Once upon a time, Hong Kong and Hollywood were the best of friends… Hong Kong was the poor-but-spunky upstart and Hollywood was the rich, aloof asshole who’d taken a shine to its charms. For about half a decade, the two would collaborate in ways that would change the action genre forever. In the early days, this meant trying to bolt Hong Kong action scenes onto standard, low-brow Hollywood action tropes; the results may not have been earth-shattering, but damn were they entertaining… And The Big Hit may have been one of the best (and strangest) of the bunch. The Big Hit came at the perfect time in my life; I was 16 years old and had recently discovered the charms of Hong Kong action through films like Rumble In The Bronx and Face/Off. By the time the film hit theaters in 1998, the name John Woo was synonymous with top-level action and the film’s distributor, Columbia […] The post Streaming Sleepers: In THE BIG HIT, A Gleeful Late 90s Action Throwback first appeared on Film Combat Syndicate.

Rebel Highway (1994)Episode 8: "Jailbreakers"Original Airdate: 9th September, 1994 Jeff and Cheryl cruise down Rebel Highway with Episode #8, "Jailbreakers."Written by Debra Hill & Gigi Vorgan Directe...

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