Sunday Subs: ‘Movie Firearms’ Talks The Cinema Of Shooting ‘Em Up!
Video essays featuring analysis and technical counterpoint on the what’s and how’s of various types of guns used in action movies.
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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, […]
HARD BOILED and A BETTER TOMORROW Trilogy Explode Onto 4K UHD And Blu-Ray In November
Four of some of the best Hong Kong action classics are coming in November from Shout!
Streaming Sleepers: John Woo’s HARD BOILED Reloads On 4K Digital And FAST Streaming!
Roll that beautiful Woo footage!
The Movies That Moved Me: John Woo’s HARD BOILED
Currently riding on some Chow/Woo momentum these days.🤘😎
HARD BOILED: Warner Bros. Mingles With Dark Horse Property For ‘High Rise’ Star And Director
Did you ever catch director Ben Wheatley’s 2015 thriller, High Rise or notably the latest trailer for rousing crime flick, Free Fire? If not, take a gander at either and you might understand why it appears both Wheatley and High Rise star Tom Hiddleston are the current frontrunners for a new property at Warner Bros. As Deadline reported on Monday, the studio is in talks to acquire, the Dark Horse Comics publication, Hard Boiled, with the hopes of launching a co-production with Solipsist Films and Hollywood Gang. Created by Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow in 1990, the graphic novel miniseries focused on Carl Seltz, an insurance investigator who discovers he is a homicidal cyborg tax collector and ultimately robotkind’s last hope against programmed oppresion. Stephen L’Heureux, Bernie Goldmann and Gianni Nunnari are the named producers on the project should things follow suit. Details remain pending as nothing is finalized […]
The Full Trailer For KIDS POLICE Is Now Online
Todd Brown over at Twitch has posted a new trailer for the upcoming film Kids Police, a filmic ohmage to 70’s classic Japanese action cop dramas with a comedic spin, based on a popular TBS Japanese TV show about a special investigations unit infiltraing a criminal organization called Red Venus, until the team is ultimately ambushed, leaving the Special Investigations branch of the Kanagawa police force operated by children. The film stars Fuku Suzuki, Miyu Honda, Kaichi Kaburagi, Keito Aoki, Yuga Aizawa and Michiko Kichise. It is directed by Yuichi Fukuda and is set for a Japan theatrical release on March 20, 2013. SYNOPSIS via AsianWiki: Detectives in the special investigation team in Kanagawa go after criminal organization “Red Venus,” based out of Yokohama. While pursuing the gang, the detectives turn into children due to exposure to a special gas. Dekachou (Fuku Suzuki) and the other detectives continue their investigation […]