Streaming Sleepers: In DESPERADO, Danny Chan Slays In A Suit!
This film was a cool watch recently!
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Streaming Sleepers: In QODRAT, Vino G. Bastian Battles To Save Our Souls!
Qodrat is a must watch if you love horror and Indonesian action.
Streaming Sleepers: Koichi Sakamoto’s BROKEN PATH Paves Way For Streaming Enjoyment On Plex
BROKEN PATH stays steady on our streaming radar this week!
The Movies That Moved Me: Mike Marvin’s THE WRAITH
This is one sci-fi throwback that I find myself thinking about often: The 1986 revenge thriller, THE WRAITH.
Streaming Sleepers: TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN Comes To Hi-YAH!
TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN stars Raymond Lam, Terrance Lau, Louis Koo, and Sammo Hung!
Streaming Sleepers: Jéro Yun’s FIGHTER Still Hits Just As Hard As The First Time
If you’re stuck on what to watch this weekend, Jéro Yun’s 2021 boxing drama, FIGHTER, should bode well for Asian film fans with access to Tubi.
Streaming Sleepers: In, EYE FOR AN EYE 2: BLIND VENGEANCE, Xie Miao Still Nails It!
EYE FOR AN EYE 2: BLIND VENGEANCE arrives on March 4 from Well Go USA on Digital, as well as Blu-Ray and DVD which will feature an all-new English dub. The film is also currently streaming exclusively on Hi-YAH!.
Streaming Sleepers: In Lau Kar Leung’s HEROES OF THE EAST, Love, Honor And Respect In Any Language
One of the finer things of late about subscribing to Well Go USA’s in-house streaming platform, Hi-YAH!, is much ado with their output of classic kung fu titles. Lau Kar Leung’s Heroes Of The East is just one of them these days, making landfall this week with Gordon Liu and Yuko Mizuno headlining the cast. The 1978 film bodes as a classic staple from the Shaw Brothers catalog and currently residing in the library of Celestial Pictures in its preservation of legendary Hong Kong hit films. Written by Ni Kuang amid his sizeable studio resumé as screenwriter, the film follows another chapter in the age-old battle of the sexes when a pre-arranged marriage between Ho Tao (Liu) and Yumiko (Mizuno) ensues a competition of hijinks, hilarity, and martial skill between Chinese and Japanese styles. Liu is as charismatic in the role of Ho Tao, as he is skilled opposite the […]
G20: Viola Davis Puts Country And Family First In The Official Trailer
Also starring are Anthony Anderson and Antony Starr in the Patricia Riggen-directed action thriller.
Streaming Sleepers: In FACELESS, True Justice Hangs In The Balance
Michihito Fujii’s new crime thriller, FACELESS, is now streaming on Netflix.
Streaming Sleepers: In AD VITAM, Guillaume Canet Thrills As An Ex-Cop On The Edge!
Guillaume Canet, Stéphane Caillard, and Nassim Lyes star in the Netflix action thriller about an ex-cop framed for a crime he didn’t commit.
Streaming Sleepers: In DON’T MESS WITH GRANDMA, Michael Jai White Saves The Day By Sunset!
DON’T MESS WITH GRANDMA stars Michael Jai White and Billy Zane, and is directed by Jason Krawczyk
KINGDOM: RETURN OF THE GREAT GENERAL Review: Shinsuke Sato’s Latest Rages On In An Extant Tale Of High Drama And Heroic Bloodshed
Kingdom: Return Of The Great General is now streaming on Netflix in the U.S. Imaginably, if the rest of us outside of Japan got to see Shinsuke Sato’s Kingdom: Return Of The Great General, the film would have easily listed for many of us somewhere in our top favorite action titles of 2024. Interest be damned, however, the obligatory window still applies for titles like these, and now the film is finally streaming on Netflix as of Wednesday. Sato’s continued adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara’s celebrated manga-cum-anime fave re-establishes the cast of the franchise thusfar, led by Kento Yamazaki, Ryo Yoshizawa, Kanna Hashimoto, and Takao Osawa, as well as Nana Seino. Additionally, the film also brings back actors Koji Kikkawa and Oguri Shun whose characters are introduced in the outro sequences of the previous chapter, Kingdom: The Flame Of Destiny. As Ohki (Osawa) prepares to lead the Qin army into its […]
DARK MATCH Throws Down The Gory Goods In The Official Trailer!
I tried like crazy last year to catch Lowell Dean’s head-bashing ringside horror, Dark Match, while it performed for Fantasia. Alas, that never came to pass, but the film is now poised for release via Shudder in the U.S., the U.K. & Ireland, and in Australia & New Zealand on January 31. A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match. The official trailer is here as well and delivering all the unhinged, R-rated violence and gore you would expect from a violent tourno wrestling spectacle from the man who brought you Wolfcop and its sequel. Dark Match stars Ayisha Issa, Steven Ogg, Sara Canning, Michael Eklund, and Jonathan Cherry, and wrestling superstar Chris Jericho. Catch the bloody new trailer below, and mind your viewing surroundings […]
Streaming Sleepers: In THE BROKENHEARTED, A Bruising Redemption Tale That Goes Down Swinging
Fifteen years is probably long enough for someone like Leroy Nguyen to have lived and toiled through the independent film arena to garner a book publication one day. Whether or not that day comes remains to be seen, while his latest feature film makes the release rounds via Amazon on digital for rental or purchase with The Brokenhearted, a gritty new crime drama that is also poised to be his final bow. Black Scar Blues was the first time I’d really been able to get a hold of Nguyen’s work, and only because he reached out to me on social media three years prior to its release. The film gave me a really good handle on his cinematic vision which sets discernibly apart from other independent creatives with whom he’s collaborated – folks like Fernando Jay Huerto, Joey Min, and Joseph Le to name a few. The Brokenhearted is an […]
ARROW PLAYER Announces Bustling January SVOD Line-Up
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 […]
Streaming Sleepers: Fede Álvarez’s ALIEN: ROMULUS Plants A Seed For Franchise Vitality
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 […]
Streaming Sleepers: Reiki Tsuno’s MAD CATS Claws Its Way To Prime, Tubi, And More In The U.S.
Mad Cats was originally reviewed for the 29th edition of the Slamdance Film Festival. The movie was released on All-Region Blu-Ray in the UK from Third Window Films, and originally as a streaming exclusive on Midnight Pulp. If you regularly take in Asian movies, then you can certainly understand director Reiki Tsuno’s logic and motivation of late. Citing a need for Japanese filmgoing audiences to enjoy “fun movies that make you feel happy,” it comes as no surprise that he would create a film that centers its narrative on one of the most enigmatic yet culturally beloved domestic mammals, particularly in Japan. What’s impressive, of course, is the degree to which Tsuno pulls this feat off in his feature directorial debut, Mad Cats, which screens for Slamdance this weekend. Prefacing our story is an opening sequence host to an eerie hilltop with five women in white gowns, standing several feet apart […]
Streaming Sleepers: The RED PEONY GAMBLER Trilogy From Film Movement Classics Is A Sure Win
I’m really fond of where my interest in film has taken me since I started this journey. I credit festivals for helping me open my eyes a little more, and now I can’t get enough of seeing classic kung fu, crime, and action out of boutiques like Arrow Video and even Film Movement which has been brimming its library up these days with throwbacks out of Japan. Their latest addition comes by way of a franchise out of Toei, among which a trio is now available for streaming via digital and on-demand as the Red Peony Gambler trilogy. Actress Junko Fuji headlines the saga alongside a bevy of Toei’s talent roster – several with whom the actress shares a number of screen credits throughout her career, including Ken Takakura, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Bin Amatsu and others. Kosaku Yamashita directs the 1968 first installment of these “ninkyo eiga” titles from a script […]
Streaming Sleepers: THE BIG GIFT Rewards You With Holiday-Filled Comedy Beat ‘Em Up Thrills
The holidays are just around the corner, folks! Alas, a shorthand push is ordered here for Jarrod Crook’s latest action comedy, The Big Gift. The film landed on Prime for a while and only recently made its debut via free ad-supported streaming service, Tubi. An unemployed father must do whatever he can to ensure his son receives the gift he wants for Christmas, even if it means battling it out with Santa. Crooks directed from a script he co-wrote with co-star Erin Antilla. I was allowed a screener at one point a few years ago and my subsequent review thusly reads in part with the following: Light-hearted, warm, and with a solemn, introspective message that doesn’t get lost on the viewer amidst the spectacle, The Big Gift marks another return to form for Crooks who deserves more ceremony and coverage than he gets. With The Big Gift, Crooks gets a […]