Movie Kumite: 12 Rounds 3 vs. Countdown
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...
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Movie Kumite: Breathing Fire vs. No Retreat, No Surrender
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...
Movie Kumite: Only the Strong vs. The Principal
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...
Movie Kumite: American Ninja 2 vs. Revenge of the Ninja
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...
Movie Kumite: Captain America vs. Superman IV
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...
Movie Kumite: The Base vs. The Base 2: Guilty as Charged
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...
Movie Kumite: The A-Team vs. The Equalizer
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...
Movie Kumite: King of the Kickboxers vs. Kickboxer
For action fans of my generation, the 1989 movie Kickboxer starring Jean-Claude Van Damme was their introduction to the world of kickboxing movies. Some might even say it is the king of all kicboxing movies. One...
Movie Kumite: Drop Zone vs. Cutaway
In previous editions of Movie Kumite we have seen war heroes fight it out, we have seen dueling vigilantes and we’ve even had a ninja battle. This time around it is skydiver street fight as Drop...
Movie Kumite: American Ninja vs. Enter the Ninja
Popularizing the ninja genre is one of the many things Cannon Films is famous for. In this edition of Movie Kumite we pit two of Cannon Films’ ninja movies against one another. On one side, the...
