Tag: action
Pretty Packaging: GHOST IN THE SHELL Lands An Ultimate Edition
Blu-ray distributor Plaion, previously known in Germany as Koch Media, has been responsible for some Special Editions which were absolute jawdroppers. Their release of Richard Stanley's The Color Out of Space was a highpoint for me in 2020, and last...
BRANDED TO KILL 4K Review: Exciting and Funny
Suzuki Seijun's 1967 masterpiece, starring Shishido Joe, got him fired from Nikkatsu. Now available from The Criterion Collection.
STAR WARS: VISIONS Series Two Trailer Delivers Exciting And Eclectic Mix of Styles And Action
Animation at Star Wars remains an integral part of story telling in the greater SWU. Case in point, we saw this as recently as the trailer for the live action series Ohsaka on the weekend, recreating the final moments of...
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 Review: It's Big. Really Big. For JOHN WICK Fans That's Great.
In his ongoing quest to defeat The High Table, John Wick discovers a way to earn his freedom once and for all. In order to do so he must defeat his most formidable foe yet, a ruthless, high ranking member...
SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS Review: Superhero Action First, Family Dynamics Last
Zachary Levi, Grace Caroline Currey, and Helen Mirren star in the latest from D.C., directed by David F. Sandberg.
SXSW 2023 Review: THE WRATH OF BECKY, Hell Hath No Fury Like This Teenage Girl's Scorn
Becky is back, and this time it’s… pretty much the same as last time. Three years ago, the world witnessed one of the craziest heel turns in recent history, funny guy Kevin James (The King of Queens, Paul Blart: Mall...
SISU: New Trailer & Poster Pave The Way to a Fuck-Tonne of Exploding Nazis
When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, Nazi soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
JOHN WICK 4: The Final Trailer. Bigger. Deadlier. And Brutal Traffic in Paris.
Here. We. Go. All week Lionsgate has been sending out bits and bobs, teasing us about the upcoming release of John Wick Chapter 4. Yesterday it was a series of characters posters, sans Mark Zaror but they included a definitely...
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13: American Genre Film Archive Announces Theatrical Screenings of 4K Restoration of John Carpenter's Classic Action Flick
The American Genre Film Archive has just announced the theatrical dates for screenings of their 4K restoration of John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13. Thankfully, there are a number of dates for screenings up here in Canada as well....
THE MANDALORIAN: Season Three Trailer Drops And Directors Announced
If you're like me you've got your share of alerts, likes, links and subscribes. So many, that your phone is barely used as a phone and more of a portable notification device going off every other minute. Usually I just...
VIOLENT NIGHT: Tommy Wirkola And David Harbour's Christmas Actioner Streaming on Peacock January 20th
Peacock has announced Universal Pictures’ Violent Night will stream exclusively on Peacock starting this Friday January 20th. The violent Christmas action movie, directed by Dead Snow and The Trip's Tommy Wirkola and produced by David Leitch and Kelly McCormick's 87North, hit cinemas...
UNICORN WARS Trailer: Teddy Bears And Unicorns Fight to The Death!
In this story of two brother teddy bear soldiers Azulín yearns for unicorn blood to be beautiful for ever and Gordi just wants to be accepted and liked.
PROJECT WOLF HUNTING: New Trailer Scratches The Surface of This Brutal, Bloody Action Flick
While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that not even the most vicious among them is safe from the horror they unknowingly unleashed from the darkness below deck.
Review: VIOLENT NIGHT, Die Hard With a Christmas Vengeance
On an event-free morning, afternoon, or possibly evening, longtime friends, high-school classmates, and screenwriting partners Pat Casey and Josh Miller (Sonic the Hedgehog I and II) turned to each other and simultaneously said: “What if Die Hard … but with...
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 Official Trailer
With the price on his head ever increasing, Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Osaka to Berlin
Review: BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER, A Celebration of Legacies Real and Imaginary
The tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman, a generational talent hitting just the prime of what should have been a decades-long, award-filled acting career, in the summer of 2020 came as a devastating blow to many, especially during a year filled...
Review: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Timely Adaptation of the Anti-War Classic
Released to popular and critical acclaim abroud and public dissension at home, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s groundbreaking, 1929 anti-war novel, broke new ground, taking an audicious, bold, anti-war stance during an era where any criticism...
Review: ANDOR Has the Potential to be One of the Best STAR WARS Series So Far
Five years before a ragtag band of rebels stole the plans to the first Death Star during the Battle of Scarif one of the heroes of the day, Cassian Andor, was scraping together a living on the planet of Ferrix....
Toronto 2022 Review: THE WOMAN KING, A Grand Epic of Women in Action
Viola Davis and Lashana Lynch star in Gina Prince-Bythewood's action epic.
Beyond Fest 2022: Festival Hosting The First U.S. Retrospective of RRR's Director, S.S. Rajamouli
This is fantastic news to share with you today. The RRR train just keeps on rolling! The fine folks at Beyond Fest have announced that they will host a special program called, From Tollywood to Hollywood: The Spectacle & Majesty...
