Tag: mma

A scrappy and satisfying action-family picture, inspired by a real-life fighter.

Filipino director Erik Matti has been on quite a roll in the past few years with his gritty thrillers On The Job and Honor Thy Father premiering in Cannes and Toronto, respectively, while his Aswang Chronicles films broke new ground...

The director of Agneepath teams up with stars Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotrafor his latest effort, the MMA themed fight drama Brothers. Kumar, of course, is one of the absolute biggest stars going on the subcontinent and also a highly...

Dante Lam forgoes his penchant for high octane pyrotechnics to deliver this character-focused drama about a pair of MMA fighters that boasts strong performances but sparse action in a by-the-numbers story of redemption.After an excellent run of form over the...

Welcome to this week's entry for New To Netflix! Not that we are actually new to Netflix, we're just happy, able, and willing to help you find out what kind of 'Twitch-y' material is coming to the big red virtual...

Fresh off of picking up some award hardware in Shanghai, Dante Lam's Unbeatable (formerly known as MMA) has released a pair of new posters and an English subtitled trailer in Hong Kong.FAI (Nick CHEUNG), once a world champion in boxing,...

See that kid on the right? The one staring at MMA fighter Krzysztof Soszyznki? Yeah. That's Cody Hackman - a five time world karate champion punching a little above his weight class in upcoming MMA set fight drama Tapped. Lucky...

Would you care for a dose of melodrama to go with that punch in the face? Because that's what Hong Kong action auteur Dante Lam is serving up in the first trailer for his Nick Cheung and Eddie Peng starring...

Now, I'm willing to concede that Michael Biehn can stare down just about anyone, but put him in the octagon with a mixed martial arts fighting champion? Well ... that's probably not going to actually happen in Allan Ungar's Tapped,...

Among the eye-catching productions at Hong Kong Filmart earlier this week were no less than two films boasting the winning partnership of director Dante Lam and actor Nick Cheung. First was Emperor's The Demon Within, but also Distribution Workshop has...

Following the baseball drama GLove, director Kang Woo-suk of the Public Enemy trilogy has set his sights on another sport, mixed-martial arts, in Fist of Legend (no relationship to the Jet Li film of the same name). Based on a...

There is something pleasingly efficient about the title of Dante Lam's latest foray into character driven action. The Hong Kong director is, after all, arguably the strongest action director working in the region today, his recent output excelling and finding...