The Killer, 2022. Directed by Jae-Hoon Choi. Starring Jang Hyuk, Bang Ui Gang, Seo-young Lee, Tae-Hyun Cha, and Chae-Young Lee. SYNOPSIS: A retired hitman is brought back into active duty when the teenager he is babysitting gets involved in a human trafficking ring. Okay, let’s get this out of the way first – Korean action […]
Terrible Remake Ideas: Past, Present, Future
Tom Jolliffe looks at ten unnecessary remakes from the past and coming soon that no one asked for… Hollywood is full of interesting and original ideas. Studios are actively looking to pursue new concepts and move away from simply repackaging or updating existing IPs. Okay, I’m fibbing. Hollywood is desperately scraping any old idea they […]
First look at Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, David Fincher’s The Killer and much, much more in Netflix’s 2023 preview trailer
Netflix has dropped a ‘Save the Dates” trailer for their impressive slate of 2023 offerings, that includes first glimpses at David Fincher’s return to the world of serial-killers with The Killer, Zack Snyder’s sci-fi action film Rebel Moon, David Yates’ big-pharma drama The Pain Hustlers, which stars Chris Evans and Emily Blunt, and sequels to […]
Omar Sy to lead John Woo’s reimagining of The Killer
Back in May it was announced that legendary Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo is bringing some Heroic Bloodshed to Peacock with an English-language reimagining of his action classic The Killer, and now comes word that Woo has found his lead for the remake. As announced by Peacock and Universal, The Intouchables and Lupin star Omay […]
John Woo to remake The Killer for Peacock
Peacock has wooed John Woo into directing an English language remake of his 1989 Hong Kong action classic The Killer, the streamer has announced. One of Woo’s early heroic bloodshed hits, The Killer saw Chow Yun-Fat starring as an assassin who ends up accidently blinding a nightclub singer on what is meant to be his […]
Comic Book Preview – The Killer: Affairs of the State #1
Boom! Studios releases The Killer: Affairs of the State #1 this Wednesday; check out the official preview here… Caught and put to work as an on-call assassin for the French government, Killer has to adjust to working with a handler, a partner, and living life as a civilian. An underhanded target, a City Hall employee, […]
Great Movie Scenes That Left An Indelible Mark
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at 15 great movie scenes that left an indelible mark… Great movies require many things to achieve that unshakable stamp of quality. As well as great writing, directing and acting, you need memorable scenes. Some can be more memorable than others. Some may end up defining a film more than […]
The A-Z of Action Movies: I-L
In the latest instalment of our action A-Z, Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of films from I to L… Coming to a midpoint in our action A-Z, something becomes clear. I have seen way too many action films. Let’s face it, all you need is Die Hard repeated ad nauseam. That said, for carnage […]
David Fincher reuniting with Se7en scribe for The Killer, Michael Fassbender tapped to star
It’s the stuff of many a Twitter timeline, but ask what people’s favourite David Fincher movie is and Zodiac will be hovering somewhere near the summit, closely followed by Se7en. So the news that the Mank director is reuniting with his screenwriter on the latter, Andrew Kevin Walker, for a Netflix thriller called The Killer, […]
4 Great Action Movies to Check Out (That Aren’t John Wick)
Graeme Robertson with four great action movies to check out (that aren’t John Wick)… Given that it has dominated cinemas for the last few weeks, you’d think that Avengers: Endgame was the only film worth seeing at the moment. However, this week that all changes with the release of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, […]
