Country: Germany Director: Uwe Boll Starring: Henry Maske, Susanne Wuest, Heino Ferch, Vladimir Weigl, Yoan Pablo Hernández Music: Jessica de Rooij Director Uwe Boll has a pretty poor reputation as a film director – especially amongst the gaming community, as several of his films have been disrespectful adaptations of popular games. But, I must say [...]
Author: Lester Ellis / Robert Drane Publisher: ABC Books Published: 2007 Fighting the Demons is a pretty sad book. Like many Australians, I remember when Lester Ellis became the IBF Lightweight Champion after defeating Korean, Hwan-Kil Yuh in 1985. It was televised in rural Australia, and was a major event. For Ellis, it was a [...]
19Jan12
The Black Prince
Author: Peter Corris Publisher: Bantam Books Published: 1998 Book No: 22 – Cliff Hardy series For those not familiar with the character of Cliff Hardy, private investigator, he is a creation of Peter Corris and first appeared in the novel The Dying Trade in 1980. Since then he has been releasing Cliff Hardy stories regularly [...]
15Jan12
Phantom Punch (2007)
Country: Canada Director: Robert Townsend Starring: Ving Rhames, Stacey Dash, Nicholas Turturro, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rick Roberts Music: Stephen James Taylor Robert Townsend’s film, Phantom Punch, attempts to put a human face on one of the most unloved boxing champions of all time, Sonny Liston. And he almost succeeds due to the performance of Ving Rhames [...]
13Jan12
The Battling Bellhop (1937)
AKA: Kid Galahad Country: United States Director: Michael Curtiz Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan Music: Max Steiner, Heinz Roemheld The Battling Bellhop is a boxing drama from Warner Brothers Studios featuring three of their biggest names – Robinson, Bogart and Davis. And each of them play characters that [...]
12Jan12
Lionel (2008)
Country: Australia Director: Eddie Martin Starring: Lionel Rose, Anthony Mundine, Jeff ‘Hitman’ Harding Editor: Ken Sallows Composer: Cezary Skubiszewski One month after I was born, a young aboriginal boxer, named Lionel Rose, became the world bantam weight boxing champion when he defeated Fighting Harada in Japan. I am obviously too young to recall the swell [...]
6Jan12
Fight Card: Split Decision
Author: Eric Beetner Published: December 2010 Book No: 3 Recently I have written how much I enjoyed the first two books in the Fight Card series (Felony Fists by Paul Bishop and The Cutman by Mel Odom). However, in my reviews I suggested that a boxing story would always be predictable because they will always [...]
19Dec11
Smoker
Author: Mel Odom Smoker is a short story, only about forty-five pages, but it represents one of the great things about eBooks. In days of yore, its length it would have always made it cost prohibitive to print. Unless it popped up in an anthology, or in a magazine, this story would have gone unread, [...]
12Dec11
Fight Card: The Cutman
Author: Mel Odom Published: November 2011 Time for another entry in the hard punching Fight Card series – this time courtesy of Mel Odom writing as Jack Tunney. Mel may not be a household name, but if you are like me and troll through book shops, you have no doubt come across some of his [...]
29Nov11
Fight Card: Felony Fists
Author: Paul Bishop Published: November 2011 I am too young to remember the halcyon days of pulp fiction, but as a child growing up in the 1970s, there was always a lot of brutal entertainment on television. We would regularly watch ‘TV Ringside’ with Ron Casey, and on Sunday afternoon was ‘World Championship Wrestling’. I [...]
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Tagged Book Review, Boxing, Fight Card, Paul Bishop, Pulp Fiction
