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Fantastic Fest XX Review: In DEATHSTALKER, Part Homage, Part Spoof, All Fantastic

On paper, Deathstalker, the new film from Psycho Goreman director, Steven Kostanski, is a winner – a sword and sorcery 80’s throwback with a tongue planted firmly in cheek. It should be superb. Well, I’m pleased to report that Deathstalker is not only a winner; it’s an absolute triumph, and one of the best films of 2025. Despite being one of my favorites of the year, Deathstalker is hard to review. The reason being that it walks this unbelievably thin line between respectful homage and absolute piss take. It’s silly – goofy even. But there’s a distinct sense of Kostanski really wanting to honor the original Deathstalker. And that’s where its beauty lies. This film is both daft as a brush and extremely clever. The plot is fairly simple, despite a cavalcade of hard to remember names like Nekromemnon, Jotak, and Despairon. We follow the titular Deathstalker (played by stuntman, […]

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Shout! Nabs Golden Princess Library, Promising Asian Film Fans 100+ Titles Of Classics For Western Release

Variety’s Naman Ramachandran got the exclusive word on Monday that Shout! Studios has acquired the global rights to Golden Princess library of Hong Kong classic films. That’s a reported number of 156 titles that the boutique label will have on its catalogue for the foreseeable future. It also means that films by auteurs such as John Woo, Ringo Lam and Eric Tsang – included in the library – will finally get restorations with a number of features, in addition to bumping up the label’s own streaming stock. This is a total win for a plethora of reasons, especially for anyone who has been championing the collection of physical media as long as the next person with the ever-foreshadowing posterity of streaming becoming a factor. The acquisition’s crown jewels include Woo’s action masterpieces “Hard Boiled,” “The Killer,” the complete “Better Tomorrow” trilogy, “Bullet in the Head” and “Once a Thief.” The […]

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SHOWDOWN AT THE GRAND: Terence Howard And Dolph Lundgren Bring Cinematic Heroics To Life In The Official Trailer

Shout! Studios will release action comedy Showdown At The Grand in select theaters and across all VOD platforms beginning November 3. The film stars Terrence Howard (Iron Man, Hustle & Flow), John Savage (The Last Full Measure, The Deer Hunter), and Piper Curda (Legacies, The Wretched), with Amanda Righetti (The Mentalist, Reagan) and Dolph Lundgren (Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, The Expendables franchise). A proud movie theater owner, George Fuller (Howard), must defend his family business from corporate developers alongside a legendary action star, Claude Luc Hallyday (Lundgren) as art imitates life in a showdown for the ages. Orson Oblowitz directs this, his fourth film following The Rules For Success, Trespassers and 2017 crime drama The Queen Of Hollywood Boulevard. The official trailer is out now and I was quick to catch a banner near the end that read “Filmed In Oblovision” which I thought was pretty hilarious, that is. […]

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SRI ASIH: Shout! Acquires North American Rights For Indonesian Superhero Pic

It’s been a long time coming, but Indonesian superhero adventure Sri Asih finally has a home with Shout! Studios set to release the pic on multiple platforms later this year. Actress Pevita Pearce leads the cast of the film based on comic author R.A. Kosasih’s 1954 creation. Sri Asih is only the second in a string of comic book properties to be adapted out of the Screenplay Bumilangit wheelhouse. It follows Joko Anwar’s inaugural actioner, Gundala starring Abimana Arysatya, with the third being Ody C. Harahap’s Virgo and the Sparklings featuring Adhisty Zara. Alana doesn’t understand why she is always influenced by anger. But she has always been trying to fight it. As she reaches adulthood, Alana discover the truth about her origin: she’s not an ordinary human being. She may be the gift for humanity and become its protector as SRI ASIH. Or a destruction, if she can’t control […]

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GUNFIGHT AT RIO BRAVO: Photos From Premiere Night This Week In Arizona

Shout! Studios proudly released Joe Cornet’s latest Western, Gunfight at Rio Bravo this month in select theaters and on Digital. The film also had its world premiere event with the stars and creators on hand at the Loft Cinema in Tucson, Arizona on Tuesday January 17. “When we were making “Gunfight at Rio Bravo” in 2021, I fell in love with Arizona, and we made another one in 2022, so we made two already. This is the first one, and I’m very happy to present it,” said the action film’s main star and three-time Mr. Universe Alexander Nevsky. Director Joe Cornet and Nevsky has filmed two movies in Southern Arizona within two years. Tuesday’s screening marked the world premiere of the first of the two. In the second, “Taken from Rio Bravo,” Nevsky will reprise his role as ‘mysterious Russian gunslinger’ Ivan Turchin. “I love shooting in Arizona. We filmed […]

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GUNFIGHT AT RIO BRAVO: Catch The Trailer For Alexander Nevsky’s New Western Thriller

Shout! Studios has unveiled the official trailer and poster for Gunfight At Rio Bravo, the new Western thriller from director Joe Cornet. The film stars and is produced by Alexander Nevsky, and also stars Cornet along with Matthias Hues, Olivier Gruner, Natalie Denise Sperl, Kerry Goodwin, and John Fallon. In Gunfight At Rio Bravo, Nevsky plays a mysterious Russian gunslinger who aids a marshal and a sheriff as they stand up to a bloodthirsty outlaw gang known as The Hellhounds who have invaded their small East Texas town. Cornet directs from a script by Craig Hamann, with Nevsky producing the film for Hollywood Storm, and ETA Films’ Eric Brenner and San Rafael Productions’ Cornet executive producing. Shout! will host a limited theatrical release next year on January 13, followed by a digital and national home entertainment release on January 17. 

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GUNFIGHT AT RIO BRAVO Heads To North America From Shout! In 2023

Shout! Studios has acquired Gunfight At Rio Bravo, the new Western thriller from director Joe Cornet. The film stars and is produced by Alexander Nevsky, and also stars Cornet along with Matthias Hues, Olivier Gruner, Natalie Denise Sperl, Kerry Goodwin, and John Fallon. In Gunfight At Rio Bravo, Nevsky plays a mysterious Russian gunslinger who aids a marshal and a sheriff as they stand up to a bloodthirsty outlaw gang known as The Hellhounds who have invaded their small East Texas town. Cornet directs from a script by Craig Hamann, with Nevsky producing the film for Hollywood Storm, and ETA Films’ Eric Brenner and San Rafael Productions’ Cornet executive producing. “I’m really happy GUNFIGHT AT RIO BRAVO will be released in the U.S. by Shout! Factory. My western debut may have a lot of action, but it’s also a great story about friendship and the endless fight between good and evil,” said Nevsky. “I can’t wait for American audiences to watch it thanks to Shout! and Premiere.” “GUNFIGHT AT RIO BRAVO is […]

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A WRITER’S ODYSSEY Etches A March U.S. Release From Shout!

For those aching to find out when Lu Yang’s latest rollicking fantasy thriller is due stateside, Shout! Studios has you covered. Starring Lei Jiayin, Yang Mi, Dong Zijian, Yu Hewei and Guo Jingfei, A Writer’s Odyssey will arrive On-Demand, Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD starting March 8! A film by Lu Yang (The Sacrifice, Brotherhood of Blades), A WRITER’S ODYSSEY is an entertaining thrill ride that uniquely blends non-stop action, visual splendor, and a fantastical storyline in equal measures. Available for the first time for home entertainment in North America, A WRITER’S ODYSSEY Blu-ray™ and DVD contain spectacular movie presentation in English and the original Mandarin language audio track option. A WRITER’S ODYSSEY is available for pre-order now at ShoutFactory.com and will be available in stores and other fine retailers. After the disappearance of his daughter, Guan Ning has descended into despair. With nothing left to lose in his life, he is approached […]

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THE UNHEALER: What Goes Around Comes Violently Around In The Official Trailer

Paradise Cove and The Bronx Bull helmer Martin Guigui is back with some seriously eye-popping supernatural horror vengeance in his multi-award winning festival horror fave, The Unhealer. Now available on Blu-ray, DVD and a number of digital and cable platforms, Horror Business Films and Shout! Studios announced the ad-supported and subscription based release of the film on Monday, featuring Elijah Nelson (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, S.W.A.T.), Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Near Dark), Natasha Henstridge (Species, The Whole Nine Yards) and Branscombe Richmond (The Scorpion King, Hard To Kill) among the cast. A production of Horror Business Films in association with 7 Ideas, Gard Dog Productions, Sunset Pictures, and Bloodstone Films, The Unhealer, a Martin Guigui Film, is produced by Galen Walker, Cristi Harris, J. Shawn Harris, and Tony Hannagan. Executive producers are James Gardner and Hamish Gibson. A bullied teenager gains the means to fight back when a botched faith healing bestows supernatural, shamanistic powers […]

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CASTLE FALLS Review: The Latest Lundgren/Adkins Potboiler Is A Feasible Actioner To Hold Fans Over

Published November 29, 2021: I can’t fully imagine the struggle actor Scott Adkins must have faced at one point trying to branch out as something more than an action figure to the genre moviegoing masses. For this, I’ve always hoped he would become more actor-centric than anything, but it’s especially nice to know that his next (and even bigger) break isn’t too far off in Hollywood. Whatever thoughts come to mind with respect to his career up to this point though, you may now relegate your analyses to the throes of Adkins’s newest reunion with Universal Soldier: Regeneration, Legendary and The Expendables 2 top-liner, Dolph Lundgren, in contained heist thriller, Castle Falls, one in a number of productions that survived the harrowing Covid-19 pandemic last year with a production shutdown that allowed safety protocols to matriculate for its restart much later. Sitting Lundgren on both sides of the lens as […]

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TAKE BACK Review: Sesma’s Latest Fails To Launch For The Next New Action Star

If you follow Michael Jai White on Instagram then you’ve undoubtedly seen his wife Gillian kicking ass on his and her own profile. An actor in her own right, White has appeared everywhere from LL Cool J music videos to popping up in a Tarantino movie to a guest stint on “Days of Our Lives”. Unlike her husband, she hasn’t had a chance to headline her own action flick despite very clearly having the goods both as an actor and martial artist. At least until now. Take Back follows Zara, an attorney played by Gillian White, who lives with husband Brian (Jai White) and step daughter Audrey (Priscilla Walker). Zara finds her idyllic small-town life thrown into disarray after foiling a disturbance at a local coffee shop. After footage of her heroics are leaked to the news she finds herself in the crosshairs of a figure from her mysterious past […]

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