Alpha Stunts

Action Team for POWER RANGERS Shares Behind the Scenes, Pre-Viz Footage

It’s undeniable that Power Rangers, as a franchise, is responsible for not only many kids’ first experience with tokusatsu, but with action films as a whole. It’s long running formula of adapting Toei’s Super Sentai has paid dividends, with the franchise seeing much success on TV and in merchandise sales. However, who steps in when the source footage from Super Sentai isn’t enough, and the scene demands new footage? Enter the Power Rangers Action Unit, part of Alpha Stunts! Team member Yuji has recently opened social media accounts on Twitter and Instagram, and has not only interacted with cast and crew from the current show, but fans as well! Yuta has been uploading behind the scenes footage and photos, including pre-viz breakdowns of two scenes from Dino Fury. As described by Yuji, Pre-viz is an acronym for pre-visualization, which is a video made for presentation or self-checking,etc. We follow the […]

GRACE UNDER FIRE: An Interview With Actor, Stuntman And Producer, Sonny Sison

Lee B. Golden III

One of the earlier fortunes I had in starting my blog back in 2013 was getting acquainted off and on with actor and stuntman, Sonny Sison. Granted, in months prior to that, I had just seen him in the 2008 action thriller, Broken Path, which is still one of the most fascinating films I had ever seen, and for a number of reasons. Last week, I had the opportunity to share a dialogue with Sison about the film among several others within the span of his career in the past two decades. Having cut his teeth as an actor and stuntman over the years, primarily as a suit actor on the AmeriToku crossover series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and having recently worked with a number of familiar faces fans know and love, I would say there’s plenty of reason to bookmark him as someone worth looking out for in the […]

Film Of The Week: BROKEN PATH

Lee B. Golden III

Synopsis via IMDb : On an isolated ranch in the desert, one man must protect his wife from a secret past that he is now forced to confront. With the sun towering in the sky overhead, the ranch sits beneath the vast blue, isolated amidst the arid terrain, Though life is certainly evident as a house warming party ensues. Still under renovation, scaffolding and tools are strewn across the ranch, while benches and tables and are set up for the food and beverages. The neighbors chat amongst themselves as the hosts – Jack (Johnny Yong Bosch) and Lisa (Pamela Walworth) – hustle about to keep them entertained. As the evening creeps over the scene, the crowd disperses, and Maddy – the couple’s daughter – prepares to leave for her first summer camp. By nightfall, they find themselves alone, the guests gone, on Maddy her way on the road, and the […]