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15 Hilarious Japanese Commercials Starring Hollywood Actors

13 November 2009 6:32 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

The announcement that Quentin Tarantino recently starred in a Japanese Softbank commercial has been making headlines [1] around the web this week, and I am still not quite sure why people are making such a big deal out of it. It's no surprise that Qt is somewhat well-versed in Japanese culture and no surprise that he enjoys hamming it up for the camera either. More to the point, I don't think these goofy commercials are quite as detrimental to a celebrity's reputation as it once was believed. After YouTube and websites like Japander [2] spread them across the internet for the whole world to see, and Bill Murray poked fun at the practice in Lost in Translation, it's easy to see why the Hollywood elite shied away for a while. However, lately Japanese commercials seem to be back in vogue, and we are even starting to see domestic ads becoming more acceptable as well. »

- Sean

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Jcvd – Jean-Claude Van Damme

11 November 2009 4:30 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Jcvd (2008) Direction: Mabrouk El Mechri Screenplay: Mabrouk El Mechri and Frédéric Benudis; from an idea by Frédéric Taddeï and Vincent Ravalec Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Liliane Becker   Jean-Claude Van Damme in Jcvd   Mabrouk El Mechri’s Jcvd is one of the best films Jean-Claude Van Damme has starred in for some years, equal to his more recent efforts in Wake of Death and Replicant. Van Damme really puts on his acting cap in all three films, though out of the three, Replicant is still the best, followed by Jcvd and then Wake of Death. Jcvd, however, is the most inventive of the trio; it is also the first film where Van Damme gets real with his audience. Jcvd [...] »

- Reginald Williams

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'Timecop' Delivers A Roundhouse Kick To Your Soul In Today's Sick Day Stash

23 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Call them "cult classics." "Guilty pleasures." "Comfort movies." We all have a mental rolodex of flicks that may not be terribly popular but, for one reason or another, they resonate in a very special way. Maybe you saw it at the right moment. Maybe you just see gold where everyone else sees feces. Whatever the case, these are the special favorites that you keep stashed away for sick days. Here are some of ours.

If I could redo my college thesis, I'd skip over the deformed-step-child-of-Hemingway creative writing project and undertake a comprehensive analysis of the time travel movie genre in Hollywood. In lieu of some assistance from a Flux Capacitor-equipped DeLorean or a George Carlin-provided phone booth, I think my only viable option is to devote my first Sick Day Stash to an underrated gem of the field: Jean-Claude Van Damme's bundle of schlocky goodness, "Timecop."

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- Eric Ditzian

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Van Damme fights?

18 September 2009 5:55 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

Jean-Claude Van Damme made an impression playing himself in the acclaimed Jcvd, but he also wants to make a few more impressions using his fists and feet, playing himself in the ring. The action actor plans to put his real-life karate and kickboxing skills to the test for his first fight in a decade. Van Damme is in training for a throwdown next summer against Thai fighter Somluck Kamsing, an Olympic boxing gold-medalist and muay thai champion. Apparently Van Damme will also be filming the... »

- Dave Davis

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Video Player All Time Top Ten!  No. 5: The Eagle Path

27 August 2009 10:27 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

[Twitch is undergoing some behind the scenes tire kicking and bolt-tightening over the next few days, work that may slow down the regular flow of new information a little bit.  So, while that’s going on we’ll be presenting a series of retro-reposts, pulling forward the all time top ten videos since we moved to our current video system.  This post originally appeared July 17.]

A military veteran and former mercenary, Frenchy (Van Damme) works as a taxi driver, hiding somewhere in East Asia, haunted by his past. After his driving shifts he often frequents the Eagle’s Nest, a seedy bar that houses a caged eagle. In the midst of the chaotic Asian traffic Frenchy picks up a beautiful female passenger who will change him forever.

Driven by dark memories of his childhood, he becomes determined to improve her life and, without her approval, he embarks on a journey which proves to be more dangerous and complicated then he expected. After encountering a series of harrowing obstacles he calls in favors from his special ops friends who immediately join him. His military team engages in the biggest fight of their lives. War is hell, but nothing they’ve done could have prepared them for this.

It’s an adrenaline-fueled, full-on, maximum firepower thriller, filled »

- Todd Brown

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Stone Cold, Brian Bosworth and the Lost Art of the Action Movie

23 July 2009 12:21 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

A security camera reveals the interior of an empty supermarket. The grainy black and white image is shattered when a grizzly figure wearing a cut off muscle T and a greasy ponytail smashes the lens with the butt of a gun. Four thugs are robbing the supermarket with automatic weapons and they’re taking the cashiers hostage. In all the commotion, the automatic door opens. A pan up reveals leather boots, stonewashed jeans, a tank top, a leather trench coat and then, the mullet. You’ve seen this NFL-sized mullet get drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in 1987. You’ve seen this mullet being dragged into the end zone by Bo Jackson. The bleached blonde mullet belongs to classic NFL bust Brian Bosworth. While the Boz couldn’t get it done on the field, in 1991, he made short work of the supermarket thieves, a gang of bikers, and Lance Hendriksen in his action movie debut, »

- NickO

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The Eagle Path Has Landed

20 July 2009 10:58 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

There are some really good Jean-Claude Van Damme films. No, there are. Hard Target. Universal Soldier. Kim Newman likes Sudden Death. Earlier this year, the muscles from Brussels had a bit of a critical renaissance. And now here’s the trailer for The Eagle Path, like Jcvd never happened.If it undoes that sterling work however, Jc only has himself to blame, since The Eagle Path is Van Damme’s second directorial outing. Or, as Wikipedia currently has it, “Jean Claude is the Director an Writer of the mvoie an he also Director of the movie called the Quest that with he star in that movie in 1996”. Jc is also credited as editor, with his father Eugene producing, and children Kristopher and Bianca co-starring. The cleverest thing about the trailer is the way it mirrors the trajectory of most Jc movies, in that it’s quite boring for the first two thirds, »

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New Promo For Jean Claude Van Damme’s The Eagle Path

20 July 2009 12:15 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Just one movie can turn a whole career around. For Jean Claude Van Damme, that was Jcvd. The movie proved (at long last) that the notoriously self-aggrandizing actor had a sense of humor. Folks that hadn't paid attention to the guy in a decade were suddenly big fans. Who needs The Expendables when you can rope your own persona into a failed bank robbery and subsequent media circus? Now Van Damme is hard at work on a more tranditional new film called The Eagle Path, and Twitch has a new promo. The film is much more in the line of late '80s / early '90s action flicks. You can use the term 'standard' or 'classic' depending on your point of view. Picture a lower-budget version of Taken starring Jcvd. Which is a long way of saying that from here, this looks like a fall back to the Dtv pictures »

- Russ Fischer

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Remember Remo Williams? He's Baaaaack!

10 July 2009 7:25 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

80s action heroes never die, they just fade away a little until the inevitable reboot of their careers in middle age. Sylvester Stallone still flexes his muscles in a movie every year or so, Jean-Claude Van Damme got all meta on us in Jcvd, and Schwarzenegger, well, we all know how that turned out. Even the B and C-list heroes are apparently getting a second chance. Remember Remo Williams? Maybe? He was the hero of the Destroyer series of pulp novels in the 80s, as well as a feature film and TV movie-- and now he's back! THR's Risky Business blog is reporting that producers Charles Roven and Steve Chasman will produce The Destroyer at Columbia, bringing back Williams, a New Jersey cop who fakes his death on the electric chair to come back as vigilante The Destroyer. I admit I'd never heard of the character before today, but I »

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Jcvd: Tussle in Brussels

17 June 2009 11:18 PM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »

Over the years, I have learnt to hate Jean Claude Van Damme's films. He goes through the same motions in all of them; bare knuckled and bare armed, he'll pummel the bad guys, ‘karatesising' his way through every sticky situation. All this while, failing to act. And now I discover that I am not the only one who dislikes his movies. I have company in Van Damme himself.... »

- Devang Ghia

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9 Actors Who Deserve a Comeback

14 June 2009 4:15 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

If you're awesome and like several other million people this weekend, then you went out and saw The Hangover. You probably then had two realizations - Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" is still sweet, and Mike Tyson is awesome. It's okay to say that now because he served his time and hasn't consumed human flesh in years. Tyson was pretty much the ultimate heavy weight for years, then disappeared (to jail) had a minor comeback, disappeared (to debt), and now is back with Tyson, a documentary, and a critically acclaimed cameo in The Hangover. Which got us to thinking about comebacks. Which actors have sort of disappeared and why and who deserves another shot at the big screen? In making this list, we wanted to focus on people who were at one time very popular and who then sort of disappeared from view or had their work scaled back. And »

- Robert Fure

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9 Actors Who Deserve a Comeback

14 June 2009 4:15 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

If you're awesome and like several other million people this weekend, then you went out and saw The Hangover. You probably then had two realizations - Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" is still sweet, and Mike Tyson is awesome. It's okay to say that now because he served his time and hasn't consumed human flesh in years. Tyson was pretty much the ultimate heavy weight for years, then disappeared (to jail) had a minor comeback, disappeared (to debt), and now is back with Tyson, a documentary, and a critically acclaimed cameo in The Hangover. Which got us to thinking about comebacks. Which actors have sort of disappeared and why and who deserves another shot at the big screen? In making this list, we wanted to focus on people who were at one time very popular and who then sort of disappeared from view or had their work scaled back. And »

- Robert Fure

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Trailer for Van Damme's 'The Eagle Path'

8 June 2009 12:06 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

His career revived by a performance as a version of himself in Jcvd, Jean Claude Van Damme has moved on to The Eagle Path, a film he wrote and directed. It's his first time behind the camera since the poorly received The Quest back in 1996.

I guess there's a certain disappointment when you learn that this is more like a 90s relic than something building on a newfound respect Van Damme has gained in some ciricles. Jcvd plays a formery mercenary named Frenchy (ugh...) who works as a taxi driver in southeast Asia. He picks up a beautiful but mysterious passenger, and then the synopsis stops making sense to me.

Frenchy is haunted by memories from his childhood and somehow the only way to move both of these story elements forward is a hail of gunfire involving our hero and lots of his old military buddies.

Here's the trailer for The Eagle Path, »

- Colin Boyd

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Van Damme Fighting His Way Into Horror?

28 May 2009 11:50 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

When it was announced that a movie was being made about bubblegum, I thought I’d heard it all. Then comes this latest news about action legend Jean-Claude Van Damme, known up until this point for kicking bad-guy ass in action movies (mostly the straight-to-dvd sort in recent years).

Well, it appears that Van Damme’s recent semi-autobiographical movie Jcvd may have sparked interest in the muscles from Brussels branching out: word is he will soon be starring in a horror movie bluntly called The Breed!

 

That’s right, you read that correctly, Van Damme is making his way into the horror genre. Whilst at the Cannes Film Festival, Van Damme gave us the surprising genre-jumping news:

“This summer I will make a new movie with a famous director called Weapon. After that I will make a horror movie called The Breed. Its a great story, great script with true emotion. »

- Ross Miller

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Jean Claude Van Damme is Going Horror in The Breed?

27 May 2009 6:30 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Either Jcvd really helped get Van Damme back in the biz, or he's desperate to make some money. The horror gurus at Arrow in the Head are reporting that Jean Claude Van Damme is joining a horror project called The Breed. Aith caught up with Jcvd in Cannes, where he revealed that after shooting a movie called Weapon in the summer, he'd shoot The Breed next. "It's a great story, great script with true emotion. I want to show the fans I am transferable. I wanted to make a horror movie a few years back, but the script was weak and had no direction." Apparently this script was a lot better, as Jcvd obviously took the job. This is the first time we've ever heard of this project, so we don't know much about it. A quick search for The Breed yields two results on IMDb: a 2001 horror film about »

- Alex Billington

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Poster: Jcvd's Karate

27 May 2009 6:55 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

This was foolish of me, but I assumed that after Jcvd, in which action legend Jean Claude Van Damme deconstructed his legend and even cried on camera, Van Damme might be done with the crappy action movies that have defined his career for much of his decade. But, of course, there is money to be made, so now we are faced with the poster for his next movie Karate and the ridiculous/awesome tagline: "Can the master of the ancient arts conquer the caged fighters of Las Vegas? The poster comes thanks to Moviehole, where they also included a helpful link to the movie's official site. The site has a more official synopsis, but you probably don't need it to know what's going on here-- lots and lots of roundhouse kicks, basically. Sounds good if that's your thing, but for those of us who thought Jcvd might be the start »

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Van Damme Cozying Up to The Breed

27 May 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

Jean-Claude Van Damme, coming off the high he received for Jcvd , is lining up his next few projects, one of which will be a horror film called The Breed . Here's the lowdown from Arrow in the Head who heard from the man himself while at Cannes. "It's a great story, great script with true emotion. I want to show the fans I am transferable. I wanted to make a horror movie a few years back but the script was weak and had no direction," Van Damme says. " The Breed is different it's set in a village where strange things happen. You know, let the movie speak for itself!" Many years ago Van Damme was attached to a Bigfoot project that never came to fruition. Perhaps the fact that Steven Seagal kicked things up a notch by making the leap into horror with... »

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The Horror of Breeding Jean-Claude Van Damme

27 May 2009 2:40 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Over a decade ago there was talk of a movie that would have cast Jean-Claude Van Damme as a park ranger forced into a life or death struggle against Bigfoot. Sadly, that film never came about and we were forever denied the sight of the "Muscles from Brussels" kickboxing Sasquatch. On the plus side, it looks like Van Damme is finally set to enter the world of horrordom with a new fright flick called The Breed. Exactly what he'll be kickboxing remains to be seen.

Arrow in the Head reports that at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Van Damme, who may be on the verge of a career resurgence following the surprisingly well received Jcvd, had the following to say about two upcoming projects.

"This summer I will make a new movie with a famous director called Weapon. After that I will make a horror movie called The Breed. It's a great story, »

- Foywonder

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Van Damme Wants to Do Horror Next

25 May 2009 7:27 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

While Jean-Claude Van Damme's next film The Eagle Path [1] looks like it may simply end up relegating him back to the bargain bin, the Muscles from Brussels hasn't stopped trying to expand his acting repertoire. According to Jcvd himself, he's got a few more tricks up his sleeve, and if all goes well, he may soon be making the jump to the horror genre for the first time in his career. "This summer I will make a new movie with a famous director called Weapon. After that I will make a horror movie called The Breed. Its a great story, great script with true emotion. I want to show the fans I am transferable. I wanted to make a horror movie a few years back but the script was weak and had no direction. Breed is different, it’s set in a village where strange things happen… You know what? »

- Sean

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Jcvd is back! And this time he’ll eh… frighten us?

23 May 2009 4:07 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Jean Claude van Damme hasn’t really been lacking in attention here at Twitch lately. That is all due to his eyecatching performance in mock-biopic-cum-hostage-thriller “Jcvd” of course, but only time will tell if he will be able to fully cash in on his current newfound arthouse credibility.

 

Jean Claude at least used his current momentum to direct his next movie “The Eagle’s Path” himself, but it’s never safe to put all your eggs into one basket so he’s been shopping around for interesting projects.

His choices so far seem intriguing, especially if you believe the rumors of what he turned down already, but he wants to show his fan base (old and new) that he is able to do more genres than he has been getting credit for so far.

 

In his own words:

“This summer I will make a new movie with a famous director »

- Ard Vijn

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