The Raid 2: Berandal martial arts, guns and high octane vehicular mayhem

Long time no blog, my bad...mad busy began the year on IRON MAN 3 but not sure what happened to some of the stuff we shot...oh well

Now off to Jakarta till June to finish up on THE RAID 2: BERANDAL working with a group of very talented folk including Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais and from Hong Kong Bruce Law, who I am proud to call friend...Read more

FOG: THE PANTHER movies Re-Examined

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILMS DO FEATURE VERY 1980’s INSPIRED FASHION, HAIRSTYLES AND MUCH MORE..CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK My latest column for Forces of Geek sees me revisiting two slices of Australian martial arts movie making from the 1980'sDay of the PantherandStrike of the Panther, directed byMan from Hong Konghelmer Brian Trenchard-Smith....<...Read more

Casting Call: Middle Eastern looking mercenaries needed

working on a top secret project to shoot in China in early Jan 2013

need to find a bunch of ideally middle eastern looking rough and ready looking mercenaries

Anyone based in China/Hong Kong will have an advantage

Will be some fight and stunt work but the look is also going to ply an important part, so middle eastern look, the rougher the tougher the better

Please send pics, video links etc to bigmikeleeder @ gmail.com

Will be paid gig

Impact Online: Van Dammage in full effect!

Jean-Claude Van Damme was Impact's original cover star and with the recent release of both Six Bullets/The Butcher and the dark Universal Soldier: Day of Retribution...we reviewed both films and talked to directors, writers and co-stars;

Universal Soldier review: Read more

Jake Speed Revisted: Forces of Geek

Revisiting one of my fave cult films at Forces of Geek

http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2012/12/more-than-myth-less-than-legend-jake.html

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Jake Speed Revisted: Forces of Geek

Revisiting one of my fave cult films at Forces of Geek

http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2012/12/more-than-myth-less-than-legend-jake.html

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Man with the Iron Fists interviews

Some of my interviews with cast and An'D'ers from

Grace Huang http://www.impactonline.co/features/1064-man-wit...Read more

The Man with the Iron Fists Preview

http://www.impactonline.co/features/978-iron-fists-introducing-rza-ensemble

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOCVE9ykh9Y Next month sees the release of the highly anticipated , the official directorial debut of actor, composer, rapper, producer RZA (Robert Diggs/Bobby Digital et all from the Wu Tang Clan). I was given the opportun...Read more

Forces of Geek

latest interviews and features for Forces of Geek including review of ROAD TO HELL

http://www.forcesofgeek.com/search/label/Written%20by%20Big%20Mike%20Leeder

Impact On-Line articles

Latest interviews, news and reviews online at www.impactonline.co

http://www.impactonline.co/news/959-tis-a-pirates-life-for-shou

http://www.impactonline.co/news/968-rip-austin-wai-wai-tin-chi

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