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• Java Heat (R)

  

  

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  Ken Hanke | 11 days ago

  Genre: Action

  Director: Conor Allyn

  Starring: Kellan Lutz, Mickey Rourke, Ario Bayu. Frans Tumbuan

  In Brief: The second ActionFest monthly screening is the same setup as last time with all proceeds going to Homeward Bound of Asheville, and the $10 admission includes free Ninja Porter (from Asheville Pizza) and soft drinks and popcorn from Carolina Cinemas. This time, viewers get the chance to see the film Java Heat starring Kellan Lutz (the Twilight films) and Mickey Rourke before its official opening. The film is a wild yarn — that doesn't always make sense — offering more style (the director obviously has seen a lot of Brian DePalma movies) than you probably expect, and a lot of often very explosive action that you probably do expect. Lutz makes a stolid, enigmatic hero and villains don't come any more perverse than Mickey Rourke.

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• ActionFest returns to Asheville with Homeward Bound benefit

  

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  Ken Hanke | 04/16/2013

  Beginning April 19, ActionFest will once again bring the best in world action cinema to Asheville — this time with a monthly ActionFest Film Series, the first of which will benefit Homeward Bound.

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• Asheville Film Society presents "Heart of Asheville" award and special benefit screening

  

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  Ken Hanke | 04/12/2012

  The Asheville Film Society honors Coach Eddie Biedenbach and the 2011-2012 UNC Asheville Men’s Basketball Team, and presents a benefit screening of the Sundance favorite The Other Dream Team to benefit Homeward Bound — with special guest appearance by the Rocketman.

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• ActionFest Update: 2012 fest honors fight choreographer J.J. Perry

  

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  Ken Hanke | 03/13/2012

  I promised that I'd report developments with this year's ActionFest (April 12-15) as soon as I learned what they were. Well, here's the latest news on the festival.

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• News from ActionFest 2012: Gina Carano to claim first-ever "Chick Norris Award"

  

  Ken Hanke | 02/08/2012

  Here's the latest news from ActionFest concerning the film festival that runs April 12-15 at The Carolina.

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• The Return of ActionFest with ActionFest 3: "This Time It's Personal"

  

  Ken Hanke | 12/20/2011

  Word has finally come that, yes, we'll be seeing another ActionFest in Asheville in 2012. So those of you who've been asking me — and that includes the intrepid soul who last year sat through 13 feature films — can finally stop asking, and now start planning how to spend those three days of high-octane movies in mid-April.

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• Scenes from Actionfest Stunt Show

  Jake Frankel | 04/18/2010

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• Action Fest organizers take their gloves off introducing the 'first-ever action film festival'

  

  Jeff Fobes | 04/16/2010

  Action Fest 2010 got off to a rousing start, as captured in a video by Pommeemmop, in which the festival's pumped-up organizer took a larger-than-life approach, mocking this week's competing Hatchfest and promising "awesome" action films and live stunt shows by the best in the industry.

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• A very loud Rocketman (courtesy of Actionfest 2010) circles Asheville Tourist field

  

  Jeff Fobes | 04/16/2010

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• Chuck Norris and ActionFest — the film festival with a body count — are coming

  

  Rebecca Sulock | 03/02/2010

  The first-ever film festival devoted to action cinema coming to town. And so. is. Chuck. Norris.

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