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The Essential Action Movies From Cannon Films

September 16, 2025 by admin

Casey Chong on the essential action movies from Cannon Films… If you lived through the 80s and 90s era, you’d likely have been familiar with Cannon Films, an indie production company synonymous with low-budget, B-movies that focused on certain niches such as action, martial arts and sci-fi & fantasy. Cannon initially got off to a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: american ninja, Bloodsport, Chuck Norris, Cobra, Invasion USA, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kickboxer, Missing In Action, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning, Revenge of the Ninja, Runaway Train, Sylvester Stallone, The Delta Force

Jean-Claude Van Damme is The Gardener in trailer for French action-comedy

May 9, 2025 by Amie Cranswick

Ahead of its release this June, a poster and trailer have arrived online for the French action-comedy The Gardener. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Leo, a mysterious gardener who acts as an unlikely saviour to his boss, a senior official to the Prime Minister, when he finds himself on a secret list of political enemies […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Carla Poquin, David Charhon, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jérôme Le Banner, Kaaris, Matthias Quiviger, Michaël Youn, Nawell Madani, The Gardener

Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Frank Dux Bloodsport collectible unveiled by Infinite Statue

April 16, 2025 by Amie Cranswick

Infinite Statue has unveiled its upcoming Frank Dux sixth scale figure which is spired by the likeness of Jean-Claude Van Damme in the 1988 martial arts cult classic Bloodsport. Check out both the Standard and the Deluxe Versions of the collectible below… SEE ALSO: Enter The Muscles from Brussels: The Jean-Claude Van Damme Tournament Fight […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Toys Tagged With: Bloodsport, Infinite Statue, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sideshow Collectibles

Kickboxer video game in development

February 2, 2025 by Gary Collinson

Video game developer Force Multiplier Studios is teaming with Dimitri Logothetis and Rob Hickman, the filmmakers behind Kickboxer: Vengeance, Kickboxer: Retaliation and the upcoming Kickboxer: Armageddon, to develop the first ever video game based upon the iconic Kickboxer movie franchise. As per the official release, the “partnership aims to bring the high-octane universe of Kickboxer to […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Video Games Tagged With: Dimitri Logothetis, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kickboxer, Rob Hickman

Ten Great Comeback Performances

December 30, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

A career slump is often impossible to escape from but sometimes, just sometimes, a performer gets a shot and delivers a comeback performance that puts them back in the spotlight… Hollywood is a fickle place. One minute you can be hot and the next not. Whether it’s a run-of-flops or the wrong kind of infamy, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Autumn Sonata, Brendan Fraser, Demi Moore, Ellen Burstyn, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ingrid Bergman, Iron Man, Jackie Brown, JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Travolta, Ke Huy Quan, Mandy, Matthew McConaughey, Mickey Rourke, Mud, Nicolas Cage, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pam Grier, Pamela Anderson, Pauly Shore, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Forster, Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone, The Court Jester, The Last Showgirl, the substance, the whale, The Wrestler, Uncut Gems

Jean-Claude Van Damme is the next target in Hitman: World of Assassination

December 5, 2024 by Andrew Newton

IO Interactive has announced that a new Elusive Target will be coming to Hitman World of Assassination this December.  This new Elusive Target is Max Valliant, also known as The Splitter, and is played by Hollywood action legend, Jean-Claude Van Damme. As well as being voiced by JCVD, Valliant also features the likeness of the action […]

Filed Under: Andrew Newton, News, Trailers, Video Games Tagged With: Hitman, HITMAN World of Assassination, IO Interactive, Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Van Damme teams with Jacqueline Fernandez in Kill ‘Em All 2 trailer

September 21, 2024 by Amie Cranswick

Ahead of its digital release this coming Tuesday, Sony Pictures has shared a trailer for the action sequel Kill ‘Em All 2. Set seven years after the events of 2017’s Kill ‘Em All, the film sees father and daughter (Jean-Claude Van Damme and Jacqueline Fernandez) teaming up to protect their home after their peaceful life, […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Jacqueline Fernandez, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kill 'Em All 2, Maria Conchita Alonso, Peter Stormare, Valeri Milev

Infinite Statue unveils Bloodsport: The Last Fight collectible diorama

July 31, 2024 by Amie Cranswick

Sideshow and Infinite Statue have revealed the 1:10 scale The Last Fight diorama which is inspired by the final fight scene between Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and Chong Li (Bolo Yeung) in the 1988 action drama Bloodsport. It is available to pre-order now, priced at $410; take a look here… The final fight scene […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Toys Tagged With: Bloodsport, Bolo Yeung, Infinite Statue, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sideshow Collectibles

Enter The Muscles from Brussels: The Jean-Claude Van Damme Tournament Fight Film

October 4, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at Jean-Claude Van Damme’s history of tournament fight films… If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. For a while in the earlier career of Jean-Claude Van Damme, that seemed to be more or less the case. When Enter the Dragon ended up as a cultural and cinematic phenomenon, a host of imitators […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bloodsport, In Hell, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kickboxer, Kickboxer Retaliation, Lionheart, The Quest

Three Films and Six Van Dammes: The JCVD Dual Role Routine

June 4, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at Jean-Claude Van Damme’s dual role films… Who doesn’t love an action star? Oi, put your hands down now! Still, for us that do, we all have our favourites. Occasionally there were rivalries and camps. You could be an Arnold Schwarzenegger kid or a Sylvester Stallone kid. Maybe you were secretly […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: double impact, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Maximum Risk, replicant

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