This edition of the Movie Kumite will be contested under “the law of the jungle” as 1987’s Wild Thing battles 1996’s Savage! Who will win this war between primitive protagonists? Sit back and relax in your comfy...
I am not even about to try to determine if Raiders of the Lost Ark is superior to Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade or vice versa. If you ask me on a Monday I might tell...
The Battle of Ohio has been played out on the football field for years between the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals. But for the first time in history, The Battle of Ohio will be decided...
This edition of the Movie Kumite is being dubbed our Supernatural Spooktacular and for good reason. Both of our films feature the star being possessed by a spirit. In The Force, the spirit is a force...
Teenagers. They can be a rebellious bunch. Give them some martial arts training and they can be down right dangerous. That is a lesson the evil doers of Breathing Fire and No Retreat, No Surrender found...
The Movie Kumite has hosted superhero showdowns, ninja battles, a clash of the vigilantes and even a skydiving streetfight, but this time around we have educators going head to head in our cinematic slugfest. We are dubbing...
Last September two ninja films from the legendary Cannon Films library battled it out in our Movie Kumite. In that battle, American Ninja destroyed Enter the Ninja. I knew at some point Sho Kosugi needed a chance...
In today’s world of big studio, big budget, big money superhero film franchises, it is hard to believe that at one point an independent movie studio like Cannon Films and an off the beaten path producer...
Director Mark L. Lester will forever be associated with a true action classic in 1985’s Commando starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. But Lester continued to contribute to the action entertainment genre long after Commando was released. Some other...
Ladies and gentleman, welcome to another edition of Movie Kumite! This cinematic slugfest will pit two movies that derived from action TV shows of the 1980’s against one another. In one corner it is The A-Team in the other...
