Shogun Assassin (1980) – Review

For those of you who know, there’s quite a potent argument against me reviewing Shogun Assassin considering I’ve already review the entirety of the Lone

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Lone Wolf And Cub: White Heaven In Hell (1974) – Review

After cranking out five films in a little under two years, the landscape that lay behind the scenes of the Lone Wolf And Cub series

The Seventh Curse (1986) – Review

Ever wonder what would have happened if a time traveler went back and accidentally stepped on a bug, causing an alternate reality where Sam Raimi

Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart In The Land Of Demons (1973) – Review

After wisely taking a brief time-out after churning out the first three Lone Wolf And Cub movies in under a year, Kenji Misumi returned to

Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart In Peril (1972) – Review

As the Lone Wolf and Cub franchise trundled their weaponized, baby cart of death into a staggering fourth release in a single year, some changes

Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart To Hades (1972) – Review

Much like the unbroken resolve of the unfeasibly stoic Lone Wolf (aka. ex executioner for the Shogunate and awesome/terrible parent Ogami Ittõ), the Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart At The River Styx (1972) – Review

The blood staining the sword of Ogami Ittõ barely had time to dry before the core creative team behind Sword Of Vengeance got stuck into

The Last Airbender (2010) – Review

If anything was destined to invoke the ire of critics and audiences back in 2010, it was either a misguided attempt to realise a beloved

The Raid 2 (2014) – Review

In 2011, Gareth Evans hauled off and smashed us in the face with The Raid, a stupendously brutal, high-energy action masterpiece that quickly crawled it’s

Lone Wolf And Cub: Sword Of Vengeance (1972) – Review

Chances are, even if you’ve never even heard of the Lone Wolf & Cub series, you’ve still most likely come across it in some form.

Headshot (2016) – Review

Someone was going to take up the baton of hyper-violent, Indonesian action movies after Gareth Evans mic dropped The Raid 2 all over us and

The Raid (2011) – Review

I’m always curious to see where the next action sensation comes from, but even I was surprised by The Raid. Erupting from under the radar

Shaolin Soccer (2001) – Review

In 2004, director Stephen Chow rocked the world with his cartoonish fusion of Kung-Fu movie and Tex Avery foolishness that birthed the stupendous Kung Fu

Police Story III: Supercop (1992) – Review

Regularly touted as one of the greatest action movies ever made, I have to confess that the third entry into Jackie Chan’s ground breaking Police

The Fearless Hyena (1979) – Review

After years of honing his particular brand of Kung fu laced with broad physical comedy in such flicks as Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow and

The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires (1974) – Review

When studios pool their resources the results sometimes tend to be a little erratic. Now, when I say pooling, I don’t mean two Hollywood powerhouses

Drunken Master (1978) – Review

When Jackie Chan and Woo Ping Yuen released Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow onto an unsuspecting public back in 1978, it was only to the

The Young Master (1980) – Review

With his second directorial effort, we find injury prone, action/comedy deity immortal, Jackie Chan winding ever closer to kung-fu nirvana with his game changing masterpiece,

Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow (1978) – Review

When regarding the ingenious nature of Jackie Chan, action cinema’s beloved whirlwind of punching and prat falls, it’s easy to hold up his 1985 classic,

The Protector (1985) – Review

After his previous attempt to crack America with Battle Creek Brawl didn’t exactly set the world on fire, Jackie Chan took another swing at the

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