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KILL-FIST: James Lee’s New Martial Arts Thriller Is A Lesson In Pain And Punishment

I haven’t seen too much of what filmmaker James Lee has done to have a consumate opinion about his work. However, of what I have seen, I can earnestly speak on with praise. Long before he came on my radar with a webseries proof titled Second Life, he did more than his fair share of cinema over the years along with his 2012 hit action comedy, The Collector. Sunny Pang stars in the film – his second pairing with Lee after 2009’s Call Me If You Need Me, and both have seen their respective career trajectories take different paths since then with Lee eventually launching his own independent film banner in his native Malaysia, Doghouse 73 Pictures; Lee tends to numerous shorts and proofs under the banner, the first of which I took note being Second Life in 2014. Over in Singapore, Pang’s kept himself amply busy as a married […]

FIRST LOOK: Meet The Kung Fu Killers In James Lee’s KILL-FIST

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EXCLUSIVE: Independent filmmaker James Lee is well on the way with the new martial arts redemtpion thriller, Kill-Fist. Hailing a reunion for the director and his lead actor, Singaporean action favorite, recurring Code Of Law star Sunny Pang, the film further etches a mutual creative partnership for the two who’ve known each other for more than a decade in cinema. “It was fun and great to work with him again after The Collector and Call If You Need Me.” says Lee who cites that as both were different films that served the purpose Kill-Fist aims to do once more in challenging Pang as an actor. “Indeed he had to do some preparations for the character tragic Zhang. Kill-Fist is kind of a refresher for both of us, we hope we can move to bigger projects after this.” Pang, who serves up more brutal screentime in Gavin Lim’s own upcoming film, Diamond […]