My memories of Cyborg are not from watching it, although I know I rented it once. My memory is that in 1989 my cable system just got pay per view and I would watch the preview channels. The Cyborg trailer was in heavy rotation and it pretty much included all the fight scenes. Watching Cyborg […]
There’s a new Jean-Claude Van Damme motif emerging. When not playing twins, he’s been playing men who fight through their injuries. Kill ‘Em All is not as wild as Pound of Flesh where he still did high kicks after having his kidney stolen. Maybe Universal Soldier counts too because he’s fighting despite being dead, and […]
When I was eight, my neighbor invited me to go see No Retreat, No Surrender. I had not heard of the film so I turned him down. This may have been the worst moviegoing decision of my life, and somehow even after Van Damme exploded I never went back and caught his debut. Although my […]
Kickboxer: Vengeance came out in September and rebooted the Kickboxer franchise. It was a great idea to have Van Damme play the trainer to a new young hotshot. Alain Moussi has the moves to be the new Kickboxer. He has the moves to be an action star in his own rite but Kickboxer: Vengeance was […]
This weekend’s family movie Max stars Josh Wiggins as the brother of a Marine who adopts the military dog his late brother commanded. Boaz Yakin directed Max and cowrote the film with Sheldon Lettich. If the writer’s name sounds familiar, you probably saw it blasted up on screen during the opening of many Jean-Claude Van […]