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Above the Law: Revisiting Steven Seagal’s star-making debut

Posted 2 years ago

While Steven Seagal has become a punch-line in recent years, his star-making debut, Above the Law, is a solid action flick.

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Enter the Dragon (1973) Revisited: A Classic Turns 50

Posted 2 years ago

Enter the Dragon, the seminal Bruce Lee martial arts film, turns 50.

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No Holds Barred: When WWF Tried to Make Hulk Hogan a Movie Star

Posted 2 years ago

We take a look back at WWF's attempt to turn Hulk Hogan into a movie star in 1989's cult classic No Holds Barred.

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Ninja III: The Domination – Revisiting a Ninja Classic with Director Sam Firstenberg

Posted 3 years ago

What do you get if you take The Exorcist, cross it with Flashdance and then add some Ninjas for good measure? The answer, of course, is you get the Cannon Films cult classic Ninja III: The Domination. This was Cannon’s...

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Revenge of the Ninja (1983) Revisited + Director Sam Firstenberg Interview

Posted 3 years ago

Revenge of the Ninja is up there with the best American Martial Arts films ever made. Star Sho Kosugi had made a big impression in Cannon’s Enter the Ninja the year before, stealing the show from his (heavily doubled) co-star...

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Enter the Ninja (1981) Revisited: Action Movie Review

Posted 3 years ago

Enter the Ninja was The Cannon Group’s big attempt to cash in on the martial arts movie craze that dominated action flicks since the mid-seventies and the public’s newer fascination with Ninjas thanks to the famous novel The Ninja by...

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The Delta Force (1986) Revisited: Action Movie Review

Posted 3 years ago

When terrorism strikes and Americans abroad are in danger, the Delta Force comes to the rescue. Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin save an oddball cast of seventies character actors in this weird but slick disaster film/ action flick mashup –...

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Eraser (1996) Revisited: Arnold Schwarzenegger Action Movie Review

Posted 3 years ago

In a lot of ways, 1996’s Eraser marked the end of the “classic” era of Arnold Schwarzenegger action movies. Following its release, he would infamously turn up as Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin, before taking a few years off....

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The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) Revisited – Action Movie Review

Posted 3 years ago

As far as action stars go, Andrew Dice Clay is a pretty unlikely candidate, and 1990’s The Adventures of Ford Fairlane was an attempt to turn the Diceman into a wise-cracking hero that, sadly, fell flat at the box office....

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