Monster Hunter (Germany/USA, 2020)
In John Boorman’s Hell in the Pacific (1968), Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune play rival fighter pilots that crash-land on an isolated island and must...
Triple Threat (China/Thailand/USA, 2019)
A group of mercenaries are sent into an MI6 black site to retrieve a known criminal and terrorist. Channelling the opening jungle raid from Predator...
Paradox (Hong Kong, 2017)
Walking out of Paradox (aka SPL 3), I had one nagging question in my head: why was this movie made? The supposed third installation to the...
SPL 2: A Time for Consequences (China/Hong Kong, 2015) [TIFF 2015]
10 years ago I was lucky enough to see SPL at the Toronto International Film Festival with Sammo Hung, Wilson Yip and Wong Jing in...
Skin Trade (Canada/Thailand, 2015)
Following his breakout display in Ong-Bak (2003), Thai martial artist Tony Jaa was widely tipped as the ‘next big thing’ in action cinema. With his...