Posters

LAZARUS Rises In The Official Trailer For R.L. Scott’s Hard-Hitting Superhero Thriller

It almost feels like a lifetime since any of us have heard from director R.L. Scott since the ceremony of his 2016 action drama, Call Me King. For all intents and purposes however, Scott is back and re-entering the fray and with every intent to present his creative evolution on a more ambitious storytelling template. Thus, we now have an official teaser trailer for the upcoming superhero action thriller, Lazarus, and just in time for genre fans who’ve bared witness in the last two years as ethnically diverse superhero fandom has gradually taken shape with an increasing number of adapted and originals properties, including Luke Cage, the explosive success of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther and his upcoming sequel, and Sony’s Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Rejoining Scott is actor/producer Sean Riggs (Call Me King, Stomp The Yard), starring as a super-powered vigilante who fights an evil organization to free a city […]

The First Trailer For Roy Chow’s New Boxing Drama Looks For A KNOCKOUT Win

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Expect to hear more from Roy Chow in the coming months with The Legend Of Condor Heroes and upcoming Dynasty Warriors still in tow. Having riveted audiences with Nightfall and brought what I among others still feel was a reverent Wong Fei-Hung reboot with Rise Of The Legend, he’s got actor Han Geng ringside for the new boxing drama, Knockout. Media Asia announced the film at this year’s FilMart in Hong Kong, top-lining actor Han Geng for the story about a former champion’s comeback to the ring after a prison sentence. Also starring are Vivian Wu, Janine Chang Philip Keung with a release set for 2019, no doubt, while we do have a trailer and poster to get the wheels turning. (H/T: Asian Film Strike)

A WITNESS OUT OF THE BLUE: Don’t Miss The First Trailer For Louis Koo’s New Crime Thriller

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Hong Kong director Fung Chih-Chiang has done more than his fair share behind the scenes having served as screenwriter for the likes of Stephen Chow and Johnnie To; After hits like Shaolin Soccer, The Mermaid and 2 Become 1, Fung paved the way directing nominated Hong Kong faves like The Bounty and Concerto Of The Bully, and Charlene Choi’s Golden Lotus nod, The Midas Touch. Back to make a certifiable killing, Fung’s latest looks to thrill audiences this year with A Witness Out Of The Blue which filmed between last Summer and Fall. Bringing Louis Koo on board in a starring capacity along with producer Derek Yee asserts this one got some attention with Koo’s One Cool Film banner making the rounds at FilMart in Hong Kong for the next few days as the actor commences promoting other projects, including ICAC-driven crime thriller franchise entry, P-Storm, and Ng Yuen-fai’s visual […]

AVENGEMENT: Scott Adkins Mean-Mugs The Official U.S. Poster

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The key leg of marketing begins for the new crime thriller, Avengement, from director Jesse V. Johnson in his sixth stint with action star, actor Scott Adkins. Headed for a May 24 theatrical and VOD release, Adkins is now front-and-center, emblazoned on the newest official poster from Samuel Goldwyn Films who announced their acquisition on Wednesday. While released on furlough from prison, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old haunts to take revenge on the people that made him a cold-hearted killer. It’s an epic, bloody battle to search for the soul he lost years ago on the streets of an unforgiving city. Adkins’ next volley of action and thrills arrives next week with Triple Threat in theaters for one night on March 19 and on VOD March 22. That’ll be coupled with screenings in Germany and at the Fighting Spirit Film Festival in the UK […]

[UPDATED] AVENGERS: ENDGAME Trailer Reassures It’s All Come Down To This!

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UPDATE (4:33pm EST): Marvel responded to fan backlash on Thursday by releasing an amended official poster for Avengers: Endgame, this time adding actress Danai Gurira’s name to the roster. The film marks Gurira’s third Marvel MCU appearance following Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War, recurring in the role of Okoye, a member of Wakanda’s elite special forces unit, the Dora Milaje. EARLIER: Captain Marvel is making the rounds in theaters by now and on that note, the latest trailer for Avengers: Endgame is now online ahead of its April 26 release. The Russo Brothers are at the helm for what looks to be the last chapter for this particular canon of the MCU with Brie Larson’s own superhero stint connecting its own share of dots to weave the Marvel movie tapestry some. The trailer definitely reveals a bit from last year’s Infinity War so if you haven’t seen it yet […]

THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE Trailer: Jesse Eisenberg Needs Karate To Help Him Become What He Fears

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Jesse Eisenberg’s acting nods to his kind of signature wry appeal seen in films like Zombieland, The Social Network and even American Ultra. More can be seen in the official trailer for Riley Stearns’ new film, The Art Of Self-Defense, which I can safely say bodes as more black in its comedy than I thought. Evan Saathoff at BirthMoviesDeath brought the exclusive footage from Bleecker Street Media ahead of the film’s forthcoming premiere at this month’s SXSW. It has a festival poster to accommodate its screening as well which you can take a gander at just beneath, and it was done quite brilliantly at that. A dark comedy set in the world of karate. The film centers on Casey (Jesse Eisenberg), who is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei (Alessandro Nivola), in an effort to learn how […]

THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN Dishes Out Plenty In The New Official Trailer

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The road sure seemed like a longer one between now and last year’s Toronto premiere for Vasan Bala’s The Man Who Feels No Pain. The reason for such windows apart from any sort of meticulous and otherwise necessary film bureaucracy is beyond me, but at long last, moviegoers are just a few weeks away from seeing Abhimanyu Dassani and actress Radhika Madan light up the big screen, Rope-A-Dope style through the efforts of action stylists Eric Jacobus and Dennis Ruel. In this Bollywood-infused action film from Vasan Bala (Peddlers), a young man quite literally born with the ability to feel no pain strikes out on a quest to vanquish 100 foes. Our own Alex Chung, who himself is a stunt performer and independent filmmaker, was able to attend TIFF last year and catch up with his own review. In his critique, he especially heralded the action with respect to the […]

JUNGLEE: Vidyut Jammwal Becomes ‘The Protector’ In The Official Trailer

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If there was any indication that Kalari expert, actor Vidyut Jammwal was the next Tony Jaa, he made it pretty clear back in 2013 with the hit release, Commando. Fast forward to 2019 and Jammwal hasn’t gone anywhere with his star still lit and any number of projects possibly down the pipeline, and with none other than his latest, Junglee, which is clearly nodding to its fair sorts of nods to the Thai action star’s 2005 success, Tom Yum Goong (a.k.a. The Protector). It’s pretty unavoidable at this point. Complementary, even? Maybe? Junglee is a family-adventure film, revolving around a vet, who on his homecoming to his father’s elephant reserve, re-unites with his childhood friend – Bhola, the elephant, and fights an international poachers racket. The Mask helmer Chuck Russell makes his return here for its release on April 5 and also stars Pooja Sawant, Asha Bhat, Atul Kulkarni, Makarand […]

ULTRAMAN Lands An Official Trailer For Its April Netflix Premiere

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If updates from last year were any hint, classic Tsuburaya property, Ultraman, has a bright future ahead of itself. The latest serial treatment from the minds of Kamiyama Kenji and Aramaki Shinji (Eden Of The East Appleseed and Ghost In The Shell franchises), are staking their next claim in its Netflix rollout which commences April 1 from Production I.G and Sola Digital, and the official trailer is out this week. This is just the first of quite a bit of Japanese anime to come to the streaming site, so pace yourselves as I hope to do if your plan is to keep up! Ultraman’s next generation is here and its larger than life! Years ago, the famous giant of light Ultraman worked to protect peace on Earth. Now, a new champion arises: Shinjiro Hayata, a high-school student who must don the Ultra Suit and the worries that come with it. […]

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THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN Tests His Threshold In These New Posters

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The week of March 22 is gonna be packed with big screen fervor for moviegoers. Take the release of Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota – The Man Who Feels No Pain, for example, from director Vasan Bala who is still drawing some of the warmest reception stemming from its screenings previously at Mumbai and Toronto and onward. Opening on March 21, it’ll be contending with some great company like Jesse V. Johnson’s Triple Threat and S. Craig Zahler’s Dragged Across Concrete to name a few, though martial arts aficionados loyal to the creative efforts of independent action auteurs Eric Jacobus and Dennis Ruel will undoubtedly be pleased in this one if the glowing reviews its getting have any to say. Enter Abhimanyu Dassani and Radhika Madan who take the stage in two recent promos for the film. The setup? Dassani is a man born with a rare condition that desensitizes […]

WARRIOR Official Season One Trailer: ‘Somebody Has To Fight Back!’

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As it stands, the future couldn’t be brighter for the fate of martial arts cinema on television. With Into The Badlands making its exit from AMC in a few weeks, Cinemax is officially next in line with its own roster led by breakout actor Andrew Koji in the new series, Warrior, born and bread from the mind of the late Bruce Lee and re-birthed through the auspices of daughter Shannon Lee, and creators Justin Lin’s Perfect Storm and Jonathan Tropper’s Tropper Ink. Warrior is a gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs (Chinese organized crime family). Also starring are Kieran Bew, Olivia Cheng, Dianne […]

KILL-FIST: Sunny Pang Action Thriller To Go Toe-To-Toe At 9th Cambodia International Film Festival

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It’s been a long time since we last heard from Malaysian filmmaker James Lee who first came on our radar with an array of amazing short films. His career is undoubtedly inclusive with some terrific feature work, some of which include 2009’s Call Me If You Need Me and 2012 action comedy, The Collector – both featuring Singaporean import Sunny Pang. The two have since gotten together once more just last year on Kill-Fist, Pang’s own latest in a stint of qualifiable action roles since starring in Mo’ Bros’ thriller, Headshot, and Timo Tjajanto’s feature debut, The Night Comes For Us with Joe Taslim. Among the international line-up, folks attending this year’s 9th Cambodian International Film Festival will be the first to see what the film has in store. Zhang is a middle aged man struggling with a dead end job as an insurance salesperson, on the verge of divorce […]

HIGH MOON: Peep The Poster And Trailer For Josh Ridgway’s Gunslinging, Axe-Wielding Western Action Horror Hybrid

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Writer/director Josh Ridgway (The Sector) took to Arrow In The Head on Monday presenting an exclusive look his latest sophomore effort, High Moon (formerly Howlers). Distribution Solutions/Alliance Entertainment and Archstone Distribution are partnering for a May 14 VoD/Digital release before a DVD rollout on July 2. Colt, a gunslinging werewolf slayer from the old west who mysteriously rises from the grave, only to find that the band of werewolves that brutally murdered his wife is still running rampant generations later. Aided by a beautiful widow (Chelsea Edmundson), a skeptical town sheriff (Matthew Thompkins) and a corrupt Mayor (Sean Patrick Flanery), Colt must face off with the bloodthirsty creatures once again to save a sleepy southern town from destruction. Also starring is Tom Zembrod who plays the villain according to AITH’s Cody Hamman who also reports that a comic and TV series are also in development. Peep the trailer above and […]

HELLBOY Gives ‘Em Hell In The Latest Red-Band Trailer

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Well there’s no Billy Idol here, but the latest official trailer is here for director Neil Marshall’s very much R-rated adaptation of Hellboy coming in April. We have new posters as well but as almost always, there are two versions of the new Hellboy trailer out now – the green band and the red band versions, and you can best believe I’m featuring the latter here. Because we love red-bandy things! Based on the graphic novels by Mike Mignola, Hellboy, caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge. As far as reboots go, I’m reminded of news that there’s actually one for DreamWorks’ Shrek franchise in the making as well as I just watched Shrek 2 last night; it often makes me wonder about the nature and overall faith by studios remaking Hollywood properties that have already earned the approval of fans. Time […]

The Latest Official Trailer For DARK PHOENIX Gets…Pretty Darn Dark

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Yeah… the trailer pretty much gives something away here. You might be keen on this notion if you’ve been reading the news at all since Wednesday night about Simon Kinberg’s solo directing debut, Dark Phoenix. I’m no avid comic follower as much as I dig the culture and so whatever lies ahead, I’m still pretty interested in what lies ahead at this point – this being Fox’s final entry into the near two decade-old X-Men saga. In DARK PHOENIX, the X-MEN face their most formidable and powerful foe: one of their own, Jean Grey. During a rescue mission in space, Jean is nearly killed when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. Wrestling with this entity inside her, Jean unleashes her powers in ways she can neither comprehend nor contain. With Jean […]

FLY BY NIGHT Lands Online With Two New Posters

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Planet Films is high on momentum for the next month and change with the upcoming release of Zahir Omar’s directorial debut, Fly By Night. He’s got himself a few new posters making the rounds courtesy of Planet Films, host to laurels from its Busan XXIII debut and Macao premiere late last year, and to its credit, the Asian Cinema Fund stamp of approval as its 2018 beneficiary from July (scroll down to view). The film also held its ground at the Jogja-NETPAC Film Festival in Indonesia, as well as this year’s events in Santa Barbara and at the NYAFF’s inaugural Winter Showcase in New York City. Sunny Pang (Headshot, The Night Comes For Us) leads the suspenseful Kuala Lumpur-set heist thriller about a taxi company secretly targeting rich passengers to extort, only to find themselves thrown by external circumstances and forced to escalate their criminal activities to pay off their […]

THE BAD LIEUTENANT Looks A Little Worse For Wear In The Newest Poster!

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Ready or not, filmmaker Lee Jeong-beom is coming back with a vengeance for his return at the helm, The Bad Lieutenant. It’s been five years since directing No Tears For The Dead but the celebrated helmer of The Man From Nowhere seems ready to turn the page somewhat thematically in his creative stride. Enter Lee Sun-kyun, whose recent credits partly include A Hard Day and Ha Jung-woo thriller, Take Point. Starring in the title role, Lee plays Jo Pil-ho, a dirty, corrupt police lieutenant who suddenly becomes the prime suspect in a devastating explosion, enveloping him in a conspiracy involving a multinational conglomerate. Lee described his role at a press conference in Seoul, according to The Korea Herald‘s Yoon Min-sik, adding “He doesn’t compare to other characters that I have played in being harsh and ill-natured. He is the worst. Of all-time.” The article stipulates that the impressed director cited […]

LOVE’S TWISTING PATH Is One Paved In Action, Romance And Swordplay In The Official Trailer

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Having etched his place in film history as nearly sixty years in, folks can now celebrate director Nakajima Sadao’s latest return to narrative storytelling. Following a two-decade hiatus, his new film, Love’s Twisting Path, brings ceremonial fervor for jidaigeki fans featuring actress Tabe Mikako, and fellow stars Kora Kengo and Kimura Ryo. What unfolds is a love story set at the tail-end of Edo period in Kyoto, entangled by blurred nuances of human emotion amidst the turmoil of war between the Shogunate’s regime and local dissidents. At the center of it all is a former master-turned-ronin named Tajuro, the beautiful tavern owner named Toyo who loves him despite his dismissals and self-positioning as guardian to her property, and Tajuro’s younger and admiring step brother, Kazuma. The official trailer is now online along with poster art following the film’s Kyoto Interntaional Film and Art Festival premiere last year.

Teaser: BAD POLICE Is Rife With Lee Sun-Kyun’s Bad Language

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It was back in 2016 that Warner Bros. Korea would be ramping up its production slate and it’s doled out quite a few treats since then, save for Kim Jee-woon’s Ilang adaptation which I still enjoy. This year, the banner will look to rectify things with its latest offering, Bad Police, opening March 21 and starring Take Point actor Lee Sun-kyun with a logline that cites “A story about a bad cop standing up to an even worse society.”. That’s not much to go on while there’s little to suggest there’s some shared basis with Abel Ferrera’s memorable 1992 Harvey Keitel crime opus, Bad Lieutenant, but I can definitely see the basis for some inspiration. Best of all on top of the casting of Lee who puts on in amazing show in my first viewing of his work with 2014 pic, A Hard Day, is the credit to director Lee […]

DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE: Mel Gibson Intends To Collect In The Official Trailer!

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Director S. Craig Zahler is exactly the kind of director you’re looking for if you want a film that leaves a lasting impact. Last year’s head-stomping hit with Brawl In Cell Block 99 proved to be an entertainingly violent allegory on redemption from the Bone Tomahawk director and apart from any of the reviews stemming from its screening last year at Venice, his newest entry, Dragged Across Concrete, seemingly teases something that could almost be just as brutal and chilling, and just as soulful by way of its soundtrack. DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE follows two police detectives who find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics is leaked to the media. With little money and no options, the embittered policemen descend into the criminal underworld and find more than they wanted waiting in the shadows. Summit Entertainment presents, a Unified Pictures production, a Cinestate production, in association with Look […]