Dodge This: Action Movies Unleashed

Undercover Dutchman Emil Struijker Boudier returns to the fray to dissect Indonesian gore-fest actioner 'The Shadows Strays' written and directed by Timo Tjahjanto and starring Aurora Ribero >>> THE SHADOW STRAYS trailer <<< There's a few column inches for The Wild Robot, The Substance, Will & Harper and a bit too much wrestling & Assassin's Creed depe...

'Bit on the side' of the show Chris Gau returns to relive the good old days of John Woo 1989 and also the polarising days of J-Dubs 2024 as we get into the director's remake of his own movie The Killer starring Nathalie Emmanuel , Omar Sy , Sam Worthington , Diana Silvers , Eric Cantona , and Saïd Taghmaoui . >>> THE KILLER 2024 trailer <<< We also touch upon Take...

Strewth mate, this episode we're joined by Furthest Away Guest So Far, action movie fan extraordinaire Andy Gorham to talk Bren Foster's Aussie breakout beatdown bonanza Life After Fighting. Spoilers: IT RIPS. >> LIFE AFTER FIGHTING trailer << There's also time to take a swing at The Lockdown, The Twilight Samurai, The Mission and lots of pre-waffle... All the other good...

Oh boy we are so back and what a start as former co-host and now co-parent Matt Highton returns to help us tackle Bollywood bloodbath KILL directed by Nikhil Nagesh Bhat and starring  Lakshya , Raghav Juyal , Ashish Vidyarthi , Harsh Chhaya and Tanya Maniktala . >> KILL trailer<< We also tickle your fancy with mentions of Beetlejuicex2, Alien: Romulus, Furiosa, Hundreds Of Beavers,  Re...

I now pronounce you 'friend of the show' Chris Gau is back as his wish for a Hong Kong banger is granted in action extravaganzea mouthful  TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN directed by Soi Cheang , and starring Louis Koo , Sammo Hung , Richie Jen , Raymond Lam , Terrance Lau , Kenny Wong , Philip Ng , Tony Wu and German Cheun. >>> TOTW: WI trailer <<< We also touch up...

Our series (!) of interviews with (British) (up and coming) action movie directors continues with this delightful and insighful chat with Will Gilbey . He's written and edited loads of stuff but his directorial debut JERICHO RIDGE knocks it out of the park. We got into the pros and cons of filming a movie in sub-zero temperatures, why using green screen sucks, how Gavin Rossdale features on t...

Captain Big Punch (Joe Roberts) returns to talk about something other than Don Lee as we dive into British survival siege action thriller JERICHO RIDGE, written and directed by Will Gilbey , starring Nikki Amuka-Bird alongside Michael Socha , Zack Morris and Solly McLeod . JERICHO RIDGE trailer We also get into some pre-waffle about Prestige Television (Shogun, Baby Reindeer), Love Lies Bleeding,...

Fans of awful bee puns are in for a treat as Chris Gau rejoins to explore The Stath's smash-em-up THE BEEKEEPER directed by David Ayer , written by Kurt Wimmer and starring Jason Statham , Emmy Raver-Lampman , Josh Hutcherson , Bobby Naderi, Phylicia Rashad , Jemma Redgrave and Jeremy Irons .  (Fans of the actual movie: your mileage may vary 😬) THE BEEKEEPER trailer We also got into Chris&ap...

Simon is joined by director, educator and chum Ben Mallaby, to get into the weeds on ONE MORE SHOT, James Nunn's all-in-one-take-ish action sequel starring Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, Aaron Toney, Waleed Elgadi, Alexis Knapp and Tom Berenger. ONE MORE SHOT Trailer Also on the menu is REACHER, PRISCILLA, POOR THINGS & ECHO The show's got a Twitter: @dodgethispod All the other goo...

What a treat! Our first directorial interview and it's a smasher, with fellow Brit action maestro JAMES NUNN . James has helmed sniper thriller Tower Block, open sea thrillkiller Shark Bait, 2 entries into the WWE Marine franchise plus 4 movies with HRH Scott Adkins - Green Street 3, Eliminators, One Shot (which we discussed on our 2nd episode of this pod!) and his latest is sequel One More S...

We're back to start the new year with a bang/machete through the arm as we get into Xavier Gen's FARANG (internationally and perhaps not doing it any favours in terms of expectations titled 'Mayhem!') starring Nassim Lyes , Samir Barda, Loryn Nounay, Olivier Gourmet , Chananticha Tang-Kwa & Vithaya Pansringarm . >>> FARANG TRAILER <<< The Polygon article m...

It's a festive special and Simon is joined (for the first time evarrr!) IRL by Joe Roberts to touch upon John Woo's naughty Silent Night and Lee Sang-yong's nice The Roundup: No Way Out   starring Ma Dong-seok , Lee Joon-hyuk and Munetaka Aoki . Trailer Kitsch The Brothers Sun | Official Trailer | Netflix Official Trailer - 13 Bom di Jakarta | Tayang 28 Desember 2023 di Bioskop THE...

We're heading back to Bollywood and we're bringing someone Actually From There to help us! Simon is joined by old pal Emil and real-life Indian Nirvi Maru for masala mega sequel TIGER 3, the Hindi -language action thriller film directed by Maneesh Sharma , produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films and starring Salman Khan , Katrina Kaif and Emraan Hashmi . We've also watch Tige...

Simon is joined by improviser, editor and real-life Canadian IAN THOMAS DAY to wade into sci-fi-action(ish)-adventure-drama-cgi-blockbuster THE WANDERING EARTH 2 directed and co-written by Frant Gwo , and starring Andy Lau , Wu Jing and Li Xuejian . >>>WANDERING EARTH 2 trailer <<< After finishing their 3-hour marathon movie they still found time to check out THE CONTINENTAL, JER...

We got the band back together! Simon is joined by OG Dodge-r Matthew Highton to get the lowdown on sleek, gorgeous & brutal SK action thriller Ballerina directed by Lee Chung-hyun and starring Jeon Jong-seo , Kim Ji-hoon and Park Yu-rim.  >>>BALLERINA TRAILER <<< With barely enough time to squeeze in a podcast Matt still managed to watch all of Bargain while Simon peeked at M...

Simon is joined by writer/comedian and fellow former Kilburn dweller CHRIS GAU to discuss why Robert McCall is interrupting his Italian vacation to equalize anyone is his way in THE EQUALIZER 3 directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning . >>>The Equalizer 3 Trailer <<< Outside of this Equalizing we've gone absolutely nuts for Equalizing and r...

We're back buckaroos and once again we're heading to Bollywood to open the season with a bang. And a song. And SRK. It's JAWAN and it's A Lot Of Movie. While Matt is off fighting interdimensional crime, Simon is joined by friend of the show Emil Struijker Boudier to get into this Indian Mass Entertainer co-written and directed by Atlee & starring Shah Rukh Khan , Nayanthara...

We're jumping on Oprah's sofa for joy at the return of the best (?!) spy series on the planet.. It's MI7 (for brevity's sake) directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise along with Hayley Atwell , Ving Rhames , Simon Pegg , Rebecca Ferguson , Vanessa Kirby , Esai Morales , Pom Klementieff , Mariela Garriga , and Henry Czerny . Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Tr...

We're going Dutch with King Of the Kickboxers Rico Verhoeven's first headline movie outing BLACK LOTUS, also starring Frank Grillo and directed by Todor Chapkanov . To celebrate all things NL (movie notwithstanding) we welcome back Friend Of The Show and real-life dutchman Emil Struijker Boudier who gives us the lowdown on the explosive Fast 9, nostalgic The Flash & the CelineDion-a-...

Cor blimey guvnor, Guy Ritchie has taken a little detour to the middle east and so do we this episode as we explore his action-adjacent military thriller THE COVENANT which stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim . The Covenant Trailer And while we're adjacent to the action we also get adjacant to the universe with an extended chat about NYC's finest webslinger in SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIE...

There's gold, nazis and one double-hard Fin in historical war action slasher SISU , written and directed by Jalmari Helander and starring Jorma Tommila , Aksel Hennie , Jack Doolan and Mimosa Willamo .  >>> SISU trailer <<< Elsewhere our peepers have peeped VIRKAM, THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN, THE MOTHER, ZOMBIELAND 2, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3, TOO MANY FASTnFURIOUSes Trailer...

A double helping of Ladykillers! No not Simon & Matt ROFLcopter; It's Vietnamese neon-drenched fistfest Furies: directed by, and starring Veronica Ngo , alongside Đồng Ánh Quỳnh, Tóc Tiên , Rima Thanh Vy, Thuận Nguyễn, and Song Luân Furies trailer Plus more assassin lore and family drama in Kill Boksoon   directed and written by Byun Sung-hyun , starring Jeon Do-yeon , Sol Kyung-gu , Kim...

Oh sweet Baba Yaga it's finally time for the almighty JW to unleash his fury upon us in the final (?) chapter of the Wick-iverse, directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Keanu Reeves , Donnie Yen , Bill Skarsgård , Laurence Fishburne , Hiroyuki Sanada , Shamier Anderson , Lance Reddick , Rina Sawayama , Scott Adkins , and Ian McShane .  >> John Wick 4 Trailer << Outside of the pod...

Where we're going, we don't need roads! Because there's spaceships and wuxia and magic and ALL THE MOVIE in South Korean sci-fi action and a whole lot more genre-mashup ALIENOID directed by Choi Dong-hoon , starring Ryu Jun-yeol , Kim Woo-bin , and Kim Tae-ri .  >>> Alienoid trailer <<< Since last time, we've cheered as EEAAO & RRR WON OSCARS ( watch the p...

WELL STAPLE MY EYES SHUT we're back again with in-your-face action-horror-sci-fi-splatter-OMG-fest PROJECT WOLF HUNTING directed by Kim Hong-sun, starring Seo In-guk and Jang Dong-yoon . Project Wolf Hunting trailer Since last we spoke we've been cramming in a bunch of stuff across the board: Fierce Cop, Plane, DDLJ, An Action Hero, All Quiet On The Western Front, The Whale, Knock At The...