Local Blurbs
BEAST: Hey Los Angeles! Catch An Advance Screening Of The New MMA Action Drama Before It Releases Nationwide!
The movie stars Daniel MacPherson,Russell Crowe, Luke Hemsworth and Bren Foster.
THE BLADE: Big Bad Film Fest And Gardena Cinemas Launches Monthly Screening Series With Tsui Hark Classic This Month!
The movie plays before its inaugural audience on February 23!
BLADE Sets Special “CAN I KICK IT?” Screening Event In North Carolina For October
Tickets are now on sale at the Cary Theater website!
Can I Kick It?: Shaolin Jazz To Live-Score 80s Cult Classic AMERICAN NINJA, Debut 6K Trailer For Long-Lost Steve James Actioner, RIVERBEND
Coming to Washington D.C. on Tuesday, July 29!
Japan Cuts XVIII: Line-Up Unveiled, Kiyoshi Kurosawa Honored For The 2025 Edition
Japan Cuts is back on the horizon this summer!
Hey NYC! SEE IT BIG: STUNTS! Kicks Off This Friday At The Museum Of The Moving Image!
See big stunts played on the big screen from now through June!
Hey Utah! Haymaker Film Festival Launches Call For Entries For Its First Year Event!
The new independent action festival will launch its first edition on October 10.
OBAYASHI ’80s: THE ONOMICHI TRILOGY AND KADOKAWA YEARS Launches At Japan Society In February!
Our own Mike Garcia has covered the work of late auteur Nobuhiko Obayashi on this site for a good deal of time. He lives in Spain, although I’d imagine if he resided in my neck of the woods he’d be all-in with what’s going down at Japan Cuts on a yearly basis, particularly with next month’s run of Obayashi-directed classics titled Obayashi ’80s: The Onomichi Trilogy & Kadokawa Years. The program includes sextet of titles including I Are You, You Am Me (Exchange Students) (1982), School in the Crosshairs (1981), The Little Girl Who Conquered Time (1983), Lonely Heart (Miss Lonely) (1985), The Island Closest to Heaven (1984), and His Motorbike, Her Island (1986). Prices vary for members and non-members alike, so if you’re in town and want some classic Japanese delights in your eyes, head to the website and get your tickets before the slate’s weeklong run beginning February […]
Hey, New York City! Train With Actor And Martial Artist Bruce Khan In January!
Actor and filmmaker Bruce Khan (Revenger, The Killer) is pounding the pavement lately to promote his own series of martial arts and screenfighting seminars through his platform, S.E.M. Academy, in North America. His next stop will be at Mr. J’s Gymnastics in New York City’s Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on Saturday, January 25, and Sunday, January 26, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm. There’s a payment tier for the events as well, with $150 for one day, $300 for the weekend, and $400 for an entire VIP package that extends to a private one hour session with the actor on whatever attendees want to discuss. There was a promo cut together boosting the event that recently made the rounds which included a little bit of action from his upcoming thriller, Purgatory: Zone Of Murderers, spliced in. That promo pretty much disappeared into the ether, but if you’re in Brooklyn this month and up […]
KILL BILL: VOL. 1 To Get The Shaolin Jazz Treatment At BEYOND In Cary Next Month!
The seventh edition of Beyond: The Cary Film Festival in Cary, North Carolina, is set to kick off on September 5 at the Cary Theater. Part of the line-up will see the festival’s screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1, in association with 3 Chambers Fest, with the film screened with a live scene-by-scene music score by Shaolin Jazz. The first half of a two-volume diptych, Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1 released in 2003, unleashing a revival of classic Asian cinema tropes infused with his groundbreaking and often audacious style. In the film, Uma Thurman stars as an unnamed Bride whose life of repose and impending motherhood and marriage is violently upended by her former employer, Bill, played by the late David Carradine. Having survived the ordeal following a four year coma, the Bride plots course for vengeance against the people who murdered her fiance and wedding party, and […]
Undiscovered Realm 2024: PopGeeks Toplines Coverage For TMNT And Thundercats Panels!
Our own parent site Pop Geeks had some time to spare in the past week to take a gander at this summer’s goings on at the Undiscovered Realm Comic Con up in White Plains, N.Y.. They joined two panels for the event, one for the cast of New Line Cinema’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), and another for the voice cast of the classic animated series, “Thundercats” (1985). YouTubers @ms.aislingsasmr and @consistency contributed to the video content provided to Pop Geeks which you can view below. Enjoy, and feel free to visit popgeeks.com for more news and updates. Lead image: Undiscovered Realm Official Website
[UPDATED] Hey NYC! Come Check Out HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS At The IFC Center In February!
UPDATE – 2.16.24 3:35pm EST: Screening for the 7pm slot on February 28 for Hundreds Of Beavers has sold out! Congratulations to the filmmakers as well, and indeed, folks still keen on seeing the film may do so with TWO new screening slots opened, including one for the same evening at 9:45pm, and one on March 1 at 7pm at New Plaza Cinema. More info is still available at the Partiful page. EARLIER: I only got wind of this invite on Monday and as such, I’m compelled to stan a friend on this platform like I do frequently. Because that’s who Jon Truei is to me, and has been since I met him more than a decade ago at a New Years’ Eve party. Truei is a filmmaker whose work history dates back to the pre-YouTube era of indie action along with the likes of Joey Min, Fernando Jay Huerto, […]
ALERT: Stuntwoman Carrie Annie Bernans Needs Our Help
I’m inclined to help spread the word for a new GoFundMe campaign now circulating for actress and stuntwoman Carrie Annie Bernans (The Color Purple, Marvel’s Black Panther and Avengers Infinity War/Endgame). Per the latest report from Deadline and updates via social media, an alleged hit-and-run driver crashed into an outdoor dining establishment in midtown Manhattan at 1:30am on Monday, injuring nine people. Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. and several outlets reported on the incident with a statement from Bernans’ publicist, citing Bernans was one of nine people who suffered multiple injuries before the suspect, who “backed up and rammed into another car” was apprehended by police. Graphic images and details about the incident can be viewed and read at Bernans’ GoFundMe as well as her Instagram page where Bernans also confirmed that her newborn son was in a hotel with their family at the time of the incident. As par for […]
Hey Austin! Come Take A Seminar With ONE-PERCENTER Star Tak Sakaguchi!
Actor and action star Tak Sakaguchi is returning to Texas next week to host stunt action and self-defense seminar at Tukong Martial Arts in Austin on September 22. In addition, the seminar will coincide with the promotion of the actor’s latest feat, One-Percenter, which will have its next premiere on Saturday, September 23 at this year’s edition of Fantastic Fest. One-Percenter is written and directed by Yudai Yamaguchi, and centers on an aging stuntman whose dreams of achieving the production of a pure action movie arrives when he finds himself crossing blows with yakuza mobsters looking for a hidden cache of drugs. The film is produced by Takayuki Ota (Crazy Samurai Musashi) and Ryo Uchiyama, and also marks a reunion for both the star and director following previous credits like Battlefield Baseball, Tebana Sankichi: Snot Rocket & Super Detective, Cromartie High: The Movie, Deadball and Yakuza Weapon, as well as […]
3 CHAMBERS FEST Launches In October With Live-Music, THE CROW w/ Shaolin Jazz And More In October!
Residents and consumers of music and genre cinema delights will find themselves in good company come the arrival of the inaugural 3 Chambers Fest in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hosted by Speller Street Films, the festival will be home to a fusion of hip-hop, martial arts, and anime, featuring live music performances and immersive film and art experiences, and more. Per the announcement this Tuesday this week, 3 Chambers Fest commences on Friday, October 13, at Waterline Brewing Company with live performances by Solemn Brigham / Marlowe and Skyzoo live in concert. Advance tickets are now up for grabs at $10 with door prices at $20. Doors will open at 8:00pm with the show starting at 9:00 PM with opening performances by Wilmington hip-hop artists Louis. and MoeSOS DC. Friday’s event is sponsored by Waterline Brewing Company and Brooks Pierce. The following Saturday will see the newest edition of Can I […]
WALID: ‘Silat Warriors’ Director’s Latest Gets NY & LA Screening Dates Ahead Of Fall Malay Release
If you’re at all keen on the festival scene in the last several years, then you may have gotten wind of Malaysian action thriller Geran (a.k.a. Silat Warriors: Deed Of Death). The movie premiered at the 19th New York Asian Film Festival where it earned its debutant director Areel Abu Bakar the Daniel A. Craft Award For Excellence In Action Cinema, before Well Go USA swooped in for its commercial release of the pic, and Bakar himself has gone on to direct a few more titles since then. For this, we turn to Walid (meaning “father” in Arabic), a new action adventure with Bakar back in full bloom with his Silat action team for a story that permeates the harrowing subject of child trafficking. Actor Megat Sharizal, billed as Malaysia’s own Sammo Hung, leads the cast for the story of a kind and dedicated teacher who takes matters into his […]
A KIND OF KIDNAPPING: Dan Clark’s Award-Winning Comedy Announces Cast+Crew Events Ahead Of UK Release
Dan Clark’s new award-winning crime comedy, A Kind Of Kidnapping, will touch down next month in the UK via Bulldog Distribution. Starring Patrick Baladi (The Office, Line of Duty), Kelly Wenham (Double Date, Tales from the Lodge), Jack Parry-Jones (The Crown) and Olivia Poulet (The Thick of It), select cinemas will host screenings with cast and crew attendance starting July 13, followed by its digital release on July 24. Winner of multiple awards at the recent Manchester International Film Festival, including Best Actress and Best Screenplay, the film has also started to receive critical acclaim with British Comedy Guide calling it “deliciously outrageous and laugh-out-loud-dark.” A KIND OF KIDNAPPING is the story of 30-something couple Maggie and Brian who, both struggling to get by, decide to kidnap London politician, Richard Hardy. Sadly no one wants to pay the ransom but just before they let Hardy go he wonders if he […]
WARRIOR: Max Hits The Streets Of New York, San Fran and LA With AR-Imbued Murals To Promote Season Three
The first three episodes of Warrior finally arrived on Thursday to kick off the hotly anticipated season three. To relish in the occasion, streaming platform Max is partnering with a trio of multicultural artists to produce and promote an interactive experience using murals currently on display in three major cities: New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Each mural features an iconic image of the show’s original innovator, Bruce Lee, with select cast members on hand on Thursday for each unveiling. “Seeing Warrior return for our 3rd season during this 50th anniversary year for my father is just the ultimate celebration of his legacy.” Said Shannon Lee, Executive Producer on Max’s Warrior and president of the Bruce Lee Foundation. “I couldn’t be more proud of our show, our cast, our crew, and the impact our show continues to have and the entertainment it continues to serve up and celebrating through […]