Tag: jeanclaudevandamme
KICKBOXER: ARMAGEDDON: Scott Adkins Joins The Final Chapter of Action Trilogy
THR broke the news last night that fan favorite action star Scott Adkins has joined the cast of Kickboxer: Armageddon. This will be the final chapter in a trilogy of films that started in 2016. Once again, Adkins is going...
Review: THE LAST MERCENARY, Flaccid, Turgid Time-Waster
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in the action picture from France, now streaming on Netflix.
JIU JITSU Interview: Star Alain Moussi And Director Dimitri Logothetis Talk Martial Arts And Science Fiction
The classic martial arts film Kickboxer was given new life in 2016 by producer and screenwriter Dimitri Logothetis, the man behind the remake Kickboxer: Vengeance. The legendary Jean-Claude Van Damme took on the role of the mentor, while martial artist...
Old Man Van Damme Bashes Heads In LUKAS
Following on from his winning turn in Amazon's Jean-Claude Van Johnson - which I absolutely love - Belgian action star Jean-Claude Van Damme continues his late career resurgence with the French-Belgian co-production Lukas. The story here is a fairly stock...
LUKAS Trailer: Van Damme Fights Crooks for Custody
While somehow having slipped past us last week, the teaser trailer for Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Lukas isn’t a bad way to kick off the new workweek. In what looks like it could be the Muscles from Brussels’ best and most-character...
Blu-ray Review: CYBORG Kicks its Way Home
Shout Factory's new release of Cannon Films' Cyborg is likely the best the film has ever looked since it's initial theatrical release. As a fan of most of Cannon's canon, I'm sad to say that 1989's Cyborg didn't do it for me, story...
Hong Kong goes West - When Hong Kong film makers attempt to break the Western market - part 2
Moving into the 1990’s Golden Harvest would once again make an attempt for American success. Unfortunately their first American made film of the decade was the poor China O Brien (1990), an attempt by Golden Harvest to launch star Cynthia...
Hong Kong goes West - When Hong Kong film makers attempt to break the Western market - part 1
Throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s, Hong Kong cinema produced many films that to this day are considered to be the best action films ever made. Films like Police Story (1985), The Killer (1989), Once Upon a Time in China...
BLACK WATER Sees Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren Joining Forces on a Sub
2017 has barely kicked off and already action fans are being assured 2018 won’t pull any punches. Or at least, that’s what we’re hoping to get once Black Water is released: a high-octane, kick-ass thriller centered around the latest on...
Have Your Say: What's Your Favorite Jean-Claude Van Damme Film?
Sometimes it's hard to think of what our question of the week should be, sometimes it's easy. The moment I saw that today was Jean-Claude Van Damme's birthday, it was very easy indeed. The "Muscles From Brussels" becomes 56 years...
The Muscles from Brussels sports sleep attire and sense of self-parody in first JEAN-CLAUDE VAN JOHNSON trailer
Jean-Claude Van Damme, world-renowned action hero of countless eighties and nineties B-movie flicks, is back in older yet no less muscular fashion. Just one month after Van Damme helped kick off Fantasia 2016 as Master Durand in opening night film...
Pilot for JCVD's Ridiculously Farcical Action Comedy JEAN-CLAUDE VAN JOHNSON is a Giant Leap Forward in the Actor's Career. Watch and Vote!
"Maybe you’ve seen TimeCop, which is like Looper, starring Bruce Willis but like a million times better." Guess who's back? Back again. It’s no secret I’m the biggest Jean-Claude Van Damme fan in the world. If you think you have a...
KICKBOXER: VENGEANCE - RLJ Entertainment Puts A Choke Hold On U.S. Film Rights
What you see above is a lumpy Mr. Bautista laying a beat down on some poor sad sack. Each of those lumps would mean certain death to us mere mortals. I imagine the same is about to happen to said...
Trailer: Van Damme Gets Tasty In Chinese Superhero Comedy JIAN BING MAN
The muscles from Brussels, Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to China, to play a supporting role in Da Peng's superhero comedy Jian Bing Man...literally translated as "Pancake Man".The film is being lined up for a big summer release in the mainland,...
Review: POUND OF FLESH Is Soft In All The Wrong Places
Jean-Claude Van Damme continues to explore and embrace his darker side in this modest Asian action thriller, as a kidnap & rescue specialist who falls foul of organ traffickers in the Philippines. Sadly, budgetary constraints and a lack of interesting...
UPDATED: Martial Artist Darren Shahlavi: 1972 - 2015
UPDATE: Three months after the tragic death of martial artist Darren Shahlavi, on 14 January at the age of 42, his family have received the official coroner's report from the Los Angeles County Coroners Department, and would like it to...
Van Damme Wants His Kidney Back. Watch The POUND OF FLESH Teaser Now.
One thing is certain: If you're damn fool enough to steal Jean Claude Van Damme's kidney he's going to want it back. And what Van Damme wants he generally gets. And he gets it with a kick to the face....
SWELTER: Van Damme Partakes In A Bar Brawl In Exclusive Clip
Jean Claude Van Damme heads to the American south in indie action film Swelter and the tension is just like the weather: Hot. The story revolves around a criminal gang who - ten years before - robbed a casino. Four...
Adkins, Jaa, Bautista, St Pierre And Newcomer Alain Moussi Star In Stephen Fung's KICKBOXER Remake
While it may fall to newcomer Alain Moussi to fill Jean Claude Van Damme's shoes in the Stephen Fung (Tai Chi Hero) directed remake of Kickboxer he's going to have some familiar - and dangerous - faces around him rounding...
Van Damme Wraps POUND OF FLESH In China
Principal photography has just wrapped on Jean Claude Van Damme's latest martial arts thriller, Pound of Flesh, which was filming at ACE Studios in Nanhai, China under the direction of regular collaborator Ernie Barbarash (6 Bullets, Assassination Games). JCVD stars alongside...
