Blind Fury (1989)
Hauer is Nick Parker, a Vietnam vet blinded during the war and taken in by a tribe of swordsmen who teach him their blade skills despite his disability. Twenty years later, Nick tries to hook up with...
View ArticleKubo and the Two Strings (2016)
The fourth film from Travis Knight’s stop-motion Laika studios is a spellbinding, poignant adventure. For a film which exalts in the fantastical – from giant sea monsters to talking animals and...
View ArticleRogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
This fantastic Star Wars spin-off is narratively positioned just before Episode IV in the series, and charts the plucky exploits of a group of Rebel Alliance fighters who invade an Imperial stronghold...
View ArticleKickboxer: Retaliation (2018)
The first Kickboxer remake (2016’s Kickboxer: Vengeance) was a painfully earnest slugfest suffering from a charm vacuum. Producer Dimitri Logothetis (who also writes and directs) takes a more ambitious...
View ArticleNinja Death III (1987)
This insane ninja opus comes to a fittingly bonkers conclusion. Tiger (Alexander Lo) learns the true identity of his mother, the Princess, who has remained incognito in order for the boy to learn the...
View ArticleZatoichi (2003)
Takeshi Kitano’s singular, updated vision of one of Japan’s most iconic pop culture characters is an exhilarating watch, with tender moments juxtaposed with comedy and scenes of bloody violence. As...
View ArticleThe Swordsman (2020)
Period action film from South Korea set during the tumultuous transition between the Ming and Qing dynasties – the backdrop for many, many kung fu films – which is both a broiling political revenge...
View ArticleSnake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021)
The Snake Eyes elements formed some of the most interesting moments in the previous two films in this most commercial of franchises – existing only to shift more Hasbro toys – so a standalone story...
View ArticleIp Man: The Awakening (2021)
Another DTV Ip Man spin-off, which follows very similar straight-to-streaming efforts like director Li Liming’s double-bill of 2019’s Ip Man: Kung Fu Master – in which Dennis To returned to the titular...
View ArticleJohn Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
With the fourth film in the escalating, epic and extraordinary John Wick saga, director Chad Stahelski proves that bigger, sometimes, is better. For example, during the film’s final act, he turns...
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