‘The Bouncer’ aka ‘Lukas’ is Heading to Theaters! Jean-Claude Van Damme’s dark new thriller The Bouncer aka Lukas has been given a release date after production company Blue Fox acquired the rights to the film. The Bouncer sees the Muscles from Brussels play Lukas, a down-on-his-luck nightclub doorman juggling a physically demanding job with life as…
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Does Not Get John Carpenter’s Blessing for Big Trouble in Little China Remake. John Carpenter has hit out at Dwayne Johnson’s plans for a Big Trouble In Little China follow-up fronted by WWE icon The Rock. The filmmaker hit out at the project during a round table discussion with CinemaBlend, set…
Sergio Peris-Mencheta Joins Rambo 5: Last Blood as Stallone’s Bad Guy. The Ultimate Action Movie Club has been closely monitoring the development of Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo 5: Last Blood. You can read up on Stallone’s workout regime, his new Rambo “cowboy” look, and even peek inside his Rambo man cave here. Now UAMC can confirm…
Van Damme and Lundgren’s 1992 classic Universal Soldier is Getting a Remake. Universal Soldier, the action movie cult classic that pitted Jean-Claude Van Damme against Dolph Lundgren, is getting a remake. Richard Wenk, best known for penning the script to the Denzel Washington revenge thriller The Equalizer, revealed to Discussing Film he is working on…
Chuck Norris is a Man of Many Talents. Actor, writer, martial arts master and occasional Texas Ranger, the one thing missing off Chuck Norris’ CV to date is a move into the murky world of politics. But that could be about to change. Well, kind of. Meet Marcin Olpiński. He’s currently standing in the local…
Skyscraper vs. Skyscraper in the ultimate Skyscraper Showdown! 1996 saw the release of Skyscraper, a movie about a hero with a humongous chest who must battle terrorists in a high rise building. 22 years later, we have Skyscraper, a movie about a hero with a humongous chest who must battle terrorists in a high rise…
Sylvester Stallone’s Demolition Man Turns 25 Years Old! On October 8th, 1993, Sylvester Stallone’s sci-fi action opus Demolition Man landed in US cinemas, bringing fans a very different kind of Sly movie. Stallone played John Spartan, a risk-taking police renegade on the tail of Wesley Snipes’ Simon Phoenix, a pathologically evil crime lord with violent…
‘Birth of the Dragon’ Doesn’t Quite Do Bruce Lee Justice. Birth of the Dragon (2016) is a strange beast, a Bruce Lee biopic set before Bruce Lee became a global superstar. It really focuses on the, best described as legendary, encounter between the young Lee (played by Philip Ng) and the almost mythical kung fu…
Get your Rowdy Roddy Piper They Live Sunglasses Today! John Carpenter’s They Live ranks as one of the most inventive films of the 1980s helped in no small part by the central performance of central protagonist Roddy Piper. Rowdy Roddy Piper played John Nada as a drifter who comes across a pair of sunglasses that…
The story behind Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ultimate classic Commando (1985). On October 4th, 1985, Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced US moviegoers to John Matrix. A retired Special Forces colonel, he was on a one-man mission to rescue his daughter from a band of mercenaries led by former subordinate and Freddie Mercury lookalike Bennett. The film was Commando and…
