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Double Impact
Well I thought this would be funny because Jean-Claude Van Damme plays twins but it is not one of his better pictures in my opinion. It is not nearly as boring as Cyborg, but it is pretty generic and...
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Lionheart
LIONHEART is Van Damme circa 1991, and his best up to that point if you ask me, which by reading this you agree to do. As a matter of personal taste I think competitive fighting is one of the squarest...
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Only the Strong
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the best find of my Back To School Special. Maybe THE SUBSTITUTE is better, but I’d already seen that one before so I knew what to expect. This is a surprisingly...
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Perfect Target
Daniel Bernhardt is a Swiss martial artist and model who appeared in a Versace commercial with Jean-Claude Van Damme, then was hired to play the lead in the BLOODSPORT sequels. So it’s only natural...
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Self indulgent THE GOOD THE TOUGH AND THE DEADLY journal
warning: I had to write this down as a time capsule of my book signing experience. Read at own risk. Today, like the mighty sasquatch, I live as a recluse somewhere in the Pacific Northwest....
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Double Impact (30th Anniversary Review)
“All right, you want some real action, tough guys? Let’s do it.” August 9, 1991 While the summer was dominated by the expensive studio action spectacles TERMINATOR 2 and POINT BREAK, there were plenty...
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Crimewave
THE EVIL DEAD was a hit. It took them a while, but they found a distributor, Irvin Shapiro. He’d been a founder of the Cannes Film Festival, and arranged for it to screen out of competition, where...
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