By Eirann Mannino | 8 April 2021 Despite the prevalent traces of Judo in modern martial arts action choreography, it remains sorely neglected as either a subject or primary martial ...
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By Eireann Mannino | 5 May 2021 By all rights, Alber Pyun’s Nemesis (1992) should be a staple midnight movie, slated alongside the likes of Eraserhead, Mad Max, and Faster ...
By Eireann Mannino | 20 March 2021 With a cast like Robert DeNiro (Sam), Stellan Skarsgård (Gregor), Sean Bean (Spence), Jean Reno (Vincent), and Natascha McElhone (Deirdre) to its credit ...
By Eireann Mannino | 19 February 2021 It is difficult not to feel the perpetual sting of loss when looking back on the shortened life and career of Brandon Lee. ...
By Eireann Mannino | 5 February 2021 Legend has it that 666 portals to the netherworld are scattered throughout our universe. While human beings remain blissfully unaware of these ...
By Eireann Mannino | 27 December 2020 Three time World Boxing Council (WBC) World Bantamweight champion Jôichirô Tatsuyôshi, is the subject of Joe, Tomorrow: 20 years with Joichiro Tatsuyoshi (2015), ...
By Eireann Mannino | 12 December 2020 For those who came of age in the early 90’s, there is a good chance one of your first encounters with the martial ...
By Éireann Mannino | 13 November 2020 With unmistakable kinship to his 2004 Judo film Throw Down (Yau doh lung fu bong) and more than a pinch of Fulltime Killer’s ...
By Éireann Mannino | 10 October 2020 It seems peculiar to say, that with as impressive a frame as Bolo Yeung’s, he is somehow a transient figure. Even in his ...
By Chris Davis | 8 September 2019 The first African samurai to serve a Japanese warlord will soon have his life memorialized in the mainstream movie Yasuke. The film already ...
By Chris Davis | 1 September 2019 Bruce Lee inspired an endless amount of clones. In the years following his death, movie producers seemingly booked nothing but Lee copycats. You ...
By Jordan Newmark | 20 July 2019 This past April, one of cinema’s finest achievements marked its 30th anniversary- Bloodsport. In 1988, the world was introduced to the flexible-physique of ...
By Chris Davis | 15 April 2019 Hundreds of great martial arts movies exist. Most made money, some didn’t. Some were blockbuster successes in other countries, while they flopped here.Real ...
By Jordan Newmark | 2 January 2019 Let’s say, Bruce Lee was to martial arts what Elvis Presley was to rock n’ roll then the Johnny Cash of throwing fists ...
By Chris Davis | 31 October 2018 The year was 1978, and a young Jackie Chan was taking the Hong Kong box office by storm. His hit movie Drunken Master, ...
By Chris Davis | 4 October 2018 Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) was 30 million dollars’ worth of ultraviolence, a star with no previous martial arts training, and a director ...
By Adriaan Odendaal | 23 September 2018 Filmed exclusively in Cape Town, South Africa, the first season of HBO Cinemax’s Warrior comes in April 2019, based on an original long-lost idea ...
By Chris Davis | 28 August 2018 Without a doubt, Jet Li is one of the most entertaining martial arts movie personalities of the current generation. In contrast to Jackie ...
By Chris Davis | 11 September 2018 How many people were compelled to step into a dojo for the first time after seeing The Karate Kid? Thousands, hundreds of thousands, ...
By Chris Davis | 7 July 2018 Jet Li's film, The One, is one of the most underrated martial arts flicks in recent history. This is for no lack of ...
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