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My Stupid Idea For A BLOODMOON Sequel

Tony Leung Siu-Hung’s 1998 DTV thriller, Bloomoon, was perhaps one of the biggest martial arts guilty pleasures of my fandom in the last thirty years. The first I heard of it was through the grapevine of a once beloved site called HKFlix.com prior to being defunct. That site was how I discovered a world of genre titles and Bloodmoon was no exception. It was also my second exposure to Darren Shahlavi after Tai Chi II; I was fond of his delivery as a versatile, unstoppable martial arts killer of martial artists opposite Gary Daniels’ stoic, battle-scarred detective on a mission to stop him. Despite being deeply-flawed and horribly acted at times, the film wasn’t without its plusses. It was suitably cheesy at times and the fight action was a popcorn riot. More than 20 years later, Daniels is still a favorite among the fans while Bloodmoon itself remains an action […]

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Lee B. Golden III

I’ve missed posting about a few events this month, but here’s some worth taking a gander at: At current, there’s still no wide U.S. release update yet for director Vasan Bala’s award-winning hit Indian martial arts comedy opus, The Man Who Feels No Pain. Still. And THAT hurts. STILL. At least for some, thankfully, there still lies hope for local areas stateside who still run festival screenings. Thus, this particular, and STILL highly celebrated hit movie out of festival circulation in Toronto and Mumbai last year will also get its day on May 18 at this year’s attending crowd for the DFW South Asian Film Festival. Starring Abhimanyu Dassani and Radhika Madani and employing the stewardship of action director duo Eric Jacobus and Dennis Ruel, the film centers on a young boy who grows up with a congenitial tolerance to pain – a condition with which he applies through training […]