Tag: action
Now Playing: THE FURIOUS. And Some Other Movies.
Plus: 'Disclosure Day,' 'Kraken,' 'By Hook or By Crook,' 'The Devil Queen.'
THE FURIOUS Interview: Star Joe Taslim
After a career as a judo champion, Joe Taslim turned to movies, with roles in The Raid: Redemption (2011), Fast & Furious 6, Star Trek Beyond, and Mortal Kombat. In The Furious, he plays Navin, a journalist searching for his...
THE FURIOUS Interview: Star Xie Miao
The action star Xie Miao has worked in film for decades, including playing Jet Li's son in My Father Is a Hero (1995). After earning a degree in Ethnic Sports, Xie worked in television on martial arts shows. Roles in...
THE FURIOUS Review: The Action World Has Been Served Notice
A father fights fiercely against ruthless kidnappers to save his abducted daughter.
Friday One Sheet: ONSLAUGHT
If Jean-Luc Godard said, about making movies, “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun,” then this poster check the boxes neatly. For years, poster and DVD sleeve designers have reduced J-CG's commentary even further...
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Review: A Giddy Nostalgia Bomb For Fans Of Silly Men With Big Muscles
It’s kind of insane that in the year of our lord, two thousand and twenty-six, there is a $200 million-dollar tentpole adaptation of a forty-four-year-old children’s cartoon that is expressly aimed at those of us who grew up in the...
Friday One Sheet: THE FURIOUS
Today we have a rather abstract poster from Vietnam-based visual artist Khang Giate for the forthcoming mega-action picture The Furious. Given the 'dog-pile' martial arts style practically pioneered by this film (it is indeed something to behold) this poster does a bang-up...
RECKLESS Review: Maniac Magnet Scott Adkins Tears Up London
Scott Adkins just wants his money in director Elliot Montello's high-energy action thriller, also starring Nicole Deon and Vinnie Jones.
SPEED RACER on 4K UHD Is Your New Favorite Home Video Reference Disc
Plus three new 4K releases from the Criterion Collection.
THE PUNISHER: ONE LAST KILL Review: Grossly Irresponsible Slaughterfest Sets Up Family-Friendly Future
Jon Bernthal's Punisher returns, yelling, weeping and shooting his way through a repetitive revival.
New York Asian 2026: COLONY Set to Open
We respect the Cannes Film Festival, which kicked off earlier this week with Pierre Salvadori's The Electric Kiss. As good (or bad) as that film may be, we must point out that it doesn't have any zombies. Score one for...
LIFEHACK Review: Jangling Nerves, Paced Like a Lightning Storm
Ronan Corrigan's vibrant thriller stars Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney, Roman Hayeck-Green, James Scholz, Jessica Reynolds, and Charlie-Creed Miles.
COLONY (군체): Yeon Sang-ho's New Zombie Thriller Lands Worldwide Distribution Deals
Yeon Sang-ho's new film Colony sees the Korean director return to the zombie genre, after their international smash hit Train to Busan and follow-up Peninsula. It will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this Friday. Gianna...
Opening This Week: OBSESSION Got Game, IS GOD IS Got God, IN THE GREY Got Guy Ritchie
Plus: 'Decorado,' 'Life Hack,' 'Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe,' 'Been Here Stay Here,' 'The Wizard of the Kremlin,' 'Magic Hour.'
MORTAL KOMBAT II Review: Tests Your Might...And Your Patience
Karl Urban stars as the hyper-violent beat-'em-up returns, R-rated and ready to rumble.
THE SHEEP DETECTIVES Review: Hugh Jackman Leads Winning Ensemble in Charming, Family-Oriented Murder-Mystery Comedy
For the big-brained, anthropomorphic sheep in director Kyle Balda (Despicable Me 3, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Minions) and screenwriter Craig Mazin's (The Huntsman: Winter's War, Identity Thief, The Hangover Parts II-III) charmingly realized adaptation of German author Leonie Swann’s 2005...
MY DEAREST ASSASSIN Review: Blood, Romance, and Heroes
Taweewat Wantha's zesty new action thriller is heroic bloodshed through an abused Thai romantic lens.
10 TO MIDNIGHT's Trashy Thrills Are Now Available on 4K UHD Alongside Two More Charles Bronson Gems
Plus: William Friedkin's 'Rampage' and Dwayne Johnson in 'Walking Tall.'
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY: THE SORCERY OF NYMPH CIRCE Review: Fighting a War. And Memories.
Directed by Shūkō Murase, the second installment of the trilogy balances military actions with outright rebellion.
Opening This Week: THE SHEEP DETECTIVES Investigate, COUPLES WEEKEND Argues, SILENT FRIEND Enchants
Plus: 'The Python Hunt,' 'Neglected.'
