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Eleven character teasers for xXx: The Return of Xander Cage

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Yesterday we brought you the first trailer for xXx: The Return of Xander Cage [watch it here], and now Paramount Pictures has released eleven character teasers for Vin Diesel, Ruby Rose, Rory McCann, Neymar Jr., Michael Bisping, Donnie Yen, Kris Wu, Deepika Padukone, Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev and Nicky Jam; check them out below… The third explosive […]

What We’d Like to See in John Wick: Chapter 4

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Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to John Wick: Chapter 4 and some things that would be great to see in the next one (John Wick 3 spoilers follow)…  With John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum giving Avengers: Endgame a good old fashioned German (actually Belgian) Shepherd nut savaging at the box office on its opening weekend and […]

A Look Back at The Expendables Franchise (And a Look Forward…)

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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 […]

Disney+ Review – Mulan (2020)

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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 […]