I've only just discovered #kungfusat - Every Saturday, a kung fu movie watch party at 12 noon US Eastern time / 4pm UTC. Now that I know about it, I'll try to give more advance notice about it in future.
For Superman, it was ‘truth, justice, and the American way.’ Well, they dropped that… They came up with ‘truth, justice, and a better tomorrow.’
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Inspired by the real life martial artist Huo Yuanjia 霍元甲, the creator of the Deceptive Fist style (and whose apprentice was in turn the inspiration for Bruce Lee's character in Fist of Fury).
I've been watching a lot of free streaming lately, to explore what's out there and to post something that hopefully everyone can see without having to pull out a credit card, but the other night I revisited the dark side and browsed Amazon Prime for some action, and went big budget Hollywood with The Accountant 2.
After the passing of Michael Madsen yesterday, I wanted to loo look back at one of my favourite PM Entertainment movies – Executive Target starring Madsen as incarcerated stunt driver Nick James, Roy Scheider as The President of the United States, Keith David on villain duties and Angie Everhart.
Yet another figure from the action movie world has passed. (I wasn't planning on making any obit posts but this week had other plans.) The first thing I remember Madsen from was Reservoir Dogs (1992), which I saw in the cinema. IIRC it had a very long theatrical run as an "unrated" film in a few cinemas in the UK because at the time the BBFC indicated they would give it an 'X' rating, precluding normal cinema or VHS release.
Heads of State is utter nonsense, but it’s hard to dislike due to the perfect team up of Idris Elba and John Cena. It has plenty of action and a few funny moments to be worth a watch once at least.
Catching up on my feeds, I only just found out that the famous movie composer & conductor Lalo Schifrin died. I didn't even know he had still been alive, he made it to 93.
Paul Taggart of City On Fire (a site about East Asian & martial arts movies) reviews Taiwan gangster/exploitation flick World of Desire (情慾世界) (1992 or 1993). (EnjoyMovie.net in Chinese)
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