Ikatan Darah
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | Another good action movie. Good fights. Some amped-up bad guys. Plenty of blood. And boy, did these filmmakers love breaking furniture! One interesting…
Chocolate
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | For a movie made in 2008 it had a very 70s feel. I assume that was intentional by the director. Much of it…
The Forbidden City
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2025 | There was a lot going on in this movie. Martial arts, both Italian and Chinese crime families, romance—all going on in the multi-cultural…
Road to Vendetta
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | A fun martial arts action movie with an actual story (not just skipping from fight sequence to fight sequence). The premise starts with…
Baby Assassins Nice Days
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2024 | I finally got to see a Baby Assassins movie at Fantastic Fest! In 2021 I was intrigued by the description of the first…
Ghost Killer
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2024 | From the same director, fight choreographer, and one star of the Baby Assassins franchise, which I love. An absurd setup that leads to…
One Percenter
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2023 | Excellent Japanese martial arts film, with excellent fight scenes. Even had a good story behind the reason guys were beating the crap out…
Bad City
| B | Fantastic Fest 2022 | Fun Japanese gangster action movie. A convicted ex-cop released on temporary parole to lead a special task force to halt a feud between…