KINGDOM: THE FLAME OF DESTINY Review: Secrets, Lies And Intrigue Heat Up Shinsuke Sato’s Already Propulsive Third Chapter
Kingdom: The Flame Of Destiny is streaming on Netflix.
Kingdom: The Flame Of Destiny is streaming on Netflix.
Putting a serial spin on 2005’s Doug Liman-directed action spy rom-com now brings an official trailer for Amazon Prime’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Maya Erskine stars along with Donald Glover who also created the series with Francesca Sloane.
Last month’s first look at CCXP now brings an official trailer to accompany the series return of Halo, from Paramount+ on February 8. Actor Pablo Schreiber is back in full garb as Master Chief following the definitive events of the first season in which our titular protagonist is forced to question everything he thought he knew, in an epic battle pitting him against intergalactic foes, and even friends.
Shudder and AMC+ subscribers can now take to the latest announcement from the AMC Networks-led platform for its exclusive January 26 streaming launch of erotic supernatural horror thriller, Suitable Flesh. The film is directed by Joe Lynch (Mayhem, Chillerama) and is adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s cult favorite short story, and stars Heather Graham, Judah Lewis, Bruce Davison, and Barbara Crampton.
The momentous arrival of new crime drama series The Brothers Sun brings promise with a first episode that delivers multitonal drama and comedy with several servings of violence and fisticuffs. Eight episodes are streaming on Netflix following its premiere on Thursday so after this, you’re welcome to dive in for yourselves if you’re keen as this review will just cover the pilot episode.
I’m something of a late bloomer for my anime intake, having grown up dieting mostly on American shows. Needless to say that a proper viewing of the 1992 animated succession of the hit manga series, Yu Yu Hakusho, was more than filling when I finally caught it about five years ago. Even the prospects of it becoming a potential live-action banger at some point drowned out all the other noise in my head, albeit much to the chagrin of fans of the series who are nothing short of skeptical when it comes to live-action re-renderings of IP faves like the work of mangaka Yoshihiro Togashi.
Reacher series creator Nick Santora did the world some serious justice with the season one premiere of the hit show based on the novels by Lee Childs last year. With season two set to kick off its first three episodes on Amazon Prime in the next few weeks, the show is now being primed for a third season already in production according to a new video announcement attached to an extended clip courtesy of series star Alan Ritchson.
December 6 will see the official premiere of Kamel Guemra’s six-part action-packed crime series, Blood Coast (French title Pax Massilia). Ivan Fegyveres and Olivier Marchal each share directing duties on the hourlong series which hails from production house Gaumont and stars Tewfik Jallab, Jeanne Goursaud, and Nicolas Duvauchelle.
With The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare still in toe among other prospects, director Guy Ritchie is also adding streaming to his 2024 itinerary with the upcoming episodic premiere of The Gentlemen, loosely spinning off his crackling British 2019 crime drama thriller of the same name which starred Matthew McConaughey.
Following its announcement in 2021, Netflix affirmed its commitment to an animated series take on the Terminator franchise with an official teaser packaged with a first look at title logo. The show hails from Netflix, Skydance and Production I.G. and creator Mattson Tomlin (The Batman), and is described as follows in the official logline read out by the Geeked Week panel on Saturday:
Buried deep in the content dump of Netflix’s Geeked Week special on Friday finally came the official first teaser trailer for Yu Yu Hakusho, based on Yoshihiro Togashi’s longstanding manga and beloved anime fave.
Kicking off Netflix’s Geeked Week amid a roster of Thursday’s presentations was the official teaser trailer for Avatar: The Last Airbender, following a teaser back in June. The show’s latest inspiration, succeeding its accolades from the original animated Nickelodeon hit, hails from Albert Kim (Sleepy Hollow, Nikita) who serves as showrunner and writer, as well as exec producer for its February 22 launch.
Makoto Sasaki’s 2019 documentary, Night Cruising, is currently streaming on Amazon Prime and it’s a gem to catch if you’re into exploring at least one other dimension of content creation nary explored. The movie is an extensive profile of Hideyuki Kato, congenitally blind and intent on completing his first movie, with Sasaki chronicling the careful steps and the tedious, concentrated planning he ventures to make it happen.
Here’s a fun little hourlong pick-me-up at home to take your mind off of life’s unwaning woes: The story of two actresses, Nozomi (Eiko Koike) and Lana (Maho Nonami), who are staying together at a luxurious two bedroom apartment with a living room, dining room and kitchen in Tokyo – both vying for the same part in a yakuza movie.
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Hong Kong filmmaker and former Milkyway Image (Hong Kong) Ltd. cohort Dennis Law found himself on some pretty green pastures in the early 2000s upon the release of Wilson Yip’s blistering call-to-arms Donnie Yen starrer, S.P.L.. He would team up a few times over with that film’s co-star, Wu Jing, in the years that followed with the production of a few more action-geared titles on their bumper, the first of which would be Fatal Contact, Law’s second directorial gig after 2005’s The Unusual Youth.
November 17 will see the Apple TV+ premiere launch first two Matt Shankman-directed episodes of Godzilla spin-off series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. The ten-episode drama stars Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett and Elisa Lasowski, and now gets an official trailer lend some inviting imagery into the opulent tale as inspired by Legendary’s Monsterverse which segues by next year into the hotly-anticipated Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
I can’t begin to tell you why Typhoon helmer Min Byung-chun only directed one other film just a few years later. I can’t…because I don’t have the answer. If someone does, I’m open to learning it, and only because Natural City, his last film as of twenty years ago today, was a highlight for me during a time when I was getting hardcore into Asian films following Jackie Chan’s post-Glickenhaus U.S. resurgence in the mid-1990s.
Writer/director Roman Perfilyev’s second film took a while to get to our side of the globe but folks looking to check out his sophomore feature can now do so in Once Upon A Time In Ukraine.
Here’s a little taste for those of you still waiting for the upcoming Godzilla films from Takashi Yamazaki and Adam Wingard: Apple TV+ is spearheading its own take on Legendary’s Monsterverse iteration of the Toho franchise with Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters and new stills are out featuring the cast.
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