Redbelt (Blu-ray)

David Mamet directs this martial arts movie released in 2008, REDBELT. The film centres on Chiwetel Ejiofor's character Mike Terry who owns a tiny ju-jitsu studio in Los Angeles. When he's not teaching ju-jitsu to his students, Mike is praticising it which means he has to avoid confrontation since ju-jitsu is about self defence not violence. However, when a freak accident involving EmilY Mortimer's character, Laura a lawyer and his student Joe goes wrong his business is put under scrutiny. Also he has to fight when Chet Frank played by Tim Allen is under threat during a bar brawl. Nonehteless, Chet thanks Mike by giving him the opportunity to teach the skill ...  Read the complete review

In my youth I suffered from a condition that plagues many children today - a chronic lack of attention span. Over the first 12 years of my life I must have joined and left over 10 different societies from Cub Scouts, fencing, badminton, rugby, football, swimming and others. I went for a few weeks then grew bored when I realised that I would never be as good as the other people so why bother? One activity that did last for a while was Karate. I liked the physicality of it and as an aggressive youth I could burn off some energy. However, like with all things I eventually grew bored as I waited to be allowed to take the next belt exam; I knew all the moves, but had not ...  Read the complete review