THE FURIOUS - Kenji Tanigaki’s tale of Miao Xie and Joe Taslim taking on evil child kidnappers is the best martial arts film in years. Iain MacLeod reviews and finds a film that takes action cinema to new, astonishing heights with all kinds of weapons including fists, arrows, microphones and a big bald mans big head.

DOCTOR VAMPIRE - the latest in Eureka Entertainment’s long line of Hong Kong classics is given their usual pristine treatment. Chris Ward takes a look at this chaotic mix-up of vampires, English pubs, wuxia and heroic Taoist monks.

Timo Tjahjanto returns to our screens with yet another dark, violent and uncompromising piece of action cinema.

One of the more surprising pieces of film news in recent months was that actor Dev Patel had made his directorial debut with an Indian martial arts movie for Netflix, only for the streaming service to drop it, supposedly for fear that the films portrayal of right-wing government figures could offend an Indian audience. Enter Jordan Peele, who, impressed after a viewing, uses his own production company Monkeypaw Productions with the help of Universal to bring the film to a cinema audience.