Profile: Stu Bennett
Date of birth: August 10, 1980 (Penwortham, Lancashire, UK) Full name: Stuart Alexander Bennett Other names: Wade Barrett, Bad News Barrett, King Barrett, Stu Sanders, Lawrence Knight. Occupation:...
View ArticleGundala (2019)
Big-screen outing for Indonesia’s favourite comic book superhero, Gundala – the ‘Son of Lightning’, inspired by DC Comics’ The Flash and created by Indonesia’s answer to Stan Lee, the late Harya...
View ArticleProfile: Loren Avedon
Date of birth: 30 July, 1962 (Los Angeles, California) Full name: Loren Rains Avedon Occupation: Actor, producer, martial artist. Style: Taekwondo, Hapkido. Biography: The martial arts film star Loren...
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KFMG Podcast S05 Episode 57: Loren Avedon
“I’m just grateful to have been a part of the golden age of Hong Kong cinema.” When Loren Avedon answered a call to the Jun Chong Martial Arts Academy on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles late one...
View ArticleI Am Vengeance: Retaliation (2020)
This DTV sequel moves hard-as-nails British mercenary John Gold (Stu Bennett) from the quiet, domestic setting of the first film and into a leadership role tasked with barking orders at a special ops...
View ArticleGutshot Straight (2014)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation star George Eads plays loveable rogue Jack, a down-and-out gambling loser type in Las Vegas who dreams of becoming a high-roller. He befriends slick, rich playboy Duffy...
View ArticleProfile: Jean-Paul Ly
Occupation: Actor, stunt performer, fight choreographer, director. Style: Hapkido, taekwondo, Capoeira, karate, kickboxing, tricking. Biography: Jean-Paul Ly was born in Lyon, France, to Cambodian and...
View ArticleTribal: Get Out Alive (2020)
Caitlin (Doctor Strange‘s Zara Phythian) and Brad (Game of Thrones‘ Ross O’Hennessy) are army vets working as bailiffs on the mean streets of Liverpool, UK – the kind of toughs who apprehend a drug...
View ArticleKFMG Podcast S05 Episode 58: Brett Chan / Jwaundace Candece
“I believe that if you are really, truly, a good person, then good things will happen to you… if you keep your head down, and you do what you do best, it gets noticed.” Brett Chan Martial artist Brett...
View ArticleDouble World (2020)
This film was another coronavirus-related release casualty, heading straight to streaming services simultaneously in China (via iQiyi) and internationally (via Netflix), despite a budget of $43m and...
View ArticleWira (2019)
This takes a while to get going, but once it does – around the halfway mark – it’s wall-to-wall action, and good stuff, too. Some of it feels gimmicky – a little under-cranked and cartoony in places...
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KFMG Podcast S05 Episode 59: Ludi Lin
“My goal in life has always been about connection – it’s about connecting everyone in the world who has a consciousness. I think the only way to do that is to bridge this gap between the east and the...
View ArticleProfile: Ludi Lin
Date of birth: 11 November, 1987 (Fuzhou, China) Style: Muay Thai, jiujitsu, wrestling. Biography: Ludi Lin was born in Fuzhou, a city along the southern coast of China, near Taiwan. His mother is also...
View ArticleProfile: Bob Wall
Date of birth: 22 August, 1939 (San Jose, California) Full name: Robert Alan Wall Style: Karate, Tang Soo Do, Judo. Biography: Martial artist, actor and businessman Bob Wall has a ninth degree black...
View ArticleOne Night in Bangkok (2020)
Meditative revenge drama from director Wych Kaosayananda, who last worked with action star Mark Dacascos for 2019’s The Driver. Dacascos plays Kai, a smartly dressed, well-mannered hitman who lands in...
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KFMG Podcast S05 Episode 60: Rocky Taylor
“All the other stuntmen had never done judo; they couldn’t even do falls on the floor. It gave me great credibility in the stunt business and allowed me to learn my craft.” At 75, Rocky Taylor is known...
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KFMG Podcast S05 Episode 61: Larnell Stovall
“Give people something they are going to remember. You can’t get that time back, so let me make sure you enjoy what I have to present.” When martial artist Larnell Stovall first saw the film Blade in...
View ArticleThe Legend of Tomiris (2019)
Straight and sober historical war epic detailing the Tomiris story; the Scythian queen of Central Asia’s Massagetae tribe credited for uniting the nomadic clans of the ‘steppe’ – vast, empty grasslands...
View ArticleRise of the Legend (2014)
Stylish if slightly bloated reimagining of Wong Fei-hung’s beginnings which recasts the virtuous folk hero as a violent fighter in a Guangzhou (Canton) docklands gang in the 1860s, running errands for...
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KFMG Podcast S05 Episode 62: Joe Taslim
“I like a fight that feels real, rather than flashy. Every time I work on something, I say, ‘you’ve got to make the fight believable’.” Joe Taslim always wanted to be an actor, even before he became a...
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