Lee B. Golden III

About Lee B. Golden III

https://mediumblue-gerbil-491410.hostingersite.com

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

Posts by Lee Golden:

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: BMC Review

The Count Of Monte Cristo is a Samuel Goldwyn Films release. The film will play for audiences in Los Angeles and New York theaters beginning December 20, and will expanding to more than fifteen markets in the U.S. beginning on January 3. The last screen adaptation of famed author Alexandre Dumas’s The Count Of Monte Cristo was 2002’s release from director Kevin Reynolds. To say the least, while I enjoyed the film, it always felt like there was more missing to its treatment for such an epic tale to be told. Would it be a stretch to say that the time our dear protagonist Edmond Dantes spent on an island prison equate to the weight of having to wait as long as the rest of us did for something significant and impressive to come along from the film front? I reckon that it depends on your viewpoint and tastes in film, […]

KARATE KID: LEGENDS Finds Jackie Chan And Ralph Macchio Joining Forces In The Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

“Two branches. One tree.” That’s the tagline being touted for Karate Kid: Legends, the newest chapter in the ongoing Karate Kid franchise which still has one more season of Netflix series Cobra Kai before this film arrives. I’m especially curious as to how Ben Wang will be introduced into this saga after that show ends. I’m thinking cameos? Easter eggs? Maybe a surprise appearance by Hilary Swank? Who knows? In Karate Kid: Legends, after a family tragedy, kung fu prodigy Li Fong (Ben Wang) is uprooted from his home in Beijing and forced to move to New York City with his mother. Li struggles to let go of his past as he tries to fit in with his new classmates, and although he doesn’t want to fight, trouble seems to find him everywhere. When a new friend needs his help, Li enters a karate competition – but his skills alone […]

ARROW PLAYER Announces Bustling January SVOD Line-Up

Lee B. Golden III

It’s been a while since I promoted anything Arrow Player-related. The streamer is back this month with a new line-up announcements for its January rollouts and it’s chock-filled with classic action titles and horror delights to help meet it’s subscribers demand. The streamer itself is available in North America and the UK and you can learn more about it at the official website. Arrow Video is excited to announce the January 2025 lineup of their subscription-based ARROW platform, available to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland. Enjoy a selection of new titles, from carefully cultivated curations to shorts by new talent. For serious enthusiasts, ARROW offers deep dives into the tastes of filmmakers that changed the way we see the genre.In a recent profile, the New York Times praised ARROW and noted, “Viewers with a fondness for the esoteric will be hard-pressed to find more quality bang for their streaming buck.” The January 2025 lineup […]

MAN WITH NO PAST: Catch The Trailer For James Bamford’s New Action Thriller Coming In January!

Lee B. Golden III

James Bamford’s new action thriller kicks off 2025 with Man With No Past. Bamford directs from a script written by producer Steven Paul, with a cast that lists Adam Woodward, Charlotte Vega, Jon Voight, Marton Csokas, and Phillip Winchester. Academy Award® winner* Jon Voight (COMING HOME), Marton Csokas (THE EQUALIZER), and Adam Woodward (THE SAINT) star in this action-packed thriller. Waking in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory of who he is must confront the mysteries of his own identity. But his desperate search to uncover his past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that will seal his fate and reveal his true identity. Man With No Past releases on digital on January 14 from Paramount’s digital release shingle Republic Pictures. Check out the trailer below!

SERENA: Cast Announced As Cameras Roll In NYC

SERENA: Cast Announced As Cameras Roll For New Sci-Fi Thriller In NYC

Lee B. Golden III

Cameras are rolling in New York City for Serena, a new sci-fi thriller being directed by Rob Alicea (The Hat Man) in his feature debut. The cast includes Andi Matichak (Halloween Trilogy, Son), Steven Strait (The Expanse, Magic City), Ashleigh Murray (Riverdale, The Other Black Girl),Tyrone Marshall Brown (Power, Love Is), and María Gabriela González (Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa, Fantasy Island) along with actress Nicole Gut. Jonathan Benecke and P.T. Hylton penned the script which follows Holly (Murray), a tech engineer desperate to launch her company into the future with resounding success. A CEO commissions her to build her an AI model, with the aim of testing it before its implementation. Down-on-his-luck and funds, former rock star, Chris Sadowsky (Strait), is asked to be one of the testers — with devastating repercussions. The AI model surfaces in the form of ‘Serena’ (Matichak), billed otherwise as a simple tool which, much […]

Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson in ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)

Streaming Sleepers: Fede Álvarez’s ALIEN: ROMULUS Plants A Seed For Franchise Vitality

Lee B. Golden III

I don’t typically do horror, but I love a good, intense, well-made thriller in the various subsets of the genre. In particular, I love what Fede Álvarez accomplished with Alien: Romulus, which is currently streaming on Hulu. Cailee Spaeny was incredible in the front-and-center role of action heroine Rain Carradine, who along with adopted brother and Weyland-Yutani android, Andy, played by David Jonsson, pair up with a ragtag group of survivors to leave their unyielding work colony on LV-410 and head for the serene planet Yvaga. What they don’t know is that the abandoned station for which they’ve just commandeered is full of hibernating xenomorphs eager to do what they do best: Hunt and breed, using humans as incubators to kill and consume anything living or breathing, and in their way. I haven’t seen Prometheus or Alien: Covenant, so those are on my watchlist to take in at some point […]

‘Look Up’ At The New Motion Poster For James Gunn’s SUPERMAN

Lee B. Golden III

We’re roughly seven or so months away from the release of James Gunn’s new DC comics adaptation, Superman. With the first teaser slated for Thursday, fans now have a debut motion poster to teaser things a bit, fearuring David Corenswet in full regalia. The film is billed as the first stop of the rebooted DCU from Gunn and co-shepherd Peter Safran following Warner Bros. Pictures’ Snyderverse of films that began with Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel, and ended with James Wan’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Superman, a cub reporter in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent. Gunn directs from a script for a cast that also lists Rachel Brosnahan, Isabela Merced, and Edi Gathegi, along with Nathan Fillion, Anthony Carrigan, María Gabriela de Faría, Sara Sampaio, Skyler Gisondo, Nicholas Hoult, and Wendell Pierce. Superman opens in theaters July […]

THE DEVIL AND THE DAYLONG BROTHERS: Trailer Revealed For Gritty Goth Western From Quiver

Lee B. Golden III

Following its acquisition in August, Quiver Distribution has proudly unveiled the official trailer and poster for the new Southern gothic western thriller, The Devil And The Daylong Brothers. Brandon McCormick directs from his own script with a cast that lists Brendan Bradley, Nican Robinson, Jordon Bolden, Rainey Qualley, and Keith Carradine. Deep in the kudzu-choked backwaters of the American South, three brothers set out on a blood-soaked quest for revenge against their father, who sold their souls to the Devil before they were born. The Devil And The Daylong Brothers arrives in North America on January 31. Watch the trailer below.

VOLTRON: Filming Underway For The Live-Action Amazon MGM Studios Adaptation

Lee B. Golden III

Production is already underway for the new live-action treatment of Voltron as announced about a day prior to this post by Screen Queensland. The Amazon MGM Studios’ production is being directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber for a cast that lists feature starring Sterling K. Brown, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Henry Cavill, Rita Ora, John Kim, Alba Baptista, Samson Kayo and Tharanya Tharan. Thurber is producing, as well as penning the script with co-scribe Ellen Shanman, which follows the epic tale of five explorers who come together to pilot a quintet of Robot Lions that can form the ultimate humanoid robot warrior, Voltron, to battle evil. The film is based on the classic 1984 animated series from World Events Prodictions, which coalesced from several other Japanese animated shows. Todd Lieberman is also producing via Hidden Pictures, as well as Bob Koplar, and Hobie Films’ David Hoberman. Cameras are rolling in the Gold Coast, […]

CAT’S EYES Gets Prime Video Expansion On December 18. Catch The Trailer!

Lee B. Golden III

Director Alexandre Laurent’s eight-part live-action adaptation of Tsukasa Hojo’s manga caper classic, Cat’s Eyes, is already streaming exclusively on French streamer TF1 as of last month. To this, the series is also poised to launch on Amazon Prime in France and we now have an official trailer to help proliferate things a bit. Created by Michael Catz, Cat’s Eyes stars Camille Lou, Constance Labbé, and Claire Romain in an origin procession about three sisters who gather to steal high value art that once belonged to their presumed-late father. As they are pursued by a special task force, the trio also begin to uncover the mystery behind their father’s disapperance years earlier. Cat’s Eyes marks its first treatment here in live action since debuting on the pages of Jump Comics in 1981. I know our own Mike Garcia is a fiend for Hojo’s work. He’s definitely more of a City Hunter […]

LE JARDINIER: JCVD Cuts Down Grass And Goons In The Official Teaser

Lee B. Golden III

Jean-Claude Van Damme is out here living his best life, and back at it with The Last Mercenary helmer David Charhon with the new Prime Video action comedy release, Le Jardinier (otherwise known as The Gardener). The official teaser is here as well, joining the action legend with actor Michael Youn from a script by Charhon and by Vincent De Brus, and Sebastien Fechner. Below is the logline via translation: Every year, the Prime Minister has a list of troublemakers eliminated in the name of state reasons: the obscure Matignon List. Serge Shuster, special advisor to the presidency, finds himself there in spite of himself. At the heart of an implacable plot, Serge and his family, condemned to certain death, can no longer count on anyone but their new gardener, Léo, who, in the past, has not only trimmed hedges. He will do what he was hired to do: eliminate […]

ASH Fumes Up A Psychedelic First Poster And 2025 Release Date

Lee B. Golden III

Variety’s Jack Dunn debut the first poster for Ash, the new sci-fi thriller from director Flying Lotus, and starring Eiza González, Aaron Paul, and Iko Uwais. RLJE Films has since unveiled a teaser trailer as of October and now the film has a release date set for March 21. On the mysterious planet of Ash, Riya (González) awakens to find her crew slaughtered. When a man named Brion (Paul) arrives to rescue her, an ordeal of psychological and physical terror ensues while Riya and Brion must decide if they can trust one another to survive. Flying Lotus, whose real name is Steven Ellison, directs from a script by Jonni Remmler. The director also stars in the film along with Beulah Koale and Kate Elliott, and will feature an original score composed by Flying Lotus himself. Peep the poster below, and read more at Variety.

Daisy Ridley in CLEANER (2024) Photo by Chiabella James

CLEANER: Daisy Ridley Has Her Work Cut Out For Her In The Official Trailer [UPDATED]

Lee B. Golden III

12:05 EST: Updated with official poster art Earlier: Martin Campbell is back in the headlines these days with the director touting his newest action thriller, Cleaner. The film stars none other than Daisy Ridley, chucking one-liners at Clive Owen in Die Hard fashion, as seen in the official first trailer which launched on Thursday also featuring actor and martial artist Taz Skylar in a co-antagonistic role. Cleaner is set in present-day London. A group of radical activists, led by Clive Owen, take over an energy company’s annual gala, seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by an extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world. It falls to an ex-soldier turned window cleaner, played by Daisy Ridley, suspended 50 storeys up on the outside of the building, […]

NOVOCAINE: Jack Quaid Takes A Lickin’ And Keeps On Tickin’ In The Official Trailer!

Lee B. Golden III

Another in my list of 2025 bookmarks gets a trailer to whet the appetite with a look at Novocaine from Paramount Pictures. Dan Berk and Robert Olsen direct a cast led by Jack Quaid and Amber Midthunder from a script by Lars Jacobson. When the girl of his dreams (Amber Midthunder) is kidnapped, everyman Nate (Jack Quaid) turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back. Betty Gabriel, Jacob Batalon, Matt Walsh and Ray Nicholson also star for the film’s March 14 release. Catch the poster and trailer below, and mind some of the brief, albeit visibly gruesome moments. This one gets bloody.

ALARUM: Sylvester Stallone And Scott Eastwood Join Forces In The Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Lionsgate is back in business with Sylvester Stallone with the official trailer for action thriller, Alarum. Scott Eastwood also stars in addition to Willa Fitzgerald, Mike Colter, Isis Valverde, and Joel Cohen. Academy Award® nominee* Sylvester Stallone, Scott Eastwood, Mike Colter, and Willa Fitzgerald star in this explosive action-thriller about two married spies caught in the crosshairs of an international intelligence network that will stop at nothing to obtain a critical asset. Joe (Eastwood) and Lara (Fitzgerald) are agents living off the grid whose quiet retreat at a winter resort is blown to shreds when members of the old guard suspect the two may have joined an elite team of rogue spies, known as ALARUM. Alarum is directed by Michael Polish from a script by Alexander Vesha. The film opens in theaters, on digital and on demand on January 17. Catch the trailer!

SURVIVE Is The Sole Job For One Family Oceans Away From Salvation In The Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Samuel Goldwyn Films nabbed director Frédéric Jardin’s new survival thriller, Survive, back in October. The company is now full bore with an official trailer and poster this week to signal moviegoers ahead of its theatrical, digital and on demand release on January 10. In SURVIVE, Julia and her loving husband celebrate their son’s birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean. When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes in a desert land. Earth has undergone a tragic polarity reversal, draining water from the oceans. The family must race to safety before the water returns all while battling hungry creatures from the abyss that hunt for fresh flesh. Jardin directs from a script by Alexandre Coquelle and Matthieu Oullion. The film stars Emilie Dequenne, Andreas Pietschmann, Lisa Delamar, Lucas Ebel, and Arben Bajraktaraj. Catch the trailer!

Martial Club Revisits Martial Club With New Video Series

Lee B. Golden III

Andy and Brian Le are percolating a little more these days with a content-loaded return to their YouTube channel at Martial Club. The two have been busy in the film arena having since contributed to the works of directors like Bao Tran, the Daniels, Destin Daniel Cretton, Chaya Supannarat, and the late Pearry Teo to name a few while still working on some of their own in-house projects. Tentatively, that includes a short series of lookback videos of past Martial Club shortfilms including their 2020 tribute to Bruce Lee, “Fist Of Fury”. It’s a fun little dive into how they analyze their work as we stand by to see what else they have in store, so check these out below and subscribe to their channel if you haven’t already done so.

8_1741b392-60b1-4030-abfe-cb1b1d0da7dc_600x600

A GOOD DAY WILL COME Review: Amir Zargara Dares You To Care

Lee B. Golden III

Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Amir Zargara is back with a new short after taking off with 2021’s Become The Wounded. I haven’t seen that one but the logline hints a great deal at the kind of filmmaker Zargara wants to be in front of the viewing public, something he remains clear about in his latest work, A Good Day Will Come. Actor and martial artist Sia Alipour plays Arash, a promising wrestler with a chance to flourish on the mat and climb the ladder as a contender for Olympic Gold. His career flourish also comes at a moment of sociopolitical upheaval with a spell of protests against the Iranian government and calls for accountability turning violent onto citizens. Additionally, Arash must contend with the potential consequences laid before him by his coach, whose own apprehension is drawn purely from political apathy. Things change however when the film takes a striking emotive turn, […]

THE RITUAL Reveals A Chilling Teaser Poster Debut Ahead Of Spring 2025 Release

Lee B. Golden III

XYZ Films has set an April 18 theatrical release for The Ritual, the new exorcism horror thriller starring Al Pacino and Dan Stevens. The company has also unveiled the first poster on Wednesday. Based on true events, The Ritual follows two priests – one questioning his faith (Stevens) and one reckoning with a troubled past (Pacino) – who must put aside their differences to save a possessed young woman through a difficult and dangerous series of exorcisms. The film is an authentic portrayal of Emma Schmidt, an American woman whose demonic possession culminated in harrowing exorcisms. Her case remains the most thoroughly documented exorcism in American history. The Ritual also stars Ashley Greene and Abigail Cowen, and is directed by David Midell directs from a script he wrote with Enrico Natale who produces. The film is also produced Andrew Stevens, and Mitchell Welch. “David Midell’s grounded aesthetic is terrifying, authentic […]

HYPNOSIS MIC: DIVISION RAP BATTLE Feature Animated Film Gets A First Teaser

Lee B. Golden III

Resident Evil: Vendetta helmer Takanori Tsujimoto is on deck for an explosive outing this year with the feature film procession of Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle. Tsujimoto is directing from a script by franchise steward Yuichiro Momose. Plot details are unknown but Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle stems back to its manga roots in 2018, followed by animated series releases from 2020. Polygon Pictures heading up the feature production from an all new crew with Toho Next releasing the film on February 21, and with each screening running with different endings depending on audience polling. Moreover, courtesy of EVIL LINE RECORDS, the new movie is packed with over forty new songs, and tons of characters for fans of this franchise to root for as the film nears its release. I don’t know about the rest of you but epic rap battles served on an anime platter sounds like something I’d […]