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Catch the Heat is a 1987 star vehicle for Tiana Alexandra. Alexandra's family fled Vietnam for America in 1966. As a young woman, she met and trained under Bruce Lee, who introduced her to his friend and her future husband Sterling Silliphant. Silliphant got her a bit part in The Killer Elite (which he wrote), starting a minor acting career. The year before this movie, she created the "Karatecize" fitness program. A few years after this movie, she directed a documentary calle

Tony Jaa burst onto the international scene with Ong-Bak (2003, released in North America in 2005). His hard-hitting Muay Thai felt new...

If The Hidden was like a Grand Theft Auto rampage in movie form, L.A. Wars is the movie version of rushing through a bunch of low-level...

A body-hopping alien parasite leads cops on a deadly chase around Los Angeles in this action/sci-fi/horror hybrid. The thin script gets a bit repetitive and peaks too early for my taste, but for the most part this is a fast paced and entertaining flick I would recommend to all fans of violent B-movies. I also would have preferred a little more style and excitement in the staging of the action scenes, but they almost make up for it with sheer bloodiness. This might be the most