsey are Bethany Curry, Bryan Vigier, Amy Sturdivant, Daisy Fryer, Girvan Bramble, Malin Kirjonen, Brittania Fader, Rodney Alexandre, Erin Haus, Devyn LaBella, Braxton McAllister, Jackie Gerhardy, Ilana Collins, Dee Yoon, Ilyana Eberhardt, Liu Yaxi and Thom Williams, and exhilirating stunt and fight coordinator reels by J.J. Perry, Airon Armstrong, Vincent Wang and Evan Dane Taylor. We got trailers as well! Two of them, […]

THE FACILITY: Matt Mitchell’s Sci-Fi Action Horror Unleashes December 8

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Director Matt Mitchell’s 2017 thriller, The Rizen, now has a successor with The Facility, coming this week from Uncork’d Entertainment. Harriet Madeley, Michael Fatogun, Sarine Sofair, Kevin Leslie, Sophie Miller, Marcus Bronzy, James Barnes, Lewis Saunderson, Clarice Burton, Connor Williams, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sally Phillips, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Marcus, Laurence Kennedy, Jenny Lathan, and Carol Cleveland star. In 1955, NATO and the Allied Forces conducted secret, occult experiments in a bid to win the Arms Race. They succeeded, but what they unleashed almost tore our world apart. Now a group of young urban explorers and a private military unit could become the final pieces in a 60-year plan to reopen a door that should have stayed closed. The Facility arrives December 8 on VOD, Digital and DVD, with availability on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Xbox, Vudu, Direct TV, Dish Network and all major cable providers.

News Briefs: More KINGSMAN; Sony Casts METAL GEAR SOLID; Mads’s RIDERS OF JUSTICE For Magnet; Kitano Biopic ASAKUSA KID Gets New Life

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If director Matthew Vaughn gets his way, the Kingsman franchise will have at least seven more films as well as a TV series on its slate. The franchise is adapted from a graphic novel about a clandestined organization of affluent, gentleman superspies, with the latest, The King’s Man, set to open in February. “We want to grow the business and the output,” said Marv Group CEO Zygi Kamasa to the Winston Baker UK Finance Summit late last week. “We have a Kingsman TV series in the works and there are two-three other franchises that are being developed alongside the Kingsman world.” (Andreas Wiseman, Deadline) Six years after its announcement, Sony Pictures’s Metal Gear Solid movie has officially landed Star Wars franchise actor and upcoming Dune star Oscar Isaac for the role of Solid Snake. The live-action video game adapatation is based on the hit 1987 IP that first launched at […]

ARCHENEMY Review: An Abstract Superhero Drama Wrapped In Intrigue And Explosive, Gritty Crime Thrills

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It’s an interesting time for superhero movies. Indeed you have the studio level tentpoles for Marvel, DC and the nascent Valiant label, but if you’re a genre director on the other hand, like Daniel Isn’t Real helmer Adam Egypt Mortimer, your eye is definitely on something more subversive and atypical like other films of late. Mortimer’s latest, Archenemy, marks the director’s latest stake in the nontraditional, casting Joe Manganiello as Max Fist, a superhero jettisoned to our planet after staving off a disaster that threatened his own just light years away. Powerless and rapidly aged by fifteen years due to the planet’s atmosphere, Max is fallen beyond far from grace; He’s homeless, derilect, resigned to a daily routine of public drunkenness and angry stupor when he’s not at the bar retelling the same story of how he came to be to patrons who don’t believe him, least of all the […]

ARISAKA: Mikhail Red’s Latest Mingles Action And Thrills With Dark Mystique In The First Teaser

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The first official teaser trailer is now out for Mikahil Red’s new action thriller, Arisaka. Variety’s Naman Ramachandran brought the exclusive Sunday evening with a first look at the new pic from the Block Z and Neomanila director, with word of its completion following what Red notes as a challenging shoot, due to Typhoon Vamco last month, on top of restrictions thanks to the onset of the current global pandemic which forced a temporary delay during production. In “Arisaka,” a policewoman must retrace the trail of the Bataan Death March, a forcible transfer of some 60,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese army during WWII, in order to escape her captors. The film is named after a World War II Japanese bolt-action rifle. Arisaka is produced by Paul Soriano’s Ten17P, and is currently in post production as Red looks toward a 2021 release following a festival […]

SWEET HOME: Lee Eung-Bok’s New Action Horror Series Streams December 18

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Director Lee Eung-bok’s (Mr. Sunshine, Goblin: The Lonely and Great God, Descendants of the Sun) new action horror series now has a trailer streaming as Sweet Home looks to unveil its thrills full-tilt beginning December 18. I actually find the concept here pretty intriguing – used in at least one form or another in previous films and TV shows, it’s all about the execution, and this looks exciting. It’s also great to see No Mercy star Lee Si-young again. Her character is originally created for this series among a headling cast with Song Kang (Love Alarm), Lee Jin-uk (Voice), Lee Do-hyun (18 Again), Kim Nam-hee (Mr. Sunshine), Go Min-si (Love Alarm), Park Kyu-young (Romance is a Bonus Book), and Go Youn-jung (He Is Psychometric). The show hails from Studio Dragon and co-producer Studio N, and is written by Hong So-ri, Kim Hyung-min and Park So-jeong. Adapted from a popular webtoon […]

THE MARKSMAN: Liam Neeson Takes Aim At Bad Hombres In The Official Trailer

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The all too painful memories of the last several years have been heavily shared in the migrant experience. Trouble With The Curve director Robert Lorenz clearly lends an ear to this some with new action thriller, The Marksman, featuring none other than Liam Neeson back in grisled form this time as a white, gun-toting Southerner who finds himself at a crossroads between a vulnerable young boy, and the vicious cartel hunting him. Hardened Arizona rancher Jim Hanson (Liam Neeson) simply wants to be left alone as he fends off eviction notices and tries to make a living on an isolated stretch of borderland. But everything changes when Hanson, an ex-Marine sharpshooter, witnesses 11-year-old migrant Miguel (Jacob Perez) fleeing with his mother Rosa (Teresa Ruiz) from drug cartel assassins led by the ruthless Mauricio (Juan Pablo Raba). After being caught in a shoot-out, a dying Rosa begs Jim to take her […]

RUROUNI KENSHIN: THE FINAL/THE BEGINNING Teaser Signals 2021 Releases For The Future Live-Action Samurai Saga

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Actor Takeru Satoh is gearing up for a starry return to the beloved title role in Keishi Otomo’s forthcoming live-action anime tête-à-tête, Rurouni Kenshin: The Final / The Beginning. The initial trilogy from 2012 through 2014 was a blockbuster festival and commercial hit with Satoh starring as a pacifist ronin armed only with a Sakabato, whose renoucement against a life of violence ultimately finds him pulled back in and facing hordes of villains along the way including the infamous Shishio Makoto, leader of the Juppongatana. Cesar Alejandro Jr. at Filmsmash aptly sums up both new titles as follows: Taking both an epilogue and prequel approach for each respective film, the material covers both the Enishi storyline which is post trilogy as well as dabbling into the meat of what will become The BEGINNING and the origin of Kenshin’s iconic cross shaped scar. Several new and returning characters will appear in […]

EL PUÑO DEL CONDOR (THE FIST OF THE CONDOR): Details On The New Martial Arts Series From Chilean Action Duo Marko Zaror And Ernesto Diaz Espinoza [EXCLUSIVE]

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In the years since placing himself firmly on the martial arts action fandom radar with Ernesto Diaz Espinoza’s 2006 debut, Kiltro, one fact remains is that fans can’t get enough of Marko Zaror. It’s been fifteen years since then, with the two having already done three movies together with the latest being monastic action thriller, Redeemer (2014), and now they’re back together once again with the wheels turning for the new digital series, El Puño Del Condor (The Fist Of The Condor), which is currently in production in Chile. Extenuating plot and story details are under wraps for the series, but what I can report is that the crux of the series deals with martial artists from around the world, all in search of a book containing ancient secrets on overcoming the limits of the human body. That book and its very knowledge is protected by its most impenetrable gatekeeper, […]

HUNTED Trailer: Lucie Debay Turns The Table In Vincent Paronnaud’s Feature Debut Thriller

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Cannes Jury Prize-winning Persepolis and Chicken With Plums director Vincent Paronnaud had a good virtual festival run this year with his latest survival thriller, Hunted, which stars Magritte Award-winning actors Lucie Debay (The Confession) and Arieh Worthalter (Girl) for the story of a woman cornered into survival against a sadistic stalker. You’re welcome to skim my review from October during its Nightstream run if you’re curious. Otherwise, the film’s pending exclusive Shudder release now welcomes an official trailer as of Thursday, and a premiere date set for January 14 in U.S., Canada and U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, and via the Shudder offering within the AMC+ bundle where available. What started as a flirtatious encounter at a bar turns into a life-or-death struggle as Eve (Lucie Debay) becomes the unknowing target of a misogynistic plot against her. Forced to flee as two men pursue her through the forest, she’s […]

MORTAL KOMBAT Confirms Day-And-Date Release Among Studio Slate For 2021

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I’ve been hard up for the longest for anything related to Simon McQuoid’s Mortal Kombat, but the latest look here at the official logo is certainly appetizing in the least. The graphic appeared for the first time on Thursday in a new promo announcing the studio’s entire 17-title 2021 slate would all get day-and-date releases, with HBO Max premiering the movies on the same day as their theatrical releases. The film recently wrapped additional photography and was subsequently delayed as the pandemic crisis continues to worsen across the U.S., and reports this week also provided earlier insight that the studio did consider an HBO Max release. Now following Wonder Woman 1984 this Christmas, the film joins the likes of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune remake, James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix 4, Alan Taylor’s The Many Saints Of Newark and so many more! Check out the announcement below and […]

EXILED: THE CHOSEN ONES Spotlights Sunny Pang And Hannah Al-Rashid In The New Survival Thriller [EXCLUSIVE]

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It would be an understatement to call 2020 a challenging year, what with politics, catastrophic disasters, and a global pandemic all being major factors in how the rest of us who’ve managed to stay alive through all have remained so. To each end, you might even suggest these as suitable a backdrop for a creative offshoot. Filmmaker Ranjeet Marwa’s inspiration kept steadfast during 2020, with efforts to crowdfund one film prior to announcing several others, and ultimately leading the charge with his latest production, Exiled: The Chosen Ones. The film signals Marwa’s premiere stake in martial arts action cinema with Southeast Asian allure, hailing direct from the UK as the first of its kind, with Marwa taking inspiration from the likes of Gareth Evans, and Indonesia’s own Timo Tjahjanto. “What we have in store for the audience is very unique in terms of both actors and location. Nothing of this […]

News Briefs: Gadot Boards HEART OF STONE; THE TOXIC AVENGER Casting; Statham Circles SMALL DARK LOOK; Pettyfer For PHANTOM OF BELGRADE

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Gal Gadot (upcomimg Red Notice) is readying Heart Of Stone, billed as an original spy endeavor in the vein of the 007 and Mission Impossible franchise. Currently in the works at Skydance Media, Greg Rucka (The Old Guard) and Oscar-nominated Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures) are penning the script with film will be produced by Skydance Media’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger producing along with Gadot and her Pilot Wave producing partner Jaron Varsano, Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn. Gadot will bow this Christmas Day in select theaters and IMAX, and for HBO Max’s first 4K outing for Wonder Woman 1984. Nearly two years after Legendary acquired the rights to Troma IP, The Toxic Avenger, the studio has since moved forward, casting Peter Dinklage (Game Of Thrones), according to Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr.. Blue Ruin and Green Room actor Macon Blair, who made his directing debut on 2017’s I […]

KOREAN MOVIE NIGHT AT HOME: PART II Rolls Out Ten Titles To Enjoy For Free!

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Offshooting from its inaugural May events, the Korean Cultural Center New York is back at it this month announcing Korean Movie Night at Home Part II, with ten new titles to comprise this month’s stay-at-home holiday line-up. Audiences will have the opportunity to access Korean films for a limited run through December 31, and…they’re free! That’s right. Titles like the highly revered Miss Baek and Artsploitation’s most recent acquisition, Beasts Clawing At Straws, compelling inspirational period drama Forbidden Dream and action thriller Hit And Run Squad are just among the raft of titles you can’t miss that you now get to access freely until New Years’ Day. So if you’ve been slow to hitch onto the virtual festivals this year or attend any festivals since 2017, then now you have no excuses! Korean Movie Night At Home is an offshoot of the KCCNY’s Korean Movie Night feature which launched in […]

SEIZED: Scott Adkins Action Thriller Lands December 28 UK Home Release

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Isaac Florentine’s latest action thriller, Seized, is officially staking a December 28 DVD and Digital release in the UK from Dazzler Media. The film rejoins the celebrated action auteur with British action star Scott Adkins (Avengement, Doctor Strange) for another round following their extended string of hits including the Undisputed franchise, The Shepherd and Close Range. Pre-orders are now running via Amazon UK and iTunes. Get ready for an exhilarating dose of action in Seized! Action star Scott Adkins (Avengement, Doctor Strange) is Nero, a former special forces agent who has moved to a quiet beach town to raise his son. He is awakened by a phone call and message from a mysterious voice telling him his son has been kidnapped. In order to save him, Nero must wipe out three dangerous crime syndicates, leaving no survivors. But he must work alone and faces growing obstacles as he fights to […]