Ong Bak 2 is a Thai-language martial arts drama film helmed by Panna Rittikrai and Tony Jaa. The storyline follows a young orphaned boy who miraculously survives the bloodshed in his childhood and ...

The 2003 film “Ong Bak” and its exhilarating 2005 successor “The Protector” left no doubt there was a new force in the martial-arts arena: Tony Jaa, a Thai star whose stunts were truly mind-blowing.

Magnolia Pictures, the Wagner/Cuban Company’s group, announced today it had picked up the US distribution rights to ‘Ong Bak 2’, the Tony Jaa-directed sequel to ‘Ong Bak: The Thai Warrier’. The film ...

Following the grand Asian-cinema tradition of sequels that have squat to do with the originals, here comes Ong Bak 2: The Beginning, which takes place hundreds of years before its predecessor, and ...

There is a mighty urge to give Ong Bak 2: The Beginning a pachyderm-sized pass. Thai martial arts filmmaker Tony Jaa’s follow-up/ prequel to his original 2003 hit film largely accomplishes what it ...

Bruce Lee is dead, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are slowing down, but the world of martial arts never sleeps. Keeping everyone awake these days is Tony Jaa, Thailand’s biggest action hero, who returns to ...

The video game based on the Ong-Bak movies is still happening. And it's going to be a 2.5D side-scrolling brawler with "intense fighting action, impressive free-running sequences, and highly cinematic ...

ROME — Hot Thai martial arts blockbuster “Ong Bak 2” will have its European bow at Italy’s 11th Udine Far East Fest, where the accent will be on the Thai action pic phenom. Magnolia Pictures this ...

Bruce Lee has left us, and Jackie Chan and Jet Li are slowing down, but the world of martial arts never sleeps. It's Tony Jaa who's keeping everyone awake these days. He's Thailand's biggest action ...

"Ong Bak 2" is a throwback to the kung fu flicks of a previous generation. First-rate action scenes alternate with florid melodrama, and jaw-dropping stunts try to compensate for saccharine plot ...

Last year, film writer Matt Zoller Seitz wrote a defense of the much-maligned "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," in which he recalled his first viewing of the movie in 1984. "It was the first ...