Tom Jolliffe takes a look at the career of action heroine Cynthia Rothrock… Western stars who have managed to break China and Hong Kong successfully are a rare breed. In fact there’s probably only one person who has found success as a major action star in China, as well as in the west. Some have […]
11 Unsung Action Heroines Who Deserve the Spotlight | Marvelous Videos
Red Stewart presents underappreciated action heroines… It’s a fact that men dominated the action genre of the 80s and 90s. Sure, occasionally you had some women stand out like Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, but studios were more prone to highlight their male counterparts in the marketing department. And […]
The B-Movie Queens
Tom Jolliffe celebrates some of the most popular B-movie Queens of the video era onward… Think of those legendary actresses of the last few decades. Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Scar Jo, to the recent impact of Margot Robbie. Big names, capable of selling a film themselves and a regular big screen fixture. As someone who […]
90s Video Action Stars Part II – Jeff Wincott, Michael Dudikoff, Mark Dacascos and Cynthia Rothrock
Tom Jolliffe continues his look back at 90’s video action stars (read the first part here)… As I continue on with my 90’s action rampage, revisiting those VHS purveyors of fisticuffs and footicuffs (footicuffs?), I find myself already suffering brain degradation. Some films I revisit have blurred in my memory and re-watching only confirms what […]
Action ensemble Showdown in Manila gets a poster and trailer
Two posters and a trailer have arrived online for the upcoming action thriller Showdown in Manila, which sees Mark Dacascos directing a cast that includes Alexander Nevsky, Casper Van Dien, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tia Carrere, Matthias Hues, Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock and Olivier Gruner; check them out here… Private detectives Nick (Alexander Nevsky) and […]
The Female Action Hero
Tom Jolliffe on female action heroes… With the impending UK release of Atomic Blonde, it now seems a good time to consider the female action hero. You may think this ‘phenomena’ only stretches back to around the time Sigourney Weaver donned a mecha-suit, but it goes back further. There has certainly been a significant rise […]
Movie Review – The Martial Arts Kid (2015)
The Martial Arts Kid, 2015. Directed by Michael Baumgarten. Starring Jansen Panettiere, Don Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock,Kathryn Newton and Matthew Ziff. SYNOPSIS: When misguided teen orphan, Robbie Oakes (Jansen Panettiere) gets in trouble with the law one too many times, his grandmother has little choice but to uproot him from Cleveland to Cocoa Beach to live […]
Watch the trailer for Showdown in Manila featuring Mark Dacascos, Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock and more
An international teaser trailer has arrived online for the upcoming action thriller Showdown in Manila, which sees Mark Dacascos directing and starring alongside the likes of Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Alexander Nevsky, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Oliver Gruner, Casper Van Dien, Matthias Hues, Monsour del Rosario, Tia Carrerre and Natalie Gubina. Check it out here… […]