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Tony Jaa’s Striking Rescue gets North American distribution

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Many fans are eager to see if this Chinese-produced Youku streaming original will be a return to form for Jaa. We’ve taken a look at Tony Jaa’s breakout hit Ong Bak in an episode of our Reel Action series that’s available on the JoBlo Originals Channel on YouTube. Since his first few Thai films, in … Read more

Is Tony Jaa’s Ong Bak one of the best modern martial arts movies?

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2003. It’s an era of action movies where we’re living in a post-Matrix, post-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon world. Those films’ major success and notoriety prompted Hollywood to try bringing Kung Fu wire work to more of their action films (Daredevil, Charlie’s Angels, The Musketeer, Bulletproof Monk). Meanwhile, two of the biggest names in the genre … Read more