It’s a Thai movie that’s been out for about two years now but it’s finally coming to America. Yes, we’re progressive that way. Directed by Prachya Pinkaew of “Ong Bak” fame and starring JeeJa Yanin as an autistic woman with powerful martial art skills who looks to...

“Chocolate” is a film which has been causing considerable excitement amongst martial arts fans, unsurprisingly given that it is Thai director Prachya Pinkaew’s follow up to his worldwide hits “Ong Bak” and “Warrior King”. Having made a star of Tony Jaa, he here aims to do the same for female...

You gotta wonder how much cooler Prachya Pinkaew’s “Chocolate” would have been if Tony Jaa had played the main character, an autistic girl who learns martial arts through martial arts flicks and by watching the dojo next door. That, and eating chocolate. Instead, Pinkaew has casted...

So yesterday when doing a preview of Prachya Pinkaew’s new Thai martial arts actioner “Chocolate” I was lamenting that there wasn’t a trailer anywhere. Ask and ye shall receive! I just stumbled across the trailer over at Imprint, and despite the title of the movie, “Chocolate”...

If you don’t instantly recognize the name Prachya Pinkaew, maybe the name Tony Jaa will help. Prachya Pinkaew was the director on Jaa’s two breakthrough films, “Ong Bak” and “Tom Yum Goong” (known in the U.S. as “Ong Bak Warrior” and “The Protector”,...