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Streaming Sleepers: Sam Firstenburg’s AMERICAN SAMURAI Revamps A Niche Classic

Sam Firstenberg’s 1992 action thriller, American Samurai was another one of those commercial TV finds for me growing up. The film stars David Bradley in the role of Drew, a journalist whose investigation into a drug-smuggling lands him in the crosshairs of a criminal organization, and its deadly fighting tournament where he’ll be forced to square off with long lost stepbrother-turned-yakuza, Kenjiro, played by Mark Dacascos. Firstenberg comes from a crop of filmmakers who laid the groundwork for a raft of hit titles out of the Cannon label in the 1980s and onward. American Samurai was no different, save for more persnickety critics who lambasted the film, and even the director who spent a year in recent history collaborating with filmmaker Lyle Goodwin to retouch and refurbish his tourno martial arts adventure into something more closer to his vision than that of what he deemed was studio interference. The new […]

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Streaming Sleepers: In Lau Kar Leung’s HEROES OF THE EAST, Love, Honor And Respect In Any Language

One of the finer things of late about subscribing to Well Go USA’s in-house streaming platform, Hi-YAH!, is much ado with their output of classic kung fu titles. Lau Kar Leung’s Heroes Of The East is just one of them these days, making landfall this week with Gordon Liu and Yuko Mizuno headlining the cast. The 1978 film bodes as a classic staple from the Shaw Brothers catalog and currently residing in the library of Celestial Pictures in its preservation of legendary Hong Kong hit films. Written by Ni Kuang amid his sizeable studio resumé as screenwriter, the film follows another chapter in the age-old battle of the sexes when a pre-arranged marriage between Ho Tao (Liu) and Yumiko (Mizuno) ensues a competition of hijinks, hilarity, and martial skill between Chinese and Japanese styles. Liu is as charismatic in the role of Ho Tao, as he is skilled opposite the […]

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THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER: Out Now on UK DVD, Blu-Ray & 4K- Review

  Courtesy of Dazzler Media UK Film fans have the opportunity to support physical media and purchase the latest Horror/Action offering of the Dracula saga “The Last Voyage Of The Demeter” out now on DVD, Blu-Ray and HD. Based on the one chapter 7 in Bram Stoker’s Dracula “Captains Log” tells the story of the cursed ship and it’s passengers who transported the blood thirsty count to Whitby, London. Which is a breath of fresh air, a new story that hasn’t been done before on the screen. I had the opportunity to sit down and watch the film alongside my Horror fan dad and this is what we had to say about it.    The opening of the film shows the aftermath of the shipwreck of the Demeter and the finding of the captains log. The cut to a much brighter second scene is somewhat a surprise taken that there […]

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IMPASSIBLE: Check Out Sebastian Kong And Virak Thun’s New Webseries Streaming For Nikon 2025

Directing duo Sébastien Kong and Virak Thun have a mini webserial entry now among the lot vying for votes of this year’s fifteenth edition of the Nikon Film Festival. The series in question? Impassible, a snackable, roughly 6 x 2″ action drama penned by Kong and Thun, and starring Steve Tran and Laura Bui, and fight sequences by Kevin Ke. Hao is in debt but has a special ability. To take the pain. He gets paid to be tortured on stream. Until one day it goes too far for his friend Liya who intervenes during a “performance”. They are hunted by Hao’s employers. The episodes are all easy to watch, and each part is shot in one take. Imaginably none of this is easy to do on one take alone, which makes you wonder how many takes there were for each part, if that, especially while filming action amid the […]

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THRONE: THE LIFORIAN ODYSSEY: Witness The Birth Of ‘A Brand New Original IP’ In Aaron Toney’s Proof Of Concept Fantasy Action Pilot

In keeping up with the burgeoning potential of today’s independent film and stunt-talented creatives, Monday saw the premiere of actor and filmmaker Aaron Toney’s (Wolf Warrior 2, Debt Collectors, One More Shot) passion project, Throne: The Liforian Odyssey. The nine-minute shortfilm marks the latest phase in Toney’s proof of concept which began roughly a decade ago with the birth of a spectacular, action-packed martial arts short. “Even though this has been such a long journey, I know it’s still like, the beginning, because no one knows about this,” said Toney, who took to speaking with viewers while livestreaming the project on YouTube on Monday. “We need to go ahead and build a fanbase because, this is a brand new original IP, so we’re putting this out so that people can know that it exists.” Toney’s Thone: The Liforian Odyssey, is a continued evolution of that IP, now with updated costumes, weapons […]

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@OnePerfectHEADShot Reviews 2024’s Year In Action Cinema

At times like this, I’m joyfully reminded that there are times throughout the year I get to partake in little side projects. In the case of the video below and its creator, however, I will say that it definitely isn’t so little. It’s about ninety-minutes long and comes courtesy of Kinemotions on YouTube. Folks who follow the channel also likely follow its host on social media through pseudonym, “Head Exposure,” or OnePerfectHEADShot as some of us know him, which is also how I came to be a part of the video essay below among colleagues for “The Action Year In Review – 2024,” which you can now view below. This video is a fully-loaded piece of work with rightfully credited titles galvanizing the year’s best and most memorable films of the genre. Filmmakers Liam O’Donnell and Jordan Santacana, critics and influencers like Outlaw Vern, Mike Fury, Shogun Supreme, Polygon’s Pete […]

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RED ONE – A Streaming Success Review

The latest film fair from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is slightly different to his usual action packed, muscle pumping, adrenaline rushing flicks. Instead, he delivers a festive feature which all the family can enjoy. Released early last month on 6th November in theatres it didn’t go to plan as the studio hoped, with it only making $82 million domestically. I think this was down to a number of factors one – it being too early for a Christmas film and two – the decline in cinema goers which is very sad to see. Either way DJ has been saved by the millions of streamers with the film breaking Amazon prime records with a 50 million streams debut. And I was one of those millions who sat down and enjoyed the Christmas tale with a twist. Here is what I thought of it. J.K. Simmons (Santa Claus) and […]

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