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MISDIRECTION Review: A Decent Thriller Underwhelms More Than Scintillates

Misdirection arrives on VOD on February 10 from Cineverse. Willy’s Wonderland helmer Kevin Lewis’s new crime thriller, Misdirection, is an acquired taste, if not a tricky one. The “contained thriller” subgenre can be a hard nut to crack if you don’t know what you’re doing, and either way, you certainly have to give some credit to Lewis for giving it a shot. A good script certainty does the trick for a film like this. The story won’t falter and flounder into mundanity and you won’t be left checking the time. To this end, it helps that Misdirection keeps a lean-enough runtime at eighty-four minutes. It’s enough to encompass what Lewis’s film strives for with a tale that unravels with secrets and lies, and long-winded vengeance, and with key performances by Olga Kurylenko and Frank Grillo, and actor Oliver Trevena. It is with this trio that we follow Sarah (Kurylenko) and […]

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THE FORBIDDEN CITY Shines With Action And Romance In The Official U.S. Trailer!

One of the best epic modern martial arts dramas ever made is coming to Digital to kick off the Spring in the U.S. with Gabriele Mainetti’s The Forbidden City. The film stars actress and stunt performer Yaxi Liu in a breakout role following her stunt work on Disney’s Mulan, and she’s joined by actor Enrico Borello as her romantic opposite, with action sequences by Liang Yang whose work on this film is an absolute showstopper. From Gabriele Mainetti, director of They Call Me Jeeg Robot and Freaks Out, comes the action-packed tale of two strangers seeking the truth and vengeance. Mei arrives in Rome looking for her missing sister and, along the way, meets Marcello, who is desperate to find his father. Together, they will fight their way through the Roman underworld. Filled with lightning-paced martial arts, The Forbidden City is an action epic not to be missed. Also starring […]

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