Trailers

WRATH OF MAN: Jason Statham Pops Off In The Latest Red-Band Trailer

Word has it that Jason Statham will be back in cinemas punching sharks again soon enough if Ben Wheatley’s involvement on a Meg sequel is any hint. In the meantime, you can look for the ole’ cockey bloke to punch regular Bobs in the face instead, along with a whole ‘nother list of violent gratuities in the new revenge thriller, Wrath Of Man, which now has a red-band trailer to help show you just how vengeful our man gets. A mysterious and wild-eyed new cash truck security guard (Jason Statham) surprises his coworkers during a heist in which he unexpectedly unleashes precision skills. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman’s ultimate motive becomes clear as he takes dramatic and irrevocable steps to settle a score. Guy Ritchie reunites with Statham to direct from a script co-written with Ivan Atkinson and Marn […]

DEMONIC: Neill Blomkamp’s Pandemic-Shot Thriller Goes Behind The Scenes With A Teaser And Two Stills

Lee B. Golden III

IFC Midnight and AGC Studios are ready to ramp up efforts to push writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s newest thriller, Demonic. The pandemic-shot horror was acquired by IFC Midnight last month and marks the latest studious effort from the man behind sci-fi wonders District 9, Elysium and Chappie, and even a Robocop or Alien film if the genre cinema powers that be actually willed it. Co-financed and co-produced by AGC Studios and STABILITi Studios last summer, Blomkamp’s fourth film also employs Oats Studios’s own Austyn Daines as editor and stars up-and-comers Carly Pope (Elysium), Chris William Martin (The Age of Adaline, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, TV’s The Vampire Diaries), and Michael Rogers (TV’s Siren, TV’s The Blacklist, TV’s Supernatural). In DEMONIC, a young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed in this horror-thriller from director Neill Blomkamp. […]

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

Lee B. Golden III

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 […]

An Evil Underground and Some Damn Good Music in THE RETALIATORS Teaser

Christina Ortega

If you’ve read any of my other articles you know that my interests are pretty wide and varied: from anime to comic book shows and movies to reading and so on and so forth. One interest that I have not been able to write about for this website yet is music. And now I get to write about music and movies? Yes! Let’s do this! Papa Roach. Ice Nine Kills. Escape the Fate. Five Finger Death Punch. No, I am not playing that game where you put together a fantasy music festival lineup. These are just some of the bands featured on the soundtrack of THE RETALIATORS. But wait! There’s more. Not only are these groups on the soundtrack, but they are also starring in this horror thriller. Seriously! So what’s it all about? Here is the synopsis from the official website: In THE RETALIATORS, an upstanding pastor uncovers a […]

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, […]

See The Downside of Hazing in INITIATION Trailer

Christina Ortega

The first college I went to did not have fraternities nor sororities. I never had the urge to join in, never felt I was missing out. Saban Films’ latest movie INITIATION shows me that I did not miss out on anything special. INITIATION is the directorial debut of John Berardo who also co-wrote the film with Brian Frager and Lindsay LaVanchy. The film stars LaVanchy, Jon Huertas (This is Us), Isabella Gomez (One Day at a Time), Patrick Walker (The Resident), and more. In INITIATION, during a university’s pledge week, the carefree partying turns deadly serious when a star athlete is found impaled in his dorm. The murder ignites a spree of sinister social-media messages, sweeping the students and police into a race against time to uncover the truth behind the school’s dark secrets…and the horrifying meaning of a recurring symbol: a single exclamation mark. If you still want to know more, […]

Drugs, Buried Memories, and More in FLASHBACK Trailer

Christina Ortega

How well do you remember your high school years? You would think you would remember something as traumatic as a friend disappearing very clearly. In FLASHBACK, Fredrick Fitzell (Dylan O’Brien, The Maze Runner) seems to be living a good life but then a run-in with an old schoolmate stirs something and he remembers Cindy, a girl who disappeared in high school. He approaches friends from high school, insisting that they have to remember what happened to her. Why don’t they remember, you may be asking? Check out the trailer for some answers and questions, too: This why we don’t do drugs, kids! Just how much of a role does this mystery drug called Mercury have to do with Cindy’s disappearance? Is there why Fredrick has blocked out what happened back then? I need answers! FLASHBACK will be in select theaters on June 4 and available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital […]

Zombies are Timeless: True. Heist Films are Timeless: Also True: Zack Snyder’s ARMY OF THE DEAD

Martin Torrez

Army of the Dead (dir. Zack Snyder), looks to be just another run-of-the-mill heist flick with a few of the undead tossed in for flavor. The trailer opens with the sound of the late great Kenny Rogers classic, “The Gambler” as a seemingly smart foreshadowing to the trailer that follows. Scott Ward, played by Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy, My Spy) is a humble cook with an heroic past just making ends meet until, that is, he is approached by the token mysterious stranger who tasks our soon to be entrenched warrior with a proposal he, and a group of other hard on their luck mercenaries cannot refuse, with just a few thousand(?) caveats: Zombies. And not just any aforementioned standard issue ghouls. “They are smarter. They are faster. And they are Organized.” The three-minute long trailer lays down the premise for what looks to be a fly by […]

Marvel’s SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS: Simu Liu Shows Us The Way Of The Fist In The First Teaser

Lee B. Golden III

Having conquered a global pandemic, the long-awaited production of Marvel’s Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings – since completed in December – now looks toward conquering the box office on September 3. And with that, we now have an official trailer and poster to help get the wheels spinning for the next phase of Marvel’s cinematic tapestry, and with none other than actor Simu Liu tentatively rebranding himself from buzzworthy sitcom talent into boundless superhero martial arts movie stardom. Marvel’s Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton from a screenplay by Dave Callaham, and presents Liu with an origin starting point as seen in the teaser that introduces a bit of his backstory pertaining to our hero’s past in connection with the Ten Rings organization. The teaser also puts a heavy-handed spotlight on the film’s action sequences, assembled by an amazing […]

Mads Mikkelsen is on the hunt in the trailer for “Riders of Justice”

Matthew Essary

The “grizzled older badass extracting revenge on people who unwittingly screwed with them” has become a tired trope in the years since Liam Neeson first warned of his “particular set of skills” in 2008’s TAKEN. Since then, almost every action star, or older actor trying to revitalize their career, has done a film with a similar setup, leading to understandably mixed results. With so many examples of this action subgenre around now, it takes exceptional talent and a unique approach to make one of these projects interesting. RIDERS OF JUSTICE, which just had its first English language trailer released to the internet certainly has all that. It stars Mads Mikkelsen and is directed by Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen. The pair have worked together multiple times, most recently on the bizarre and darkly hilarious Danish-language comedy MEN & CHICKEN from 2015. With RIDERS OF JUSTICE, the pair are bringing […]

CLIFF WALKERS: Chinese Spy Thriller Comes to US Theaters in April

Cathy LaFrance

Set in 1930s China, acclaimed director Zhang Yimou’s spy thriller CLIFF WALKERS will come to US and international theaters on April 30. CLIFF WALKERS is director Zhang Yimou’s first foray into the spy genre. Set the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, the film follows four Communist party special agents who return to China after receiving training in the Soviet Union. Together, they embark on a secret mission code-named “Utrennya.” After being sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides from the moment they parachute into the mission. Will the agents break the impasse and complete their mission? On the snowy grounds of Manchukuo, the team will be tested to their limit. Zhang Yimou’s work has been seen in the United States since 1990, when his film Ju Dou was the first-ever Chinese film to be nominated for an Academy Award […]

CLAPBOARD JUNGLE Will Offer a Man-Behind-the-Curtain Look at Filmmaking

Christina Ortega

If you’re a movie lover, chances are you’ve watched some behind the scenes bits of making of videos. Maybe you’ve seen a documentary on a film you like. But have you ever wondered what an indie filmmaker has to go through? Is movie making as glamorous as we think it could be? Arrow Video will be releasing CLAPBOARD JUNGLE on April 19. Not only does this film follow five years of the life and career of independent filmmaker Justin McConnell, but this documentary does a deep dive into the reality of the film business. According to the press release, Navigating the current film business is more difficult than ever before. Rapidly changing technology and an overcrowded marketplace have led to an industry in which anyone can now make a film, but few can make a living. I am friends with an independent filmmaker and know some of his struggles. CLAPBOARD […]

Blackmail, a Cover-up, and More in SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD: Watch the Trailer Now

Christina Ortega

How far would you go to cover up an accident? Could you trust the people around you to lie for you? SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD follows Li (Xiao Yang, Detective Chinatown) and his wife A Yu (Tan Zhuo, The Bravest) who run a small business in Thailand and are happy with their two daughters. Their eldest daughter is violently assaulted and blackmailed by another student. When Li and A Yu try to help their daughter, the result is a dead body. The body needs to be hidden and the very existence of the boy needs to be buried to cover up the accident. Nothing can be so simple though; the boy’s parents, a detective, and a mayoral candidate push the local police to stop at nothing to find him. This film is San Quah’s directorial debut which, according to the press release, “boasts incredible performances and a tense and emotionally […]

PG: PSYCHO GOREMAN Is Ready To Bathe In Your Blood. Or not.

Cathy LaFrance

In case you think horror films take themselves too seriously, check out PG: PSYCHO GOREMAN, an unexpected dark comedy. Written and directed by Steven Kostanski (The Void, The Divide, Father’s Day), the film turns the concept of “evil alien conqueror” on its head. Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord who was entombed on Earth millions of years ago after a failed attempt to destroy the universe. They nickname the evil creature Psycho Goreman (or PG for short) and use the magical amulet they discovered to force him to obey their childish whims. It isn’t long before PG’s reappearance draws the attention of intergalactic friends and foes from across the cosmos and a rogues’ gallery of alien combatants converges in small-town suburbia to battle for the fate of the galaxy. The film stars Nita-Josee Hanna (Books of Blood, 4teen), Owen Myre (“NOS4A2,” Alternate Ground), Adam Brooks […]

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 […]

TAKE BACK: Shout! Debuts The Official U.S. Trailer For Gillian White’s Debut Action Thriller

Lee B. Golden III

Dallas Jackson’s Welcome To Sudden Death lived just short of its potential, although it’s worth noting that one of its higher marks stands with actress Gillian White making her first entry into the screen fighting and action arena to add to her current drama credits. That she now gets to make her full-fledged debut in a lead role for action fans in Shout! Studios’ Take Back is worth singing some praises about at this stage, rejoining husband and action star Michael Jai White who steps up this time in a supporting capacity for the new thriller from Pay Dirt and Vigilante Diaries helmer Christian Sesma. Zara (Gillian White) and Brian (Michael Jai White) are living the perfect small-town life when Zara heroically foils a robbery and becomes headline news. This unwanted notoriety draws elements of Zara’s mysterious past back into her life, putting the lives of her family in danger. […]