They continued to release
new martial arts movies over here and began to re-release some of the Hong Kong Legends back catalogue.
Not exact matches
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).
As Run The Jewels pulses on the soundtrack, we also get
new shots of the
movie's cast — not just title character Chadwick Boseman, but also his friends and enemies — in action, facing off with swords, guns, and good - old mystically powered
martial arts.
by Bryant Frazer If Prachya Pinkaew's 2003 Ong - bak became a worldwide hit partly on novelty value — star Tony Jaa was a
new face, and Muay Thai was sufficiently under - represented in
martial -
arts movies to come across as a fresh
new fighting style — then Chocolate is a logical next career move for the director.
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.
However, the action is best served when
martial arts is employed, which is fairly often, meaning that Snake Eyes (Park, X-Men), Storm Shadow, and
new movie character, Jinx (Yung, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), get plenty of screen time.
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.
In some bizarre casting, RZA shows up as blind
martial arts master Blind Master (the G.I. Joe series was never very subtle with its character names), bringing the rapper's charisma-less
movie career to a
new low by drudgingly rattling off exposition like a screen between video game levels.
Jason Tripikitas [Michael Angarano] loves
martial arts movies and is constantly checking for
new titles at Old Hop's [Jackie Chan] pawnshop.