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ALL YOU NEED IS KILL Trailer Resets The Clock For An Explosive Adventure

Kenichiro Akimoto’s animated feature debut, All You Need Is Kill, is coming to theaters January 16. GKids is out with the official trailer this week as well, marking the latest cinematic iteration of the classic light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Set in the year 20XX, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL follows the story of Rita, a resourceful but isolated young woman volunteering to help rebuild Japan after the mysterious appearance of a massive alien flower known as “Darol.” When Darol unexpectedly erupts in a deadly event, unleashing monstrous creatures that decimate the population, Rita is caught in the destruction—and killed. But then she wakes up again. And again. Caught in an endless time loop, Rita must navigate the trauma and repetition of death until she crosses paths with Keiji, a shy young man trapped in the same cycle. Together, they fight to break free from the loop and find meaning […]

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Shout!, GKids Bring A 4K Triple Threat Of John Woo Classics Back Into Theaters In 2026

As if you needed a reason to go back to the movies and see a John Woo classic on the big screen… Tickets are on sale for a spell of limited theatrical 4K re-releases for three of the director’s greatest hits: Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow, and The Killer. Shout! Studios is ramping up the campaign via their Hong Kong Cinema Classics initiative, in association with GKids Films with a listing of up to 800 theater locations across the U.S., as revealed by Collider‘s Jeff Ewing on Wednesday. The films, collectively featuring screen legends Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, and Danny Lee in their respective credits, got limited releases earlier this year as Shout! prepped its home release campaign on digital and physical mediums. Of course, limited runs means a very short window for folks who didn’t get to enjoy these films in a theatrical setting, […]

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RELENTLESS: Tom Botchii’s Home Invasion Thriller Gets A Brutal Trailer

I watch a lot of trailers. I need to, as someone who watches and reviews a lot of movies, and that’s aside from the general rule that a film’s trailer will determine how it will sell to its preferred audience, and Tom Botchii’s Relentless is no exception. Of course, I had to double check and so this will be the second time Botchii’s name gets mentioned as well since popping onto my radar in 2018 with serial killer thriller, Artik. The trailer for Relentless is a constant-moving and violent affair, is visually stimuating to look at, and gives me the impression that this is something I definitely would’ve added to my Coming Attractions piece if I were aware of it through its previous title, Syphon. The film, previously titled Syphon, screened previously at FilmQuest, as well as Grimmfest which supplies the following notes: Tom Botchii, director of ARTIK, makes a […]

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Farewell to the Sorcerer: Remembering Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950–2025)

I found out this morning, the same way most of us did: a quiet post on social media, then a flood of broken-heart emojis under that iconic Mortal Kombat poster. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is gone. 75 years old. A stroke. And just like that, the man who could silence a room with a single slow tilt of his head is no longer with us. If you grew up in the ’90s renting VHS tapes until the magnetic ribbon wore thin, you already know the moment. Mortal Kombat, 1995. The banquet hall. Shang Tsung, in that black-and-gold robe, leaning back in his throne like evil itself had decided to take a coffee break and enjoy the show. “Your soul is mine.” Four words, delivered with this velvet menace that made every 12-year-old in the room simultaneously terrified and obsessed. That was Cary. He didn’t just play the villain; he made villainy look […]

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