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Kino Lorber Brings Another Van Damme Gem to 4K UHD This August

Blu-ray distributor, Kino Lorber, is known to release an absolutely smorgasbord of titles. From Silence of the Lambs to Columbo box-sets. This means they occasionally dip their toes in martial arts actioners, having previously dropped a 4K UHD of the John Woo classic, Hard Target. Well, if your hankering for Jean-Claude Van Damme hasn’t quite been satiated, you’ll be happy to know they’re giving us another 4K UHD release from the Muscles from Brussels in the form of the underrated SUDDEN DEATH. Per Kino Lorber: Action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme (Hard Target) teams with Powers Boothe (The Emerald Forest) in a tension-packed suspense thriller from Peter Hyams, the director of Running Scared, Narrow Margin and Timecop. Inside the Civic Arena, 17,000 rabid hockey fans gather for the Stanley Cup final game—including the Vice President of the United States. What they don’t know is that someone is planning to have the […]

Jean-Claude Van Damme in "Universal Soldier"

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: A Revisit Of The Luc Devereaux Saga, And Learning To Move Forward

Brandon Streussnig

In a sequel-heavy landscape, the age old idea that a follow up could never be as good as the original has been dispelled over and over again. It’s fairly common for the third, fourth or even fifth entry in a franchise to be somebody’s favorite. Still, after the disastrous follow up to Roland Emmerich’s Universal Soldier, one could be forgiven for assuming that any further installments wouldn’t be worth seeking out. I was one of those people. I spent quite a few years seeing DVD covers featuring the weary faces of JCVD and Dolph Lundgren leering back at me in video stores and would chuckle to myself and move on. It wasn’t until I dove headfirst into action cinema, DTV action and all things Scott Adkins (and with a healthy dose of rave reviews from film fans I trusted) that I finally gave these a look. Never in my wildest […]

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Tom Everett Scott Takes On JCVD In A New Clip From EMEMIES CLOSER

Lee B. Golden III

Reborn action hero Jean-Claude Van Damme gets his violent streak going as the main villain in his latest return to the big and small screen, Enemies Closer, featuring the actor’s third round with director Peter Hyams (Timecop, Sudden Death). In light of this, Crave Online has an exclusive clip featuring the actor in action opposite fellow lead protagonist Tom Everett Scott. Scott (That Thing You Do, Boiler Room) stars as a former military frogman-turned-ranger forced to double team with an old enemy, played by Orlando Jones (Double Take, Tainted Love [series]), to survive the night against a small, heavily armed army of drug trafficking mercenaries and their eccentric-but-deadly leader. The film gets its limited theatrical and VOD releases tomorrow, so be sure to check your local theater listings and digital retail outlets this weekend wherever films are sold. SYNOPSIS: After a major shipment of drugs goes missing on the US-Canadian […]

JCVD Hates Guns But Will Kill You With His Bare Hands In The New Trailer For ENEMIES CLOSER!

Lee B. Golden III

It’s funny, whenever I see actors Tom Everett Scott and Orlando Jones, I think about that drummer from That Thing You Do and the actor from the syndicated sketch comedy series, Mad TV. Scott and Jones are the last two people you would expect to see in a movie starring opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme as two former military servants at odds with each other amidst the emergence of a murderous drug smuggler and his small army. Well, director Peter Hyams in his latest return to the set with the Belgian epic Volvo truck splitter since their previous time together on the set of Timecop and Sudden Death, made it happen once again for the forthcoming North American release of the new thriller, Enemies Closer. And after releasing an international trailer a few months ago, we now have a new viral trailer making the rounds courtesy of Yahoo! Movies, which shares […]