E1 Entertainment to Release Fruit Chan’s Don’t Look Up Remake

Although I was seriously pumped about Fruit Chan’s remake of Hideo Nakata’s 1996 chiller “Don’t Look Up,” I’d actually forgotten about the production until I discovered at small blurb about its upcoming release on the Fangoria News Blog. The film, which stars Eli Roth,...

February 8th, 2010 | Read More

Ju-On: White Ghost/Black Ghost (2009) Movie Review

From its relatively humble beginnings in 2000 as a direct to DVD release, the Japanese horror “Ju-on” series went on to become one of the modern Asian ghost genre’s most influential franchises, and one of the country’s most popular domestic blockbusters and exports, also inspiring a series of...

February 8th, 2010 | Read More

Written (2007) Movie Review

Korean indie “Written”, the second outing from writer director Kim Byung Woo is a brain teaser of a film which doesn’t blur the line between fiction and reality, so much as it jumps all over it, before proceeding to erase it completely. Needless to say, the film is one which requires a fair amount...

February 8th, 2010 | Read More

The Storm Warriors (aka Storm Riders 2, 2009) Movie Review

One thing Westerners need to keep in mind when watching a movie like “The Storm Warriors” is this: characters like Cloud, Wind, and Lord Godless are the Chinese equivalent of Americans dressing up in tights and firing laser beams out of their eyes at each other, all the while using silly codenames...

February 3rd, 2010 | Read More

English-Subtitled Trailer for Quirky Japanese Love Story Air Doll

Blow-up dolls and their various incarnations are, surprisingly, a fairly popular source of inspiration for modern filmmakers. From Craig Gillespie’s grossly underrated comedy “Lars and the Real Girl” to Robert Parigi’s deeply disturbing horror opus “Love Object,” these...

February 3rd, 2010 | Read More

Ong Bak 3 Teaser Trailer is Knee Cracking, Bone Crunching Goodness

In my post for the “Ip Man 2″ teaser trailer, I lamented the lack of Donnie Yen punching guys in the face really fast. Or action in general, actually. That … isn’t a problem with this teaser trailer for Tony Jaa’s latest, the sequel to 2008’s “Ong Bak 2: The...

February 1st, 2010 | Read More

DVD Review: Thirst (2009) Movie UK R2

You know that bit in “Twilight” where Kristen Stewart walks in on Robert Pattison repeatedly soiling his pants (front or back is not clear) in the classroom? Well there’s a scene like that in “Thirst”, only it’s a lot more explicit. You know that scene in “Twilight” where Robert Pattinson...

January 31st, 2010 | Read More

Ip Man 2 Teaser Trailer Lacks Donnie Yen Punching People in the Face Really Fast Goodness

Having successfully beaten the tar out of every Japanese soldier and Chinese criminal scumbag types in the first movie, Ip Man returns to take on Sammo Hung and, one presumes, more evildoers of various tripes. Check out a teaser trailer for the upcoming “Ip Man 2″ (via YouTube), with original...

January 29th, 2010 | Read More

Teaser, TV Spot for Takashi Miike’s Zebraman 2

Overcome by unbridled mirth upon learning of the direct-to-video prequel “Revenge of the Zebra Miniskirt Police,” I failed to post the teaser trailer and the new TV spot for Takashi Miike’s highly-anticipated action extravangaza “Zebraman 2.” How impossibly silly I can be....

January 28th, 2010 | Read More

Revenge of the Zebra Miniskirt Police DVD Artwork Revealed

I’ve been super excited about the prospect of another “Zebraman” movie since learning about the production last year. What I didn’t know is that the team behind the upcoming sequel has prepared a spin-off of sorts to help prepare us for the latest entry in Takashi Miike’s...

January 27th, 2010 | Read More

Finally! Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl Headed to Region 2!

Anyone who knows me completely understands that “Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl” is at the very tip-top of my must-see list of 2010. The damned thing can’t arrive on DVD soon enough. Fortunately for my sanity, the wait is almost over. According to DVDActive, 4Digital Asia will release...

January 27th, 2010 | Read More

Capcom’s Dead Rising The Movie Trailer Arrives … in Japanese

Capcom’s Japanese site (via STYD) has your first look at the game maker’s live-action “Dead Rising” movie, based on the 360 and Wii game of the same name (but alas, no PS3). As expected, the movie is a Japanese production through and through, which means Japanese director, actors,...

January 26th, 2010 | Read More

Director Derek Yee’s Triple Tap Looks Surprisingly Promising

Although I’m not a fan of director Derek Yee’s disappointing Jackie Chan vehicle “The Shinjuku Incident,” I am rather impressed with the trailer for his upcoming action saga “Triple Tap”. Sure, it looks like your typical Hong Kong crime picture, and, yes, the storyline...

January 25th, 2010 | Read More

Missing Person (2009) Movie Review

“Missing Person” is another slice of quality Korean independent cinema, which was written, produced, and directed by debut helmer Lee Seo, who previously worked as an assistant on Jeong Yun Cheol’s “Marathon”. A dark, disturbing and all too believable drama, the film takes a very bleak...

January 24th, 2010 | Read More

Vengeance (2009) Movie Review

With Hong Kong director Johnnie To having long been admired as an auteur by French film critics, his desired collaboration with European talent has been a much mooted and anticipated possibility. Finally, it arrives in the form of “Vengeance”, which sees To teaming with legendary French singer Johnny...

January 24th, 2010 | Read More

Rebellion (2009) Movie Review

Does Herman Yau take holidays? Does he take weekends? Does he even sleep? On the evidence for 2009, it seems not, as he managed to churn out no less than 4 films, “Split Second Murders”, “Turning Point”, “The First 7th Night”, and finally, “Rebellion”, which now arrives on DVD. Although...

January 21st, 2010 | Read More

Trailer for Johnny Nguyen and Veronica Ngo’s Latest Asskicker The Clash

If you don’t know the names Johnny Nguyen and Veronica Ngo, get thee to a videostore and rent a little ditty from Vietnam called “The Rebel”. The film is basically Vietnam’s call to arms in the “kill every stuntmen we can get our hands on” type of actioner that the...

January 20th, 2010 | Read More

Possessed (aka Living Death, 2009) Movie Review

Korea has been churning out notably fewer horror films over the last year or so, perhaps as a result of film makers having finally exhausted their stock of stories about vengeful long haired female ghosts. Certainly, with “Possessed”, first time director Lee Yong Joo (who previously worked as an...

January 20th, 2010 | Read More

Phobia 2 (aka 4Bia 2, 2009) Movie Review

Thai horror continues to go from strength to strength with “Phobia 2” (also more awkwardly referred to as “4bia 2”), sequel to the popular 2008 anthology piece. This time around the film offers not four, but five short tales of terror, with producer Yongyoot Thongkongtoon (“Iron Ladies”)...

January 19th, 2010 | Read More

The Shinjuku Incident Scheduled to Arrive on R2 This February

Truth be told, I wasn’t a fan of the grossly melodramatic 2009 Jackie Chan outing “The Shinjuku Incident,” but I suppose there are oodles of people out there who are genuinely excited about its arrival on Region 2 DVD this February. The film is pretty much a straightforward crime saga;...

January 19th, 2010 | Read More