In The Running Man the future is depicted as an authoritarian police state with a broken economy. When our man Richards (Schwarzenegger) faces airport security and has no travel pass, he rummages through his bag until a line of anxious tourists…
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Blog of Eric Jacobus – Known for playing Stryker in Mortal Kombat Legacy, and the films Contour and Death Grip
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The Running Man Still Predicted An Optimistic Future
Tagged with: airport security, arnold schwarzenegger, dystopia, economics, future, game show, orwell, running man, tsa
Posted in Action Kickback, United States
Posted in Action Kickback, United States
Actionist Mini-review – Pet Sematary
While Pet Sematary‘s presentation might feel a tad Lifetime-y now, it still serves up a great tale on the human inability to accept the end of life, hitting all the right beats with regular thrills, superb gore moments, and eerie…
Tagged with: church, dale midkiff, fred gwynne, gage, horror, pet sematary, review, stephen king
Posted in Action Kickback, Horror, Reviewa
Posted in Action Kickback, Horror, Reviewa
Genre Mini-reviews – How films measure up to the Action Kickback Model
I’ll be posting short reviews for the sake of search-ability, focusing on genre and how they live up the Action Kickback Model. I’ll review genre films in general; action, horror, sci-fi, etc. The main points I want to address with…
Tagged with: action, action kickback, eric jacobus, genre, horror, reviews, science fiction, scifi, stunt people reviews
Posted in Action Kickback
Posted in Action Kickback
Indie Action Weekly-ish Roundup – August 14, 2012
Hiroshi Adachi’s Shoreline Operation with Emmanuel Manzanares Sleeping Dogs, action by EMC Monkeys, funded by Enix themselves! Reddit article here. Green Jade by Movie-Do
Tagged with: church, emc monkeys, enix, green jade, Japan, movie-do, sleeping dogs, sogya, square, tokyo, xin
Posted in Action Kickback, Indie, Japan, United States, Video
Posted in Action Kickback, Indie, Japan, United States, Video
How Science Fiction Lost Its Edge – A Genre Study
While working on a science fiction concept I’m developing, it’s been interesting to study how the genre itself functions. Science Fiction has two key responsibilities: Predicts the logical ends of a technological trajectory and sets it up as the conflict.…
Tagged with: action kickback, ak, genre, Indie, science, science fiction, scifi, v for vendetta
Posted in Action Kickback, United States
Posted in Action Kickback, United States
Small Fish and a Promise
The latest series of events in Stunt People history have made it painfully obvious to me that you have to be a huge player to get any momentum in the entertainment world. Materials – Getting a printing company to make…
Tagged with: action, Film, genre, industry
Posted in Action Genre, Action Kickback, Journal, Marketing, Uncategorized
Posted in Action Genre, Action Kickback, Journal, Marketing, Uncategorized
Avoid Lecturing Your Audience
The recent hit Haywire with Gina Carano is putting the spotlight on actors who do their own fighting and stunts, but there seems to be a viewpoint that audiences are somehow responsible for the diminished quality in our action genre.…
Tagged with: action, audience, culture wars, elitism, gina carano, haywire, puritanism
Posted in Action Kickback, Editorial, United States
Posted in Action Kickback, Editorial, United States
High-octane action videos you probably haven’t seen
Tired of stunts done with computer graphics? Wires that gently float actors down after a dangerous 4-foot jump? Still imagining the pads off camera? Here is some much-needed medicine for your ailment. Let’s start early on, just at the peak…
Tagged with: ben lam, hong kong, Hwang Jang Lee, jac, Japan, japan action club, Junya Takagi, panna rittikrai, phillip Ko, thailand, tony jaa, Wang Lung Wei, Wang Yu, yasuaki kurata
Posted in Action Kickback, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Video
Posted in Action Kickback, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Video
An Introduction to The Action Kickback Movement
If you’re reading this blog, “action fan” doesn’t adequately describe you. You’re an “action junkie.” You like your action scene unprocessed and unrefined, no sugar added, preferably in a powdery form whose purity is demonstrated by its rapid solubility in…
Action Kickback site up and running
I’ve launched a new website for the Action Kickback movement to bring attention to the independent action teams that have sprung up over the past decade. They are, in my opinion, giving high-budget studio action films a run for their…
