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Six men in diving suits thrash and splash around in the Aegean sea. The camera follows the divers as they manage, with some effort, to drag themselves ashore. Then turning to the business at hand, the men begin to beat the life out of…

William Friedkin's 2003 thriller The Hunted is not a remarkable film. The movie sees Tommy Lee Jones track rogue assassin Benicio Del Toro who in turn is hunting and killing the most dangerous game of all, man. It's a potboiler of a…

Throughout the week we are previewing all the screenings at Hong Kong Kicks – a series of films on the cinema of Hong Kong and martial arts, presented by the Dublin International Film Festival as part of their DIFF PIX programme. Hong Kong…

Throughout the week we are previewing all the screenings at Hong Kong Kicks – a series of films on the cinema of Hong Kong and martial arts, presented by the Dublin International Film Festival as part of their DIFF PIX programme. Hong Kong…

Throughout the week we are previewing all the screenings at Hong Kong Kicks – a series of films on the cinema of Hong Kong and martial arts, presented by the Dublin International Film Festival as part of their DIFF PIX programme. Hong Kong…

Throughout the week we are previewing all the screenings at Hong Kong Kicks – a series of films on the cinema of Hong Kong and martial arts, presented by the Dublin International Film Festival as part of their DIFF PIX programme. Hong Kong…

For this edition of Great Movie Fight Scenes we're going back to Hong Kong with the 1984 martial arts comedy caper Wheels on Meals. Wheels on Meals is a fun (and funny) martial arts film set in Barcelona, Spain. Jackie Chan and Yuen…

In this edition of Great Movie Fight Scenes an Indian gangland enforcer goes toe-to-toe with sword-wielding maniacs in one of the most important Hindi films of the modern era. Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 1989 Indian crime film Parinda (The…

In this second article on Great Movie Fight Scenes I'll be looking at the slugfest finale to Richard Donner's buddy-cop spectacular, Lethal Weapon. In this sequence street-crazy cop on the edge Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) takes on the…

This article is one part film history, one part fight commentary. First of all, I’d like to outline some of the technical innovations in Hong Kong cinema during the period leading up to the mid-1960s. From there I’ll examine one of the…