blue hope

THE HIT LIST – May 30, 2016

Having written this on the day of, I’m just glad that my weekend didn’t completely burn me out. Needless to say, I had my work cut out for me but I’m glad to have managed to squeeze in today’s playlists loaded with great stunt and fight work from today’s inspired action cinema creatives. Alas, welcome to another installment of The Hit List, and kicking things off is another new playlist full of electric stunt reels. Shahaub Roudbari kicks things off followed by Canadian traceur and stunt performer, Thomas Lorber. Following that is one of the rare instances I’ll feature a reel that doesn’t use music as the outling backdrop, and that comes from actress and filmmaker PeiPei Alena Yuan – no stranger to stunts and fight choreography having put out some great gems on her channel and making her all the more enjoyable to cover on this site. Deadpool double […]

THE HIT LIST – June 29, 2015

Lee B. Golden III

This week’s Hit List is definitely running light, but there are definitely a few gems worth sharing here, including a Film Combat Syndicate Exclusive! But, first things first as the Hit List kicks off with a thrilling new stunt reel playlist for the week. The highlights including feats from Jaime DiLeo, Miles Brew, Juan De la Cruz, Rachel Lynn David, Kawui Joa, Mounir Quazzani, Brett Praed, Taylor Hemmeter, Matt Kennedy and the latest team action reel from Michael Lehr, Katelyn Brooke, Narayana Cabral and others at Fight Factory Stunt Team. The awesome reel beneath the playlist comes directly from Vimeo via fight choreographer Jimmy Lui! Jimmy Lui Fight Choreography Reel from Jimmy Lui on Vimeo. The folks over at Washington D.C.-based Rising Tiger Films are currently readying to lend some festival eyes to their latest dramatic action crime short, Black Scar Blues. I had the pleasure of posting my own […]

Reel Time: MARINA VORUZ (2014)

Lee B. Golden III

More often than not, there’s always the usual shortfall of discovering a page with fundrasing campaign that has already ended for a project that looks like it would have been appealing to talk about had I caught the damn thing in time. That said, I want to help shed some light on something that really blew me away over the weekend. Meet Kyrgyz American actress, fitness model and filmmaker as of late, Marina Voruz whose brewing career in the last ten years here in the states will finally see her on the big screen as of next year. Meanwhile, she has also been busy working on her inspired new shortfilm, Blue Hope, a story about two lovers and assassins, Lana and Jack, who come to a deadly impasse when Lana finally re-emerges following her sudden disappearance long before. The project initially fell short on Kickstarter over the summer. Needless to […]