Looking back over the career of idiosyncratic Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano,
one could easily make a case for split personality disorder. This is a man
perhaps best known for helming violent crime sagas such as his…Read More...
Regular exporter of B-List action films like Sweepers and A Dangerous Mind, Keoni
Waxman returns to the genre with regular collaborator and all around bad-ass
Steven Segal for Maximum Conviction, a straight-to-DVD film wh…Read More...
The first major wuxia epic with crossover appeal, Ang Lee’s sweeping
masterpiece spawned countless imitators, despite the fact that the film itself is
one in a long line of martial arts epics inspired by the ancie…Read More...
Somi – The Taekwon-do Woman was screened as part of Derby QUAD’s Satori
Screen programme, a monthly evening showcasing East Asian cinema, on Friday 7th
December 2012. Recently re-rediscovered, after spending over a…Read More...
Recently seen taking an early exit from Expendables 2, presumably because he
wasn’t as imposing as his meatier co stars, Jet Li can be witnessed here in is
natural habitat, an Eastern epic from Tsui Hark that reimagine…Read More...
The Raid is a hardcore Indonesian action movie created by Welsh director Gareth
Evans and starring Iko Uwais. This is the second teaming of the actor/director
duo following 2009’s Merantu Warrior. The Raid premiered at…Read More...
After promising much with his flawed but enjoyably camp debut Merantau Warrior,
Wales born/Indonesia based/Hollywood bound director Gareth Evans has returned
with a film that despite the subtitles has seen cinemas in Ame…Read More...
An in-depth look at the life of a legend, this documentary charts the rise to
fame of Bruce Lee, chronicling his career in loving detail and presenting archive
footage of his final, unfinished film, Game Of Death. John L…Read More...
There aren’t many film stars, or figures from any form of popular culture,
that come bigger than Bruce Lee. Dying young almost guarantees some kind of
mythology, but at only 33, and halfway through his fourth film…Read More...
Tales of ancient times in China and Japan have proved the basis for some
spectacular action epics in recent years. Enormous armies, vast landscapes and
impressive swordplay combine to engaging effect. Samurai Warri…Read More...
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