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) Official Trailer – Keanu ReevesPLANE Official Trailer (2023) Gerard Butler, Action, Thriller Movie HDPathaan...

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 phenomenon' (what is this called?) ACCIDENT MAN ROBOT RECAP please enjoy And in the Trailer Park: THE...

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 | Series 2 | Red Band Trailer 18+  The show's got a Twitter now: @dodgethispod. Simon & Matt...

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 Matt crowbars in LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER... (8s & Adkins) TRAILERS Rourke, Lundgren, Adkins in...

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 List while Matt is watching Enola Holmes for some reason. (Wolf-based) TRAILERS Zhang for your buck: 狼群...

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 special way, the RESIDENT EVIL series and they both watched BULLET TRAIN with a view to doing a full...

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's Runner-Up shelf expands to include Baby Assassins & The Witch Part 1: The Subversion. In the trailer...

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: RUTHLESS OPERATIONS & THE PRINCESS In the trailer park... THE PREY (2022) Legend of Karnoctus Carter | Official...

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 time for HOT TRAILER ACTION: All DTV, All day: Code Name Banshee Trailer Sophomore Sonomura: BAD CITY...

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, Interceptor & Baahubali before heading into The Trailer Park for: The Princess PREY The Man From...

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 we enter the meta verse in the  brain-boggling EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE  written, directed, and co-produced by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (collectively known as "Daniels"), starring Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James...

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 Simon also mentioned this great YouTube video essay by Patrick H Willems: Patrick Willems RRR Video Trailer...

It's a full-on frenetic frenzy of OTT action this episode as we try to focus on Michael Bay's newbie AMBULANCE starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza González. Then in an unexpected twist Matt gets sick and can't see the new Indian action entertainer RRR from director SS Rajamouli and starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr. & Ram Charan :(  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 to shout from...

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 heroes. KUNG FU STUNTMEN: NEVER SAY NO Trailer Trailing off: Prequel to FURIE, definitely from Vietnam....

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- on Vimeo Some great BTS clips here (ROBO CAM AT 6 MINUTES!) : XTREMO BTS Imágenes inéditas Blaze a...

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 now... THE BATMAN Trailer Hitch your trailer: Nomnom Rapachay is on thin ice: BLACK CRAB  Trailer Ziggy, centre me on South...

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 phasers to RUN: THE CONTRACTOR Trailer THIS IS HOW YOU ANNOUNCE A MOVIE!!!!1!1! BADE MIYAN CHOTE MIYAN...

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 Willis is back: GASOLINE ALLEY Trailer Occasionally great Netflix show Wu Assassins gets a spin-off movie: FISTFUL...

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 STILL has a very special set of skills... BLACKLIGHT trailer And some of 2022's most anticipated...

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 you missed: HYDRA trailer THE SUICIDE SQUAD trailer ENTER THE FAT DRAGON trailer WRATH OF MAN trailer NO...

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 Trailer Jack Reacher is back on screen and he sure doesn't look like Tommy C any more: REACHER Trailer Girl I didn't...

The sequel is here already and in episode 2 of your biweekly action pill Simon & Matt fly the flag for the UK (foreign market sales notwithstanding) and investigate ONE SHOT, the Scott Adkins-starring, James Nunn-directed, made-to-look-like-it's-all-one-take DTV treat. One Shot Trailer In the trailer park, they cast their eyes and minds across a batshit Indian movie: Rgv's LADKI Trailer|First Indian Martial Arts Film TWO films from your new favourite eastern european lookalike: ESCAPE...

In the premiere episode of your new favourite niche nerdy movie podcast, comedians and film buffs Simon Feilder & Matthew Highton go deep on Hong Kong throwback actioner RAGING FIRE, the swansong of HK legend Benny Chan starring Donnie Yen & Nicholas Tse. RAGING FIRE Trailer They also look at the trailers for Michael Bey's Ambulance and a triumvirate of bizarre DTV Bruce Willis movies. Deadlock Trailer Fortress Exclusive Trailer Survive the Game Trailer Ambulance Trailer Simon...