The latest action thriller from The Sniper director Huo Suiqiang, Blind War, starring Andy On (100 Yards; Undercover Punch and Gun), initially released in 2022 before landing on Well Go USA’s martial arts streaming service Hi-YAH!. Now, Well Go USA is set… Read More ›
The version of American History that most students learn is that the American Revolution took place largely due to the concept of “taxation without representation.” That the colonists found it frustrating and unfair to have to send taxes to a… Read More ›
Joshua Erkman (director and co-writer) and Bossi Baker (co-writer) are certainly going to be names to look out for in the future. Both of them have teamed together to direct and co-write their first feature, A Desert, which focuses on… Read More ›
From a modern-day perspective, zombies come in one of two flavors: they’re either creatures of chaos or walkers fueled by wacky circumstances. Yet, in the new film Handling the Undead (based on the book of the same name by Let… Read More ›
Genuinely speaking, I don’t want to condone a movie, but the trance, anxiety, and dread that Thordur Palsson creates with his directorial debut, The Damned, needs to be studied as A Clockwork Orange-style of torture. This movie is the one… Read More ›
There’s no place like home. Except in horror films, in which case, there’s no place that’s safe. Part of the tension in a good horror film is the realization that danger lurks whether you’re in a cabin in the woods… Read More ›
Awards season has come and gone once again, like another overblown, overwrought, overlong thief in the night, spanning an impressive seven months from the beginning of the Venice Film Festival to that of the Academy Awards. Though, unlike other years,… Read More ›
When reviewing a label release for something I have never seen, it is always interesting to see how the movie looks and what the restoration does to it as there are no nostalgia/rose-colored glasses towards the project itself. The only… Read More ›
Most Scooby-Doo films are just alright. They are often glorified hour-long episodes of the series, or Archie Comics-style cameo machines. But starting in 1998 and ending in 2003, there was a run of good-to-great straight-to-VHS films, Scooby-Doo! On Zombie Island… Read More ›
Since 2017’s The Outlaws, actor Ma Dong-seok (a.k.a. and credited here as Don Lee) has led what would become the Crime City series, an action crime series that borrows from Korean headlines for the foundation of each film. Each film… Read More ›
After spending time on the festival circuit, Matt Vesely’s feature-length directorial debut, Monolith, starring Evil Dead Rise‘s Lily Sullivan, released into U.S. theaters February 2024. Now the science fiction thriller is set to come home on physical formats via Well Go… Read More ›
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from horror films over the years, it’s to be cremated. I’m simply too tired and lazy to be an effective zombie, and I’m simply too apathetic to want to haunt anyone after my death…. Read More ›
Donnie Yen is a man of many genres – never settling to just work in action, drama, thrillers, or any of the sub-genres within. His latest project, Polar Rescue, is a dramatic adventure thriller as he takes on the role of… Read More ›
Sometimes there are movies that just entirely escape your radar. Then you realize a boutique label is giving the film the treatment it arguably deserves and you decide to take the plunge and watch it for the first time. Before… Read More ›
With the Oscars now firmly behind us, for better or for worse, one might technically believe that the season of awards films are also behind us, too, at least for the next few months before Cannes gives us some early… Read More ›
In this edition of EoM Presents, Senior Interviewer Thomas Manning speaks with writer and director Shannon Triplett about her debut feature film Desert Road. Triplett talks about the real-life inspiration for the script, the intense, physically demanding lead performance from… Read More ›
There’s the world we know — the one we can see, hear, smell, and touch — and there is the world in between. It exists around us, within the spaces within spaces. Overlapping and overlapping, like a Venn diagram wherein… Read More ›
“… no one can never see past the choice they don’t understand… ” The Oracle, The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Loop films are, by their nature, a sci-fi fantasy tool utilized to get a protagonist to confront some aspect of themselves…. Read More ›
There’re directors who go things alone and then there’re directors who operate with someone else as a team. You’ve got the Coen brothers (Miller’s Crossing), the Wachowskis (The Matrix trilogy), the Russo brothers (several MCU films), the Farrelly brothers (Dumb… Read More ›
Back in October 2023, Well Go USA released director/co-writer Kim Seong-sik’s action/adventure fantasy thriller Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman (천박사 퇴마 연구소: 설경의 비밀) into theaters. Given the influx of theatrical and streaming releases in October, it’s fair to… Read More ›