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Cam’s Eye Review: TREMORS 5: BLOODLINES (2015) – Burt Gummer, Action Hero

Our survivalist and reluctant hero Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) is back with a vengeance, a new partner in Travis B. Welker (Jamie Kennedy), and on a new continent, Africa, battling a new kind of evolutionary nightmare Assblaster and Graboid. Both gentlemen are enlisted by an alleged African Wildlife Ministry representative, Erich Van Wyck (Daniel Janks), to capture the beasts. Along with a beautiful wildlife sancutary doctor, Nandi Montabu (Pearl Thusi) and her young daughter, Amahle (Nolitha Zulu), they all come together to do battle with the creatures. This film is a feast for the eyes as this particular production was filmed in the Cradle of Humankind itself, Houtang Province, in South Africa. As Burt tries his best to make a living as an online celebrity with his own show about surviving in the wild, he comes across a maverick 40 year-old riding a motorcycle that interferes with a camera shot […]

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Review: ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016) Brings Ample Balance To An Awakened Force

I have to credit a large part of my nerdiness to my Dad. I remember my sister and I going over on weekends and he’d have comic books all around the house and a movie collection that could rival no other. Of course he gave us a proper education by having us watch the cult action favorites, new releases, and gems from his ever-growing collection of flicks. I was in elementary school during the time when word had started to circulate that the Star Wars movies were going to get a digital remastering. Mom (the other half of my nerd genes) wanted to make a big event out of it, we were going to go to the Uptown down in Northwest DC to go see it. Dad, upon hearing about this, sat my sister and I down, pulled out the VHS Box set of Episodes 4-6, and we marathoned the […]

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Shortfilm Review – WARRIORS (2016)

Warriors is an Argentinian short film that uses martial arts as the back drop of a deeper message. Directed by and co-starring Fabricio Martin, the story takes place in a private martial arts competition with our protagonist and another opponent. What seems to look like a martial arts drama goes into something more, with a message that resonates with anyone and not just martial artists. From what we are shown at the beginning, Pablo is an underground fighter that is participating in some illegal looking competition to pay for his grandmother’s house so she doesn’t get evicted. His coach, however, is in it for the money and wants Pablo to hide a knuckle duster in is left glove to finish the fight when the time is right. At the critical time when Pablo has his opponent pinned to deliver that punch, it switches to a more metaphysical fight. Pablo is […]

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Cam’s Eye Review: RAMMBOCK: BERLIN UNDEAD (2010) Is A Zombie Story With Heart

The zombie genre has seen a lot of Americanized forms under Hollywood’s and US Independent film’s eyes. But when another country like Germany gets a hold of a tale for a brief 62 minutes, it is sure to be unique and memorable. Such as is Rammbock: Berlin Undead (US/Canada release 2010). An action/horror/thriller produced by Sigrid Hoerner, and released by The Collective and Bloody Disgusting Selects that partnered with AMC Theatres to bring independent horror film to screens in the United States in early 2011, we follow lovelorn Michael (Michael Fuith) in Berlin, personally returning a set of keys to his ex-girlfriend, Gabi (Anka Graczyk) while there is an outbreak of a virus that turns people into hungry carnivores. Think 28 Days Later (2002) with a German flavor. One can’t help but compare Rammbock to the 2002 film but there is no particular pathogen like an infected monkey from a medical research […]

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Higuchi Shinji And Kenji Tanigaki Lend Their VOICES In A Powerful New Set Teaser!

Whatever is happening in Japan right now between filmmaker Higuchi Shinji and Rurouni Kenshin trilogy action director Kenji Tanigaki, it’s starting to draw some serious attention. Higuchi‘s most recent obligations have been to Toho’s forthcoming Shin Godzilla movie following his completed Attack On Titan twofers which are finally making headway in North America this season. Nowadays, it looks as if his attention has also been devoted to a brand new project called Voices. Music label Flying Dog unleashed a behind-the-scenes teaser for the project with footage showing up to fifty actors and stuntmen wired up and donning costumes by GANTZ’s own Takeda Dango, and performing feats of action amid a rock background, along with action-packed footage showcasing Takeda Rina, Mimoto Masanori, Joey, and Shimazu Kentaro. All this is pretty sudden but the footage is electrifying and energetic as all hell, and whatever happens, it appears to be happening sometime in […]

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A Champion Strikes Back In Muay Thai Biopic, MARD PAYAK. Watch The Trailer!

Muay Thai is always a great centerpiece for integral drama depending on the director’s intentions. Here, director Norachai Kajchapanont‘s latest film, Mard Payak, looks to bring some extra perspective with an insightful biopictoral offering on Samart Payakarun, who himself is considered to be one of the greatest boxing and Muay Thai fighting champions of all time. Even sporting a career in music and film to boot with appearances in films like The Legend Of Suriyothai, Dynamite Warrior and Muay Thai Chaiya, it’s easy to see what the big fuss is about. So, clearly he’s got a fanbase, as well as a hell of a story that is about ready to be seen, and following its opening premiere at the Bangkok Asean Film Festival last month, its now prepped to release this weekend in local Thai cinemas. Check out a trailer below! ‘Mard Payak: The Great Muay Thai Fighter’ Trailer | […]

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Watch The First Thirteen Minutes Of Malay Action Comedy, POLIS EVO

Malaysian action returned to the fray this weekend as director Ghaz Abu Bakar‘s latest, Polis Evo, released in local cinemas on the 17th. Zizak Rizan and Shaheizy Sam take the lead in this latest odd couple cop action adventure which doesn’t quite have an audience beyond its current market, and hopefully like with most films that will change. For now, at least it’s great to see such an inviting promotional campaign with Bakar at the helm for what looks like an exciting piece of film. For what it’s worth, the first 13 minutes are online right now, and it’s a good sampler to help introduce the precursor here for what lies ahead, offering murder mystery, a little slapstick, and some explosive action for good measure. SYNOPSIS: Big city cop is reluctantly paired with a small town cop in a mission to take down a drug lord. Things don’t go down […]

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TIFF 2015: HARDCORE Puts You Right In The Action With The First Trailer

And just like that, two years have passed since high-flying director Ilya Naishuller made waves over the news on his feature debut, Hardcore, leveling up the sheer brilliance he put on display in the ever-popular Biting Elbows music video, Bad Motherfucker. More to the point, as ambitious as it is to trailblaze for the sake of the world’s first POV action movie told 100% entirely from the perspective of the hero, Naishuller and his crew made it happen, and the latest trailer is all the proof you need on how badass Hardcore will be when it unloads its world of unmitigated cyberpunk kickassery on the masses in Toronto next week and in the months following. SYNOPSIS: You remember nothing. Mainly because you’ve just been brought back from the dead by your wife. She tells you that your name is Henry and congratulations, you’re now a cyborg.   5 minutes later, your wife […]

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ROGUE WARRIOR: ROBOT HUNTER Film Expands Into Sci-Fi Series Order For GODS OF WAR

Courtesy Of Pacific Coast Entertainment Writer and director Neil Johnson is currently on the way with the new action sci-fi adventure, Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter. The film is set for an early 2016 release with actress and producer Tracy Birdsall starring as the female heroine on Earth as mankind faces the threat of assimilation into machine technology. Dread Central revealed the first poster art late last month with Birdsall front and center, although it looks as if that won’t be all for the film and its company. The word from Deadline now states that Pacific Coast Entertainment, the folks behind the film, now have plans in the making for the series expansion titled Gods Of War. Johnson is expected to write the treatments and scripts while Pacific Coast plots the course of six-to-eight episodes to film in different locales around the world. No word yet on the initial film’s release. […]

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The New Poster For HARDCORE Is A Fistful!

Director Ilya Naishuller isn’t here to bullshit you. The popularity of his direction on Biting Elbow’s Bad Motherfucker music video has gone ridiculously viral in the last year or more, and its given him just the momentum he needed to film his latest first-person endeavor, Hardcore, centered on a resurrected robot who must rescue his wife/creator from an evil telekinetic with the help of actor Sharlto Copley. The film already has a teaser clip now making the rounds as of last year, offering an amazingly gruesome and awesomely brutal sample of the delightful that awaits, and no less muscled in further with Wanted helmer Timur Bekmambatov producing. Alas, there’s no need to take my word for it with tickets now available for Midnight Madness premiere next Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the new poster along with Colin Geddes’s program notes pretty much do all the talking from […]

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Christy Chung To Return To Action In A New Spy Film

From TriStar Pictures It’s been a couple of years since actress Christy Chung did a film, but nowadays you’ll find her in the company of her keyboard working on the script for an upcoming spy comedy. The title and plot are pending but JayneStars reports Chung is returning to the fray following her recent work on the reality show, “Perhaps Love”, and will be starring in it with her new and younger boyfriend, actor Zhang Lunshuo. Chung is producing the film which will take on a tone similar to the 2005 film, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and will also feature her daughters as well. Chung herself is no stranger to the action genre with a post 1993 pageant career leading to appearances in The Bodyguard From Beijing with Jet Li, Yuen Woo-Ping’s Tai Chi II with Wu Jing and Red Wolf with Kenny Ho, Collin Chou and Elaine Lui, Jackie […]

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Watch Two New Trailers For Anggy Umbara's Futuristic Martial Arts Thriller, 3!

While I would love nothing more than for director Anggy Umbara‘s latest, 3, to get a simulataneous release with other territories overseas, chances are we’re more likely to end up waiting a really long time for that to happen. If it is to happen, I sincerely hope piracy doesn’t affect it, because that would be devastating, and we can never have enough genuine and original action films in this day and age. 3 sports a tremendous cast and a look that will surely appeal some to the sci-fi fan base with actors Cornielio Sunny, Abimana Arysatya and Agus Kuncoro leading the story of three former friends on different sides of the ideological spectrum in a dystopian futuristic millieu where conflict is ultimately imminent. SYNOPSIS: JAKARTA 2036, there have been so many changes. The peace and prosperity has returned to the country after the end of civil war and the slaughtering […]

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J-Pop Star, ELLY, Takes Out The TRASH In The New Trailer For Gonno's Latest!

Following his most recent role in last year’s Crows Explode, J-Pop supergroup, Exile’s J Soul Brothers frontman, ELLY, is stepping into his new lead role with director Gonno Hajime‘s Trash. Considering Gonno‘s previous work on titles like Akagure 1 and 2 in the past couple of years, this one looks just as intense, dark, bruisingly dramatic and brutal, and it’ll certanly bode well for fans and moviegoers alike who enjoy their films all the same. SYNOPSIS: Kento (ELLY) has never lost in his hometown.   He comes to Tokyo with big ambitions. But he doesn’t make a good living here with only his incomparable wrist strength. So, he lives a decadent life and always gives up halfway through anything.  The barkeeper Nonaka who always takes care of him introduces him to work, but he is fired because of a quarrel during the work.   One day, Kento goes back to his hometown […]

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BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY To Re-Release On Blu-Ray In November!

You know generational appeal for a classic piece of cinema exists when it’s getting a refurbished re-release on Blu-Ray. Such is the case with Arrow Video’s announcement this week for the forthcoming rollout of Fukusaku Kinji‘s five-film period yakuza crime saga , Battles Without Honor And Humanity, following recent screenings at Fantasia and for the New York Asian Film Festival back in July. And not for nothing either as the film series getting quite the ancillary treatment with retrospective interviews between co-stars, critics and authors alike, posters and images, a 150 page hardcover and much, MUCH more. Read onward and snag your copy as soon as possible! Battles Without Honor & Humanity – this seminal series of epic gangsterism told with gritty realism plays like a head-spinning fusion of Martin Scorsese and Paul Greengrass! This Limited Edition collections features Kinji Fukasaku’s (BATTLE ROYALE) original five films in the series with brand […]

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Two Koreas. Two Soldiers. One Mission. Watch The New Teaser For THE LONG WAY HOME!

Heavily into a screenwriting career with a few laurels to his credit, award-winning screenwriter Chun Shun-Il has done well for himself and particularly since his most recent penned offering with last year’s Joseon-era high-seas adventure, The Pirates became one of last year’s box-office hits. Nowadays he’s taken his momentous career into the director’s chair with the upcoming wartime drama, The Long Way Home starring Public Enemy franchise actor Sol Kyung-Gu and Hwayi star Yeo Jin-Goo. The film is on track for a September release and the latest teaser is now online which presents quite a fun-looking glimpse from Chun’s debut. SYNOPSIS: Set in 1953, during the Korean War, a middle-aged South Korea soldier and a teenage North Korean soldier meet by chance at the Western Front. They struggle over a tank for different purposes and destinations, but eventually come to realize they are both victims of the war and become […]

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Watch The New Teaser For Upcoming Sci-Fi Thriller, TEMPLE, And Then Pray It Becomes A Full Movie!

Following the unveiling of a batch of new stills several days ago, the folks over at 3 Arts Entertainment are kindly keeping their word with its base and have released the trailer for yet another ambitious new project in the making. And no, I don’t use the word ambitious loosely, as it perfectly describes just the kind of filmmaker Nguyen-Anh Nguyen is in the wake of the growing fandom long after the release of his concept trailer, The Akira Project last year. Temple is the name of the project now on par for a fantastic shortfilm release this June with action star up-and-comer Osric Chau starring and a trailer is now online as well. The short is also being primed as a pitch for financing a bigger feature film, so if all goes well on that end, those who were fond of The Akira Project may very well get to […]

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Check Out 17 Glossy Stills From 'The Akira Project' Director's Latest, TEMPLE

Considering the electrifying responses that lit up the internet roughly one year and three-million views ago with the release of the independently-produced anime/manga-inspired fan trailer, The Akira Project, it’s reasonable to wonder what else the crew behind it has been up to since then. Well, indeed, the team has moved on to other matters of creativity which will no less continue to appease the masses of fans they’ve earned with a fresh new project that is just as slick and full of action and promise. I’m talking about the new shortfilm, Temple, and the return of filmmaker Ngyuen-Anh Nguyen, now represented by 3 Arts Entertainement and back at the helm with a feat in which he aims to harness everything he loves with film, martial arts, manga and science fiction wrapped into one. Also seen is the return of action actor Osric Chau who previously worked on The Akira Project, now […]

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Watch Amy Johnston's Teaser Announcement For RAZOR SHARP: RENEGADE

The last few years have taken off quite well for stuntwoman Amy Johnston who’s managed to find her route in applying her craft toward becoming a formidable actress as well. A sample of her talents are presented in numerous online projects on top of her highly popular action demo from several years back shot at the formerly-titled White Lotus Kung Fu Academy in California, as her resumé expands further into stunts in leading roles as of late, notably the upcoming release of Chris Nahon’s Lady Bloodsport and series premiere of R.L. Scott’s Option Zero, and as of this week, the currently-developing sci-fi actioner, Razor Sharp: Renegade. Writer and director Marcus Perry leads the way with his own script as a concept that has otherwise been long in the making with at least one iteration of the project listed circa 2006 in shortform with a different cast. With Razor Sharp: Renegade looking […]

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Hou's THE ASSASSIN Makes The Rounds With A New Poster!

It’s been a long, long journey for the The Puppetmaster and Goodbye South, Goodbye helmer, Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsien-Hsiao whose latest martial arts debut with the $14 million dollar action romance epic, The Assassin, initially saw cameras rolling as early as 2010 and 2012 before being plagued by a series of unfortunate stops and starts. Those who are familiar with the DNA of Hou’s work might empathize just a little bit as it was new ground for the director who talked about his experience back in 2014 when he officially wrapped production, and needless to say, the wait is just a little bit closer to being over with the virility of the latest poster for the film which you can take a look at below, courtesy of international sales agent, Wild Bunch. SYNOPSIS: 9th century China. 10-year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her […]

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Sakaguchi Tak Celebrates His Birthday Ahead Of Next Month's Filming For RE:BORN

It’s been a while since we last heard much of anything about director Shimomura Yuji‘s latest action production, Re:Born, following a small batch of pre-production videos with longtime friend, lead actor and action star Sakaguchi Tak in training. The film is setting up to be Sakaguchi‘s final feature film after spending the last few years stating the possibility of his retirement since his eclectic career in Japanese action cinema took off at the top of the new millenium having worked on quite a few films with Shimomura on such titles as Versus, Aragami and Death Trance. That said, it was Sakaguchi‘s 40th birthday on Sunday, and specifically among other things, it also meant receiving his own copy of the script, according to a Facebook post on Sunday in which Shimomura also included the art you now see on this page – one of two pieces of early promo art for […]

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