Martial Arts – We Have Issues

The Furious (2025) – Review

July 2, 2026 greigzilla

It seems that every decade, the gods of ludicrously brutal martial arts movies see fit to deliver us generational examples of very angry people pounding

Tekken (2010) – Review

May 9, 2026 greigzilla

It’s a strange fact that despite fighting games arguably having the least plot of any video game genre (there’s a tournament, people fight), there is

Ninja Assassin (2009) – Review

March 19, 2026 greigzilla

Look, I think we’re all going to be on the same page when I offer the opinion that ninjas are fuckin’ cool. Yes, I know

Dragon Lord (1982) – Review

February 25, 2026 greigzilla

As Jackie Chan moved steered his movie career from the late 70s to the early 80s, you can feel him feeling out and challenging the

Ziam (2025) – Review

November 4, 2025 greigzilla

Zombies just don’t give a toss. Throw the shambling undead any genre you like and chances are the infected sons of bitches will run with

Romeo Must Die (2000) – Review

September 19, 2025 greigzilla

The year was 2000. Hollywood martial arts had finally broken into the big time with the release of The Matrix the year prior and it

The Magnificent Butcher (1979) – Review

August 6, 2025 greigzilla

Martial arts movies, especially ones featuring Sammo “moves well for a big fella” Hung, feature vast, dizzyingly complex fight sequences that feature hundreds, if not

Eastern Condors (1987) – Review

August 3, 2025 greigzilla

If it wasn’t for a cadre of insanely talented martial artist/filmmakers who dragged the Kung-Fu genre out of the locked off, old school mindset, it

The Nine Demons (1984) – Review

July 6, 2025 greigzilla

While I wouldn’t say I’m an expert of classic Kung-Fu (far from it, but I’m trying to learn) I do know crazy when I see

Dance Of The Drunk Mantis (1979) – Review

July 5, 2025 greigzilla

In 1994, Jackie Chan paid homage to his roots and he revisited the role that helped cement his credentials as a martial arts superstar. However,

Ninja III: The Domination (1984) – Review

June 9, 2025 greigzilla

During its reign, The Cannon Group were responsible for some truly bizarre choices that stretched far beyond their infamously curious business plan. There’s their attempt

Karate Kid: Legends (2025) – Review

May 30, 2025 greigzilla

Over the last few months, my journey through the Karate Kid franchise has taken to some far stranger places than Encino or Bejing. I am

The Karate Kid (2010) – Review

May 4, 2025 greigzilla

80s fashions, nutzoid Vietnam vets, weird cultural appropriation, Joe Esposito’s “You’re The Best” blaring on the soundtrack – for a lot of people, The Karate

Enter The Ninja (1981) – Review

April 20, 2025 greigzilla

While the 80s where hardly a fortress of restraint, surely one of the most amusing tropes of the decade was Cannon Films’ insistence that action

The Next Karate Kid (1994) – Review

April 9, 2025 greigzilla

Every now and then, a film series will deliver an entry that proves to be something called a franchise killer – an installment so despised

Demon City (2025) – Review

March 5, 2025 greigzilla

Some plots are as immortal as gods, resurfacing time and time again to tell the same story so many times, you’d be forgiven for suffering

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994) – Review

January 11, 2025 greigzilla

Healing can come from the strangest places, but all the legions of button bashing fanatics who walked away from the disastrous 1994 attempt to realise