fight scenes

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…