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17.03.2024barsug

Re-release of the action movie "American Samurai"

American film director Sam Firstenberg made several films during his career that undoubtedly left their mark on the history of combat cinema. In the 80-90s, when there was a peak in the popularization of Asian martial arts, Firstenberg...

10.03.2024Daniil Korotkov

Jean-Claude, karate and "Oc-s"!

Part 1. “Spirit before technology” - Gichin Funakoshi In 1989, sport defeated the state! The article of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, which threatened five years in prison for teaching the island of Okinawa, which originated among freedom-loving farmers, has disappeared...

08.03.2024barsug

"The Last Kumite" - a nostalgic action movie in the style of the 90s

Of course, when Sean David Lowe announced the Kickstarter and said that he “couldn’t believe it,” the actor was lying. To announce such an ambitious project, with such an impressive cast -...

01.09.2021NapoleonDinamitte

Review of the film "Terror Squad" (Terror Squad, 1988) by NapoleonDinamitte

I study world history through action films, however... It turns out that the conflict between the United States and Libya is much older than the 2011 bombings. Already in the 80s, Ronnie began to question Gaddafi for international terrorism. But the even-tempered boy Muammar did not ring the botalov in vain...

19.03.2021NapoleonDinamitte

Review of the film "Charisma" (1996) by NapoleonDinamitte

I am not yet familiar enough with Korean cinema to consider “Charisma” in a retrospective manner, they say, this is what the art of the Land of Morning Freshness was like before the Korean New Wave, and now, they say, let’s take a look at the comparison table for pre-wave and wave films...

18.02.2021Sergey Volkolak

Review of the film “Bridge of Dragons” (1999) by Sergei Volkolak

If you ask me to name a list of my favorite Dolph Lundgren films, Clash of Dragons would be in the top three. At least that's how things stand at the moment, although I haven't looked at everything...

31.01.2021Sergey Volkolak

Review of the film "City Police" (Metro, 1997) by Sergei Volkolak

In my opinion, the 1997 action movie "City Police" starring comedian Eddie Murphy, which was once shown on TV under the name "Metro" (although there is nothing about the metro there...

21.09.2020Sergey Volkolak

Review of the duology "China O'Brien" from Sergei Volkolak

China O'Brien (1988) dir. Robert Clouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgmfqCx6Zmg&ab_channel=kegorogers Before China O'Brien, the Golden Harvest film company was for me some kind of guarantor of quality. All the pictures that I watched were, so to speak, from their pens...

15.09.2020Sergey Volkolak

Review of the film "In Search of Adventure" (The Quest, 1996) from Sergei Volkolak

"Don't step back, clench your fist and strike!" I don’t know what reasons prompted Jean-Claude Van Damme to take up directing, but the experience was definitely successful. Perhaps he was offended that he was not invited to the sequel...

20.04.2020NapoleonDinamitte

Review of the film "Eastern Heroes" by NapoleonDinamitte

Steve and Roy are police brothers, only Steve works in Hong Kong and Roy works in Los Angeles. At one time, Roy's partner Bucky caught and hid in the zugunder the especially dangerous bandit Hawk. Four years later, literally the day after his release, he kills Bucky...

18.04.2020NapoleonDinamitte

Review of the film "Above the Law 2: Blonde Fury" by NapoleonDinamitte

Hong Kong in the 80s and 90s was an amazing place. Imagine a geographically small city in which every day the filming of another film is certainly taking place somewhere. It doesn't matter which section of production you're in...

02.04.2020NapoleonDinamitte

Review of the film "Triads: Den of the Mafia" (1994) by NapoleonDinamitte

Inspector Lee's squad receives information about the whereabouts of the dangerous criminal Rusty, but the operation to capture the bandit and his accomplices does not go as smoothly as we would like, and the scoundrel goes into hiding with his girlfriend. The investigators have few leads, witnesses refuse to speak...

29.06.2019Ravenside

American actor Billy Drago has passed away

Actor Billy Drago died on June 24 in Los Angeles at the age of 76. Most viewers know him mainly for his roles as villains in the TV series "Charmed", "The X-Files" and "Supernatural", as well as...

08.05.2019NapoleonDinamitte

Review of the film "Under Police Protection" (1989) by NapoleonDinamitte

Two police officers are tasked with protecting an important witness in the case of the influential gangster Tung. On the way, their convoy is attacked by mercenaries on a tip from the big boss. The partners manage to fight off the attackers, and after killing one...

02.04.2019NapoleonDinamitte

Review of the film "Beauty Inspector" (1992) by NapoleonDinamitte

1992 is the best year in the history of combat cinema. These twelve months showed the world record-breaking, in my opinion, indicators for the quality of the genre. It was not the States who took Prima. Having secured it with reinforced concrete...

17.03.2019NapoleonDinamitte

Review of the film "Action Jackson" (1988) by NapoleonDinamitte

Eclecticism is far from a frequent guest in the world of cinema. Of course, purely genre films have dominated and will continue to dominate: if a poster, synopsis or word of mouth introduces the target audience of a particular genre...

19.02.2019NapoleonDinamitte

Review of the film "Full Contact" (1992) by NapoleonDinamitte

I first watched this film several years before writing this review. I was already familiar with Hong Kong, but superficially. Not John Woo, not Corey Yuen, not Sammo Hung, not others...

14.04.2017Ravenside

A classic of action cinema from Ravenside: Olivier Gruner. Part one

Olivier Gruner can perhaps be compared and placed in the same niche as Gary Daniels. Moderate on-screen fighting technique, in films he is mainly a kicker, although he can do much more, a fairly even temperament, not...

30.11.2016uranium

Review of Dale Cook's filmography from Uran

In addition to Gary Daniels and Don Wilson, many pros in the fighting world during the VHS era dabbled in film, either to promote a school or simply to become famous "like that guy from...

22.11.2016uranium

Review of Ted Ian Roberts films from Uran

In fact, my dear readers, it is not so easy to make a good film about a teenager in the world of martial arts. Either it comes out too childish or too clichéd. I talked about this...

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