Jean-Claude Van Damme dazzled audiences when he jump-kicked off the screen in 1988’s Bloodsport. The film instantly put him in a small circle of the martial arts film genre, including Steven Seagal, ...

André Joseph is a movie features writer at Collider. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor's Degree in Film. He freelances as an independent filmmaker, ...

Jean-Claude Van Damme’s career began with a whimper. Everything changed, though, when the undeterred Van Damme was logging time as a waiter in a Los Angeles eatery and spotted Cannon Films executive ...

A gleefully juvenile show about the Belgian star, from the writer Timothy Haskell, barrels through his life and oeuvre using toy action figures. By Elisabeth ...

Netherealm Studios has finally given us a look at how Jean-Claude Van Damme will appear as the fighter Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 1. This version of Johnny Cage even pulls off Van Damme's famous ...

In the latter, Van Damme plays a man with a double life: Jean-Claude Van Damme is a fictionalized version of the actor’s real-world identity, while “Johnson” — just Johnson — is an identity he assumes ...