Ten years on from the release of the first movie, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Expendables franchise and then looks at where it can go now (and who needs to join the crew)… When The Expendables was first announced in late 2009, my excitement levels went through the roof. Initially it was Sylvester Stallone, […]
Why John Wick 4 will be the action event of 2022
Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to John Wick: Chapter 4, with a cast that is shaping up beautifully… With three films under his belt, John Wick shows no signs of hanging up his gun-fu weaponry, or retiring from judo throwing his way through hordes of enemies. The Keanu Reeves star vehicle, which boosted his appeal like […]
John Wick: Chapter 4 trailer promises a kick-ass action epic
As the John Wick universe expands, the titular hero is back for another installment in the beloved action franchise. In the first trailer for John Wick: Chapter 4, we meet the hero as he begins his war against the High Table. The film will see Keanu Reeves’ character travelling from New York to Paris to […]
DVD Review – Ip Man 3 (2015)
Ip Man 3, 2015. Directed by Wilson Yip. Starring Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Jin Zhang, Mike Tyson, Patrick Tam and Karena Ng. SYNOPSIS: Master Ip takes on a group of gangsters led by an unscrupulous property developer and hell bent on taking over the city. Director Wilson Yip’s Ip Man series finally draws to a […]
Donnie Yen provides an update on the Sleeping Dogs movie, says he is “still hopeful” it will happen
Back in 2017, it was announced that Donnie Yen would be taking on the lead role in a movie adaptation of the bestselling video game Sleeping Dogs from the now shut down developer United Front Games and publisher Square Enix. Now, after years of silence, Yen has provided an update on the Sleeping Dogs movie during an interview […]
Trailer for Benny Chan’s final film Raging Fire starring Donnie Yen
Well Go USA has released a poster and trailer for the action crime thriller Raging Fire , the final film from the late Hong Kong filmmaker Benny Chan (Gen-X Cops, New Police Story) which stars Donnie Yen as a hardline cop who finds his past coming back to haunt him when a sting operation comes […]
John Wick: Chapter 4 adds Donnie Yen
Deadline is reporting that Donnie Yen has joined the cast of John Wick: Chapter 4. The sequel to 2019’s John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum will see Yen portraying an old friend to Keanu Reeves’ titular assassin and who “shares his same history and many of the same enemies.” “We are very lucky to have Donnie […]
Disney+ Review – Mulan (2020)
Mulan, 2020. Directed by Niki Caro. Starring Liu Yifei, Yoson An, Tzi Ma, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Jason Scot Lee, Gong Li, Rosalind Chao and Xana Tang. SYNOPSIS: A young woman pretends to be a man in order to take her ageing father’s place as a conscript in the Chinese Imperial Army. The recent wave […]
Video Review – Mulan (2020)
Mulan, 2020. Directed by Niki Caro. Starring Liu Yifei, Donnie Yen, Yoson An, Gong Li, Jason Scott Lee, Tzi Ma, and Jet Li. Join our host EJ Moreno in a discussion about 2020’s Mulan, the Disney+ exclusive set for release this week. In what he says feels like an homage to Chinese epics, there’s something […]
Movie Review – Mulan (2020)
Mulan, 2020. Directed by Niki Caro. Starring Yifei Liu, Yoson An, Gong Li, Donnie Yen, Jason Scott Lee, Ron Yuan, Jet Li, Tzi Ma, Jimmy Wong, Doua Moua, Chen Tang, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Chum Ehelepola, Rosalind Chao, Susana Tang, Nelson Lee, Cheng Pei-Pei, Radhesh Aria, Hoon Lee, and Crystal Rao. SYNOPSIS: A young Chinese maiden disguises […]
