kickboxing

THE BOXING KING (混混拳王) Review: Kickboxing Subgenre Resurfaces In Chinese VOD

Kickboxing cinema, is a subgenre, that in the west, beyond Scott Adkins, or the horrendous remakes of Jean Claude Van damme´s Kickboxing, seems already dead and buried, but the vast and wide chinese VOD market, seems to have become a paradise for this type of productions. There are hundreds of them every month, and in most of them, local popular fighters have their appearance, getting their ass kicked but whoever the star of the flick is. In this film from 2017, we have a dimwit, Daniel Larusso style, who finds to his particular sensei Miyagi with tragic past, who finds in the kid an opportunity, to achieve his dreams of youth that never came true. Although this I am telling you, is more an assumption of mine because the development of characters is quite null. The truth is that, this is basically a story of honorable martial artists, who are […]

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GO FOR IT Review: A Kick From The East

Mike Garcia

If you long for all those low budget kickboxing movies that were in the shelves of the video stores in the 80’s and the early 90’s, they keep making them in the wide Chinese market almost every week. This film is one of them, a really low budget movie with good fighting sequences shot in a lost warehouse somewhere in the outskirts of some big city in China. Most of the action, takes place inside a MMA cage, where the performers display different types of martial arts that comes from Kung Fu, kickboxing, Muay Thai, even including some grappling. However, the final fight changes its location, taking place outdoors, in a boxing ring, in what it seems to be the swimming pool of a hotel. The story is basically about two guys fighting for the love of the same girl. An arrogant prick, and a weak guy who needs to […]

New Updates On ONLY GOD FORGIVES

Lee B. Golden III

From L to R: Kristen Scott Thomas, Ryan Gosling and Vithaya Pansringarm in “Only God Forgives” Actor Ryan Gosling recently announced his plans to take a break from acting (I can only assume that his fan base is handling it very well.) And though, I have only seen a few of his films, and haven’t had the opportunity to see any of writer/director Nicolas Winding Refn‘s films yet, Refn’s latest film, Only God Forgives has drawn my attention. The film also stars actress Kristen Scott Thomas and actor Vithaya Pansringarm, who is also set to star in Isaac Florentine’s next film, Ninja 2. SYNOPSIS: Ten years ago in Bangkok Julian killed a cop and went on the run. Now he manages a Thai boxing club as a front for a drugs operation. Respected in the criminal underworld, deep inside, he feels empty. When Julian’s brother kills a prostitute, the police […]

Micah Brock Interprets Questions For Fans On Youtube

Lee B. Golden III

At age 27, Micah Brock is no stranger when it comes to making indepenendent action films. His excellence in training in multiple styles of martial arts, including Muay Thai and Sanda, have lended him a lifetime supply of potential as a professional fighter, stuntman, actor, writer, fight choreographer and award-winning all-around filmmaker, having worked with people such as Fernando Jay Huerto, Eric Jacobus, Jose Montesinos, Matt Mullins and Mark Dacascos. Micah hasn’t stopped yet as he is well on the way to releasing the finale of his online webseries, Slug Street Scrappers, a co-production of Whirlwind Action and Dragon Phoenix Entertainment. But for those of you who are heavily into the aspects of martial arts training and competing, Micah has posted a new Q&A segment for his fans and followers, providing answers on several subjects ranging from training and conditioning methods, memories and life lessons, to describing how he manages […]