Sentences with phrase «filming martial arts movies»
Director Kevin Chu was like the head coach leading out his Most Valuable Players (MVPs) to court, and explained that the idea for Kung Fu Dunk was actually established some 13 years back when filming martial arts movies such as Shaolin Popey (Shao Lin Xiao Zhi, starring Jimmy Lin), when he thought about whether martial arts could be combined with a ball game like basketball.
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Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011, Gareth Evans» Indonesian martial arts action movie «The Raid» quickly became a festival favorite and a critical smash.Despite only garnering a mere $ 4 million worldwide, the film is widely considered...
For every movie featuring an Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Alice or Katniss Everdeen, Asian film industries managed to produce several dozen more entertaining, hard - hitting action flicks featuring strong female characters portrayed by butt - kicking heroines, many of them real - life martial arts champions or physically gifted dancers or performers.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 10, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Dragonball Evolution (PG for intense action and brief adult language) Sci - fi martial arts adventure, based on the Akira Toriyama novel about a young warrior (Justin Chatwin) who, with a handful of friends, sets out on a quest to save the planet from an evil king (James Marsters) bent on world domination.
Bloodsport, a martial arts movie dubiously based on a «true story,» kicked off Jean - Claude Van Damme's damn awesome movie career, leading to many more films where the Muscles from Brussels would smile, strut, and splits his way through martial arts tournaments and always get the girl.
Also new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an adaptation of the animated TV series and one of the most critically reviled films of the year, the feature film version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).
And the film truly is beautiful, certainly the most visually stunning martial arts movie ever made, which is saying a lot given the recent competition of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (# 1, 2000) and director Zhang Yimou's own follow - up to Hero, The House Of Flying Daggers.
Tony Jaa is a bona fide movie star who is the best martial arts film actor on the planet, and his follow - up to «Ong - Bak: The Thai Warrior» has one amazing action set piece after another.
Daggers, however, is director Zhang Yimou's follow - up to the callowly beautiful Hero and, like that movie and a number of others (Ashes of Time, Bride with the White Hair, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill, Zatoichi, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, and, in a way, Goodbye Dragon Inn), it belongs to a martial arts / art - house genre of films by hip young directors upgrading genres they loved as teenagers - «martial arts plus.»
There are so many automatic weapons and martial arts in this movie that it may as well be a G.I. Joe film.
In an exclusive interview, the multi-talented RZA talked about the genesis of the project, what appealed to him about his character, how he prepared for the role, his collaboration with Delamarre on his feature directorial debut, working with Belle and the late Walker and what they brought to the film, his bold line of dialogue, what he learned about himself while making the movie, how Walker inspired him, his role in the upcoming martial arts sequel «The Protector 2» with Tony Jaa directed by Prachya Pinkaew, and his new Fox Network TV series, «Gang Related,» that premieres May 22nd.
Returning again to Farmhouse Tavern, the A.V. Club's film critics also find time discuss two visually sumptuous movies that opened in theaters recently: Guillermo Del Toro's gothic romance Crimson Peak and Hou Hsiao - Hsien's martial - arts period piece The Assassin.
With its sparse dialogue and strikingly beautiful, color - saturated imagery — almost all of it framed in boxy, anachronistic Academy ratio — the movie doesn't really look or sound like any martial arts flick ever made, offering an original and idiosyncratic take on one of film history's most durable genres.
The martial arts movie is a yet another biopic of the Wing Chun master, Ip Man, and is the fourth Ip Man feature film to be released in the last six years.
See, Kar picks pockets and changes film reels in a theater that plays Chinese kung - fu movies, where he taught himself martial arts.
LMD: You have been a part of every important era in modern Hong Kong action cinema since the 1960's, very notably in the 1970's, in your own starring films throughout the 1980's, and recently in movies like SHA PO LANG, IP MAN and THREE KINGDOMS, you're seeing another new age in martial arts filmmaking.
His love of film encompasses all genres, but he finds horror flicks, martial arts movies and films from Japan and Korea most consistently deliver the wonders that make cinema so thrilling.
They are releasing crazy genre stuff like Dianipponjin (deadpan Japanese monster movie) and Mirage Man (Chilean superhero martial arts flick), Olivier Assayas» Boarding Gate and they just picked up the Thai autistic - martial arts film Chocolate to give it a theatrical push in the land that hates subtitles.
Song Hye - kyo is currently in China working on her next role in «The Grand Master», the martial arts movie directed by renowned Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar - wai, and will apparently be displaying some «real action» skills in the film.
A couple of its more peripheral niche sections — Midnight Madness (genre movies from horror to martial arts, presented with plenty of showmanship) and Wavelengths (experimental film, meticulously presented with care and respect)-- have carved out strong identities and audience followings for themselves.
Ahead of next month's full - scale filming for the movie, these days she remains on location in China, coming and going between her lodging quarters and the martial arts practice room.
If you love kung - fu, karate, and other types of martial arts films, then this is the movie you have to see.
Most of the violence in Jackie Chan movies involves martial arts routines that are precisely choreographed and rehearsed time and time again (as seen in the outtakes that usually accompany his films).
The film plays like a tribute to classic Hong Kong martial arts movies and adventure odysseys by an appreciative American fan and Disney veteran Rob Minkoff has the right attitude, if not the chops for action spectacle.
Well, the sixty - something iconic martial arts wonder Jackie Chan certainly has not entirely lost his cinematic A-game when it comes to his trademark kinetic - style kicks and punches that worldwide movie audiences have come to embrace in the legendary performer's adventurous chop - socky film career.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 3, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Warrior's Way (R for graphic violence) Western action fantasy, set in the Badlands, about a martial arts master (Jang Dong Ton) who emigrates from Asia to America to retire in peace, only to have to pick up his sword again to defend his adopted hometown and a beautiful local gal (Kate Bosworth) from the returning gang of marauders who had made her an orphan many moons ago.
«The Raid 2»: Does for action and martial arts movies what «Singin» in the Rain» did for musicals, reminding you of everything you love about the genre while (literally) kicking things up a notch and raising the bar for other films to follow.
Plus, having worked in the action movie industry in Hong Kong for the last 15 years as both an actor and martial arts choreographer on over 35 film and television productions afforded me not only the skill set to confidently film a kung fu movie, I have also worked with many people who were close with Bruce and shared with me many of their anecdotes.
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With Gang Wars, ADK and SNK borrow liberally from films like The Warriors, anything featuring Jackie Chan, and assorted other martial arts movies.
I've worked on the team for several movies — including one martial arts film that you would have liked Steve — if it had ever been completed.
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