June Impact

June 2010

p12 / who dares wins...

As The Losers is about to hit UK cinemas, Impact’s Editor John Mosby catches up with Andy Diggle to talk about the film and his next project where he is about to take on a landmark story for Marvel’s Daredevil...

p18 / undisputed 3: redemption

Impact’s Eastern Editor Mike Leeder delivers the first UK review of Isaac Florentine’s Undisputed 3: Redemption, the third film in the saga starring UK martial artist Scott Adkins and also has exclusive interviews with Isaac Florentine, Scott Adkins and fight cheroegrapher Larnell Stovell...

p26 / stark and stripes

Daniel K Gray reviews the latest outing for billionaire, extraordinaire Tony Stark and sees whether the public has the l’amour for the armour...

p30 / pros, cons and punchlines

In the first of a two-part interview, writer, producer and director John Rogers talks to Impact about his career and how the action industry is undergoing a fundamental shift...

p36 / chick flicks and battlefields

Long time readers of Impact will know that international combatant Chick Allan and team are the diamonds in the rough when you need a gang of warriors for your battle scenes. Past projects include Gladiator and King Arthur and their last project, Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood has just hit UK cinemas and John Mosby catches up with Chick to discuss tactics, temperatures and battering rams...

p40 / gods in spandex

Impact has often championed certain independent genre movies that may have not received the critical acclaim or respect that we feel that they deserve. This month, Eastern Editor Mike Leeder looks Gods in Spandex, a book about the thoughts and re-collections of actors and directors who made the ‘80s genre movies, we shouldn’t like but for some reason do...

p42 / [japanime] the greatest anime ever

This month Impact is to commence a series of showcases of the finest anime movies ever made – the essential feature movies that are a must-see before you give up the ghost. To this end our Tokyo Correspondent, Andrez Bergen, has brought together a number of Japan’s leading filmmakers, artists and musicians to adjudge: What is the Greatest Anime Ever?

p48 / [anime attack] the state of anime

Anime Attack takes a look at the current state of the anime industry and ponders, ‘where has all the originality gone?’

p52 / andy "action" cheng

Impact’s Lisa Clemens offers the concluding part of her in-depth overview of the career of former Hong Kong stuntman turned Hollywood based action choreographer and director Andy Cheng and looks at his work on projects like The Rundown, The New World, and his move into directing with End Game and Redline...

p56 / charlie valentine

"Charlie Valentine was a gangster, a gunfighter, a womanizer and a pretty fine chef…He was also the most dangerous, irresponsible scoundrel you ever met." One of Impact’s favourite directors Jesse Johnson’s latest project is the hard hitting gangster noir movie Charlie Valentine. Andrew Skeates brings Impact a first review of the film.

p58 / tooth and consequences

Dwayne Johnson may once have been the no-nonsense wrestler known as The Rock, but he’s since proven himself in the Hollywood arena. Impact’s John Mosby checks out his new film where he plays...the Tooth Fairy?

p60 / slash and burn

Twenty-six years after the original A Nightmare on Elm Street pulled horror films out of slasher drudgery, the remake just hit the big screen. Jill McDole dreams a little dream…

p62 / [asian extreme] blood

This month Calum Waddell needs Blood for the strength to face his Phobia...

p66 / the warrior

This month, Impact travels back to the glory days of VHS classics in the 1980s, when Barry Prima headlined a series of martial arts adventures often with supernatural elements, beginning with The Warrior. Impact’s Eastern Editor and self proclaimed ‘video kid of the 80’s’ Mike Leeder turns back the years...

p68 / [far from fragile] stuck in the middle

Beau Smith finds himself in the middle of a Civil War this month, having to play peacekeeper between Marvel and DC...

p70 / fire of conscience

Dante Lam is back! Fire of Conscience is the latest ‘bullet ballet actioner’ from the acclaimed director and Mike Leeder has this first review...

p72 / [multimedia] games, books and dvds

Impact has had a little help this month from young action fans Benjamin Ferguson, Callum Gater and Jake Almond with our monthly multimedia roundup. Along with their book reviews we have all the usual...

p82 / next month

Next month we have the second part of our Leverage and Undisputed coverage and a look back at 24 and Lost...