the man from death

THE UNDERCUTTING EDGE: An Interview With Stephen Reedy

The past few weeks have been a little draining. I’ve had to let go of a few people while tending to some much-needed downtime over the weekend while balancing work on all ends, so if you’re reading this, thank you for bearing with me. Part of that rest period was spent on a nice, brisk thirty-some odd minute-long jewel of a shortfilm that I have been in love with for up to thirteen years. My feelings haven’t waned and it served as a nice refresher reminding me why it is I started this site in the first place. That movie finally garnered my own viewing of its behind-the-scenes featurette just this month, showcasing the antics and shenanigans of The Stunt People – one of the independent film and stunt troupes that bred my earlier interest in the world of online martial arts action filmmaking; The group even accrued its own […]

THE HIT LIST: March 27, 2017

Lee B. Golden III

Welcome back to another installment of The Hit List! Nope, no sponsors, no commercial breaks, just me, you, and the creatives out here putting their craft on display for the world, and there’s a lot to cover so let’s get to it! As always we start with a playlist of meaty action and stunt training reels and the first comes from actor, martial artist and stuntman Marcus Shakesheff who has been immersing himself into filmmaking for a few years now. Having established a milestone in Wales with the first Welsh martial arts action pic, Kamikaze, he’s been staying sharp on his own YouTube channel with a slate of videos including his latest kicking reel which kicks things off rightly in the playlist below (more on him later). Following that are reels by Deanna Page, Vonzell Carter, Troy “Taz” Castaneda, Katie Schwartz, Yarett Harper, William Rodriguez and rising star actress and stuntwoman Natascha Hopkins, […]

Before The Movie Can Be Made, THE MAN FROM DEATH Needs Your Help To Stage A Script Reading Event!

Lee B. Golden III

Roughly over a year ago I managed to procure an interview actor and producer Eric R. Lim (Greenside, Ghost Source Zero) whose creative influx at the time came at a purely raw, emotional and pivotal point in his life after his sister’s death in 2012. Netizens took hold of that creativity a year later with director Stephen Reedy’s beautifully-crafted, fiery, action-packed message drama, The Forge, a project that proved fortuitous enough to bring Lim and Reedy together again the following year for their latest shortfilm success, The Man From Death. Housed at Lim’s Baby Under The Moon Productions, the project itself was two years in the making and had long been considered as a proof-of-concept for a more grand presentation, and has since gone on to win numerous awards and shots of praise from the festival circuit at large. As they say, the proof is in the pudding, and festival […]

THE MAN FROM DEATH LIVES: An Interview With Actor Eric R. Lim

Lee B. Golden III

No matter what, I almost always seem to surprise myself what with the workload I’ve been piling onto myself for Film Combat Syndicate and thankfully I’ve been getting a little bit of much-needed help. January saw an opportunity to tackle a few interviews and I actually thought things would slow down going into February after failing to get Donnie Yen in the wake of Well Go USA’s release of Ip Man 3, but that also left me a window open enough to work on reaching out to several up-and-comers as well. That said, it was back in 2013 that netizens caught wind of actor Eric R. Lim‘s performance in The Forge, a work of spiritual magnitude in the essence of epic good vs. evil storytelling with a message. The shortfilm was a very personal one for Lim and its director Stephen Reedy who I have actually been trying to follow […]