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DROPOUTS, TIGERS AND GRAVITY: Dinner With Indie Action Cinema's Finest

Once again, a year after my rendezvous with a select group of individuals resulting in ceremonious meeting and making of friends, I had the distinct pleasure of doing the same in the midst of all happening this weekend for the Urban Action Showcase & Expo. As with last year though, I didn’t get to go to the full event because of work and so everything was close to being over and finished by then, but the night was as young as it could have been despite some of the hurdles that were there. I like to give myself until 10:00pm as a good estimation of arrival time anywhere because of my commute, and you never know how these buses and trains will operate. Eventually I got to Times Square around 9:25pm where I stood outside the AMC Empire 25 at first before going inside, and I had a LOT of […]

Oldie/Goodie Review – Fight Clip: NO WAY OUT (2009)

Lee B. Golden III

I recently had the chance to briefly speak to Joey Min, and Jon Truei, who, aside from their current careers, are also oft-partners in independent action filmmaking. Earlier this month, Min uploaded a fight scene clipped from a previously unfinished project with martial arts stunt performer, David Crosby, called No Way Out. The clip was originally shot in 2008 and uploaded a year later and features some truly fast paced, violent Hong Kong stylized choreography set in open field, featuring swordplay, knife fighting, and ultimately, feats of Wing Chun and Tae Kwon Do, from Joey and David, respectively. The scene also features an intense soundtrack adding a sense of underlying drama to a clip that looks like its part of a much longer story. And in my opinion, it should have been. Joey is a 20-year practitioner of Shaolin Kung Fu, along with some training in Hyakkuken and Kyokushin Karate. […]