Hey Actionites – The web is blowing up with awesome new trailers and we can’t help but share some of them with you! THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS Freshly dropped today, we have The RZA’s The Man With The Iron Fists featuring an all star cast that includes ActionFest Award Winner Cung Le! This [...]

What Up Actionites? We all know the works of Quentin Tarantino. The man is a peace maker who brings together the worlds of the genre geek and the art film connoisseur. His new film just got a brand spanking new trailer and day-um. My favorite moments would have to be: – James Remar (The Warriors’ [...]

Hey There Actionites – I don’t know how most of you felt about the first Expendables, but I had a blast with it. I still felt it was a little more restrained than I would have expected, however. There was a ton of testosterone, but slightly more posturing and banter, with maybe too few balls [...]

  Hey Actionites – At ActionFest 2012 we featured two of the films in the very first line up of After Dark Action films. Both Dragon Eyes and Transit picked up jury awards at the festival, and today, you can see all five of the After Dark Action films in theaters and on VOD! Want [...]

  Actionites Of The World! This is the second video from ReelzChannel’s visit to ActionFest. Check out this highlight reel with a heavy focus on interview time with Best Young Stunt Man of the Year Award Winner Trevor Habberstad and his father Jeff Habberstad. The video features some interesting glimpses at both Habberstads’ bodies of [...]

  Hey There Actionites – I was really excited to catch the video that ReelzChannel TV came up with upon their visit to ActionFest. Reelz’ Jeremy Parsons came down to Asheville to experience ActionFest and this video is the first report from their visit! Here you’ll see their introduction to the festival itself, along with [...]

  Prepare your ever-lovin’ minds to be blown by the incredible feat that is Avengers ’78!  It’s a video short mashing up tv shows and movies from the 1970s (and 1980s) to create a vintage Avengers extravaganza featuring Captain America, Black Widow, Iron Man, Thor and Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk!    

  Hey Actionites – I think it is fair to say that this summer has some AMAZING looking action titles in the line up. Sure, one has to approach super hero films with a more broad definition than merely “an action film”, but as you can see from our own line ups here at ActionFest, [...]

    Hey There Actionites – Ever since the Awards Ceremony at ActionFest 2012, there has been buzz about Tom Elliott’s award for Best Car Stunt of the Decade. And with good cause. Tom is the President of Stunts Unlimited and he always brings an added flare to his work (the exploding water barrels came [...]

2011 ActionFest Juror Katrina Hill reviews Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines on her website, Action Chick Flick: “This documentary is an excellent depiction of the struggles of women throughout the years to overcome opposition while seeking equal opportunities. During that uncertain time women were looking for strong female role models in media [...]

  Hey There Actionites – If you have been following ActionFest for any amount of time, you know that we are big fans of the stunt community. We’ve done interviews with Stunt Legends like Tom Elliott and Jack Gill. And we’ve promoted their causes. In fact, one of the main purposes for the existence of [...]

  Photos: Scott Varn (Mickey Gilbert, Colin Geddes, Dennis Berman, Bill Banowsky, Aaron Norris, Tom Quinn) To All The Actionites Out There! One of the clear highlights of ActionFest 2012 was the amazing collection of talent who came to Asheville, NC to be honored and celebrated. ActionFest gave out some fun awards to a very [...]

  Hey Actionites – Looks like the cat is out of the bag! Chick Norris Award Recipient (And upcoming action super star) Gina Carano is in talks to have a major role in Justin Lin’s Fast Six! This information is coming directly from ActionFest Jury Panel member Borys Kit, no less! So Gina’s next major [...]

  What’s Up, Actionites? ActionFest 2012 had a number of amazing highlights, from the films to the panels to the live stunt show. But you can probably tell that we don’t take ourselves ALL that seriously, right? So why not shine a light on some of the funniest moments of the festival, whether intentional or [...]

  The Beautiful Grove Park Inn Hey There Actionites – While I had an amazing experience at ActionFest 2012, it was a little different than most peoples’. Rather than checking out a dozen or so great action films while consuming massive quantities of Zaxby’s fried chicken, I was tasked with shuttling the special guests to [...]

  Hey Actionites –   We have a ton of post-ActionFest 2012 coverage to send out to the interwebs in the coming days and weeks. But one of the coolest things we can share with you is the ultra-exclusive video that The Raid: Redemption director Gareth Evans recorded just for ActionFest! You’ll have to head [...]

Tom Elliott’s mind-blowing pipe ramp stunt for the television show Criminal Minds won Best Car Stunt of the Decade at last night’s ActionFest Awards. (See more on the awards here).

So what do ActionFest guests do after their films screen? They head up to the VIP lounge to hang out with their fans. After the premiere of Dragon Eyes Cung Le made his way to the lounge to chat with his fans as well as fellow MMA star Miss Gina Carano! Those ActionFest VIP badges [...]

Hot off the ActionFest Twitter feed–the ActionFest Awards! Congratulations, everyone, and thank you to all this year’s filmmakers for your service to the World of Action! (Updated 4/15 at 4:00 ET) Fight Coordinator of the Year:  J.J. Perry Best Young Stuntman of the Year: Trevor Habberstad Man of Action Award:   Jack Gill “Chick” Norris [...]

Kurt Halfyard reviews Headhunters at Twitch. “Flat out surprises like Headhunters is one of the main reasons I attend festivals; a gem that pops seeming out of the blue (at least to North American audiences) and sets the bar for quality genre thrills.  The mechanics of a good crime thriller, Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing for instance, should involve communicating [...]

    To All The Rabid Actionites – If you aren’t familiar with the Canadian filmmaking collective Astron-6 (which I wasn’t until very recently), then check out our piece here which introduces you to them. From what I can gather, they are a group of craven geniuses intent on basking in the glories of shot-on-video [...]

    Hey There, Actionites! Amidst all the flurry of ActionFest-y goodness, I have actually only caught a couple of screenings so far. But I had an absolute blast with both. First up for me was Trailer War, a collection of roughly 90 minutes of vintage trailers from cult films ranging from Stunt Rock all [...]

Donnie Yen isn’t the only actor appearing in two films (The Lost Bladesman and Wu Xia) this year. Jiang Wen plays Cao Cao to Yen’s Guan in The Lost Bladesman and causes Chow Yun-Fat no end of consternation in Let The Bullets Fly as Zhang Muzhi and probably as the director of the same. A [...]

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines traces the history of those superheroines from Wonder Woman through Lynda Carter’s tv incarnation, the Bionic Woman Jamie Sommers, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor to Buffy Summers and ending with girls taking up the camera to make their own superheroine stories at Reel Girls film camp. [...]

The films, VIPs, and stuntmen are all making their way to glorious Asheville, NC! If you were lucky enough to be picking up your VIP badge at the Carolina late this afternoon then saw this: Don’t worry if you missed it because Rocketman is good to go for a much longer flight tonight at 8:00 [...]