'Azumi' is a frantic CGI-assisted Japanese period drama from cult director Ryuhei Kitamura starring pop siren Aya Ueto as a teenage assassin who begins the film as the only girl among 10 warriors who have been trained from childhood by Jiji, a grey-bearded samurai. One day, Jiji tells them they must pass a final test before they embark on the mission they have prepared for all these years. He pairs them up and the five that survive, led by Jiji, descend from the mountain that is the only world t find out more...

Wesley Snipes may well be the only bloke in the world who could successfully pull off the roll of an ass-kicking, law-enforcing vampire hero, but he manages it with bucketloads of charisma in this entertaining nonsense. It helps that his character, a genuine member of the undead, looks great in black leather as he stalks the streets on a mission to stop Stephen Dorff, a jumped-up, man-made vampire, from unleashing Armageddon on mankind. Action packed, with some spectacular fights, and very styli find out more...

Blade is back, but this time his enemy is not the noble league of vampire but a viscous new sub-breed that desires the destruction of the world from which it was spawned. Blade is forced into an uneasy alliance with his one time mortal enemy in a frantically paced race to slaughter, before all are slaughtered. Blade II is an incredibly fast action movie, leaping and bounding from one stunningly choreographed set piece to the next, and what the plot may loose in fluidity the copious amount of inf find out more...

From the Ong-Bak stable we have a new martial arts star, Jeeja Yanin, who plays Zen, a skinny 15-year-old autistic girl, who picks up martial arts skills from watching a kick-boxing team training next door, watching Kung Fu flicks and playing computer games. Zen discovers a list of debtors, from her mum's less than illustrious past, and, determined to raise money for an operation for said sick mum, goes out to collect the dosh. And, when disrespected, Zen proves more than capable of bursting int find out more...

Based on the real life legend Huo Yuanjia, this brutal martial arts epic focuses on his entrance into an international fighting tournaments for the honour of his motherland. Eventually he is challenged him to take on four foreign champions in a single evening; a British boxer, a German lancer, a Spanish fencer and a Japanese martial artist. However the only way to stop him is by poison, a fact that his honourable Japanese opponent recognises and cedes victory over. Starring Jet Li and choreograp find out more...

The second half of Tarantino's homage to Honk Kong Chinese action movies, preposterous 70's TV, martial art, Manga... (I could go on, but you get the drift) is slightly more gobby than Kill Bill Vol I - which with a Tarantino script can only be a good thing. The resurrected Bride is considerably closer to wish fulfilment, having offed nearly half of her former colleagues in the first film, the opportunity to slash Bill a new orifice is looking good, and if there's one thing she doesn't lack, it' find out more...

Eight months after a disastrous job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, ex-soldier turned contract killer, Jay, is pressured by his partner, Gal, into taking a new assignment. As they descend into the dark and disturbing world of the contract, Jay begins to unravel once again, his fear and paranoia sending him deep into the heart of darkness. An find out more...

Young Ting is a gifted master of Muay Thai and adored by his village, but when the village's sacred Buddha is robbed of its head he volunteers to head off to Bangkok to regain it. Enlisting the help of a comical, but morally dubious, former fellow villager.......well that's quite enough plot. The stunts in the first chase, running through the streets of Bangkok, are truly awesome, and the tuk-tuk chase scene is a hilarious variety on the Hollywood car chase. The film is often very funny but it's find out more...

Danny has been raised by a London mobster, but this is no ordinary father-son relationship, Danny is kept in a cage, collared and allowed out only to reek violent havoc on all who stand in his ‘uncle's' way. After escaping a gangland shooting, Danny is welcomed into the home of a kindly, blind piano tuner and begins to discover his humanity. 'Uncle' however is missing Danny and when the two meet again Danny must decide who his real family is. 'Unleashed' is an English language outing from Jet Li find out more...

Zatoichi it ain't, but there is still some fun to be had with this hyper-kinetic kung-fu zombie splatterfest. The story involves two escaped convicts who rendevous with a group of yakuza and their female captive on the edge of the Forest of Resurrection, the 444th of 666 portals between this world and the Other Side. You would think they know better but soon bullets are flying and the dead are kicking ass. The gore is plentiful and the pace frenetic but plot and characterisation are more thin o find out more...