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SOUND OF VIOLENCE Trailer: Alex Noyer’s Seething New Horror Releases On VOD In May

For some time now we’ve in part had our eye on Alex Noyer’s 2021 SXSW thriller, Sound Of Violence, starring Jasmin Savoy Brown (the upcoming Scream revival, HBO’s “The Leftovers”). It definitely caught the attention of our own Christina Ortega Phillips who’s the biggest horrorhead among this lot, and now with a North America release in tow from Gravitas Ventures, we now have a trailer, and key art to present, with a date set for May 21 on VOD. “I’ve been lucky to be surrounded by people who believed in my idea of an artist in lieu of a killer. From our amazing lead Jasmin Savoy Brown to my producing partner Hannu Aukia, to our cast and crew, this movie came together because of confidence in that vision. Gravitas showed us that same confidence. I am delighted for them to bring it to North American audiences so soon after our World premiere […]

MANDY: Nicolas Cage Goes Huntin’ For Crazy Evil On Limited Edition Blu-Ray From Dazzler In May

Lee B. Golden III

Pensive, vibrant arthouse revenge horror gets about as intrinsic, weird and brutally violent and fun with Mandy, the 2018 festival hit that continued to preserve starring actor Nicolas Cage’s palatable touch on the big screen and in pretty much any meme rivaling Keanu Reeves at this juncture. Produced in part with Elijah Wood and fan-inclusive label, Legion M, Panos Cosmatos directed the hypnotic horror thriller featuring Cage opposite actress Andrea Riseborough and actors Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy and Bill Duke, and topped with a visceral, haunting music score by the late Johann Johannsson in one of his final film compostions. Dazzler Media is proudly unleashing this puppy in the UK on Limited Edition Blu-ray from May 24, with pre-order links currently up-and-running. While it’s certainly not the last we’ll be hearing of Cage in his adventures on celluloid, it’s a damn good thing Dazzler is on top of this easy […]

EDGE OF THE WORLD: Samuel Goldwyn Reveals Official Trailer Ahead Of June Release

Lee B. Golden III

Michael Haussman’s newest period adventure, Edge Of The World, is looking toward a June 4 release on VOD from Samuel Goldwyn Films. Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Dominic Monaghan lead a cast that also includes Josie Ho, and the impressive Bront Palarae who is one of Southeast Asia’s biggest stars to date. In 1839, Brooke flees Victorian England to explore Borneo. After a pirate attack, Brooke allies with rival princes to seize a rebel fort. To save prisoners from beheading, Brooke agrees to be crowned Rajah. James begs the Royal Navy for a steamship to fight pirates, but the British want his kingdom as a colony. Makota’s pirates massacre Brooke’s capital, leaving James half-dead. To save his people, he must shed Englishness and embrace the jungle: “All of it, the beauty and the blood.”Also starring are Atiqah Hasiholan, Ralph Ineson, Otto Farant and Samo Rafael, along with Shaheizy Sam, Hannah New, […]

THE SWORDSMAN Swings For The UK This May

Lee B. Golden III

Anyone within reach of Trincity CineAsia’s distribution map these days can certainly expect something fun to watch in May with the release of Choi Jae-hoon’s period actioner, The Swordsman. Jang Hyuk leads the based-on-a-true-story sword thriller which centers on Tae-yul, a 17th century sword progeny rendered reclusive following the residual effects of an injury he sustained in a failed effort to prevent the downfall of the 15th king Gwanghae. After years of living in the mountains with daughter Tae-ok, Tae-yul soon finds himself thrust into the upheaval of the Ming-Qing transition, and back into battle when Tae-ok, after vying for a position in a noble family to help pay for Tae-yul’s eye treatment, is taken by Qing slave traders, led by the vicious Lord Gurutai (Joe Taslim). The film also stars Kim Hyun-soo and Jeong Man-sik, and will release in the UK on DVD & Digital from May 17, and […]

UNDERCOVER PUNCH & GUN Trailer: Philip Ng And Andy On Unload Their Action Arsenal On Hi-YAH Next Month, Digital And Disc This Summer!

Lee B. Golden III

If a little more Phillip Ng is what you’ve been wanting these days, then pull up a chair and get a whiff of Well Go USA’s latest Hi-YAH! induction, Undercover Punch & Gun, from directors Lui Koon Nam and Frankie Tam. While an elite cop is working undercover to infiltrate a notorious drug ring, his plan is compromised when a rival agency with a grudge attacks during a trade, killing the gang’s leader. Their cover blown, both teams are forced to unite and take to the high seas in an attempt to overthrow the ruthless smuggler behind it all. This one’s taken quite a while to circulate, and for North American genre filmgoers, Hi-YAH! is a perfect landing spot for a title of this kind. The film arrives exclusively on Hi-YAH! from May 7, so you’re not a subscriber yet, I recommend changing that. The film also arrives on Digital, […]

YASUKE: Netflix Drops Official Teaser Trailer

Christina Ortega

When one thinks of different countries or cultures, there are certain things that are always thought of. What people most often associate with America, for example, is probably baseball and certain grilled foods like hot dogs. Whether or not people know a lot about Japanese culture, the samurai is probably most often associated with Japan. And what is better than an anime focusing on not just any samurai, but the first African samurai? Yasuke is a man who was the “first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior.” If you want to know more about his story, you can read this BBC article. Did you read it? Great. Now we can talk about the series that Netflix has created, based on Yasuke. Here is the official synopsis: In a war-torn feudal Japan filled with mechs and magic, the greatest Ronin never known, Yasuke, struggles to maintain a […]

LOKI: See Everyone’s Favorite Trickster in the Trailer

Christina Ortega

They say (and by “they” I mean the people who create all those memes passed around on social media) that when you are a child, you identify with the superheroes, but when you are an adult, you begin to understand the villains. While I cannot fully agree with this because even growing up there were villains I could empathize with, I do think there may be some truth to it since some villains are just so likable! A good example of this is Loki. Hear me out. If you have siblings, you all know that even though parents are not supposed to have favorites, they often treat their children differently. Loki was treated differently. How could you not rebel when growing up in anyone’s shadow, but especially Thor’s? Loki is a trickster and while he may go too far, was he ever really taught otherwise? Yes, he played a part […]

DELIVER US FROM EVIL: Well Go USA Delivers Hong Won-Chan’s Hit Korean Action Thriller On Blu-Ray, DVD And Digital In May

Lee B. Golden III

The latest round of Asian-centric action and crime thrills coming to Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital on May 25 from Well Go USA now hands us the official trailer for Deliver Us From Evil. The film reunites New World actors Hwang Jung-min (The Wailing; The Spy Gone North) and Lee Jung-jae (Tazza: One-Eyed Jack; The Face Reader; Along With the Gods franchise), and also stars Park Jeong-min (Svaha: The Sixth Finger), Park Soi a.k.a. Park Myung-hoon (Parasite) and Choi Moon a.k.a. Choi Hee-seo (Anarchist from Colony; Okja). After the shocking kidnapping of a little girl in Thailand, a mercenary with a murky past as a government black ops agent (Hwang) is forced to re-emerge from the shadows when he learns the incident is closely connected to him. With the help of expat Yui (Park), he flies to Thailand and begins tracking the girl’s whereabouts, moving ever closer to the notorious child trafficking ring responsible for her […]

ONE CUT OF THE DEAD+ONE CUT OF THE DEAD: IN HOLLYWOOD Limited Blu-Ray Sets Coming In May From Third Window Films

Lee B. Golden III

Third Window Films is touting a limited edition release of one of its most-prized titles of its catalogue, One Cut Of The Dead. A sleeper hit at home with increasing support in the months and years that followed, director Shinichiro Ueda’s one-take comedic horror delight now comes aptly packaged with its 57-minute follow-up, One Cut Of The Dead: Hollywood Edition. The UK distro outlet will have 2000 units on hand, boasting several hours of content with bonus features, and it all goes down May 31. Peep the specs below: ONE CUT OF THE DEAD opens in a run-down, abandoned warehouse where a film crew are making a zombie film. Yet this is no ordinary warehouse. It’s been said that it’s the site of military experiments on human. From nowhere, real zombies arrive & terrorize the crew!This may sound like a the plot of a clichéd zombie film, but One Cut of […]

ASSAULT ON VA-33 Review: In Yet Another Generic, Formulaic, Pedestrian ‘Die Hard’ Facsimile, Sean Patrick Flanery Powers Through

Lee B. Golden III

With Christopher Olen Ray’s new movie, Assault On VA-33, you can pretty much stack this one as another thriller in line with the rest of all the other potboiler ‘Die Hard’ carbon copies you’ve probably seen by now, if you’re an avid viewer of action films and you live for the kind of star power that films like this one headline. The film isn’t without its redeeming qualities, though apart from the admiration of watching action genre faves like Mark Dacascos and Michael Jai White, really, the plusses here all mainly boil down to the overall performances, led by Sean Patrick Flanery, who I can’t shut up enough about after seeing him in recent films such as American Fighter and Born A Champion. Flanery plays Jake Hill, a PTSD survivor whose wife, Jennifer (Gina Holden), counsels at the local VA hospital in upstate New York where he’s beginning to attend. […]

THE EIGHT HUNDRED Review: The Heroic Deed that Smashed the Box Office

Mike Garcia

Set in 1937, this huge chinese blockbuster that smashed the box office in 2020 becoming the highest grossing film worldwide, follows the heroic deed of a group of 800 Chinese soldiers, who resisted the Japanese aggresion in sanghai, defending the Sihang warehouses, carrying over their shoulders the hope of a nation and the dignity of their people, having as ultimate goal, survival as the last win. Director Guan Hu captures onto the screen the harshness and ugliness of war through breathless action sequences, in which we follow the choral cast across a rain of shrapnel and bullets, in a battlefield where death approaches in every corner, giving us an intimate look to those men who bravely risked their lives for their nation, whom actually were just a bunch of young men and boys who their only wish was that hell to end as soon as possible and return home with […]

BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL Twists Vampire Mythology With Horror Comedy In The Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Following announcements late last year after premiering for Sitges and Nightstream, Shudder launched its official trailer for thrilling horror romp, Boys From County Hell. Written and directed by Bad Day For The Cut helmer Chris Baugh, the film stars Jack Rowan (Peaky Blinders), Nigel O’Neill (The Bookshop), Louisa Harland (Derry Girls), and Fra Fee (Animals, the upcoming Hawkeye series), with John Lynch (The Terror, The Banishing) and Michael Hough (the upcoming Chapelwaite series). Strange events unfold in Six Mile Hill – a sleepy Irish town that claims to have been traveled by the famed author Bram Stoker – when construction on a new road disrupts the alleged grave of Abhartach, a legendary Irish vampire said to have inspired Dracula. Deadly and sinister forces terrorize the work crew led by Francie Moffat and his son Eugene, a free-spirited young man who prefers pints to pickaxes, and they’re forced to fight to […]

MVD announces their Spring/Summer ’21 additions to the “Marquee Collection”- Featuring a Scott Adkins double feature, & a whole lot more!

Matthew Essary

Physical media is getting rarer and rarer and people have just come to accept streaming as the way they watch movies. As with all things that become more niche though, the ones who still support physical media are fervent. So, there is still a strong market for Blu-Ray releases of films that cater to that devoted, core fanbase. Labels like Criterion, Arrow, Shout Factory, Vinegar Syndrome, and many more are lauded for putting out discs targeted to film genre enthusiasts. One group though, that doesn’t get nearly enough praise for their release is MVD Entertainment. Their “Rewind Collection” has done a remarkable job of taking video store-era staples and presenting them on disc in the highest quality possible. They have followed up that successful on-going collection with another. This one, known as the “Marquee Collection”, focuses on newer films that have been underappreciated on home video but are not (yet) […]

86 MELROSE AVENUE: Don’t Miss The Intense Trailer For Lili Matta’s New Hostage Thriller

Lee B. Golden III

https://youtu.be/Gk4ZdCKWZKY Writer/director Lili Matta’s new thriller, 86 Melrose Avenue, is out with official trailer and key art which you can view above and below, respectively. Starring Dada Elza (“Mystery Incorporated”) and Jim O’Heir (“Parks and Recreation”), Gravitas Ventures is releasing the film On-Demand from April 20! A diverse group of people at a gallery opening is taken hostage by an ex-Marine suffering with PTSD and forced to confront their cultural differences, their pasts, and their looming mortality as time ticks away. 86 Melrose Avenue also stars Anastasia Antonia, Gregory Zarian, Terri Ivens, Langstone Fishburne, Michael Polak, Andy Evans, Richard Sabine, Helen Kennedy, and Gary Sturm.

MORGUE: Hugo Cardozo’s Hit Paraguayan Horror Thriller Haunts This May From Well Go USA

Lee B. Golden III

Well Go USA Entertainment is proudly releasing writer/director Hugo Cardozo’s feature debut, Morgue, on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD beginning May 11. The Paraguayan supernatural horror thriller – based on real life events – hails a milestone for Cardozo whose film has since been a local box office hit upon its release in 2019, and the inspiration behind a new revisal in development as of last January from Bird Box writer Eric Heisserer. After a harrowing accident, the perpetually down-on-his-luck Diego Martinez accepts a gig as a security guard at the local morgue. He thought he’d had a lucky break, but as the night wears on, eerie occurrences and the suddenly not-quite-lifeless body of the victim leave him to wonder: how much otherworldly rage does it take to wake the dead? Morgue stars Pablo Martínez, María del Mar Fernández, Willi Villalba, Abel Martínez, Dr. Aldo Von Knobloch, Raúl Rotela, and Francisco […]

IP MAN: KUNG FU MASTER Punches Down In The UK This April

Lee B. Golden III

Director Li Liming’s Ip Man: Kung Fu Master will make its way to the UK on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital beginning April 19. Pre-orders are already underway at Amazon and iTunes for the new film which sees Dennis To reprising his role from priors in Herman Yau’s Ip Man: The Legend Is Born (2010) and Jeffrey Lau’s Kung Fu League (2018). Decades before becoming Bruce Lee’s legendary teacher, the young Ip Man, a police officer in Foshan and soon to be a father for the first time, finds himself in the middle of a deadly plot. Out for vengeance is Qing Chuan, the dangerous daughter of a ruthless but honourable mobster who has been killed under mysterious circumstances while in custody at the police station. Ip Man must face this threat, while also contending with the arrival of the Japanese army in Guangdong province. Returning to play this iconic role, […]

ONE AND THE SAME: Gravitas Ventures Debuts Freshman Dramatic Sci-Fi Thriller This Week

Lee B. Golden III

Gravitas Ventures is proudly presenting its trailer for the Felipe Cisneros’s feature debut, One And The Same, a sci-fi thriller making its way onto TVOD platforms this week from March 23. The film stars Glenn Plummer (South Central, Menace II Society, City of Lies), Makena Taylor (Skyfire, Some Kind of Beautiful, Adolescence), Acoryé White (Juanita, The Seventh Day, Under the Stadium Lights), and Ignacyo Matynia (Break Every Chain, Luke Cage). Set in Sacramento, ONE AND THE SAME weaves together a mysterious science-fiction tale of vengeance and reincarnation. When a young woman, Lola, is invited to a secret facility, she discovers an experiment beyond space and time. After uncovering her own past self, a teenage boy named Robbie, she embarks on a malevolent path for justice against the ex-con who killed him. Cisneros, a Sacramento native, is billed as a self-taught screenwriter and director, who honed his skills by creating a […]

THE PAPER TIGERS Lunge Into U.S. Theaters And On VOD This May From Well Go USA

Lee B. Golden III

Collider‘s Haleigh Foutch presented the exclusive trailer and poster for Well Go USA’s upcoming martial arts comedy, The Paper Tigers. The film marks a feature debut for writer/director Bao Tran, following its nine-year journey of development which included a blistering shortfilm pitch to present to marketeers. This, followed by preliminary footage to showcase for Frontières, in addition to crowdsourcing and campaigning in alignment with a heavy-handed movement for inclusion in today’s film industry amidst its festival run, and you can surmise exactly the kind of effort that makes a film like The Paper Tigers worth appreciating, rounds of positive reviews and sequel hopes notwithstanding. As teenagers, kung fu aficionados Danny (Uy), Hing (Yuan), and Jim (Jenkins) were inseparable, but drifted apart after graduation due to a mysterious fallout at an overseas tournament. Fast forward 25 years, and each has grown into a washed-up middle-aged man seemingly one kick away from […]

MAKING MONSTERS Scares You On Digital And VOD March 26

Lee B. Golden III

Samuel Goldwyn Films is proudly releasing Making Monsters, the new horror thriller by directing duo Rob Brunner and screenwriter Justin Harding. Following festival apprearances at Shriekfest, the Portland Horror Film Festival, the Hexploitation Film Festival (Winner, “Scariest Film”) amongst several others, Making Monsters will bow on March 26 across the U.S. on VOD and Digital. A social media prankster and his fiancee find their idyllic country weekend turn into the ultimate video prank, where the stakes are life and death. The film stars Alana Elmer, Tim Loden, Jonathan Craig, Jarrett Siddall and King Chiu.

THE EIGHT HUNDRED: Guan Hu Brings The Battle To UK Homes This Spring

Lee B. Golden III

Despite suffering the elongated woes of stifling film festival politics and Chinese censors a few years ago, Guan Hu’s most recent war epic, The Eight Hundred, finally managed to get a theatrical release to blockbuster fruition, albeit shorter in duration then. The film also scored releases overseas with CMC Pictures taking U.S. territory, and for this, folks in the U.K. can themselves make way for a physical rollout this Spring courtesy of Trinity CineAsia. Releasing on DVD come March 22, and on limited edition Blu-Ray (with alternative artwork and exclusive extras) and digital from April 12, The Eight Hundred is directed by Hu and stars Ou Hao, Jianf Wu, Zhang Yi, Wang Qianyuan, Du Chun and Li Chen. Pre-orders are avaliable at Amazon UK. Shanghai, 1937; it’s been three months since Japan launched the invasion of China, and Japanese forces have been ordered to take control of a large central […]