Convicted drug smuggler and villain Charlie Baskin (Harlow Marks) has managed to bust out of jail. Working with some of his ex-military buddies, he’s looking to extract a little payback on the people who set him up for the fall and put him away before getting back into business. So, the judge (Joe Railton) and […]
Read more "Breaking Jaws to Serve the Laws: China O’Brien II (1990)"When a misunderstanding and accidental shooting leads to a dead teenager, martial arts instructor and police officer China O’Brien (Cynthia Rothrock) cannot shake the guilt. It was her weapon and her trigger finger that put the young man down. She turns in her badge and revolver, and heads back home for some rest with family. […]
Read more "There’s a New Sheriff In Town: China O’Brien (1990)"When the FBI discovers the US is being flooded with counterfeit hundred dollar bills, their best analysts trace the funny money to Hong Kong. It’s time to call in a specialist agent to crack the case. As it turns out, Cindy (Cynthia Rothrock) went to school in HK, has plenty of contacts there, and can […]
Read more "Blonde Fury: Lady Reporter (1989)"When mad corporate bastard Z (Bill Peterson) infects a handful of super strong, state of the art cyborgs with the illegal pleasure drug Euphemoral, he turns those cybogs into psychosexual serial killers. Three of the androids are unleashed into the wilds of futuristic New York, and this could pose a problem … after all, they […]
Read more "“Total Carnage. What’s Not To Like?” Mutant Hunt (1987)"When a trip to visit a New Zealand justice exposes Hong Kong prosecutor Hsia Ling-Cheng (Biao Yuen) to the violent assassination of a local judge, he loses his shit, chases the bad guys down, and ends their reign of terror with a fireball explosion. Has he righted the wrong he set out to right? Well, […]
Read more "Justice … or Revenge? Righting Wrongs"Justin Vanier (Billy Blanks) is a martial artist and special forces guy tapped to infiltrating a martial arts camp headed by the blond-maned, megalomaniacal Warbeck (Wolf Larson). More than just a state of the art training facility, it is a recruiting ground for a secret team of assassins. An undercover operative was attempting this very […]
Read more "Ready … Fight: Expect No Mercy"Although he was framed and imprisoned, Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) is being given an early release and a mission for The Man. Find out who is responsible for moving drugs in his neighborhood. It could be dirty cops like Detective Mitchell (John Kerry), it could be coming out of the church of Reverend Gibbs (Wesley […]
Read more "Back On the Scene: Dolemite"In the five or so years between Tiger Claws (1990) and Tiger Claws II (1995), Jalal Merhi produced quite a few pictures. One of these was a post-apocalyptic science fictioner about a world squeezed by ecological disaster, a disparity between the wealthy who live underground and the dirty, criminal, irradiated poor on the surface. Unto […]
Read more "Punching and Kicking to Save the World: TC 2000"Detectives Tarek Richards (Jalal Merhi) and Linda Masterson (Cynthia Rothrock) are once more partner in New York as Tiger Claws III (2000) opens. We kick off with a bit of banter, Masterson dressed nice because she thought she was promised an outing with steak but sitting in a car instead on a stakeout outside a […]
Read more "Third Time’s A Charm: Tiger Claws III"Following the events of the first Tiger Claws (1991) film, former partners Tarek Richards (Jalal Merhi) and Linda Masterson (Cynthia Rothrock) have not only gotten new partners, they’ve split up completely. She moved out to San Francisco for different opportunities; he stayed in NYC. However, trouble is never far from them. While tracking megalomaniacal gun […]
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