With everything else going on in the world lately, you may have understandably missed news of the passing of Kurt Thomas, Olympic athlete and one-time action star of… Gymkata (1985) Director: Robert Clouse Stars: Kurt Thomas, Tetchie Agbayani, Richard Norton A gymnast is trained by the CIA in the deadly new martial art of "gymkata" and sent to the totally-not-made-up country…...
- 6/11/2020
- by Jason Adams
- JoBlo.com
Kurt Thomas, a breakthrough American Olympic gymnast, has died at the age of 64 due to a stroke, which occurred on May 24, caused by a tear in the basilar artery in his brain stem, according to the Associated Press. While Thomas’s legacy will undoubtedly be defined by gold medal wins, connoisseurs of campy action films best remember him from his high-flying starring role in 1985 cult classic Gymkata.
Thomas was an initially a multi-sport athlete with accomplishments on the basketball courts, having led the Indiana State Sycamores to an Ncaa team title in 1977. However, he rose to fame in the late-1970s, hitting the talk show circuit as a bellwether star in men’s gymnastics, a category that had been mostly associated with its women’s division. After having competed in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Thomas broke big in the 1978 Strasbourg, France World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, in which he became the first U.
Thomas was an initially a multi-sport athlete with accomplishments on the basketball courts, having led the Indiana State Sycamores to an Ncaa team title in 1977. However, he rose to fame in the late-1970s, hitting the talk show circuit as a bellwether star in men’s gymnastics, a category that had been mostly associated with its women’s division. After having competed in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Thomas broke big in the 1978 Strasbourg, France World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, in which he became the first U.
- 6/8/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
Gutierrez Mangansakan II's Limbunan happens during the entire month where Ayesah (Jea Lyca Cinco), betrothed to a man she has never met, is confined within her bridal chambers, as Maguindanaoan tradition would dictate. The film's languorous pacing alludes to the glacial and oftentimes torturous passage of time, where Ayesah, inevitably volunteered to sacrifice individual pleasures as a matter of culture, struggles emotionally in the process. The bridal chamber, as opposed to the open spaces outside as seen from the point of view of Ayesah's curious little sister (Jamie Inte), is a curtailing setting. The lone window that gives Ayesah a partial glimpse of the outside world opens to reveal the vastness of unknowable possibilities torn by the conveniences of tradition.
It is a very quiet film. Talk, although very frequent, is deliberate. Silence is an enforced practice, especially among women. Speech, like almost everything in the film, is treated with ceremonial reverence.
It is a very quiet film. Talk, although very frequent, is deliberate. Silence is an enforced practice, especially among women. Speech, like almost everything in the film, is treated with ceremonial reverence.
- 7/15/2010
- Screen Anarchy
With its lay of claim on the corniest of the many corny verses in the 1979 Styx hit Babe to christen its latest film, Star Cinema kills any existing expectation for anything else than unabashed mushiness from this film. Babe, I Love You, helmed by T.V. soap director Mae Czarina Cruz, tells the story of Nico Veneracion (Sam Milby), an architecture professor from an affluent family who unwittingly at first, but after a series of perspective-changing experiences, freely falls for Sasa Sanchez (Anne Curtis), a boisterous yet charming promo-girl. This derivative rich boy-poor girl romance gets the job of providing slight and momentary pleasures done without even trying, especially since the film has in its disposal the ingenious pairing of two impossibly good-looking real life ex-lovers who are currently two of the most bankable entertainers in the country.
It is therefore inevitable that much of the film is spent in...
It is therefore inevitable that much of the film is spent in...
- 4/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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