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WARRIOR – Season 3, Episode 7 – How We Belong in This World

After bringing Father Jun back to Chinatown, he suffers from PTSD. Spouting his rivalry with Long Zii and giving Young Jun deeper worry among the deal with Mai Ling. Father Jun goes missing and Young Jun has the Hop Wei search for him, only to be returned by Li Yong. Young Jun sees this and what Ah Sahm has been doing as a sense of him losing trust. The Donahue brothers are caught by the police, arresting them for robbing a Chinese grocery store and witnessed by Zimo. Zimo and two others find another Irishman near Chinatown, beating him down as a message. Leary is called to bail out the Donahues but Atwood does not budge. Learning the way Atwood dispenses justice shakes him, putting the perspective into the Irish who threaten to enter Chinatown. Leary decides to settle it his way. Leary enters Chinatown alone to find Ah Sahm. […]

BANSHEE Series Review: Blood, Bullets And Brooding With A Big Payoff

Lee B. Golden III

I seldom caught anything on television many years ago seeing as I had very little time for it. This didn’t stop me from trying when I could, and with shows like action crime drama, Banshee, running on Cinemax as part of its network line-up, I watched what I could and when. Sadly, I could never keep up with the series and not ever knowing the full breadth of the story, the big season three cliffhanger was all I knew of the show…at least until recent weeks. In the months thereafter leading up to the announcement of Warrior, the period Chinatown crime saga shepherded by producer Jonathan Tropper (True Blood) in its rebirth next to Justin Lin under the auspices of Shannon Lee, the connection was already quite clear in seeing the kind of show that Tropper, joined by co-creator David Schickler, was able to realize. Apart from the fanfare, I […]

WARRIOR Series Review: Ep. 1 “The Itchy Onion” Soothes The Itch With World-Building Action And Intrigue

Kyle Wong

Now I have talked about this series on end and I think it’s time to talk about each episode and character on how it all culminated to an end on December 4, 2020. Let’s go back to 1971, Bruce Lee wrote up a concept known as “The Warrior”, a story where a martial artist from China comes to the American West. Lee wanted to pitch it to Warner Bros. but they chose not to move forward with the project. And yet the concept was released with David Carradine and titled “Kung Fu”. It was also said that Bruce Lee was not given credit and was not casted because of his accent and because the American audience is not ready for a Chinese main character. In 2015, Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon was contacted by Justin Lin and his company Perfect Storm Entertainment. Now Justin Lin has been a huge advocate of […]

Cinemax’s New Martial Arts Series Drama, WARRIOR, Sets Its Cast!

Lee B. Golden III

Among many of the film, TV and independent projects I’ve followed up on, one stood out as something worth following in its early days as I had known of the folks working on its action for its director, Charlie Dennis. Fast forward three Winters later and we were introduced to the world of gritty martial arts short, Deep Pan Fury, with UK actor Andrew Koji, whose extensive TV and film acting and stunt credits include 2007 Muay Thai flick, Fighting Beat, Justin Lin’s Furious 6 and as the voice of Hien in Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood. Conclusively, I couldn’t be more proud of Koji this week, and that brings us to the longstanding developments of Cinemax’s upcoming ten-episode martial arts drama, Warrior which is set to go before cameras in South Africa on October 22. Netflix series Fauda helmer Assaf Bernstein is directing from a script by Banshee creator Jonathan […]

[UPDATED] THE HIT LIST – April 4, 2016

Lee B. Golden III

This week feels almost slow, somewhat; There hasn’t been much to write about and I almost chose not to get a Hit List article going this week. Clearly I decided to pick things up on that end as well and thankfully a few things popped up online this week that I wasn’t going to pass up on sharing. BUT first, as always there is the matter of the latest in stunt reels, and it’s ay smaller playlist this week, but a fun little package nonetheless with Braxton McAllister leading the way with a lively stunt reel of his own. The remainder of the list comes courtesy of stunt players Ryan Moss, Jenna Hellmuth, Alexander Burgos, Kimberly Shannon Murphy, Lauren Mary Kim, Kylie Riddle, Monia Moula, Brandon Shaw and Glenn Foster. Now, onto the batch of fights and shortfilms out this week, and first up is a small skit from fight […]