88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Hero (1997)
A remake of The Boxer from Shantung, Hero is the story of Ma Wing-jing (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and his older brother Ma Tai-cheung (Yuen Wah), who have left their home to find fortune on the streets of Shanghai. Sadly, the streets are not paved with gold and the brothers find themselves merely existing by doing manual labor. Yet […]
MILL CREEK DVD RELEASE: County Line/All In (2022)
Tom Wopat returns as Sheriff Alden Rockwell in the sequel to 2017’s County Line. He has to work with neighboring lawman Sheriff Jo Porter (Kelsey Crane) whose modern policework clashes with his small town old school ways. But when a lawyer being killed on their county line is the first in a series of murders, they […]
MILL CREEK DVD RELEASE: Weekend Warrior (2021)
A fun-filled camping trip turns into a desperate fight for survival after Scottie (Jason Gross) and Jamie (Juliet Rusche) end up witnessing their Uncle Joey (Jason London) being murdered by Wesley (Daniel de Weldon) after he suspects Joey of making time with his girl Amy (Pilot Paisley-Rose). As the young kids endure the harsh side of […]
88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Martial Club (1981)
Released in the U.S. as Instructors of Death, Martial Club is from director Lau Kar Leung (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter) and stars Gordon Liu as Wong Fei Hung, the legendary hero who was also the inspiration for the movies Drunken Master and Once Upon a Time in China. His father, Wong Kei Ying runs one […]
88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Human Lanterns (1982)
Master Lung Shu Ai (Tony Liu, The Way of the Dragon as well as two other Bruce Lee movies: The Big Boss, Fist of Fury) and Master Tan (Kuan Tai Chen, Crippled Avengers) are battling one another in every way possible, including Tan introducing Lung’s wife Jin (Ni Tien, who was in several other Hong Kong horror […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Challenge of the Dragon (1974)
Oh man, sometimes life is confusing. Like how 21st Century put out Challenge the Dragon in 1973 (Kuan-Chang Li’s Meng hu chuang guan) and Cannon released Challenge the Dragon (Hai-Feng Wei’s Long hu tan) in 1973. To compound trivia here, Menahem Golen, while known for his time at Cannon would also later be the head of 21st Century. […]
CANNON MONTH 2: The Thunder Kick (1973)
Are you ready to get your guts kicked out? With those words, Cannon would release the Wing Cho-Yip film Yi wang da shu. Released in Germany as Der gelbe Teufel mit dem Superschlag (The Yellow Devil with the Super Punch), this is the story of Wong Kai Tai, a man looking to free his hometown of Wantchao […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Fist of the Double K (1973)
Also known in the U.S. as Fist to Fist, Dragons of Death and Hong Kong Face-Off, Chu ba is directed, written and produced by Jimmy L. Pascual, who was assisted by a very young John Woo. It also has fight choreography by Yuen Woo-Ping. With fifteen minutes cut from its runtime, it played American theaters with a running time of around […]
CANNON MONTH 2: I, Monster (1971)
Dr. Charles Marlowe and Mr. Edward Blake, the main characters in this movie, are not fooling anyone. This Amicus film is really an adaption of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and has Christopher Lee in the main role and Peter Cushing as his lawyer Utterson, who thinks that Marlowe and Blake are two […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS: The Creeping (2022)
Due to a traumatic childhood experience — look, I feel like I say this every time in the way of giving advice to horror movie characters and I feel like a broken record, but please please please never ever forever go back home again and set things straight — Anna (Riann Steele) hasn’t been back […]
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