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Aksys Games has announced that Tokyo Xanadu eX+ will come to Nintendo Switch for Western audiences in June. The Aksys Games Online Store, has an exclusive edition bundle that includes the Switch version of the game and a four-cd set for $70. This version also contains all previously Dlc and a revamped localization. Related: Tokyo Xanadu eX+ Gets Japanese Nintendo Switch Release in June Tokyo Xanadu eX+ is one of the few other series from Falcom aside from the Ys and Trails franchises. Its gameplay is a mix of both, featuring the real-time combat of Ys and the relationship mechanics of Trails , particularly the Cold Steel entries. Its school setting and dungeon crawling aspects also take inspiration from series like Persona . The original version of Tokyo Xanadu was released for PlayStation Vita in Japan in 2015 and worldwide in 2017. The upgraded Tokyo Xanadu eX+ version was first released for PlayStation 4 in Japan...

The TV series Hill Street Blues aired on NBC from 1981 to 1987. Here’s a look at which cast member has the highest net worth today.

Charles Haid Cast of Hill Street Blues | Herb Ball/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

Net worth: $2 million

Charles Haid played Andrew Renko. As of this writing, Haid has an estimated net worth of $2 million. One of his early acting roles was in a 1974 episode of Gunsmoke titled “Like Old Times.” After Hill Street Blues, Haid appeared in The Twilight Zone (1989), Murder, She Wrote (1989–1990), and NYPD Blue (1994).

Ed Marinaro Ed Marinaro | Gary Null/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

Net worth: $3 million

Ed Marinaro played Joe Coffey. As of this writing, Marinaro has an estimated net worth of $3 million. One of Marinaro’s early roles was in the TV series The Edge of Night. After Hill Street Blues, Marinaro appeared in Falcon Crest...

"Basic Instinct" star Sharon Stone poses for the November 2019 issue of "Harper's Bazaar" (Spain) magazine, photographed by Juankr, wearing Oscar de la Renta, Gucci and Stella McCartney:

After modelling in television commercials and print advertisements, Stone made her film debut as an extra in "Stardust Memories" (1980), followed by a speaking part in the horror feature "Deadly Blessing" (1981)...

..."Irreconcilable Differences" (1984), "King Solomon's Mines" (1985), "Cold Steel" (1987), "Action Jackson" (1988), "Above the Law" (1988) and "Total Recall" (1990).

Her breakout role as 'Catherine Tramell" in director Paul Verhoeven's "Basic Instinct" (1992), earned Stone a 'Golden Globe Award' nomination for 'Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama'.

She received further critical acclaim in director Martin Scorsese's "Casino (1995), garnering an 'Academy Award' nomination for 'Best Actress', receiving two more 'Golden Globe Award' nominations for her roles in "The Mighty" (1998) and "The Muse" (1999).

Other notable film roles include "Sliver" (1993), "The Specialist" (1994), "The Quick and the Dead" (1995), "Last Dance...

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III feels like the beginning of the final episode of an extremely well-written and long-running television series. You start to see the proverbial end of the road for our hero, who will inevitably encounter several beloved characters from previous episodes, not to mention a few tragic moments. And while the game doesn’t wrap up the story completely — that will come in Trails of Cold Steel IV — it’s still a satisfying and deeply engrossing experience that fans of the series will no doubt fall madly in love with when all’s said and done. However, just keep in mind that you should definitely play the previous entries in the Cold Steel series before jumping into this one. Sure, you powered through The Witcher 3 without playing the previous installments, but Cold Steel is a different beast altogether. This will ultimately require you...

Ka-li (noun): 1) One of the manifestations and cult titles of the wife of Shiva and mother goddess Devi, especially in her malevolent role as a goddess of death and destruction, depicted as black, red-eyed, blood-stained, and wearing a necklace of skulls...

2) Eskrima, Arnis and Kali are umbrella terms for the traditional martial arts of the Philippines ("Filipino Martial Arts," or Fma) that emphasize weapon-based fighting with sticks, knives and other bladed weapons, and various improvised weapons.

It also includes hand-to-hand combat, joint locks, grappling and weapon disarming techniques.

More and more, martial arts action sequences are becoming integral to genre filmmaking. From the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" series (1997) and Blade (1998) to The Hulk (2003) and Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), we’re seeing more and more cinematic heroes who are kickin’ ass. One commonality in all of the aforementioned films are the action choreographers/stunt people: Ron Balicki and Diana Lee Inosanto.

The Last Tycoon

Directed by Wong Jing

Written by Wong Jing, Manfred Wong and Koon-nam Lui

China, 2012

For the last little while now, Chinese cinema, Hong Kong-made films in particular, have been beating on the nationalism drum with George Kollias-esque intentensity. It’s not enough for films to just be about loose-cannon cops named after Mexican booze or guys in pajamas fighting monkeys, everything has to be, on an explicit level, about the nation, the people and patriotism.

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Donnie Yen’s Ip Man movies and Fist of Legend sequel, Jackie Chan’s 1911, and David Wu’s Cold Steel, which hit Fantasia last year, are all good examples of this.

Screening at Fantasia this year, Wong Jing’s period crime drama The Last Tycoon is a solid addition to that list, setting the story of a Shanghai crime boss against the Japanese attack and occupation of Shanghai in WW2.

After...

5) Die Antwoord “Cookie Thumper”

Directed by Ninja

I couldn’t help but include the latest from Die Antwoord because their videos are so insanely weird and awesome. “Cookie Thumper” is no different, it’s not their best but it’s still good.

4) Jj Doom “Bookhead”

Directed by Steve Powers

Doom gets a new mask this week in highly original video for “Bookhead”, the pair also released a cool ‘the making of’ video too.

3) Wavves “That’s On Me”

Directed by Brandon Dermer

Much like the Die Antwoord video, this isn’t Wavves best but again it’s still fairly entertaining. Watch Cold Steel’s Lynn Thompson smash up various objects in “That’s On Me”.

2) The Postal Service “A Tattered Line of String”

Directed by Ab/CD/CD

Complete with the duo’s recently released 10th anniversary reissue of “Give Up”, The Postal Service has released a new video for...

DC Comics delivers more excitement with Batgirl Volume 2: Knightfall Descends. The graphic novel collects issues #0 and 7 through 13 of the monthly title. It's written by series regular Gail Simone and illustrated by Ardian Syaf, Ed Benes, Alitha Martinez, and Vincente Cifuentes.Batgirl Volume 2: Knightfall Descends consists of four different storylines with interweaving subplots. "A Fire in the Heavens" tells the tale of the first time Barbara Gordon donned a costume and embraced her destiny as an agent of the Bat.

"A View from Below" and No Darker Shadow" pits Batgirl against a murderous masked metahuman calling himself Grotesque. He's bent on taking the finer things in life from the rich and privileged of Gotham City for himself.

"In the Line of Fire" puts Batgirl in the middle of the Night of the Owls as she comes face-to-face with a female Talon.

"All Snug in Their Beds," "Heart of Cold Steel,...

Noted editor and director David Wu blasted back into Chinese cinemas in 2011 with “Cold Steel”, a wartime sniper thriller that after enjoying success at international festivals finally lands on DVD. Wu has certainly had an interesting career, having worked with John Woo as editor on several of his classics including “A Better Tomorrow”, “Bullet in the Head” and “Hard Boiled”, as well as directing “The Bride with White Hair 2”, before enjoying success in the Us as a director of genre and television fare. For his return to Asia, Wu assembled an interesting cast, headlined by Peter Ho (“Sophie’s Revenge”) and veteran Tony Leung Ka Fai (“Election”), with support from actress Song Jia (“Once Upon a Time in Tibet”), martial artist Yu Rong Guang (“Iron Monkey”), television star Wilson Guo (“Palace”) and John Woo’s daughter Angeles Woo (“Reign of Assassins”). Based on a popular online novel, the film sees Ho as Mu Liangfeng,...

This morning's Short Shout! is a short documentary titled Battle Of The Drumlines, a film by Show Love. It explores the concept of the drumline, featuring footage and interviews filmed in Brooklyn in April 2012 during the annual Battle of the Drumlines.  Hosted by the Brooklyn Steppers Marching Band (bksteppers.org) the event draws the finest talent from the Tri-state area, with the year's special guests, North Carolina A&T Cold Steel (coldsteel1985.com). Watch below: Battle of the Drumlines from Show Love on Vimeo.

With 12-21-12 coming quickly, many zombie survivalists feel this will be the day for the zombie outbreak. So with that being said, what should you get the zombie survivalist in your home? First up is this Cold Steel two handed Panga Machete which sells for 800 Euro which is $1034.08 Usd. This is perfect for slaying zombies without getting to close. you can stand a few feet away to give yourself some maneuvering room and still slice through zombie skulls. Next is the Truckers Friend. This handy tool is an axe, hammer, crow bar, and pry bar all in one. Handy for cutting through zombies, breaking through doors/ windows, and crushing cans/ nailing boards to your windows. It sells for under $50. The Riot shield sells for around $90. The perfect tool for keeping yourself protected against oncoming zombie attacks. This shield can be used to push zombies away to give...

You know what feels better than bankruptcy? Cold steel and hot lead. And that's the guiding principal behind Uwe Boll's Bailout: The Age Of Greed, a film that plays a lot like a much lower budget spin on 1993 Joel Schumacher effort Falling Down.Millions of people have lost everything in the financial crisis. They've lost their jobs, their homes, their life savings. In addressing the crisis, the government bailout has not addressed the problem, but instead will have a horrific impact on state economies for generations to come.The bailout has proven more costly than the world's collected history of wars and natural disasters. Countries are going bankrupt and our economic systems are collapsing.This film is about a man who lost everything in the bailout and...

Hey, Toronto! The sixteenth annual Reel Asian festival kicks off tomorrow with a typically fantastic slate of screenings from all around Asia. Twitch is proud to co-present screenings of Filipino thriller Graceland on the 8th and Chinese action flick Cold Steel on the 10th but the festival runs deeper and wider than that. Check out the official website for all the details and come on out for a rare chance to see some of the year's best films on the big screen!...

Hey, Toronto! The 16th annual Reel Asian Film Festival kicks off November 6th and we want you to be there! Twitch is co-presenting the November 10th screening of David Wu's Cold Steel and we've got a pair of tickets to give away!All you have to do for your chance to win is follow Twitch on Twitter and Tweet: I want to win Cold Steel tickets from @twitchfilm and @reelasianThe winner will be drawn at random....

Every year Fantastic Fest is at the forefront of genre film programming, providing a veritable feast of degradation, mutilation and violence to it’s utterly insatiable audiences.

Many times you’ll notice a specific thematic trend begin to emerge among the films selected by the fest’s demented programmers. For instance this year I must have counted at least six features that in some form revolved around obscene amounts of cocaine (lost, found, or snorted). This may be due in part to the bevy of stylized action films that try with mixed success to emulate Guy Ritchie, or as my favorite local film/beer/food snob Brian Kelley puts it, try to emulate Guy Ritchie emulating himself.

Ok I’ll admit it, Black Out and Pusher were actually pretty cool, but the real fun to be had this festival wasn’t to be found at the bottom of a brick,...

It occurred to me halfway through Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan) that Fantastic Fest has no icon for "romance." There's "comedy" and even "date movie," which seems relegated only to ironic situations, but no "romance." I'm sure that's because some festivalgoers get that same squeamish feeling seeing "romance" next to a film that I get seeing "pet abuse." But David Wu's new feature is, in many ways, a very romantic film, from the actual love story between the war-torn main characters to the rich cinematography. As a man better known among the Fantastic Fest crowd for his association with hardcore action movies such as Bullet in the Head and A Better Tomorrow, his new film has a softer feel even amongst the sniper violence.

Set in China during World War II, Cold Steel focuses on the Japanese takeover of the country, and an elite sniper team tasked with blunting Japan's conquest.

Having its sweet 16th anniversary this year, Toronto's Reel Asian Film Festival continues to showcase cinema from from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kashmir, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand; this also includes films from Canada and USA with an Asian bent. As it was last year, the festival will be presented in two parts: November 6-11 in Toronto and  November 16-17 in Richmond Hill (just outside the city).Having seen the lovely 35mm print of Cold Steel, anyone who loves classic Hong Kong melodrama would be advised to check out David Wu's film, a throwback to 1980s and 1990s John Woo classics (for which Wu served as editor), but also a humorous reaction to Woo's bombastic tendencies. It's a film that sneaks right up and charms its audience, including...

Editor’s note: This film was originally featured as part of our Fantasia Fest 2012 coverage, but it’s also playing Fantastic Fest, so we’re bringing it back. Mu, a young hunter with a staggering talent behind the eyepiece of a sniper rifle, saves an American pilot shot down by the Japanese in WWII-era China. When he returns to his village with his wounded new friend, he finds a trio of Chinese soldiers stirring up trouble in the local tea house and insulting the lovely widowed owner; something he cannot abide. His intervening actions land him on a prisoner transport, but when that transport is attacked by Japanese snipers, Mu demonstrates his lethal abilities to get them out of their dangerous predicament. He is immediately given a choice: enlist or be shot. Assigned to an elite sharpshooting corps, Mu becomes a local hero for his valor and the success rate of his team’s missions. This...

The second wave of genre films slotted to play this year’s Fantastic Fest has been unleashed upon the masses. Among the the are two of the year’s most anticipated films, Looper and Sinister. Continue reading for the films announced and a brief plot synopsis of each… but, do so at your own risk! (The inconceivable awesomeness of Fantastic Fest may be too much for some to handle. Those unaccustomed to this level of awesomeness should refrain from indulging in such films without first consulting your physician to verify you are in fact an adult with adventurous taste and not still just a sniveling, winy brat.)

The ABCs Of Death (2012)

Us Premiere with multiple directors in person

Director – Various, 110 minutes

Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. Co-produced by Drafthouse Films, and finally ready to be unleashed.see what happens when you give more than two dozen of the most...

It’s hard to believe that in a month and two days that Michael & I, along with two other writers from St. Louis, will be making our annual 14 hour drive to Austin, Texas for one of our favorite things/times of the year, Fantastic Fest. This will mark my 3rd year covering the festival and Michael’s 2nd year. The press release has been released on what will be playing at the festival and I think I can honestly say that the selection feels like it might top last year. We got some more hits off our picks of what we thought might play this year as well.

From the Press Release

Two of the fall season’s most anticipated genre films, sci-fi actioner Looper and supernatural horror Sinister, are coming to Fantastic Fest along with a wide array of mind-boggling/bending/warping films from around the world. The lineup...

The first wave of films for the Austin based film festival Fantastic Fest featured a lot of titles that caught our eye, like Dredd 3D, Cockneys Vs. Zombies, Room 237 and the original The Shining. Today, the next wave of films were announced on the Fantastic Fest website. Here is the complete list for y’all, but we’re most excited about the inclusion of Looper and Sinister:

The ABCs of Death (2012)

Us Premiere with multiple directors in person

Director – Various, 110 min

Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. Co-produced by Drafthouse Films, and finally ready to be unleashed—see what happens when you give more than two dozen of the most brilliant filmmakers from around the world free reign to indulge their creative impulses and black humor. From A to Z, it’s got something for every genre fan and is like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

The American Scream...

The second wave of films playing this year's Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, has been announced, and all we can say is start packing your bags right now!

From the Press Release:

Two of the fall season's most anticipated genre films, sci-fi actioner Looper and supernatural horror Sinister, are coming to Fantastic Fest along with a wide array of mind-boggling/bending/warping films from around the world. The lineup also includes the world premieres of The American Scream, from the filmmaking team behind Best Worst Movie, and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, introduced by stars Scott Adkins and Dolph Lundgren. Fantastic Fest will take place September 20-27 in Austin, Texas, at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.

The ABCs Of Death (2012)

Us Premiere with multiple directors in person

Director - Various, 110 min

Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. Co-produced by Drafthouse Films, and finally ready to be unleashed-see what happens when...

Fantastic Fest is truly a unique event. There’s plenty of room for arthouse films and, on some occasions, the big awards players, but one theater that hosts There Will Be Blood might, the next night, see the premiere of something you’d catch on a weird cable station at 3 A.M. You don’t get that at Venice.

Such a programming mentality is reflected in the second set of titles: We have Leos Carax‘s acclaimed Holy Motors, Rian Johnson‘s Looper, horror anthology The ABCs of Death (as if it could premiere anywhere else), Sinister, and a whole batch of films I’d never heard of up until now. It’s wonderfully eclectic, and it only makes me wish I could be there come late September.

See the lineup below:

The ABCs Of Death (2012)

Us Premiere with multiple directors in person

Director – Various, 110 min

Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die.

An adolescent’s sixteenth birthday marks a turning point in life when maturation occurs at a much more rapid pace and the teenager begins to be faced with difficult and important decisions that will shape their future. The same can be said of Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, set to kick off its sixteenth edition tomorrow: its Super Sweet Sixteen promises to be nothing if not interesting. That’s not to say that the main focus of North America’s largest genre film festival is changing; in fact, between prolific director Takashi Miike’s festival opener For Love’s Sake – fresh from Cannes and having its North American premiere – and the Canadian premiere of animation studio Laika’s Paranorman, which closes the fest three weeks later, filmgoers will have a whopping 160 films from around the world to choose from. Sitges eat your heart out.

Where Fantasia seems to be...

Since I explained at ridiculous length how to make your Fantasia list, I thought it would only be fair to share mine.

My general goal for Fantasia 2012 is to see 40 films and write about 20. (The scary thing is that in seeing 40 feature films I will only be seeing 25% of the Fantasia selection.)

Here are my 40:

Thursday, July 19th

1. 18:30 Hall For Love’s Sake

2. 21:45 Hall Dragon

Friday, July 20th

3. 17:15 Hall Children Who Chase Lost Voice From Deep Below

Saturday, July 21st

4. 13:25 De Seve Fists of the White Lotus

5. 16:20 Hall Cold Steel

6. 19:00 Hall Sushi Girl

Sunday, July 22nd

7. 16:25 Hall Lloyd the Conqueror

8. 19:55 De Seve Funeral Kings

9. 21:40 Hall Starry Starry Night

Monday July 23rd

10. 17:00 Hall The Sword Identity

11. 19:25 Hall Smuggler

12. 22:00 De Seve The Victim

Wednesday, July 25th

13. 17:15 Hall Reign of Assassins

14. 19:45 Hall Resolution

Thursday, July 26th

15. 19:30 Hall...

Directed by: Chris Kazmier

Written by: Sxv'leithan Essex

Cast: Daniel Baldwin, Sunny Doench, James C. Burns, Alisha Seaton

You know, whenever I open my mailbox and find a package of DVDs from Planet Fury, I throw up a little bit in my mouth. "Why?", you might ask. Because I know that, in among the really good flicks, there's going to be a really bad one. Not a "so bad it's good" flickershow. Those, I love. No...I mean really Bad.

And then there's A Darker Reality.

A Darker Reality follows the investigation of Lapd Detective Alex "Cold Steel" Belasco (Burns) and Dr. Jesse Metcalf (Doench) as they hunt for a serial killer known as "The Ghost" (Baldwin). Actually, the two of them spend a great deal of the time seeing who can overact more. And the "Maurice Evans Ham Award" for 2008 goes to...Daniel Baldwin! So that's where those excess pounds came from,...

Today, I am now more prepared than ever for the zombie apocalypse. Not content with just being a fan of TV and movies, I’ve always been a collector of props and merch from, or related to, my favorite shows and films. So it was with great excitement that I opened a package yesterday after the FedEx man showed up with a surprise. Thanks to the good folks over at Gerber (the blade company, not the baby food company) the FM office is now stocked with one of Gerber’s Apocalypse Kits, straight out of The Walking Dead season 2 premiere. Remember when Rick’s son pried that case from the dead man in the pick-up truck? Remember how when they unrolled it the first time and you saw all those blades you thought to yourself, “Holy [naughty word], that’s awesome! That would be amazing if it was real!” And now it is.

Longtime collaborator with John Woo, editor David Wu has worked on some of the greatest action movies to come out of Asia, including Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow and Red Cliff. While Wu has been keeping himself busy directing plenty of TV, it has been close to 20 years since he has directed a film, but this year he stepped behind the camera to bring us Cold Steel, a rather impressive looking sniper thriller.Unsurprisingly for a mainland actioner, Cold Steel does have a period setting, and seems to revolve around a young hunter whose prowess with a rifle makes him a useful tool when the Chinese look to fend off their Japanese invaders. The film stars Tony Leung Ka Fai, Peter Ho and John Woo's...

The trailer for director David Wu’s “Cold Steel” — a clip which has been carefully embedded below — could be a hell of a lot of fun. Everything you could possibly want from a Chinese action flick is in full effect, especially if you like your sex and carnage presented in an insanely stylish fashion. This is pretty impressive, given that Wu’s 2003 made-for-tv horror flick “Webs” is woefully inept. I’m willing to forget all about that particular endeavor given how jazzed I am about the project. “Cold Steel”, which opens in China on December 2nd, 2011, stars Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Peter Ho, Song Jia, Yu Rong-Guang, and Angeles Woo, the latter of whom is John Woo’s daughter. Nifty! The trailer you seek lies below. English-subtitled DVD, please make haste...

I know Glenn already wrote a glowing review of the film, but after it won the Palm d’Or at Cannes I was compelled to see it and, as a result, had the nagging urge to write about it.

Black emptiness. Then a pinpoint of light dawns, brightens and grows into a warm, womb-like representation of a magnificent force. One that gives birth to our universe in a mesmerizing new beginning bursting with interpretation.

A sweeping progression of Earth’s ensuing evolution relaxes; moving postcards that wander through time and space or drift over untouched landscapes, accompanied by soothing orchestral movements or operatic swells for emotional effect.

We indulge in a lingering shot of a single leaf skittering along a sidewalk or in a ponderous stare at our slowly shifting cosmos. The slides slow for a natural encounter with docile dinosaurs before defying gravity to witness their ultimate destruction as...

Cold Magic is set in a world where much of the continents are covered in ice. In many ways it is similar to ours in the Victorian age, on the brink of an industrial revolution. In the cities factories, gas lights and dirigibles are beginning to appear, and the new technologies are taught at the University to young men and women alike. The Cold mages, keepers of the old order, are strongly opposed to these new developments, and claim that they will destroy society.

Catherine "Cat" Hassi Barahal is an orphan. She has been raised alongside her two month younger cousin Beatrice "Bee" since her parents died in a drowning accident when she was six. Her father was an explorer, and her mother a soldier deserting the army of a Napoleon-like general who tried to take over most of the continent of Europa and was imprisoned on a small island for his crimes.