Dodge This: Action Movies Unleashed

WE'RE BACK and we're starting HUGE with Bollywood mass entertainer PATHAAN , directed by Siddharth Anand and starring Shah Rukh Khan , Deepika Padukone and John Abraham . JAI HIND! PATHAAN Trailer During the Winter holidays we finished ANDOR, started THE LAST OF US, puzzled over BECKMAN, visited CHINATOWN, drank in GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE and unearthed PSYCHO GOREMAN... Meanwhile in TrailerT...

Stuffed to the gills on turkey and egg nog, Simon & Matt hog the sofa for Netflix's THE BIG 4 written and directed by Timo Tjahjanto and starring Abimana Aryasatya , Lutesha , Arie Kriting, Kristo Immanuel Putri Marino & Marthino Lio . Then for dessert they run down their Top 3 movies of the year ... THE BIG 4 Trailer Before the afternoon nap we briefly tickle ANDOR, TRIANGLE OF SADNE...

It's a Christmas miracle as Matt is back to talk badass Santa smasher VIOLENT NIGHT starring David Harbour , John Leguizamo and Beverly D'Angelo & directed by Tommy Wirkola . VIOLENT NIGHT trailer Before opening our presents we decide if ANDOR, WARRIORS OF FUTURE  and GANGS OF LONDON have been naughty or nice... Then in the Trailer Park: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | Offici...

Simon Feilder and Matthew Highton are British comedians separated by a sea but united by their love of action movies. Join them for a celebration of the latest and (hopefully) greatest in action cinema from around the world, from big budget bombastic bonanzas to down & dirty DTV darlings.    https://dodgethis.buzzsprout.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dodge-this-an-action-movi...

It's our first birthday and Simon is joined by grizzled love god and movie maniac NICK HELM to track down French car-chase-brawler LOST BULLET 2, directed by Guillaume Pierret and starring Alban Lenoir , Stéfi Celma & Sébastien Lalanne . We delve into Nick's action origin story featuring Arnie, Sly & Michael Aspel before heading to Trailer City: John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023 Movie)...

Simon is joined by Joe Roberts, back to defend his title as Only Watching The Sequels King to chat indie comic book actioner ACCIDENT MAN: HITMAN'S HOLIDAY, directed by The Kirby Brothers and starring HRH Scott Adkins , Ray Stevenson ,  Andy Long , Sarah Chang & Perry Benson Before the main event we face down VESPER, THE BEAR, DO REVENGE, THE LOST CITY, BROS & 'the parallel movie...

Simon is joined by friend-of-the-show ESB to chat SK rubber burner SPECIAL DELIVERY, directed by Park Dae-min and starring Park So-dam , Song Sae-byeok , Kim Eui-sung & Jung Hyeon-jun . Before the starting line we drift around SECTION 8, THE GOLDEN GIRLS, LOU & SHALOUM. And in the Trailer Park: Extraction 2 | Exclusive First Look | Netflix Violent Night - Official Trailer Gangs Of London |...

Fear not! It's not a remake if the John Woo classic, but a slick 2022 South Korean actioner directed by Choi Jae-hoon, starring Jang Hyuk as the titular character. The Killer: A Girl Who Deserves To Die Trailer We also had to chat about another SK actioner, CARTER, as it's absolutely insane in every way... Carter Trailer There's also a light tickling given to SAMARITAN, NOPE and Mat...

Invite us into your house if you dare as we chow down on Los Angeles vampire action-fest DAY SHIFT , the directorial debut of stunt ledge J. J. Perry starring  Jamie Foxx , Dave Franco , Scott Adkins , and Snoop Dogg .  Day Shift |  Official Trailer | Netflix Elsewhere Simon is having his mind blown by Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal and still waiting for Tom Hanks to show up in The Terminal L...

Matt returns shaving his hairless baby-face with a disposable razor as we take on PREDATOR 5/7 in PREY directed by Dan Trachtenberg , written by Patrick Aison and starring Amber Midthunder & Dakota Beavers. PREY TRAILER Matt's been watching everything apart from the last 2 movies we talked about - including THOR: LOVE & THUNDER whose post-credits reveal tickled everyone is a very spec...

South Korea's biggest fists are back to pulverise the baddies as Ma Dong-seok aka Don Lee pops to Vietnam to put the smack down on anyone crossing his Beast Cop path in THE ROUNDUP (The Outlaws 2)  directed by Lee Sang-yong, also starring  Son Seok-koo , and Choi Gwi-hwa THE ROUNDUP TRAILER Meanwhile we welcome Joe who has been peeping Better Call Saul, Sherwood & The Boys and Simon'...

Ahead of it appearing in your house, Simon sees THE GRAY MAN in a real cinema, accompanied (in real life!) by Emil while Matt is otherwise engaged. The Russo Brothers direct  Ryan Gosling , Chris Evans , Ana de Armas , Jessica Henwick , Regé-Jean Page & Dhanush in Netflix's biggest budget movie to date... Meanwhile the newly-christened 'runners up podium' features YAKSHA: RUTHLE...

Matt is back and so is Maverick from the 1980s (which was only 20 years ago) as we come fly the unfriendly skies in TOP GUN:MAVERICK, directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring your boy Tom Cruise along with Miles Teller , Jennifer Connelly ,  Jon Hamm , Glen Powell , Lewis Pullman , Ed Harris & Val Kilmer . Matt's also watched MAD GOD and Simon has started on THE OLD MAN, then it's ti...

Matt is currently offline so Simon is joined by Friend Of The Show Emil Struijker Boudier to delve into Hindi sci-fi action smasher ATTACK - PART 1 in which John Abraham is India's First Super-Soldier:  written & directed by Lakshya Raj An and co-starring Jacqueline Fernandez and Rakul Preet Singh .  ATTACK - Part 1 Trailer We also give a light tickling to South Park, Hell Hath No Fury, I...

It's a MEGA-SODE as we kick off with 2021 Chinese war epic box office destroyer THE BATTLE AT LAKE CHANGJIN,  co-directed and co-produced by Chen Kaige , Tsui Hark and Dante Lam , starring Jacky Wu and Jackson Yee . Battle Of Lake Changjin Trailer Then  EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE  written, directed, and co-produced by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert  , starring Michelle Yeoh , Stephanie...

SO NICE WE FEATURED IT TWICE... Matt finally got to see the powerhouse Indian action entertainer RRR from director SS Rajamouli and starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr. & Ram Charan and let's just say, he Was Not Disappointed. We're diving back into the mind-blowing eye-popping tour-de-force movie that we Cannot Stop Talking About. (We do stop eventually, don't worry....) RRR Trailer Sim...

It's a full-on frenetic frenzy of OTT action this episode as we try to focus on Michael Bay's newbie AMBULANCE. Then in an unexpected twist Matt gets sick and can't see the new Indian action entertainer RRR:(  Thankfully Simon loves the movie so much he goes to see it twice and brings along his good pal Emil who joins them on the podcast ... (NB we say 'Bollywood' a bunch...

A little curveball this episode as we pop on a pair of rose-tinted specs and remember all the best/most insane bits of the HK movies we watched growing up, celebrated in this wonderful documentary, directed by Junzi Wei,  whose title says it all. Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen, Hark Tsui and more share their thoughts, memories and injuries of the golden (harvest) era of Hong Kong cinema's unsung hero...

From beautiful Barcelona comes Spain's first (possibly?) martial arts action movie XTREME (XTREMO), a gritty revenge tale featuring fists, guns, swords, picture hooks and headrests; directed by Daniel Benmayor and starring Teo García, Óscar Casas, Óscar Jaenada, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Andrea Duro & Alberto Jo Lee. XTREME Trailer Birthed from a short film from 2006 : EXTREMO -CORTOMETRAJE-...

Hot off last episode's hot presses comes an even hotter ... iron?... i don't know. It's the latest BATMAN movie and it's new, it's long and it's very broody. Robert Pattinson stars alongside Paul Dano, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell and John Turturro  as we revisit Gotham once again and it may or may not actually be an action film but it's too late no...

Hot off the presses (algorithm?), it's the Netflix original feature-length sequel to the Netflix original fantasy martial arts action chef show WU ASSASSINS, starring Iko Uwais, Lewis Tan, Lawrence Kao, Pearl Tusi, Juju Chen, Francesca Corney and a lot of drones FISTFUL OF VENGEANCE Trailer TRAILER TIME: What is a trailer if it doesn't feature Brucey Dub Dubs: A DAY TO DIE Trailer Set ph...

While 2022 still whirs into life we dip back into the overflowing grab-bag of 2021 delights with Lu Yang's big budget Chinese wuxia-fantasy-action-adventure-CGI-brainmelter, A Writer's Odyssey, based on a book by Shuang Xuetao and starring Jiayin Lei, Mi Yang & Zijian Dong... A WRITER'S ODYSSEY Trailer TRAILER PARK: The hardest working man in showbiz (citation needed) Bruce Will...

It's time to open the box of delights that is Indian Action Cinema and hooooboy it's got some treats in store. We use WAR (2019) starring double hunks Hrithik Roshan &Tiger Shroff as our gateway to the biggest movie industry in the world, then look at newbie SANAK (2021) with Vidyut Jammwal to double down on the deal. WAR trailer | SANAK trailer In the trailer park... Grandpa Neeson...

New year, new Matrix! Yes, we're going big time with the unavoidable 4th instalment of the movie that inspired the title of this very podcast. WOAH. THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS trailer In the trailer park... Nathan Drake looks a bit like that spiderkid... UNCHARTED trailer The Michelle Yeoh renaissance begins NOW! EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE trailer And some of 2021's best that maybe...

It's the most wonderful time of the year and that means only one thing... YIPPEE KAY YAY.... Yeah we had to sneak in a little Christmas bonus in the form of DIE HARD, but we're mostly here to check out Bao Tran's indie action comedy treat THE PAPER TIGERS. THE PAPER TIGERS trailer In the trailer park... An unexpected gift from our lord and saviour Bruce Willis: AMERICAN SIEGE Traile...