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The 1990 American martial arts film Lionheart [AWOL: Absent Without Leave] proved Jean-Claude Van Damme’s breakthrough as a movie star in North America. Director Sheldon Lettich’s 1990 American martial arts film Lionheart stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Rennard, Harrison Page, Lisa Pelikan, […]
Police Story [Ging chaat goo si] (1985): ‘From the master of action Jackie Chan comes more screen excitement than you’ve ever seen.’ Director Jackie Chan’s 1985 Hong Kong comedy crime action thriller Police Story [Ging […]
Eric Roberts and Christopher Penn star as Alex Grady and Travis Brickley, who lead the five-strong American karate team chosen by Frank Couzo (James Earl Jones) to fight against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do […]
Director Gordon Parks’s 1974 true story crime action thriller The Super Cops is a hard-hitting buddy-buddy cop movie with a good sense of pace, place and humour. Ron Leibman and David Selby pack punch as […]
Donnie Yen stars in the simple but likeable Ip Man 4: The Finale (2019) as the Sixties Kung Fu master Ip Man, who this time travels to the US where his student Bruce Lee (Kwok-Kwan […]
The rousing 1988 martial arts action thriller Bloodsport stars the athletic young Jean-Claude Van Damme as real-life American martial artist Frank Dux. Director Newt Arnold’s fairly rousing, surprisingly watchable 1988 cheaply made martial arts action […]
‘The first American produced martial arts spectacular!’ Director Robert Clouse’s 1973 classic martial arts action thriller Enter the Dragon finds Hollywood taking over the kung fu film and sanitising it into a glossy, escapist thriller […]