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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Hapkido
Actors & Directors
  • Yuen Biao
  • Sammo Hung
  • Jackie Chan
Release date: 2006-08-28
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.86

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Review Budo / Budo - The Art Of Killing
Release date: 2006-03-06
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.99

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Bichunmoo - Warrior Of Virtue [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Dong-jik Jang
  • Yu-jeong Choi
  • Hee-seon Kim
  • Hyeon-jun Shin
  • Young-jun Kim
  • Jin-yeong Jeong
Release date: 2003-03-31
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.32

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Jackie Chan - Project A
Actors & Directors
  • Jackie Chan
  • Maggie Cheung
  • Sammo Hung
  • Yuen Biao
  • Jackie Chan
  • John Cheung
Release date: 2005-06-13
Run time: 203 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.97

Review Jackie Chan - Project A / Contender Entertainment Group:

For people who've discovered Jackie Chan through his international hit Rush Hour and want to learn what his Hong Kong movies are like, Project A is an excellent place to start. Chan plays a sailor in 19th-century Hong Kong; pirates have been terrorizing the seas for months, and all efforts to combat them have been sabotaged by the corrupt chief of police and a criminal gang, who are in cahoots with the pirates. But the plot is hardly the point-a Jackie Chan movie is about astonishingly acrobatic action sequences and breathtaking stunts, and Project A has plenty. Of particular interest is a bicycle chase that is more suspenseful than any car chase you've ever seen. Chan is joined by Sammo Hung as a shifty con man who comes through when the chips are down. Project A also features Yuen Biao, a frequent costar in Chan's movies, who's yet another astounding martial artist. But what separates Jackie Chan movies from other kung fu flicks is his sense of humor; every fight scene is punctuated by something-a clever use of a prop or sudden reversal of your expectations-that will make you bark with laughter. Sometimes it's just so exquisitely choreographed that the entire movie seems to float on a cloud of giddy delight. Jackie Chan is often compared to the classic silent comedians for his grace and timing-he lives up to it. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Fighter In The Wind
Actors & Directors
  • Yang Yun-Ho
  • Aya Hirayama
  • Masaya Kato
  • Dong-Kun Yang
Release date: 2005-05-30
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.96

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Game Of Death 2 [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Roy Horan
  • Tong Lung
  • Huong Cheng-Li
  • Ng See-Yuen
  • Bruce Lee
  • Hoi San Lee
Release date: 2001-11-05
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.78

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Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / Pride Fighting Championships: Pride 32 - The Real Deal [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Henderson
  • Mark Coleman
  • Kazuhiro Nakamura
  • Fedor Emelianenko
  • Vitor Belfort
Release date: 2008-09-02
Run time: 121 min.
Price: £6.63

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Review Revelation Films / David Carradine - An Introduction For Beginners To Kung Fu And Tai Chi
Actors & Directors
  • David Carradine
Release date: 2008-02-04
Run time: 160 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.58

Review David Carradine - An Introduction For Beginners To Kung Fu And Tai Chi / Revelation Films:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Last Dragon
Actors & Directors
  • Justin Hardy
  • Ian Holm
Release date: 2005-08-29
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.09

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Double Impact [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Paul Aylett
  • Sheldon Lettich
  • Geoffrey Lewis
  • Andy Armstrong
  • Alicia Stevenson
Release date: 2000-08-21
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.94

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Ong Bak [UMD Mini for PSP]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Jaa
  • Petchtai Wongkamlao
  • Prachya Pinkaew
Release date: 2005-09-19
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.99

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Naked Weapon
Actors & Directors
  • Siu-Tung Ching
  • Marit Thoresen
  • Almen Wong Pui-Ha
  • Kai Yan Kwok
  • Renee Nichole Rommeswinkel
  • Daniel Wu (II)
Release date: 2003-07-08
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.97

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Review Bj Penn / The Ultimate Fighting Championship: Ultimate Fighter - Season Five (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2008-02-05
Price: £14.05

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Seven Swords [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Donnie Yen
  • Lau Kar Leung
  • Leon Lai
  • Charlie Yeung
  • Tsui Hark
Release date: 2006-05-29
Run time: 135 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.11

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Review Revelation Films / The Green Hornet [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Lee
  • Robert L. Friend;Norman Foster;Larry Peerce;E. Darrell Hallenbeck;Leslie H. Martinson;James Komack;William Beaudine;Murray Golden
Release date: 2008-08-04
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £1.99
Price: £0.99

Review The Green Hornet [1974] / Revelation Films:

A single season TV show, originally aired in 1966-7, The Green Hornet was produced by William Dozier as a stable-mate for his more popular Batman series. Originally a 1940s radio character (and the grand-nephew of the Lone Ranger), the Green Hornet was another masked crime fighter with a secret identity and a sidekick (not to mention a cool car, the Black Beauty, and a memorable theme, a jazzy riff on "Flight of the Bumblebee"). Newspaper magnate Britt Reid (Van Williams) dons a mask and slouch hat to fight corruption in the big city. In place of Robin or Tonto, GH has Kato (Bruce Lee), a martial arts expert-chauffeur whose name inspired Inspector Clouseau's assistant and who seems to blow the secret identity gaff by using his real name in both civilian life and masked adventuring. While Batman was a colourful exercise in camp, with over-the-top villains played for laugh and a pop art hipness, The Green Hornet was a mundane pulp adventure with very little humour and very little in the character and plot departments. After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this property, of which this 1974 effort is the first. The bulk of the film consists of four episodes crudely spliced together. Scattered throughout are bizarrely irrelevant fight scenes from other episodes, which make the already disjointed plotting quite surreal. The television image was cropped to make a widescreen film, which means the tops of heads and hats are lopped off the frame with alarming regularity. Though an interesting curio, fans might have preferred a release of individual episodes. [+]
On the DVD: This letterboxed transfer is probably the best the film could ever be made to look, considering it was probably shot on 16mm, then blown up and cropped for widescreen release. The quality varies notably from scene to scene, suggesting that the source episodes were in wildly different shape. The extras include thorough cast notes on Williams, Lee and under-used heroine Wende Wagner, still-image and film photo galleries, a quarter-hour featurette on the Black Beauty (flawed by the fact that the current owner is one of the dullest speakers in America), some shots of the Black Hornet Corgi model (oddly available in the UK in the 1960s, though the show didn't air on British television), a solid essay on the history of the character, notes on "The Bruce and Brandon Lee Association" and a funky if incomplete trailer for Black Samurai. -Kim Newman.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / Police Story 2 [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Maggie Cheung
  • Jackie Chan
  • Jackie Chan
  • Kenny Ho
Release date: 2002-03-25
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.91

Review Police Story 2 [1989] / Contender Entertainment Group:

Police Story 2 (1989) is one of those rare sequels that's more fun than its predecessor. Jackie Chan plays his usual rule-breaking cop, loyal to superiors that carp at the destruction he leaves in his wake but are prepared to take credit for every success he has. Here he finds himself up against vengeful gangsters whose plans he frustrated in the first of the series; but he also has to combat a ruthless team of extortionists with a taste for explosions both large and small-blowing up large buildings, turning people into human bombs and torturing people with firecrackers are all part of their repertoire. He has girlfriend trouble, too, since his fiancée is worried that he always puts the job first. Like its predecessor and the quasi-sequel First Strike (1996), Police Story 2 is transitional between Chan's early more fight-orientated Hong Kong movies and his later, blander Hollywood films. The fights and stunts here are most of the point of what is essentially a very good generic Jackie Chan vehicle; he takes on progressively larger groups of opponents, coping, for example, with a dozen gangsters armed with swords in a terraced garden by leaping from level to level and paying each opponent individual attention. The final fight in a fireworks factory is a Chan classic, depending as it does as much on the comedy of frustrating repetition as on daring stunts. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Sony Pictures / The House of Flying Daggers [Blu-ray] [2004] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Ziyi Zhang
  • Hongfei Zhao
  • Andy Lau
  • Dandan Song
  • Takeshi Kaneshiro
  • Yimou Zhang
Release date: 2006-06-20
Run time: 119 min.
Price: £11.48

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Review Eureka Entertainment / Shogun's Samurai [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Hiroki Matsukata
  • Yoshio Harada
  • Etsuko Shihomi
  • Toshiro Mifune
  • Kinji Fukasaku
  • Sonny Chiba
Release date: 2007-04-23
Run time: 130 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.79

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Street Fighter / Return Of The Street Fighter / The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
Actors & Directors
  • Shigehiro Ozawa
  • Sonny Chiba
Release date: 2005-01-24
Run time: 246 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £10.96

Review The Street Fighter / Return Of The Street Fighter / The Street Fighter's Last Revenge / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Metrodome Distribution / Bloodsport 3 [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Uni Park
  • John Rhys-Davies
  • Daniel Bernhardt
  • Amber van Lynt
  • James Hong
  • Alan Mehrez
Release date: 1999-11-29
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.99

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Models & Brands:
Hapkido, Budo - The Art Of Killing, Bichunmoo - Warrior Of Virtue [2000], Jackie Chan - Project A, Fighter In The Wind, Game Of Death 2 [1981], Pride Fighting Championships: Pride 32 - The Real Deal [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), David Carradine - An Introduction For Beginners To Kung Fu And Tai Chi, The Last Dragon, Double Impact [1992], Ong Bak [UMD Mini for PSP], Naked Weapon, The Ultimate Fighting Championship: Ultimate Fighter - Season Five (REGION 1) (NTSC), Seven Swords [2005], The Green Hornet [1974], Police Story 2 [1989], The House of Flying Daggers [Blu-ray] [2004] [US Import], Shogun's Samurai [1978], The Street Fighter / Return Of The Street Fighter / The Street Fighter's Last Revenge, Bloodsport 3 [1997]

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