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BARE KNUCKLE BRAWLER Review: A Pedestrian Revenge Thriller That Loses The Fight Too Soon

Brothers Joey (Jesse Kove) and Steve Calderon (Pete Passaro) are part of a martial arts dynasty with a school run by their father, Mike (Martin Kove). While both were raised tough in the wake of their mother’s death, one brother chose to walk a path different from the other. That’s the setup Breaking Point helmer Joe Gawalis offers in his premise for sophmore feature, Bare Knuckle Brawler, offsetting a tale about a family like almost any other – dealing with its own share of problems but never losing the love. That tension gets its most trying moment in the hours when Mike and Steve learn of Joey’s death after taking a dangerous undercover assignment overseen by top police brass Frank (William DiMeo) to infiltrate an illegal fighting racket; The police also suspect the same people are behind a number of dead bodies popping up around the city. Armed with his […]

BARE KNUCKLE BRAWLER Throws Down On VOD And DVD In November

Lee B. Golden III

Breaking Glass Pictures will release director Joe Gawalis’s Bare Knuckle Brawler on VOD and DVD on November 5. The cast is led by Martial Arts Hall Of Famer Pete Passaro with actors Martin Kove, Jesse Kove, William DeMeo and Danny Trejo for good measure, and features stunt and fight scene action by New York City locals Hector Soria and Orlando Cruz. While investigating the mysterious deaths of two fighters, undercover police officer Joey Calderon is murdered. His loose cannon brother Steve returns home, desperate for answers and hungry for revenge. As he makes his way through the underground world of no-holds-barred bare-knuckle fighting run by the Mereta crime family, Steve learns there is only one rule to find his brother’s killer and stay alive: there are no rules. An exciting action crime film that revolves around the world of martial arts is a throwback to the action movies of the […]

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BARE KNUCKLE BRAWLER Trailer: Pete Passaro Fights To The Deadly Finish

Lee B. Golden III

Sometime last year I was made aware of actor and filmmaker Joe Gawalis’ third feature, Bare Knuckle Brawler. That film has since taken to a few exclusive festival screenings which explains the quotes on artwork, and now bares an official trailer to make its case to the public. For this, we get a cast led by actor Pete Passaro who plays Steve Calderon, the proverbial “loose cannon” in a family of cops and a subculture of discipline, he was a loose cannon. Among other things in the course of his begrudged return home, Steve will be driven to take matters into his own hands and infiltrate an illegal bare knuckle fighting circuit run by an untouchable crime family in order to avenge his younger brother’s death. The cast joins Passaro with resurrected Cobrai Kai series co-star, actor Martin Kove along with son, actor Jesse Kove, and with actors William DeMeo […]