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EXPEND4BLES Review: Belated Fourth Entry in the Franchise Disappoints, Underwhelms
What started more than a decade ago as a way for multi-hyphenate Sylvester Stallone to chill out with his movie-star buddies, make a low-effort, if still bankable, action flick, and collect a paycheck at the same time (i.e., The Expendables)...
Friday One Sheet: We Need To Talk About EXPENDABLES 4 Tagline
At first glance, the new key art for Expendables 4 (or Expenda4bles if the never-good-to-begin-with trend of swapping letter for numbers in the title card has to be brought into the aging action franchise) is a similar design on the...
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...
Review: JIU JITSU, or How to Ruin a Movie About Nic Cage Fighting an Alien
On the face of it, a film about Nicolas Cage fighting an alien assassin in the jungle should be hard to screw up, let Cage rage and the entertainment is almost a given. With action specialist Dimitri Logothetis at the helm,...
Scott Adkins Breaks Down THE ART OF ACTION
Well, hot damn, here's a little something to delight fans of action cinema: Making very, very good use of his time during lockdown, veteran (and much loved) screen fighter and actor Scott Adkins has launched a series of lengthy video...
Notes on Streaming: TRIPLE THREAT, Now Killing People on Netflix
Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Tiger Chen, Michael Jai White and Scott Adkins star in director Jesse V. Johnson's latest action extravaganza.
Hey Australia! Win Tickets to See MASTER Z and AIRPOCALYPSE in Cinemas!
To celebrate the Festive Season, Magnum Films and Screen Anarchy are giving you the chance to win double passes for Max Zhang’s Ip Man spin-off film Master Z, in which he stars alongside Dave Bautista, Michelle Yeoh and Tony Jaa;...
Review: PARADOX Scores Another Hit for the SPL Franchise
Louis Koo plays a vengeful cop rampaging through Thailand in Paradox, the third instalment of Hong Kong's SPL action franchise. Director Wilson Yip returns to the helm, as does action choreographer Sammo Hung, while Koo is joined in front of the camera...
PARADOX World Premiere to Open Hong Kong Summer Film Fest
Wilson Yip's much-anticipated action thriller Paradox will have its world premiere on 15 August as the Opening Film of this year's Cine Fan Summer International Film Festival, organised by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society. Paradox is the...
TRIPLE THREAT Teaser: Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais and Tiger Chen Team-Up
In which the headline says it all and I don't need to write anything else... Okay, well, that's not quite true. Only a few days after announcing they accquired the North American rights, WellGo USA has dropped a teaser to...
TRIPLE THREAT: First Image of Tony Jaa, Tiger Chen And Iko Uwais!
Here is the first image of martial arts stars Tony Jaa, Tiger Chen and Iko Uwais from the upcoming martial arts film Triple Threat. It does not get any better than this, folks. Rarely is there this much talent...
Say Hello To Tony Jaa, Pop Star.
Really, this is a thing. A thing I would not have expected. Ong Bak star Tony Jaa has released a new pop single and accompanying music video for a new song titled Groundbreaking. You can check it out below!...
Louis Koo And Tony Jaa Throw Down In Wilson Yip's PARADOX
It was back in 2005 that Hong Kong based director Wilson Yip blew martial arts fans minds worldwide with the release of SPL. The dark contemporary crime drama featured amazing fight work from stars Donnie Yen, Wu Jing and Sammo...
Review: XXX: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE Is Legitimately Expendable
Vin Diesel resurrects extreme sports secret agent Xander Cage for this belated third entry in the xXx franchise, 12 years after Ice Cube last carried the torch for counter-culture covert operatives. Boasting a large international ensemble and a globe-trotting espionage...
FATE: Wilson Yip to Direct Tony Jaa in New Thriller
Tony Jaa's dance card is steadily filling up. Having been recently attached to the Chinese version of The Expendables called Makeshift Squad yesterday we found out he is joining another project. News from our friends over at Film Combat Syndicate...
Iko, Jaa, Tiger, Angelababy Line Up For Gary Mak's MAKESHIFT SQUAD
Martial arts fans have been revelling in the last 24 hours while possibly spotting a peculiar photo collage or two online as of late featuring action stars Iko Uwais, Tony Jaa and Tiger Chen. Well, for those wondering and still...
Exclusive: Deleted KILL ZONE 2 Clip, Just Say No to Drugs, Or You Will Get Kicked in the Face
Easily placing among my top 10 list for the year so far, Kill Zone 2 (aka SPL 2: A Time of Consequences) is a delirious Hong Kong action movie that is fiercely kinetic and features jaw-dropping, jaw-breaking fight scenes that...
Review: KILL ZONE 2, A Delirious, Masterfully Staged Martial Arts Melodrama
Never fear the “2” in the title of Soi Cheang’s deliriously baroque, thrillingly action-packed extravaganza Kill Zone 2, better known in Asia (and to early film festival viewers) as SPL 2: A Time for Consequences. This is a follow-up,...
Exclusive KILL ZONE 2 Clip: I Need A Translator
We've all had this happen to us, I'm sure. Picture this: you're sitting comfortably in your jail cell when a guard bursts in and demands that you translate a phone call from Thai into Cantonese. Now! Sheesh. Prison guards are...
Donnie Yen In, Jet Li Out Of XXX: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE
Vin Diesel posted the above photo a couple of hours ago on Facebook, welcoming Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen to the cast of XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage, the reboot of the other action franchise Diesel launched with...
