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Tag: Asian action cinema

Podcast On Fire 313: Profile In Anger & Danger Has Two Faces

4 December 2021 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire, The Versus Series 01:35:30 0 Comments

In another entry in The Versus-series, Leung Kar-yan makes his directorial debut with the wild revenge actioner Profile In Anger from 1984 and in the Shaw Brothers production Danger Has Two Faces from 1985 he’s an ex-cop turned assassin for hire. With Kenny B and Michael Scott of the Adkins Undisputed podcast.

00m 00s – Intro/Leung Kar-Yan biography.
23m 30s – Profile In Anger review.
54m 15s – Alex Cheung biography.
60m 45s – Danger Has Two Faces review

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Podcast On Fire 312: The Tai-Chi Master

23 October 2021 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire 01:14:35 0 Comments

The mythical origin points of Tai Chi and its creator gets covered in high flying fashion in Yuen Woo-ping’s The Tai-Chi Master from 1993. With Kenny B and Stewart Sutherland of the Films & Swearing and Lager Logs podcast!

Running Times:

00m 00s – Intro/The Tai-Chi Master production background.
17m 35s – The Tai-Chi Master review

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Podcast On Fire 311: Black Mask 2 – City Of Masks

9 October 2021 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire 01:28:36 0 Comments

It’s possibly the strangest gathering of talents and elements ever. Featuring the man who would be Jigsaw, a former pornographic movie actress, a mainstay of the Coen Brothers’ films, elephants, professional wrestlers, and the world’s busiest action actor. Yes of course, it’s a Tsui Hark film as he returns to the Black Mask universe without Jet Li in Black Mask 2: City Of Masks. With Kenny B and Michael Scott of the Adkins Undisputed podcast.

Running Times:

00m 00s – Intro/background/Scott Adkins’ notes on Black Mask 2
25m 56s – Black Mask 2 review

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This Week In Sleaze 64: Bruce Lee & I

2 October 2021 knetan PODCASTS, This Week In Sleaze 01:49:24 0 Comments

Let’s talk some Bruce Lee and Betty Ting Pei fucking! From the perspective of the latter, we get the story of the pot smoking, drinking, bullying prankster with brain disease that was Bruce Lee. Plus tits, with the Shaw Scope logo proudly attached. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal who invites you into the wild and wacky world of Bruceploitation during the show.

Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our iTunes feed. Music courtesy of Brian Kirby (shelflifeclothing.com).

Running times:
00m 00s – Intro/What is Bruceploitation?
16m 47s – The subgenres of Bruceploitation.
45m 03s – Betty Ting pei biography
52m 25s – On Bruce Lee’s cause of death.
62m 26s – Bruce Lee & I review

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Podcast On Fire 310: Black Mask

21 August 2021 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire 01:34:23 0 Comments

Jet Li is a super soldier Kato lookalike in Hong Kong’s superhero actioner Black Mask. With Kenny B and Michael Scott of the Adkins Undisputed podcast.

Running Times:

00m 00s – Intro/Michael Scott interview
24m 40s – Black Mask background/box office/on director Daniel Lee/Taiwanese version
43m 03s – Black Mask review

Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our iTunes feed.

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Podcast On Fire 307: Knock Off, Enter The Eagles & House Of Fury

24 April 2021 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire, Wong Or Wrong 02:40:31 0 Comments

Our series on the films of Michael Wong comes to a close. Will he be Wong or Wrong? A trio of movies is up for review, starting with the Tsui Hark, Jean-Claude Van Damme visual treat that is Knock Off. Going from Hong Kong to Prague, Michael teams up with Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon for Enter The Eagles and doing his best Blofeld from a wheelchair, Michael has revenge on his mind and his target is a kung fu fighting family in House Of Fury.

Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our iTunes feed. Music courtesy of Brian Kirby whose awesome clothing line you can find at shelflifeclothing.com.

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Running Times:

00m 00s – Intro/on the script of Knock Off, production background
32m 06s – Knock Off review
68m 52s – Enter The Eagles review
106m 36s – Stephen Fung biography
113m 34s – House Of Fury review

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Podcast On Fire 306: Knockabout & Monkey Kung Fu

27 March 2021 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire, The Versus Series 01:17:28 0 Comments

 

It’s Monkey Kung Fu, across Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers in this entry of the Versus Series. First up, Sammo Hung’s 1979 kung fu comedy Knockabout starring Yuen Biao and from Shaw Brothers in the same year, John Law’s Monkey Kung Fu. Featuring in a rare starring role master action director and director Ching Siu-tung. With Kenny B and Phil G of Eastern Film Fans.

Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our iTunes feed. Music courtesy of Brian Kirby whose awesome clothing line you can find at shelflifeclothing.com.

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Running Times:

00m 00s – Intro/Knockabout review
44m 25s – Monkey Kung Fu review

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