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26 May

The Flash Really Needs to Fight Some Bad Guys Again

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The following contains THE FLASH spoilers through Season 7, Episode 11. Good news, The Flash fans: Our long national nightmare that was the Forces of Nature storyline is finally over. Granted, “Family Matters, Part 2” has many of the same problems as last week’s installment – the nonsensical sibling connection between the various Forces of Nature, the show’s insistence on calling them godlike beings even while treating them like Barry and Iris’s literal children, the general creepiness of Speed Force Nora’s existence, the cringe-y dialogue and awkwardly forced emotion. Let’s not even try to figure out how Barry and friends…
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24 Apr

How Jujutsu Kaisen’s Female-Centric Fight Scenes Push Shonen Forward

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For many anime fans, Jujutsu Kaisen shone as the highlight of the Fall 2020/Winter 2021 season. There are many possible reasons for this hype: The series delivered more sought-after supernatural action on the heels of 2019’s breakout hit Demon Slayer. Its darker approach both set Jujutsu Kaisen apart from its predecessor and offered a cathartic escape during a global pandemic. Studio MAPPA adapted Gege Akutami’s original manga with memorable visuals and smooth animation. After all, who can forget the first time Gojo tangled with Sukuna or used his mind-bending domain expansion technique? But what’s most striking about Jujutsu Kaisen are…
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19 Apr

Can Shang-Chi Solve Marvel’s Fight Scene Problem?

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The first teaser for Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings features plenty of compelling moments. The two and a half minute clip has star Simu Liu getting impossibly ripped, Awkwafina driving a runaway bus Speed-style, and several big CGI action set pieces that we’ve come to expect from the MCU. The most exciting bits from this first look are a bit more elemental, however. Simply put, this teaser features plenty of human hands, balled into fists, striking objects in front of them hard. That’s right: it’s got punches galore.  The clip even opens with Shang-Chi punching a…
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09 Mar

Joe Carnahan’s The Raid Remake Won’t Be ‘So Heavily Fight-Based’

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Fresh off this past weekend’s release of Boss Level, and with his next film Copshop already in post-production, writer/director Joe Carnahan now hopes to turn his attention to his next project: a long-developing remake of the 2011 Indonesian action/crime thriller, The Raid (known in the U.S. as The Raid: Redemption). Or maybe not. Asked about the project, which was first announced with a different director in 2014 before Carnahan came aboard three years later, Carnahan says that the English-language version of the stunning original has drifted away from being a true remake. “It’s our version of The Raid,” says Carnahan…
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22 Feb

Godzilla vs. Kong: Inside the Monster Fight of the Century

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By now you’ve probably seen the Godzilla vs. Kong trailer. You know, the one where a giant ape not only punches a giant lizard in the face (and does what almost looks like the Henry Cavill arm-cocking maneuver) suggesting there’s a new contender for the title of “King of the Monsters.” Audiences will find out who wins when the film drops on HBO Max and in theaters on Mar. 26, 2021, but in a 2019 visit to the Australian production, Den of Geek learned there is more to the movie than a mere clash of Titans. Instead, executive producer Alex…
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19 Feb

Could the Mortal Kombat Reboot Finally Give Us the Sub-Zero vs. Scorpion Fight We Deserve?

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The Mortal Kombat reboot movie from Warner Bros. has been a longtime coming. In fact, a fresh start for the film franchise has been in the works since at least 2010 when director Kevin Tancharoen pitched a movie called Mortal Kombat: Rebirth to Warner Bros. That project ended up in development hell, and it was Aquaman director James Wan who next picked up the torch in 2015 as producer, with newcomer Simon McQuoid directing from a script penned by Greg Russo. This is the reboot that you’ll finally get to see on HBO Max on April 16. Ahead of the…
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12 Feb

Crazy Samurai: 400 vs. 1: The Most Epic Sword Fight Ever Filmed

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When it comes to action choreography, any long take sequence that lasts more than a few minutes is an achievement. Stunts and fights are risky. They can even be deadly. The longer the scene, the more chances of an accident. But a 77-minute one-er? That’s just crazy.  Talented filmmakers strut their stuff because the technical skill behind a good one-er demands next-level directorial and choreographic mastery. Setting up a long take scene is exponentially more challenging than a normal scene with cuts. For example, the short one-er that opens Lindsay Vonn’s new Amazon Prime reality game show series The Pack…
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24 Nov

DuckTales Season 3 Episode 17 Review: The Fight for Castle McDuck!

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This DUCKTALES review contains spoilers. Family is a core part of DuckTales. It always has been and always will be. That subject can go a lot of different ways. Some people adore their family, some people hate them. DuckTales has given us several different views of different families but generally it skews to family being a good thing, however you find it. The McDuck family in particular, for all its flaws, usually comes out pretty warm and fuzzy at the end of the day. The goal at the start of the show was bringing the family together so that’s understandable. ‘The Fight…
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12 Nov

Chick Fight

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When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.Rated: RRelease Date: Nov 13, 2020
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09 Sep

All In: The Fight for Democracy

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In anticipation of the 2020 presidential election, All In: The Fight for Democracy examines the often overlooked, yet insidious issue of voter suppression in the United States. The film interweaves personal experiences with current activism and historical insight to expose a problem that has corrupted our democracy from the very beginning. With the perspective and expertise of Stacey Abrams, the former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, the documentary offers an insider’s look into laws and barriers to voting that most people don’t even know are threats to their basic rights as citizens of the United States.Rated: PG-13Release…
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04 Sep

Batman Villains Fight to Survive in The Joker War Zone

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The Joker War rages on in Gotham, and ahead of the release of Batman: The Joker War Zone, DC shared new information about the tie-in book’s contents. Guess what that means? If you guessed “James Stokoe drawing a Clownhunter story”, please leave next Wednesday’s Powerball numbers in the comments. The 48-page book has five announced stories. The first looks at Poison Ivy’s return to Gotham (which happened in Batman #98). It’s called “Ashes of Eden,” written by Sam Johns (DC’s Crimes of Passion, Over the Garden Wall: The Benevolent Sisters of Charity) and drawn by Laura Braga (Harley & Ivy…
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12 Aug

Deathstroke: Knights and Dragons Shows off Lady Shiva and Ravager Fight

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Slade Wilson has a complicated family life. He’s the premier assassin in the DC Universe, with super powers and a big beefy sword and a butler with wit sharper than Slade’s sword. He’s would seem to be the ideal Batman foil, but instead he’s the primary villain of the Teen Titans, and especially Robins in all their varying incarnations. And most of that rivalry comes from Slade’s dysfunctional family, which you can get a glimpse of in this exclusive clip from the upcoming DC animated feature, Deathstroke: Knights and Dragons. The movie looks to be a little bit about Deathstroke’s…
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27 Jul

The Fight

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At this defining moment in American history, The Fight follows a scrappy team of heroic ACLU lawyers in an electrifying battle over abortion rights, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights and voting rights.Rated: PG-13Release Date: Jul 31, 2020
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05 Jun

BE WATER: Director Bao Nguyen Reveals Bruce Lee’s Fight Against Racism in America

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It’s been 47 years since Bruce Lee’s shocking death at age 32. He would have been 80 this November. And yet, his groundbreaking legacy is as compelling and relevant as ever. Lee was the first global Asian celebrity and remains the most prominent.  Lee’s legacy can still be felt around the world. BE WATER, a new documentary on Bruce Lee, premieres on ESPN on June 7. From director Bao Nguyen, the film combines rare archival photos and footage along with revealing interviews with Lee’s surviving family and friends, offering an intimate look at the world’s most famous martial arts master.…
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04 Dec

The Good Fight – Season Two

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Highly Recommended The excellent television legal drama The Good Fight returns for its second season on DVD, the series already having been renewed for a third one next year. As I explained in my review of Season One, my wife, Yukiyo, was a binge-watching fan of The Good Wife, the 2009-2016 legal drama that had preceded it, the series starring Julianna Margulies. On her days off from work her eyes would be glued to her laptop for hours, watching five or six episodes, one after the other. I only caught bits and pieces of that show, but then the first…
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17 Apr

The Good Fight: Season One

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Highly Recommended Some explanation required here. My wife, Yukiyo, was a binge-watching fan of The Good Wife, the 2009-2016 legal-political drama series starring Julianna Margulies. On her days off from work her eyes would be glued to her laptop for hours, watching five or six episodes, one after the other. I only caught bits and pieces of that show, but when the spin-off The Good Fight (2017-present) fell into our unloved DVD screener pool I knew I had to review it, if only so that Yukiyo could see it. And yet, despite never having watched a single entire episode of…
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