Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "kung fu"

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An Eye for an Eye ** (1981, Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Matt Clark, Mako, Maggie Cooper, Terry Kiser) – Classic Movie Review 12,952

Chuck Norris thrashes his way through a variety of hulking thugs in the lively, Eighties-style American kung-fu crime action thriller An Eye for an Eye (1981). Director Steve Carver’s 1981 action film An Eye for […]

Jun, 18

Laser Mission [Soldier of Fortune] ** (1989, Brandon Lee, Debi A Monahan, Ernest Borgnine, Werner Pochath) – Classic Movie Review 11,339

Director Beau J Davis’s low-budget US/ German/ S African 1989 Laser Mission [Soldier of Fortune] is Brandon Lee’s second credited film, in which he plays US special agent Michael Gold, a mercenary loner and expert […]

Jun, 24

Ip Man 4: The Finale *** (2019, Donnie Yen, Scott Adkins, Kwok-Kwan Chan) – Movie Review

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 […]

Dec, 29

Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze ** (1975, Ron Ely, Paul Gleason, William Lucking) – Classic Movie Review 8756

The 1966-68 TV Tarzan Ron Ely assumes another pulp fiction character, this one based on Kenneth Robeson [Lester Dent]’s Doc Savage stories. Britain’s Michael Anderson directs the 1975 American action film Doc Savage: The Man […]

Jul, 24

Enter the Dragon *** (1973, Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 7337

‘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 […]

Jul, 24

The Big Boss [Táng Shān Dà Xiōng] *** (1971, Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien, Tony Liu) – Classic Movie Review 4456

Bruce Lee shows off his kung-fu prowess to great, exciting advantage in writer-director Lo Wei’s otherwise mundane and predictable 1971 Hong Kong martial arts cult action thriller. Lee plays Cheng Chao-an in a familiar story in which he […]

Oct, 05

The Karate Kid *** (2010, Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith, Taraji P Henson) – Classic Movie Review 3841

Detroit single mom Sherry Parker (Taraji P Henson) relocates to China with her 12-year-old son Dre Parker (Jaden Smith, son of you know who). There is a bit of a culture shock as the kid finds people […]

Jun, 11

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