Holy hell – Wang Wei is coming and nothing will stop him! Let me just say it right up front: The Furious is the best action movie of 2025, hands down. Nothing is going to top this. While there are plenty of other great action movies this year, none of them have the fight scenes that this movie does, none of them are this level of full-on, go-totally-wild awesome. Made by Japanese action filmmaker Kenji Tanigaki, The Furious premiered at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival in their prestigious Midnight Madness section, then played at Busan, Beyond Fest, and now at the Sitges Film Festival – which is where I caught up with it. And OMFG it totally rocks. This movie is The Raid 2 of the 2020s. Another instant action classic. There's no question about it, this movie is up there with those two Indonesian action classics (both made by Gareth Evans). Two dudes take on an ENTIRE child trafficking empire on their own!! The Everything Everywhere All at Once stunts / fight team delivers the BEST sprawling, mind-blowing fight scenes since The Raid 2 in 2014. Yes, really, nothing has been this incredible since then. It totally blew away and now I can't stop talking about it. The Furious (火遮眼) is a Hong Kong / Chinese action movie made […]

"I want to explore the place between fiction and non-fiction." What? Marvel Studios has debuted their first full official trailer for the series called Wonder Man, a MCU spin-off series ready to debut for streaming in January 2026. This comes right after the brief teaser from NYCC - showing us more footage from this odd new superhero(??) series. Hollywood actor Simon Williams is thrust into the world of superheroes as he gets powers of his own, and becomes the new superhero Wonder Man. It's a meta riff on superhero movies, with a director trying to reinvent them and remake Wonder Man, and he'll end up casting Yahya in the lead, but this trailer doesn't get that far yet. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as as Simon Williams / Wonder Man: A super-powered actor and stuntperson who auditions for the lead role in a superhero series. Co-created by Destin Daniel Cretton, the new Wonder Man series also stars Ben Kingsley back as actor Trevor Slattery from Iron Man 3, with Demetrius Grosse, Lauren Glazier, Byron Bowers, and more. And featuring Zlatko Buric (who was also in James Gunn's Superman) as filmmaker Von Kovak. This is such a peculiar concept for Marvel. Will it work? Is anyone really into it? I mean, I'm a big fan of Yahya, but I don't know... Here's […]

"A warrior does not let a friend face danger alone." At this weekend's New York Comic-Con, Paramount+ unveiled the first official trailer for their next new Star Trek series - this one is titled Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. It'll be ready for streaming starting in January 2026 in just a few months from now if anyone wants to tune in. Set in the 32nd century, the far-future time period that was introduced in the series Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024), the series follows the first new class of Starfleet cadets in over a century as they come of age and also train to be officers. Sandro Rosta, Karim Diané, Kerrice Brooks, George Hawkins, & Bella Shepard star as Starfleet Academy cadets, with Holly Hunter as captain & chancellor of Starfleet Academy, Zoë Steiner, Robert Picardo, Tig Notaro, and Oded Fehr. The second season is already filming now with the first launching soon. With two recurring characters: Gina Yashere as Lura Thok – part Klingon, part Jem'Hadar first officer of the Athena; and Paul Giamatti as Nus Braka – part-Klingon, part-Tellarite who has an ominous past connection to one of the cadets. Actually pretty fun to see Giamatti in all that make-up on a Star Trek series. Maybe this will be worth a watch? Check out the footage. Official trailer (+ poster) […]

"Filmmaking doesn't get much bigger than this... This is the way Mortal Kombat is meant to be seen." WB has unveiled a quick making of featurette during New York Comic-Con for action sequel Mortal Kombat II (MK2), based on the popular video game series. This is a follow-up to the most recent live-action Mortal Kombat movie in 2021, returning again for another martial arts showdown. Fan fave champions—joined by Johnny Cage himself—are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders. Let them fight! "We had up the ante on every aspect," says the actor playing Shao Kahn. Karl Urban stars as Johnny Cage (and his movie his movie Uncaged Fury), alongside Adeline Rudolph, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Tati Gabrielle, Lewis Tan, and Damon Herriman, with Chin Han as Shang Tsung, Tadanobu Asano as Lord Raiden, Joe Taslim as Bi-Han, & Hiroyuki Sanada as Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion. This is just a very short promo video - and a reminder they've delayed the release of this movie from October (it would be out now!) until May 2026 kicking off the summer season next year. Here's the New York Comic-Con featurette for Simon McQuoid's sequel Mortal […]