Craig Lines May 3, 2017
For fans of 80s action cinema, No Retreat No Surrender holds a special place. We've been speaking to the man behind the series...
If you were a kid in the 1980s and you liked action movies, chances are you rented No Retreat No Surrender at some point. It was like a more violent, high-octane take on The Karate Kid, with all-American teen Jason (Kurt McKinney) getting martial arts tutelage from no less than The Ghost Of Bruce Lee so he could kick the ass of a muscly Russian (Jean-Claude Van Damme in his first major role). As a kid, this movie was everything to me. It was a 15 cert so a little bit edgy, but still simple and wholesome enough for young me to totally ‘get it’. I had tears streaming down my face the first time I watched it, I was so invested in the final fight.
For fans of 80s action cinema, No Retreat No Surrender holds a special place. We've been speaking to the man behind the series...
If you were a kid in the 1980s and you liked action movies, chances are you rented No Retreat No Surrender at some point. It was like a more violent, high-octane take on The Karate Kid, with all-American teen Jason (Kurt McKinney) getting martial arts tutelage from no less than The Ghost Of Bruce Lee so he could kick the ass of a muscly Russian (Jean-Claude Van Damme in his first major role). As a kid, this movie was everything to me. It was a 15 cert so a little bit edgy, but still simple and wholesome enough for young me to totally ‘get it’. I had tears streaming down my face the first time I watched it, I was so invested in the final fight.
- 5/2/2017
- Den of Geek
Finding love at the hospital doesn't happen every day - especially when you're just 12 years old. Stella Usiak and Lucas Lowe met when they were both fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia. But throughout their relapses, bone marrow transplants and numerous hospital visits, they kept in touch and became close. "She's had a crush on me for a while now, and I've had a crush on her, so her and me are boyfriend and girlfriend now," Lucas told Wgrz. Stella says Lucas is hilarious and a "gentlemen," and Lucas finds Stella to be kind and nice, "like a woman should be." Their...
- 5/27/2016
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
Finding love at the hospital doesn't happen every day - especially when you're just 12 years old. Stella Usiak and Lucas Lowe met when they were both fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia. But throughout their relapses, bone marrow transplants and numerous hospital visits, they kept in touch and became close. "She's had a crush on me for a while now, and I've had a crush on her, so her and me are boyfriend and girlfriend now," Lucas told Wgrz. Stella says Lucas is hilarious and a "gentlemen," and Lucas finds Stella to be kind and nice, "like a woman should be." Their...
- 5/27/2016
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
In the mid-eighties Ng See Yuen’s ‘Seasonal Films’ company decided it might be a good idea to try their hand at making films with more international appeal, initially inspired by the success of a certain Hollywood martial arts movie.
But unlike previous attempts at international productions by the likes of Golden Harvest and other studios, where the main goal was to introduce a home grown star to the west, Seasonal’s aim was to make movies with a combination of American actors in front of the camera, with a mostly Asian crew working behind the scenes, putting together the kind of action that Hong Kong does so well.
Their first attempt, ‘No Retreat, No Surrender‘ was released in 1986...A film which would eventually spawn two sequels.
“Tonight, he either fights for his life, or he’ll be running for the rest of it.”
The original ‘No Retreat, No Surrender...
But unlike previous attempts at international productions by the likes of Golden Harvest and other studios, where the main goal was to introduce a home grown star to the west, Seasonal’s aim was to make movies with a combination of American actors in front of the camera, with a mostly Asian crew working behind the scenes, putting together the kind of action that Hong Kong does so well.
Their first attempt, ‘No Retreat, No Surrender‘ was released in 1986...A film which would eventually spawn two sequels.
“Tonight, he either fights for his life, or he’ll be running for the rest of it.”
The original ‘No Retreat, No Surrender...
- 7/2/2009
- by Chris
- Latemag.com/film
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