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Eddie Murphy's improv skills shine in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, and it borrows its best gag from 2013's failed TV pilot. CBS passed on a procedural Beverly Hills Cop series due to Eddie Murphy's limited appearance and unwillingness to recur as Axel. The success of Netflix's Axel F hints at a possible Beverly Hills Cop 5.

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is loaded with easter eggs, but it borrowed its best gag from the franchise's failed TV pilot. Eddie Murphy hated the Beverly Hills Cop sequels (though his stance on the second movie has since softened), and refused to return for a fourth movie with a good script in place. This led to a lengthy development cycle, with Netflix's Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F proving to be worth the extended wait. Murphy proved yet again he's one of the funniest movie stars of his generation, and the sequel...

"Are you human?" Or is he something else? Indie Rights has debuted an official trailer for a peculiar indie sci-fi comedy titled Mandao Returns, the sequel to Mandao of the Dead from 2018. Korean-American filmmaker Scott Dunn writes, directs, and stars in both of these homemade films as Jay Mandao, an astral projecting time traveler slacker. This next one, however, is Christmas themed. Jay Mandao has returned. Christmas is in the air as Jay astral projects back in time to prevent the death of a B-movie star. However, the more Jay and his friends mess with time, the deadlier Christmas becomes. Also starring Gina Gomez Dunn, Jenny Lorenzo, Alexandre Chen, Sean Liang, Sean McBride, and also Jim O'Doherty. This Christmas is gonna kick astral! Cool? This looks amusing, in a very your-friends-made-a-home-movie way. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Scott Dunn's Mandao Returns, direct from YouTube: Jay Mandao (Scott Dunn) is not your average hero.

Indie Rights has announced the release of writer/director Scott Dunn’s sci-fi horror comedy, Mandao Returns, the sequel to Dunn’s spectral comedy, Mandao of the Dead. The third feature from Scott Dunn and producer Gina Gomez Dunn, Mandao Returns was successfully funded via Kickstarter in only 11 days and finished filming only two days before the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered film productions. Dunn was forced to tackle post-production remotely to finish the feature in time for a December debut.

Mandao Returns is headlined by Jenny Lorenzo, Jim O’Doherty, Sean Liang (American Horror Story: 1984), Scott Dunn, Sean McBride, Gina Gomez Dunn and Alexandre Chen.

Jay Mandao is not your average hero. He’s an astral projecting time traveler who spends his days hanging with his adult nephew Jackson, crashing on his scheming cousin Andy’s couch, and riding with his cabbie friend Fer. In the days leading up to Christmas, Jay...

Television stuntwork has come a long way in the past decade and half, both in the quality and quantity of the action sequences seen on the small screen and the appreciation they get from the Television Academy. The first Emmy for stunt coordination was handed out in 2002; in 2013 it was split into two awards categories: one for drama, limited series or movies, and another for comedy or variety program.

While small-screen stunts are now arguably of movie quality, TV shows aren’t as action-packed as their big-screen counterparts. Typically, an hour-long episode has one or two big stunt set pieces and a fight sequence or two. But those episodes are shot on eight to 10-day schedules.

Season two of Netflix’s “Jessica Jones” had the title character, played by Krysten Ritter, doing everything from running out of an exploding building one step ahead of a fireball, with her best friend on her shoulders,...