By James Whittington, 28th January 2025
From Stephen Soderbergh's revenge-tinged actioner HAYWIRE, starring a kick-ass Gina Carano, to Michael Apted's London-set spy-thriller UNLOCKED, starring a gun-toting Noomi Rapace, and Tony Maylam's futuristic sci-fi horror gem SPLIT SECOND, starring serial killer hunter Rutger Hauer, LEGEND has scheduled ten nail-biting Channel premieres for a full-on February schedule.
Other adrenaline-fuelled premieres include action thrillers THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY, starring Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver, BLACK EAGLE, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, BORN TO RAISE HELL, starring Steven Seagal and ROGUE, starring Megan Fox. British crime thrillers this month include the Channel premieres for WELCOME TO THE PUNCH, starring James McEvoy and Mark Strong and DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, starring Shaun Williamson and Geof Bell. Plus, there is the blood-soaked neo-Western THE WAY OF THE GUN, starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro and Juliette Lewis.
Plus, fans of cult TV can tune into T.J. HOOKER, SIX MILLON DOLLAR MAN and WALKER, TEXAS RANGER, all of which continue their popular runs throughout the month.
Here's everything you need to know:
Let's start on the 1st where Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) is a black-ops agent for a government security contractor in HAYWIRE. After freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, Mallory is double-crossed and left for dead - by someone in her own agency. Suddenly the target of assassins, who know her every move, Mallory unleashes the fury of her fighting skills to uncover the truth and turn the tables on her ruthless adversary. Also stars Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas and Michael Douglas. We jump to the 7th where in a futuristic London where rising sea levels have placed large areas of the city under water. A burned-out cop (Rutger Hauer) is assigned to investigate a series of bizarre murders which point to a non-human killer in SPLIT SECOND. The following night in THE COLDLIGHT OF DAY Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, and Henry Cavill star in this pulse-pounding thriller about a man who's plunged into an intergovernmental web of lies and secrets after his family is kidnapped. To get his family back alive, he must evade deadly secret agents and recover a mysterious briefcase.
More action is waiting for you on the 13th in BLACK EAGLE. One of The US Air Force's most modern tactical aircraft, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashed in the sea near Malta. With Soviet forces in the vicinity, the CIA dispatches their best agent played by Jean-Claude Van Damme) to salvage the system before it falls into enemy hands. To ensure their agent's loyalty, they also take his two young sons into custody on a nearby island. We're BORN TO RAISE HELL on the 14th where Bobby (Steven Seagal) is a tough as nails Interpol Agent assigned to a task force in Eastern Europe. His target is those that traffic guns and dope throughout the Balkans. When an investigation puts him on the trail of a Russian gun dealer, he learns how deadly life in Eastern Europe can truly be. A gripping tale on the 15th in THE WAY OF THE GUN as two small-time crooks, played by Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro, are convinced they'll score big money fast by kidnapping a young surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis), but they soon run into trouble and they have to fight to keep their plan from unravelling amid rising time of bloodshed, mind games and greed.
Jumping ahead to the 20th and Megan Fox has gone ROGUE. As team leader O'Hara (Fox), is in charge of a lively squad of soldiers on a daring mission: rescue hostages from their captors in remote Africa. But as the mission goes awry and the team is stranded, O'Hara's squad must face a bloody, brutal encounter with a gang of rebel, and the horde of ravenous, enraged lions they encounter. A superior Brit thriller on the 22nd in WELCOME TO THE PUNCH. Former criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) is forced returns to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives detective Max Lewinsky (James McEvoy) one last chance to catch the man he has always been after. As they face off, they start to uncover a deeper conspiracy they both need to solve in order to survive. In UNLOCKED on the 27th, undercover CIA agent Alice Racine (Noomi Rapace), is charged with preventing an upcoming biological terror attack. But when violence erupts, Alice realises her CIA colleagues (Michael Douglas, John Malkovich, and Toni Collette) may be trying to eliminate her to cover their tracks. On the run, she must rely on the help of a tough cat burglar (Orlando Bloom) to survive, and to save the city from catastrophic devastation. We round off on the 28th with more Brit crime, DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. A group of men check in early for their flight to Germany to support England at the World Cup. However, this is to establish an alibi for a heist at a London bank where millions of pounds in used notes are held, awaiting incineration. Will they be able to pull off the job and catch their plane? Stars Geoff Bell, Paul Nicholls, Justin Salinger and Shaun Williamson.
Related show tags: ROGUE, WALKER, TEXAS RANGER, T.J. HOOKER, HAYWIRE, UNLOCKED, SPLIT SECOND, THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY, BLACK EAGLE, BORN TO RAISE HELL, WELCOME TO THE PUNCH, DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, THE WAY OF THE GUN, SIX MILLON DOLLAR MAN MORE FEATURES September contains channel premiers from Travolta, Lundgren and JCVD! Posted on 26th August 2026
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