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SWEETER THAN BITTERSWEET: Friday Night Dining With Some Of The UASE’s Best

Ever hear the one joke about the New Yorker and the Canadian? …Nah, me neither! It’s not easy as I’m writing this on a crisp, chilly Saturday morning while at work again. Granted, it’s neither the cold nor is it the usual next-day recovery period from loss of sleep. Rather, it’s more perfunctory in that I’m lucky if I get to be in a room at least once or twice a year with as many like-minded people as I got to last night at the Times Square Diner And Grill in wake of all happening at this year’s fifth annual Urban Action Showcase & Expo. Indeed, it took a little help whilst planning a gathering of what I expected initially to be a handful of maybe ten people plus a few local friends, and with the help of D.L. MacDonald, a stuntman freshly in from Canada wearing, of all things, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hitman Action Horror, THE INTERMEDIATE, Casts Kevin Lukata, Begins Filming Later This Year

Lee B. Golden III

Filmmaker Xavier Q. Kantz is someone who I’m more than humbled to have in my own film viewing repetoire. My earliest experience was his 2002 direct-to-video sophmore actioner, Love And A Bullet featuring Naughty By Nature’s own, actor Anthony “Treach” Criss. To say the least, it wasn’t a perfect film but it’s a great headliner to get some worthy insight into a director’s vision for action, and while a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fan, the addition of Walter Emmanuel Jones in an R-rated actioner for a change, certainly drew my interest. This is the same director who contributed a rather interesting read here at Film Combat Syndicate back in 2014 amid all the lingering chitter-chatter over the prospects of an Enter The Dragon remake. Much to my own chagrin it’s the only piece he’s written here as he’s been kept busy with his own craft, which is largely a blessing […]

THE HIT LIST – January 19, 2015

Lee B. Golden III

Well, I finally did it! …Nope, I still ended up gathering a lot of videos. Most of these are reels, but it still makes for quite an ample list entertaining material. It’s amazing, sometimes…it really is. On that note…Ikimashou! Actress Kiki Sukezane has been around for about four years and she now has a few credits in television and film after traveling back and forth between Japan and the States. Of course, with the trade she pursues comes with quite a bit of training in screenfighting and action, even working on her craft for a while with Gun Caliber star/director, filmmaker Bueno who helped her put a demo reel together late last year. Take a look! Actress and stuntwoman Vera Lam has only been doing stuntwork for about a year and she’s already gained some momentum with quite a few previous AND upcoming TV credits. Her training with New York […]