Profile: Joe Taslim
Date of birth: 23 June, 1981 (Palembang, Indonesia) Full name: Johannes Taslim Occupation: Actor, martial artist, model. Style: Judo, wushu, taekwondo, boxing. Biography: Joe Taslim was born in...
View ArticleThe Driver (2019)
Indie outing for the Dacascos family, fighting zombies in Thailand. Mark plays the husband and father who works to protect a compound from the undead at some point in the future. “I used to kill for a...
View ArticleLegacy of Lies (2020)
European spy thriller with some decent fisticuffs – delivered by the Accident Man and Triple Threat coupling of Scott Adkins and Tim Man – and a twisting storyline set amongst the backdrop of the...
View ArticlePASKAL: The Movie (2018)
Solid if two-dimensional military film espousing the might of the Royal Malaysian Navy – aka PASKAL, an acronym which translates as Naval Special Warfare Forces. This plays like an earnest recruitment...
View ArticleProfile: Benny “The Jet” Urquidez
Date of birth: 20 June, 1952 (Tarzana, California, USA) Full name: Benjamin Gilbert Urquidez Nickname: The Jet Style: Kenpo Karate, boxing, Shotokan, taekwondo, judo, aikido, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai,...
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KFMG Podcast S05 Episode 63: Benny “The Jet” Urquidez
“I always thought I was a better teacher than a fighter.” Martial arts legend Benny “The Jet” Urquidez was born into a fighting family. His father was a boxer; his mother, a professional wrestler. The...
View ArticleShowdown in Little Tokyo (1991)
Expect macho, B-movie, buddy cop hijinks with this crazy action quickie (only 79 minutes!), one of the most enjoyable brainless pictures out there complete with big explosions, karate kicks, greasy...
View ArticleWhite Snake (2019)
Based on a popular Chinese fable, The Legend of the White Snake (aka Madam White Snake), which was first fictionalised during the Ming dynasty and has provided a wealth of interpretations ever since,...
View ArticleCollege Kickboxers (1991)
College student and martial arts devotee James (McLeod) decides to help out a local dojo, run by his friend Carl (Cohen), when developers want it closed to make way for a shopping mall. They enrol in a...
View ArticleMulan (2020)
A live-action remake of Disney’s 1998 animated, musical adaptation of the popular, fictional Chinese story, The Ballad of Hua Mulan. This was rather unfairly treated as something of a guinea pig to...
View ArticleJiu Jitsu (2020)
Every six years, an alien travels via a comet through a portal to Earth to fight a bunch of humans for martial supremacy (just go with it). A marauding warrior tribe stand guard, preparing for its...
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KFMG Podcast S05 Episode 64: Bruce Lee at 80 – Legacy of the Dragon
“You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean, I don’t want to be like ‘as Confucius say’, but under the sky, under the heavens, there is but one family. It just so...
View ArticleKFMG Podcast S05 Episode 65: End of Year Show 2020 with Mike Fury
Put on your face-mask, pour yourself another Advocaat and settle into our annual end-of-year podcast from your friends at the Kung Fu Movie Guide. Join your host, Ben Johnson, and the author of Life of...
View ArticleAva (2020)
B-grade fisticuffs with A-movie trimmings. This fight flick suffers greatly from trying to be both a wrought domestic drama and a zippy action yarn, and its good cast and performances are wasted on a...
View ArticleSkylines (2020)
Another wonderful lesson in world-building from director-writer-producer Liam O’Donnell, whose Skyline series of martial arts-monster-mash-ups seems to unexpectedly be going from strength-to-strength....
View ArticleThe Hunt (2020)
Blumhouse Productions – purveyors of subversive social commentaries like Get Out and The Purge films – presents this satirical and at times shocking take on America’s culture wars, taking aim at...
View ArticleVanguard (2020)
Another globe-trotting outing for the Jackie Chan brand. This is less of a garbled mess compared to his other completely hollow spectacles of recent years. Stanley Tong has clearly always wanted to...
View ArticleThe Asian Connection (2016)
Generic DTV riff on True Romance starring John Edward Lee as a loveable crook in Cambodia who is forced to undergo a series of bank heists at the behest of the great Thai actor, Sahajak Boonthanakit,...
View ArticleWelcome to Sudden Death (2020)
Following an odd if not unwelcome trend for DTV reboots of classic Van Damme vehicles (Lady Bloodfight, Kickboxer: Vengeance, Kickboxer: Retaliation, Hard Target 2), comes this goofy, good-natured if...
View ArticleEnglish Dogs in Bangkok (2020)
Obnoxious, low-budget indie thuggery from the UK which revels in its own vulgarity. This hooligans-abroad chore is chauvinistic, outdated twaddle aiming for old-school Guy Ritchie only without any of...
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