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SAKRA Review: Takes a Licking, Keeps on Kicking
Donnie Yen stars in and directs a sprawling story of revenge and justice.
FIST OF THE CONDOR Review: You Will Believe This Man Can Fly
Marko Zaror, Eyal Meyer, Gina Aguad, Fernanda Urrejola, and Man Soo Yoon star in a martial arts movie from Chile, directed by Ernesto Diaz Espinoza.
Review: BABY ASSASSINS, Criminals Like Us
Akari Takaishi and Saori Izawa star in writer/director Hugo Sakamoto's delightful criminal character story. With a lot of blood and bullets.
Review: ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU, Big, Brash, Empty Spectacle
As violence erupts in the African nation of Somalia, delegates from both North and South Korea scramble to evacuate the capital city of Mogadishu in Ryoo Seung-wan's action-packed political thriller Escape From Mogadishu. In the late 1980s, South Korea and...
Review: THE PAPER TIGERS, Contemporary Martial Arts, Favoring Comedy Over Action
Alain Uy, Ron Yuan and Mykel Shannon Jenkins star in the martial-arts action-comedy, directed by Tran Quoc Bao.
HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN Exclusive U.S. Trailer Debut: Irish Teens Fall Into Shocking Acts
Dean-Charles Chapman, Finn Cole, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, and Travis Fimmel star. Eoin Macken directs.
CUT THROAT CITY Gets New Release Date
Prepare for a very hot month. Directed by RZA, Cut Throat City will now be burning its way onto more than 300 theater screens across the U.S., beginning on July 17, 2020. Per the official release: "Originally slated to make...
Now on VOD: Bernard Rose's SAMURAI MARATHON Gets Breathless
The title, the trailer, and the tone set me on guard to anticipate a heavy-weight drama, especially when it's noted that Bernard Rose (Candyman) directed. Yet it still left me wondering: Samurai Marathon? Does that mean the film, newly available...
FREAKS Trailer: Emile Hirsch Loses Control in Tense Supernatural Thriller
Well Go USA has finally released the first trailer for Freaks, a hotly anticipated supernatural thriller that made waves at TIFF, and which was promptly acquired for a princely sum (rumors peg the sale at $2 million). Izzy reviewed the...
Exclusive Clip: BEYOND REDEMPTION, Crunchy Fighting and Punchy High-Kicking
In a shadowy corridor, one man faces off against several opponents, with only his hands -- and his legs -- to defend himself. Much punching and kicking ensue. If that translates into good times for you -- and it certainly...
Exclusive Clip: Wong Fei Hung Returns In RISE OF THE LEGEND
Asian film distribution heroes Well Go USA are at it again! This coming weekend they've got yet another martial arts film hitting theaters acros the USA, and this time it brings the return of Chinese hero Wong Fei Hung. Rise...
Giveaway: Win Indonesian Wu Xia Film GOLDEN CANE WARRIOR From Well Go USA And ScreenAnarchy
ScreenAnarchy has teamed up with our good friends at Texas-based Well Go USA to bring you another fantastic giveaway! We've got three copies of Indonesian wu xia film The Golden Cane Warrior on Blu-ray to give to some lucky ScreenAnarchy...
Well Go USA: Watch MAN FROM NOWHERE, LEGEND OF THE FIST And More For Free
Here is a spot of good news if you like to watch titles that have been popular with the ScreenAnarchy crowd. Our friends at Well Go USA have started to release some of their titles for free on their website....
The Stack: Twilight Time Releases, Indie Horror LORD OF TEARS, THE KILLING FIELDS, And More
Welcome Back to The Stack. I'm Dave Canfield, here to help guide you through the last few weeks of DVD and Blu-ray releases. All sorts of stuff has come across my path since I last did an episode and this...
WellGo Picks Up US Rights To The Mo Brothers' KILLERS
American screens are going to get bloody with word that WellGo USA have picked up American rights to Sundance midnight selection Killers and plan a theatrical release later this year. The second film by Indonesian directing duo The Mo Brothers,...
Well Go to Show North America a NEW WORLD on March 22
Well Go USA has just picked up the Korean gangland saga New World for North American distribution during the European Film Market. Choi Min-sik (Oldboy, Nameless Gangster) stars as a gruff police captain who sends an agent (Lee Jeong-jae, The Thieves) undercover...
Johnnie To's DRUG WAR Spreading To US, France And Beyond
Johnnie To's Drug War has been picked up by Well Go USA for distribution in North America, according to Variety. The film has also sold to distributors Metropolitan (France) and Discovery (former Yugoslavia), with deals in 11 more territories expected...
Now on Blu-ray: Well Go USA Delivers DOOMSDAY BOOK, THE ASSASSINS, TAI CHI ZERO, DANGEROUS LIAISONS, And THE THIEVES
You'll be seeing several of these cram sessions from me as I catch up from a particularly eventful winter during which I was unable to maintain my preferred review schedule. Hopefully these wrap-ups will be useful as I can help...
