Tom Jolliffe on those hazy memories from childhood for movies that may or may not actually exist… When you think back to childhood, some memories remain vividly clear. This can extend to movies of memories that lock themselves into your memory banks without much being re-imagined by your mind. Certain films, like Star Wars always […]
Enter The Muscles from Brussels: The Jean-Claude Van Damme Tournament Fight Film
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 […]
Blu-ray Review – The Quest (1996)
The Quest, 1996. Directed by Jean-Claude Van Damme. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Roger Moore, James Remar, Janet Gunn, Abdel Qissi, Jack McGee, and Mike Lambert. SYNOPSIS: In the 1920s a street clown, aided by a con man and a journalist, enters an underground fighting competition to help the street kids in his neighbourhood. On paper, […]