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Now On Hulu: Le-Van Kiet’s THE PRINCESS Crowns Joey King With Brute Force Action And Empowerment

A filmmaker for more than fifteen years, it wasn’t until the 2019 rescue actioner, Furie, that the name, Le-Van Kiet, began registering for a lot of fans beyond the Vietnamese market. This ought to be stated with much credit to North American distributor Well Go USA for doing a more than ample job in proliferating its director, as well as its star, Veronica Ngo, as we now look at one of their latest endeavors expanding further into the West with The Princess, a script by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton that proffers a fresh, edgy, subversive and satisfyingly violent new take on childhood fairytales.

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Top 50 Action Gems Of The Decade (20-11)

Top 50 Action Gems Of The Decade (20-11)

Sometime late last year, Robb Antequera of The Cinema Drunkie sought for the services of several online film reporters, bloggers and willing participants to help contribute to a top fifty list – with sets of ten of our own written summaries – of the previous decade’s best action gems. I contributed about twelve films among which can currently be read among a mix of forty others now opined online as of this article, and in the wake of entries published over at The Action Elite, Action Flix and Bulletproof Action, the series continues below.

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HAI PHOUNG: Supermom Veronica Ngo Tears Down Vietnam To Save Her Daughter In The Latest Trailer

Le Van Kiet’s directorial debut, Hai Phuong, will be the go-to for the genre crowd in a season that’s looking evermore ripe by the day for action films. Actress Veronica Ngo is starring for her return to the big screen having lended her craft successfully with films like The Rebel, Clash and David Ayer’s recent sci-fi, Bright, doing a female-fronted taken some good justice for its PR route.

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AFM 2018: Veronica Ngo Actioner, FURIE, Sells To Well Go USA

Western audiences have gotten an ample taste over the years of what multi-faceted actress Veronica Ngo can do, most prolifically on camera. She kicked ass on her way into the fandom next to Johnny Tri Nguyen in films such as The Rebel and Clash before paving her way into Hollywood for a time in David Ayer’s Bright and Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and now she’s doing it again in Le Van Kiet’s latest, Furie, which began its campaign back in Cannes long before finally premiering an official trailer for its Vietnamese release in February.

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