Directed by legendary martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping and co-starring Dave Bautista, Michelle Yeoh, and Tony Jaa, Master Z is a worthy addition to the Ip Man canon and a star-studded martial arts crime thriller. This movie follows Max Zhang’s character from Ip Man 3, a father trying to raise his young son and recover from his defeat at the hands of Ip Man in the previous movie. I’ve decided to go with Master Z for two reasons: It is literally the fourth movie in the franchise, and as much as I love Scott Adkins (and I really do), I did not want to end this list with three consecutive movies of his. I spent quite a bit of time deciding whether the fourth movie in the excellent Ip Man series is 2019’s Ip Man 4: The Finale (self-explanatory) or 2018’s Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (a spinoff from Ip Man 3). PVīoyka: Undisputed is available to watch on Netflix. With terrific fight sequences choreographed by the excellent Tim Man and another excellent performance by Adkins, Boyka is 86 minutes of great action cinema. After discovering the opponent’s wife owes money to a crime lord, Boyka decides to fight for the gangster’s club in order to repay her debt. Released in 2017 and directed by Florentine, the movie deals with the fallout of an underground fight where Boyka accidentally kills his opponent. Undisputed II: Last Man Standing and Undisputed III: Redemption are both legitimately great action movies, but we’re here to talk about Boyka: Undisputed. Michael Jai White was tapped as the protagonist, to square off against antagonist Yuri Boyka (played by Scott Adkins), but something funny happened: Boyka took over the franchise. In 2006, direct-to-video master Isaac Florentine took over the franchise and moved the focus to the burgeoning world of mixed martial arts. The franchise started with Walter Hill’s 2002 prison boxing drama Undisputed, starring Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes. The Undisputed series is one of the most consistent action movie franchises of all time, but gets largely ignored because of how many of the movies went direct to video. Image: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment PVīride of Chucky is available to watch with ads on Tubi. Tilly and Brad Dourif (returning as the voice of Chucky, of course) are a delightfully twisted duo and make this a joyously fun time. The two dolls go on a sadistic road trip with two clueless teenagers (including a young Katherine Heigl) in a hilarious, murderous romp. Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly, in a scene-stealing performance) has revived Chucky from the dead, and after a deadly argument, Chucky turns her into a doll as well. Instead, the focus is on the dolls: Chucky and Tiffany. Andy is completely gone - he doesn’t make an appearance and is not mentioned once. ![]() The first movie, Child’s Play, is a terrific black comedy, and the fourth, Bride of Chucky, takes the series in a completely different direction. No matter where he goes - be it to a foster home, a military school, whatever - he is followed by the murderous Chucky doll, which is possessed by the soul of the dead serial killer Charles Lee Ray. The first three movies of the Child’s Play series follow a young boy named Andy. Two dolls go on a murderous road trip with two unwitting teenagers, who blame each other when the bodies start dropping. Mad Max: Fury Road is available to stream on HBO Max. ![]() Steven Soderbergh put it best: “I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.” -Toussaint Egan The sheer spectacle of the film alone, even apart from the massive vehicular chase scenes and explosive set-pieces, is absolutely mind-boggling. Tom Hardy does a remarkable service assuming the role of the laconic road warrior Max Rockatansky, but the real star of the film is the brutally capable Imperator Furiosa played by Charlize Theron. ![]() The third sequel to a franchise that had all but evaporated from public consciousness, filmed across 138 days under the grueling heat of the Namibian desert and premiering in theaters nearly three decades after the last installment, Mad Max: Fury Road defied the odds in every way, securing its place as not only one of the best films in George Miller’s oeuvre, but as one of the most celebrated action movies of the 2010s. It’s incredible that Mad Max: Fury Road exists at all, period.
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