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November 27th, 2011: Enter the Dragon (1973)

Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Crime, Espionage, Event Film, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, The Original Tagged Angela Mao, before they were famous, Bolo Yeung, Bruce Lee, Drive-In, Golden Harvest, Jackie Chan, Jim Kelly, John Saxon, Kien Shih, Lalo Schifrin, mastermind, National Film Registry, racist cops, racists, Raymond Chow, Robert Clouse, Robert Wall, Sammo Hung, secret martial arts tournament, Warner Brothers

November 8th, 2011: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

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5 Comments Posted in Adventure, Dracula, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original, Vampires Tagged Britain, cash-in, Cheh Chang, co-production, David Chiang, Hammer, Hong Kong, Julie Ege, low-budget, Peter Cushing, Roy Ward Baker, Shaw Brothers

October 17th, 2011: Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Cops, Crime, Independent, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Spaghetti Western, The Original, Western Tagged "but I get results", Aaron Norris, apprentice/mentor relationship, arms dealer, Barbara Carrera, Chuck Norris, Dana Kimmell, David Carradine, drug dealers, drugs, Francesco De Masi, hero rage, karate, L.Q. Jones, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Little People, mastermind, maverick, maverick cops, Mexico, one man army, Orion, R. G. Armstrong, Robert Beltran, Sharon Farrell, snobs vs. slobs, Steve Carer, Texas, Texas Ranger, The Border, U.S.A.!U.S.A.!, William Sanderson

September 10th, 2011: The Streetfighter (1974)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Crime, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged cash-in, double cross, grindhouse, heiress, heterosexual life partner, hit man, homoerotic subtext, Japan, kidnapping, Masafumi Suzuki, mercenary, oil company, oil crisis, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, sidekick, Sonny Chiba, stilted dialogue, Toei Company, Triad Gangsters, World War Two, Yakuza

August 26th, 2011: Seven Samurai (1954)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adventure, Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Last Stand, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies Tagged Akira Kurosawa, bandits, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, class issues, drag, forbidden love, homage, Japan, master swordsman, old timer, orphan, peasants, Ronin, Samurai, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Toshiro Mifune

July 26th, 2011: Crippled Avengers aka Can Que aka Return of the Five Deadly Venoms

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day Tagged amputation, blind, brain damage, cash-in, Cheh Chang, deaf, Hong Kong, kung fu, Odious Comic Relief, Shaw Brothers, training sequence

June 17th, 2011: Steel Dawn

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Apocalypse, Dark Future, Independent, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Western Tagged Anthony Zerbe, Arnold Vosloo, Brion James, cash-in, Christopher Neame, homage, John Fujioka, low-budget, man with no name, Patrick Swayze, rip-off, veteran, wanderer, water rights

June 15th, 2011: Fantasy Mission Force

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Independent, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Old Dark House, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Good, Special Operations, Spoof, War Movies Tagged Amazons, cameos, double cross, Hong Kong, Jackie Chan, low-budget, Nazis, rip-off, World War Two, Yu Wang

January 4th, 2011: The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)

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6 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Action, Black and White, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original Tagged Daiei, Japan, Shintaro Katsu, warring clans, Yakuza, Zatoichi

Redbelt

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Arthouse, Fight Film, Full Reviews, Martial Arts, Reviews Tagged Alice Braga, Cameo, Chiwetel Ejiofor, con artist, David Mamet, David Paymer, double cross, Ed O'Neill, Emily Mortimer, fixed fight, forced to fight, Jennifer Grey, Jiu-Jitsu, Joe Mantegna, magician, Mike Genovese, MMA, pushed too far, Ricky Jay, Sony Pictures Classics, Tim Allen

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