So often when filmmakers attempt to remake a beloved niche genre film or a cult classic, you wind up with a product that may, on the surface...

On the heels of last fall’s Aftermath , the better of the two armored-car-robbery-on-a-bridge movies that came out within a week of one anot...

There’s been talk of a new Red Sonja movie for what feels like forever. Multiple stars and high-profile filmmakers have been attached in on...

Wilderness survival tales, sagas of human endurance in the face of overwhelming, unrelenting odds, are common fodder for movies. But like ot...

I say this every time I review one of his movies, but watching Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee) clobber dudes is one of modern action cinema’s pur...

Blazing Fists is a much more manageable title for prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike’s new film, which is also known as Blue Fight: T...

A woman stands in a desert in the darkening twilight, looming over a man, tied to a chair, burning to death at her feet. This is Irene Kelly...

If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. So goes the well-worn saying, so goes the story of Donna (Dana Namerode). A talented...

Coming off back-to-back bangers Shrapnel and The Channel , William Kaufman is back with more of that sweet DTV tactical action that’s so po...

When Anna (Alexandra McVicker), a young trans woman, leaves her shitty home town to start fresh, she learns you can run from your past, but ...

Working within specific, well-worn genre or subgenre frameworks can make it difficult to do something wholly new. How many rehashed slashers...

Fumika (Akari Takaishi, Baby Assassins ) is your average college student. She has a crappy job, constantly fends off creepy men pestering he...

Three friends, Vic (Edy Modica), Maddie (Pauline Chalamet), and her fiancé Ryan (James Morosini), visit their college pal, Allen (Jermaine F...

It’s time once again for one of our favorite events of the year, Fantasia Fest, also known as the world’s largest genre film festival. Runni...

Not everything that looks perfect truly is. That’s the underlying conceit of Daniela Forever , the latest genre-bender from Nacho Vigalondo ...

It makes too much sense to cast Ciryl Gane in an action movie. On one hand, he’s a professional MMA fighter, a heavyweight no less. At six-f...

You may not immediately know the name Robert LaSardo, but you know Robert LaSardo. (Though if you’re a regular reader, odds are you’re very...

A team up between star Marko Zaror and director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza already has my attention. The duo is responsible for Redeemer , Fist o...

All-too-often people seem to believe there were no, or at least vanishingly few female filmmakers throughout the history of the medium. If Z...

To get close to a crush, seniors Alex (Nico Carney) and Ethan (Misha Osherovich) pretend to be trans, a dicey proposition for sure. Here’s t...