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Andrew Hernandez on Shogun’s Ninja | Blu-ray (Arrow)A fantastic release of this movie. Sonny Chiba must have really foreseen how…
Andrew Hernandez on Vengeance, Japanese style! Blu-ray for Hiroyuki Sanada and Sonny Chiba’s ‘Roaring Fire’ now shippingIt felt good to watch Roaring Fire for the first time. The only chance I woul…
JJ Bona on The Furious (2026) ReviewAgree with you there, Axel. I wasn't the biggest fan of it either, but it loo…
Andrew Hernandez on The Furious (2026) ReviewI don’t recall anyone claiming it was realistic. The Raid was just as much a…
Ska Martes on COF Presents: John Wick & the Dawn of the Joyless Bloodshed GenreAs bad as the taken sequels were, the first Taken, The Grey and all of the B-…
Ska Martes on The fist of FURIOUS! Xie Miao to make his English-language debut in an upcoming U.S.-based martial arts filmHe has the potential for sure but he needs a new name for the western market.…
squeesh on Eye for an Eye 2: Blind Vengeance (2024) ReviewThis sequel is definitely better than the first film---I really liked it bett…
Axel on The Furious (2026) ReviewHave I watched a different movie? I certainly didn’t see anything particularl…
Ska Martes on Aces Go Places | 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (Shout)Watched the boxset in the last week and a bit. Extras are thin but the transf…
DVD & Blu-ray Supplier on All you can eat Shohei Imamura! Radiance announces 4K Ultra HD for ‘Radical Japan: Survival and Desire’Including the first three features alongside the better-known titles gives th…
DVD Phreak on Aces Go Places | 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (Shout)The individual case covers look much better, as they all use vintage Hong Kon…
DVD Distributor on Deal on Fire! Kung Fu: Trailers of Fury | Blu-ray | Only $14.99 – Expires soon!The featurette about finding the reels sounds almost as interesting as the co…
Paul Bramhall on Knight Errant | aka Dragon Fist (1973) ReviewHands down Jimmy Wang Yu's best movie. I always felt like the presence of Yas…
DVD Distributor on Knight Errant | aka Dragon Fist (1973) ReviewThe taxi-driver setting sounds like a good match for the rough-and-tumble sid…
JJ Bona on Knight Errant | aka Dragon Fist (1973) ReviewThat's some excellent timing, Bob. Let us know if it matches the review! =)
Bob on Knight Errant | aka Dragon Fist (1973) ReviewI just bought this on a whim from a used media shop today and checked in here…
Steve Moore on ‘John Wick 4’ martial arts stars Marko Zaror and Scott Adkins re-team for Ernesto Díaz Espinoza’s ‘Brutal Justice’Sounds good as Diablo was great , also does Scott ever see his family as he n…
Jake on ‘John Wick 4’ martial arts stars Marko Zaror and Scott Adkins re-team for Ernesto Díaz Espinoza’s ‘Brutal Justice’Diablo is excellent so I am really looking forward to this.
Z Ravas on Colony (2026) ReviewOnce again, I enjoyed this one more than you, Paul. I'd give it an 8.5/10. 😂
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dakuan on ‘John Wick 4’ martial arts stars Marko Zaror and Scott Adkins re-team for Ernesto Díaz Espinoza’s ‘Brutal Justice’i want Scott in Fist of the Condor 2.
Nancy Lo on Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub (2026) Reviewnice save.
Callum on Mark Houghton, martial artist, actor, stuntman of ‘Drunken Master II’ and ‘Aces Go Places V’, passes away at 64RIP to a legend
Paul Bramhall on Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub (2026) ReviewOnly problem I have with them is that it stopped at being a trilogy. :-)
Nancy Lo on Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub (2026) ReviewSo you have a problm with female Tazzas? 😭 Let me guess, just because they’re…
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Author Archives: Paul Bramhall
Mojin: The Lost Legend (2015) Review
AKA: The Ghouls Director: Wu Ershan Cast: Chen Kun, Huang Bo, Shu Qi, Angelababy, Xia Yu, Liu Xiaoqing, Cherry Ngan, Ng Man Tat Running Time: 125 min. By Paul Bramhall The Mainland Chinese blockbuster is becoming a more and more common sight in recent years, as the local industry looks to satisfy a population that increasingly enjoys going to the cinema with its own big budget movies, rather than having … Continue reading
Priests, The (2015) Review
AKA: Black Priests Director: Jang Jae-Hyon Cast: Kim Yun-Seok, Gang Dong-Won, Park So-Dam, Kim Eui-Sung, Son Jong-Hak, Nam Il-Woo, Lee Ho-Jae, Kim Byung-Ok, Jo Soo-Hyang, Park Woong Running Time: 108 min. By Paul Bramhall Out of the many genres that can be found within Korean cinema, it’s the supernatural horror movie that seems to struggle to find any consistency in terms of quality. While movies like The Whispering Corridors series … Continue reading
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Tagged Gang Dong-won, Jang Jae-Hyon, Kim Yun-Seok
Our Top 15 Watched Movies of 2015
As the year that was 2015 fades into the distance, it’s that time once more to reflect on the cinematic highs that were enjoyed during the last 12 months. Just like last year, this will be a collection of movies that I watched for the first time during 2015, not movies that were necessarily released in 2015. There’ll be some movies on this list that don’t have reviews on the … Continue reading
Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale, The (2015) Review
AKA: The Tiger Director: Park Hoon-Jung Cast: Choi Min-Sik, Jeong Man-Sik, Kim Sang-Ho, Sung Yoo-Bin, Ren Osugi, Jung Suk-Won, Ra Mi-Ran, Yoo Jae-Myung, Kim Hong-Fa, Woo Jung-Kook Running Time: 139 min. By Paul Bramhall In 2015 Korean history was a hot topic, mainly due to President Park Geun-hye’s hugely unpopular decision to replace all high school history text books, currently produced by private publishers, with anonymously written government-issued ones by … Continue reading
Attack on Titan: Part 2 – End of the World (2015) Review
Director: Shinji Higuchi Writer: Yusuke Watanabe, Tomohiro Machiyama Based on Manga by Hajime Isayama Cast: Haruma Miura, Hiroki Hasegawa, Kiko Mizuhara, Kanata Hongo, Takahiro Miura, Nanami Sakuraba, Satoru Matsuo, Shu Watanabe, Ayame Misaki, Rina Takeda Running Time: 90 min. By Paul Bramhall The second installment of Shinji Higuchi’s adaptation of the Attack on Titan manga reached Japanese cinema screens just a month after the first one came to the end … Continue reading
Shaolin: The Blood Mission | aka The Fourth Largest Shaolin Temple (1984) Review
Director: Park Woo-sang Writer: Hong Chi-Yun Cast: Hwang Jang Lee, Ho Kei Cheong, Suen Kwok Ming, Poon Cheung, Luo Hua-Sheng, Olivia Hung, Park Dong-yeol, Lee Jin-Yeong, Kim Ki-Bum Running Time: 85 min. By Paul Bramhall The name of Korean director Park Woo-sang may not be immediately familiar to many, and understandably so. However once the filmmaker immigrated to America, he continued to direct under a different name – Richard Park – … Continue reading
Posted in All, Chinese, Korean, News, Reviews
Tagged Godfrey Ho, Hwang Jang Lee, Park Woo-sang
Enter the Invincible Hero | aka Secret Bandit of Black Leopard (1981) Review
Director: Kim Si-hyun Cast: Dragon Lee (Mun Kyong-sok), Casanova Wong, Chui Man Fooi, Lee Ye Min, Cheung Ching Kwok, Gam Hei Wang, Seo Jeong Ah, Chen Shao Lung Running Time: 100 min. By Paul Bramhall Deciphering who directed what and when in the old school Korean kung fu genre is a head scratching exercise at the best of times. It’s common knowledge that many of the countries’ contributions to the … Continue reading
Posted in All, Bruceploitation, Chinese, Korean, News, Reviews
Tagged Casanova Wong (Ka Sa Fa), Dragon Lee (Mun Kyong-sok), Godfrey Ho
Seoul (2002) Review
Director: Masahiko Nagasawa Cast: Tomoya Nagase, Choi Min-Soo, Hoon Jang, Sung Choi, Jin-myung Go, Shim-young Hahm, Hun-suk Jung, Ki-won Kang, Dong-wook Kim, Ji-youn Kim, Chan-young Lee, Do-hyung Lee, Kyung-hwan Park Running Time: 110 min. By Paul Bramhall Seoul is an interesting curiosity of a movie. It looks, feels, and sounds like an early 2000’s Korean action flick, however it is in fact a Japanese production. Distributed by the legendary Toho … Continue reading
Attack on Titan: Part 1 (2015) Review
Director: Shinji Higuchi Cast: Haruma Miura, Hiroki Hasegawa, Kiko Mizuhara, Kanata Hongo, Takahiro Miura, Nanami Sakuraba, Satoru Matsuo, Satomi Ishihara, Pierre Taki, Jun Kunimura, Rina Takeda, Shu Watanabe, Ayame Misaki Running Time: 98 min. By Paul Bramhall Attack on Titan was a production which had the odds stacked against it from the start. Putting aside the fact that it’s a Japanese mainstream blockbuster, which in itself is normally an indication … Continue reading
Hunted Hunter, The (1997) Review
Director: Ricky Lau Cast: Yuen Biao, Zhang Feng-Yi, Roi Vinzon, Jessica Hester, Jerry Lamb Hiu-Fung, Karen Timbol, Michael Lam Wai-Leung, Wu Ma, Chung Fat, Levy Ignacio, Ricky Lau, Shum Wai Running Time: N/A By Paul Bramhall During the 90’s, it was considered an unspoken rule that the Philippines was the place were the careers of Hong Kong action stars go to die. Philip Ko Fei, Cynthia Khan, and Yukari Oshima … Continue reading
Exclusive: Interview with Won Jin – The Scorpion King
Back in 2002 I could still be considered a relative newcomer to the world of kung fu cinema, having gotten into the genre only a few years earlier. Living in the UK, most of my kung fu movie watching came in the form of picking up the latest release from the Hong Kong Legends label, which at the time was going through its own golden era. This particular year saw … Continue reading
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