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7 New Character Posters for TAI CHI HERO

7 New Character Posters for TAI CHI HERO

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 03:19 AM PDT

Tai Chi Hero, the sequel to Stephen Fung's goofy martial arts comedy, Tai Chi Zero, opens in Hong Kong this coming Thursday, which has prompted local distributors Intercontinental Films to release seven new character posters for the film. These new images seem pretty intent on moving away from the film's comedic roots and into more serious martial arts territory. While this is accurate to some degree - Hero is certainly more straight-laced than Zero - it's still a far cry from the po-faced imagery here. That said, they do look pretty cool in their own right. Check them out below....

Bollywood's King Of Romance, Yash Chopra, Is No More (1932-2012)

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:42 PM PDT

This is terribly sad news.Yash Chopra, the man who changed an entire nation's vision of on-screen romance, has died at the age of 80, after a brief bout with Dengue Fever. Chopra's career in Bollywood goes back over fifty years, as director of many of India's most beloved romantic epics. From the '60s to today, not a decade has passed without at least one, and often many more, acknowledged classics coming under his direction. In addition to his massively successful career as a director, he also founded one of India's most iconic production companies, Yash Raj Films, in 1976. The studio has gone on to major international success in the years since, even recently opening a Los Angeles office, from which they've already begun production...

Review: THE OTHER DREAM TEAM Dribbles Out of Bounds

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 04:00 PM PDT

Presenting an unfiltered view of Lithuanian oppression under communist rule, the new historic sports documentary The Other Dream Team might just be the most condemning movie depiction of the Soviet regime since Red Dawn. If that sounds heavy, never fear, we're actually dealing with a documentary about a basketball team (the 1992 Lithuanian Olympic team, to be exact) that ascends to unlikely glory. They are depicted as admirably proud of their country, never wanting the "Soviet Union" branding that they were so often shackled with. A lot of the players hailed from the same small geographic area, not unlike the U.S. 1950 Olympic soccer team that was made up multiple players from the Italian "Hill" area in St. Louis, Missouri....

Mamat Khalid Brings Awesome Hair Back To The Banana Village

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 03:01 PM PDT

While we've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Malaysian director Mamat Khalid's post-apocalyptic gang epic Apokalips X for some time now it appears that the powers that be - particularly the powers overseeing the lengthy post production delays on that film - have other plans. While Apokalips X remains stalled out in post Khalid is returning to his most popular locale: the Banana Village.A refresher for those who may not be familiar.Khalid is a very popular writer and director in Malaysia, one who first came to our attention as a screenwriter on gorgeous Malaysian historical epic Puteri Gunung Ledang. We later fell deeply in love with his absolutely daft - and totally gorgeous - throwback to the black and white b-movie horror flicks of the...

DVD Review: PARK ROW Is A Love Letter ... But I Wanted A Film

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

It shouldn't come as much of a surprise to learn Samuel Fuller financed Park Row with his own money. The legendary director put up $201,000 - virtually every penny he had - on the story of a firebrand journalist trying to launch his own newspaper back in the dawn of the industry (on the street of the same name), and the whirlwind shoot and single cramped set can't detract from the way Fuller's trademark righteous conviction rolls off every line. This is a film made by someone who believes, damn it, and to hell with you if you don't see things like he does.Fuller directed some of the standout American films of the past five decades, from the lurid psychodrama of Shock Corridor to the...

DVD Review: YOUR SISTER'S SISTER Is Nice, But Nice Doesn't Mean Much

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

The trick with low-key, down-home indie storytelling is to show your audience how, while the things taking place on screen might not look like much, they're quietly life-changing for everyone involved.Lynn Shelton's fourth feature, Your Sister's Sister, played earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival, where my colleague Christopher Bourne found much to rejoice about. My view is quite the opposite. The film is a pleasant-enough 90 minutes, beautifully shot, obviously heartfelt, yet it never quite convinces that the little earthquakes the plot sets off mean much of anything, or that the cast have really grown in any appreciable way as as a result of coming to terms with them. Jack (Mark DuPlass) is a thirty-something urbanite still brooding a year after his brother's...

Blu-ray Review: DAIMAJIN Triple Feature Collector's Edition (Mill Creek)

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

If you know of home video distributor Mill Creek Entertainment at all, it's probably because they specialize in public domain mega packs. You've seen them, the huge DVD cases advertising 50 horror films, or 20 spaghetti westerns, that stuff. If that's all you know about them, you're missing out because they've quietly made a name for themselves with their quality release of the Heisei Gamera trilogy (reviewed here), and as such, their announcement of a Damaijin trilogy Blu-ray set was very appealing.Daimajin and its sequels had fallen victim to dodgy licensors and unstable distribution companies, and as a result the films had been out of print in the US for years. The Daimajin trilogy DVD set was going for over $100 in some places on...

GANDU Director Trips Out A Classic. Watch The TASHER DESH Trailer.

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:40 AM PDT

Indian indie maverick Q made a huge splash around the world with his recent feature Gandu - a film that has won acclaim around the world while being denied a release in its own country. But distribution troubles or no, Q has moved right on to his latest effort: An adaptation of classic stage play Tasher Desh.Tasher Desh is one of Tagore's most famous dance operas, a unique genre he developed that was influenced by Western opera.A Prince, tired of suffocating in his palace, goes in search of adventure. Accompanied by a far more conventional travelling companion, a Merchant, the mismatched pair get shipwrecked in the Land of Cards . Here the inhabitants are playing cards, well regulated and devoid of emotions. With the wild...

Jean Grey Will Appear In THE WOLVERINE

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:02 AM PDT

The Phoenix is rising again.With the James Mangold directed The Wolverine now in production and speculation already beginning to circulate around whether Famke Janssen will appear as Jean Grey in the upcoming sequel to X-Men: First Class, We Got This Covered is reporting that Jean, indeed, is back. Though not where you might think.According to their sources Janssen flew into Sydney last week to shoot a cameo as Jean Grey for The Wolverine, so yes, the character is back. How she will factor in with this film and possible future appearances is not yet clear....

DVD Review: Stop Laughing! ROSEWOOD LANE Is Serious Business

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:00 AM PDT

People accuse old-school horror films of being emotionally retarded, in that so many of them reflect a permanently juvenile outlook on the world - sex bad, purity good, and it's so god damned cathartic when those whining teenagers get hacked up like cattle in a slaughterhouse, mkay? But at least your Saws and Final Destinations and countless remakes in 3D are honest with themselves about who they're screening for and what they're offering. The one thing that stymies Victor Salva's Rosewood Lane is it aspires to be more than an adolescent fantasy; it feels as if it was written by someone who wanted very badly to make a shameless piece of pandering, but just point blank refused to admit it to himself.So heroine Sonny Blake...

Watch An Animated Prequel To THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:10 AM PDT

With the RZA's directorial debut - The Man With The Iron Fists - soon to hit screens a short animated prequel video has arrived online. Animated may be too strong a word, actually, as it's more in the mold of a motion comic but you get the idea. Want a wee bit of a taste of what came before the main action? Check it out below.Since his arrival in China's Jungle Village, the town's blacksmith (RZA) has been forced by radical tribal factions to create elaborate tools of destruction. When the clans' brewing war boils over, the stranger channels an ancient energy to transform himself into a human weapon. As he fights alongside iconic heroes and against soulless villains, one man must harness this power...

Camera Japan 2012 Review: PUPPY OLDMAN

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 05:21 AM PDT

(It's a coming-of-age film featuring people who have already aged...) This year the Camera Japan film festival in Rotterdam had food as its main theme, but not all films in the programme focused mainly on that subject. Still, most films will feature at least a FEW scenes of cooking, eating and drinking. Maeno Tomoya's new film Puppy Oldman, a domestic comedy-slash-drama is certainly no exception. Not many people showed up for the film's first showing outside of Japan, its true International Premiere no less. And that was kind of a shame as the film is definitely worth seeing. It's even funny enough to become maybe a bit of a sleeper success. So what is it about? Read on......
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