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Marvel’s Next Avengers Film #6: Namor
25 May 2012 5:23 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
With a sequel to The Avengers officially confirmed by Marvel/Disney, comic book fans the world over will be contemplating which of the publisher’s other heroes could be added to the line-up, potentially getting their own solo movie as soon as 2014 – filling the popularly acknowledged gap in the schedule alongside Captain America 2 that summer.
Of course, we have to bear in mind that Marvel Studios do not own the film rights to characters as key to their comic book universe as Daredevil, Spider-Man, Wolverine or the Fantastic Four – all of whom have allied with or become members of the Avengers at one time or another – but with that consideration in place, here is another suggestion for Marvel’s Next Avengers Film:
Namor the Sub-Mariner (Namor McKenzie)
Why?: Often depicted shouting his battle cry “imperious rex”, Namor the Sub-Mariner – and so-called “first mutant”* – is the son of an »
- Robert Beames
'Machete Kills' Casting News
7 May 2012 1:56 PM, PDT | Planet Fury | See recent Planet Fury news »
Robert Rodriguez is putting together quite a cast for Machete Kills, the second installment of the proposed trilogy starring Danny Trejo as the Mexican Federales/folk hero/lover of many women named Machete. And while Rodriguez might not be getting precisely everyone he wants, those he is getting are pretty good.
Trejo is returning, of course, as are Jessica Alba as Sartana, Machete's main mama, and Michelle Rodriguez as Luz, the eye patch-sporting revolutionary/taco vendor known in underground circles as Shé. That's a good start, but Rodriguez is also adding some pretty cool and/or interesting newcomers to the Machete-verse.
It was reported early on that the director had his heart set on getting Michelle Williams for the flick, but it appears she's not going to be involved. But he has scored big by casting Amber Heard as a scheming assassin code-named Miss San Antonio, which sounds »
- Theron
Machete Kills (2013): Amber Heard Cast by Robert Rodriguez
4 May 2012 12:50 PM, PDT | Film-Book | See recent Film-Book news »
Amber Heard cast in Machete Kills. Amber Heard being cast in Robert Rodriguez‘s Machete Kills (2013) expands the growing cast of the Machete sequel. Machete Kills‘ cast already includes Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Mel Gibson, Tom Savini, and Demián Bichir. Tony Jaa and Michelle Williams are rumored to be in the film. An Amber Heard photo: Amber Heard Brunette The [...]
Continue reading: Machete Kills (2013): Amber Heard Cast by Robert Rodriguez »
- Rollo Tomasi
Keven's Movie Review: The Raid: Redemption
1 May 2012 | The Daily BLAM! | See recent The Daily BLAM! news »
The Raid: Redemption is without a doubt the most adrenalized action film in years. Director Gareth Evans has crafted a killfest that is jam-packed with so much violent momentum it's hard to keep up with the pace. Much like Ong Bak gave us Tony Jaa, The Raid has delivered Iko Uwais. The man is an unstoppable force and his non-stop battle for survival in this tower of death is exhausting. Uwais plays the most gifted rookie Swat officer ever, who ends up getting sent on a suicide mission to seize a slum tower loaded with crime lords and psychopaths. The initial impression here is that there is no story and all action in The Raid, but that's not true. There's even a very intriguing twist halfway through that despite it's end result being cliché I was happy to see some 'meaning' thrust into »
- Keven Skinner
Whither Tony Jaa And Tom Yum Goong 2?
26 April 2012 12:10 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
More than eight months after principal photography began, the questions are starting to pop up with increasing regularity: Where is Tony Jaa's Tom Yum Goong 2? And why has not a single scrap of footage or even any still images been released yet? The answer, in short, is get ready to wait a while longer. The originally planned 2012 release date? Not going to happen. No chance.For those unfamiliar with the back story, there is quite a lot riding on this film both for Jaa and production house Sahamongkol Film. Jaa's directorial debut, Ong Bak 2, was an utter disaster behind the scenes to the degree that control of the production was taken away from the star deep into production and handed to Panna »
Who else would you cast in 'The Fast and the Furious 6'?
24 April 2012 2:23 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
If franchises were baseball teams, then The Fast and the Furious would be the Oakland Athletics. As recounted in last year’s Moneyball, the A’s could never afford to pay superstar salaries. So, using a system known as sabermetrics, they put together a ragtag band of players: aging players who could make base hits, rookies who could read pitches, journeyman has-beens with the uncanny ability to just keep getting on base. None of these dudes was a star. But together, they made a franchise.
I submit to you that last year’s Fast Five is a model for Hollywood sabermetrics. »
- Darren Franich
Essential Viewing for fans of ‘The Raid: Redemption’ – 15 Classic Martial Arts Films
5 April 2012 10:43 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Not long ago, Sound on Sight’s editor Ricky D emailed myself and fellow contributor Michael Ryan for the purpose of compiling some of our individual favourite martial arts pictures to celebrate The Raid‘s theatrical release across North American this Easter weekend. I would never consider myself to be a scholar of the genre, but it is true that I do tend to go back to martial arts films on a consistent basis when I have I craving for high-octane action. I think it has to do with the fact that what the performers pull off actually can be done if one practices long and hard enough. You can round-house kick someone in the face or brutally beat up a group of thugs with nunchucks but you could never levitate off the ground on bend metal with your mind, fun as it may be to watch movies in which characters perform those acts. »
- Edgar Chaput
Essential Viewing for fans of ‘The Raid: Redemption’ – 15 Classic Martial Arts Films
5 April 2012 10:42 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The release of The Raid: Redemption has made us revisit our favourite martial arts flicks and pick five favourite films to suggest for Sound on Sight readers.
Before I give my five picks though, I would like to turn the floor over to a man who has been a friend of mine since grade seven at Oxford Street Junior High School in Halifax. As the line editor for Steve Jackson Games’ “Generic Universal RolePlaying System”, Sean Punch aka Dr. Kromm has been directly or indirectly responsible for a number of source-books on the Martial Arts including writing and editing Gurps Martial Arts.
I asked him earlier this week what films he would put on his list. He named three.
You’re not looking for goofy, cinematic Asian martial arts are you? Because I tend to like stuff that is more realistic, more like what commandos would use. You mentioned Steven Seagal »
- Michael Ryan
‘The Raid: Redemption’ offers a rare glimpse of Indonesian martial arts – and politics
5 April 2012 11:30 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Raid: Redemption aka Serbuan maut
Written and Directed by Gareth Evans
Indonesia, 2011, imdb
For the martial arts aficianados out there, don’t even bother reading this review, just go to the theatre now. The Raid: Redemption is everything that you have heard it is and more. Offering a rare glimpse of the Indonesian martial art style Pentjak Silat, the film is one long, almost continuous combat sequence, with all the fights performed at mach speed by a stunt team that make Tony Jaa’s unit look like conservative wimps. Many of the fights are done with one or both fighters holding knives, but if anything they fight faster with knives than with empty hands.
Don’t ask, just go.
*****
Ok. Everyone else, let’s talk about Roger Ebert, who has eviscerated this film not once, but twice, first giving it one star and then expanding his original review in »
- Michael Ryan
The James Clayton Column: when movie titles change around the world
29 March 2012 3:00 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
With Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists marketed under a variety of different names outside the UK, James looks at a few other alternate movie titles…
Sailing across screens this week we’ve got The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists, which promises viewers a rip-roaring comic caper brought to stop-motion plasticine life by Aardman Animations.
It’s got inept buccaneers, a delightfully daft plot, Brian Blessed providing the voice of the Pirate King and a swordfighting Queen Victoria with a steampunk skirt. With a great big Wallace & Gromit smile I eagerly embrace this eccentric concoction and skip to the cinema guaranteed to have a cracking time.
It’s only in the United Kingdom, though, that audiences will be taking theatre seats to see The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists. Elsewhere around the globe, cinemagoers will be acquainting themselves with The Pirates! Band Of Misfits. That’s the case »
The Raid: Redemption Review
26 March 2012 10:20 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
The Raid: Redemption Written and Directed by: Gareth Evans Starring: Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy, Yayan Ruhian If you're a fan of martial arts movies, there's a pretty good chance that you've already heard of The Raid: Redemption (formerly known as The Raid), an Indonesian action flick that debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and very quickly became the talk of the town. It was so well-received that it was immediately acquired by Sony Pictures Classics, Sony's specialty division that typically only dabbles in martial arts films when they come from acclaimed art house directors like Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou. I can tell you with absolute certainty that there are no slow motion rain drops or colourful period costumes in The Raid: Redemption. Needless to say, if you happen to be tuned in to the proper channels, the buzz surrounding this film has been deafening. »
- Sean
The Rebel Team Reunite For Vietnamese Action Film Redemption
23 March 2012 9:19 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
The gang is getting back together, with writer-star and writer-director brother duo of Johnny and Charlie Nguyen teaming up for upcoming Vietnamese action film Redemption.The Brothers Nguyen made a huge splash in the international action community a few years back with The Rebel, a gorgeous period piece that put the martial arts skills of Johnny - an in-demand stunt performer who fought Tony Jaa in Tom Yum Goong / The Protector and Jet Li in Cradle 2 The Grave and was the man inside the suit in Sam Raimi's first two Spider-Man movies - front and center and instantly made Vietnam a player in the international action market. Johnny followed up The Rebel with a similarly kinetic lead role in Clash and other support »
Nd/Nf 2012. Labaki, Giorgelli, Evans, Rasoulof, Murat
23 March 2012 9:27 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"Forty-one years young, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art's annual New Directors/New Films festival is committed to compiling a slate of artistically diverse films from every corner of the world," writes Ed Gonzalez, introducing Slant's collection of reviews. "Twenty-eight countries represent the 29 feature films (24 narrative, five documentary) and 12 shorts that make up this year's program, which kicks off on March 21 with a screening of Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Lakaki's follow-up to Caramel, and closes with a special surprise screening that won't be revealed to the audience until it screens at Film Society on Sunday, April 1. Any guesses?"
Not from this corner, though the wish-list runs pretty long. "We weren't planning to do a surprise for New Directors," Richard Peña tells the Fslc's Jonathan Robbins, "but there is a unique situation with this film." As for Nd/Nf as a whole, Peña »
Counterpoint Review: 'The Raid: Redemption' Adds A Little Bit Of Steroids To The Same Martial Arts Film You've Seen Twice Before
20 March 2012 7:56 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
After much hype and love from the festival circuit, "The Raid: Redemption" begins rolling out into theaters this weekend. And while we saw the film at Sundance and called it a "triumph" not everyone at The Playlist office felt the same way. So here's a different take on the pulse-pounding action flick.
Gareth Evans, the director of Thai martial arts film “Merantau," returns with “The Raid: Redemption," a large-scale action film that ups the stakes from his decidedly ground-level earlier picture. He brings back “Merantau” leading man Iko Uwais as Rama, a Swat team leader who leads his boys into a closed-off tenement to locate a rogue drug dealer who has made the surrounding area his playground. Because it is an action film, they get more than what they bargained for. Instant movie!
If only it were that simple. “Merantau” was a modest first effort, a film with kinetic fight »
- Gabe Toro
Review: The Raid
13 March 2012 3:44 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Not that long ago, a promising new Asian martial arts star emerged seemingly out of nowhere. His name was Iko Uwais. His unique fighting style and skills in the Indonesian film Merantau drew the attention of action fans all around the world. In fact, his debut was so impressive that many compared him with Thai action star Tony Jaa. But while there may be similarities between the two actors, Uwais really deserved credits of his own. Thankfully, his new film The Raid is so great that people are likely to stop associating or comparing him with Jaa, or any other martial arts movie stars, as the world now has a new action superstar. His name is Iko Uwais. The story couldn't be any simpler. An elite »
SXSW '12 Review: 'The Raid: Redemption' Is A Triumph Of Kicks, Punches & Unrelenting Thrills
12 March 2012 9:05 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The following is a reprint of our review from Sundance.
If you ever wanted a feature-length version of the scene from Tony Jaa’s “The Protector” where in one shot he literally fights his way up to the roof of a building filled with baddies, then “The Raid” is the movie for you. Although his two previous films failed to make an impression outside of Indonesia, writer-director Gareth Evans crafts a relentless – and relentlessly exciting -- onslaught of visceral entertainment with his tale of a Swat team that’s ambushed after being assigned to invade a drug kingpin’s heavily-fortified stronghold. Featuring fight sequences almost literally from start to finish, “The Raid” is an action-lover’s dream, precisely because it pitches the choreography at a thrilling but believable level that prevents viewers from succumbing to an overdose of kicks and punches.
Iko Uwais plays Rama, a middle-management cop whose bosses »
- Todd Gilchrist
The Raid review
29 February 2012 7:53 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Is The Raid one of the best action movies of recent years? Quite possibly. Here’s Ryan’s review of an exceptional film...
When was the last time you actually held your breath during an action movie, or gasped, or clung to your armrest in horror? When was the last time you really winced at every gunshot wound or punch to the face that’s unfolded on the screen? Short, sharp and incredibly brutal, The Raid may be the best action movie to grace the big screen in years - in fact, director Gareth Evans’ movie attacks the genre with all the impact of a sledgehammer blow.
First, the plot. A group of elite cops launch a dawn raid on a multi-storey tennament building that serves as the lair for an evil drug lord, but what is intended to be a swift, stealthy mission soon goes wildly out of control. »
‘Haywire’ and the Difficulty of Being a Female Action Hero
9 February 2012 9:46 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Written by Lem Dobbs
USA/Ireland, 2011, imdb
At the risk of throwing the spotlight on our obsession with Haywire, after Simon‘s dismissive review, Ricky declaring it one of his favorite films to come out in January and the podcast where Justine had to pull them apart, when they argued about it, here I am throwing my oar in, hopefully with something new to say. To properly analyze the film, be warned: Hic Svnt Spoileres!
*****
Haywire and the Difficulty of Being a Female Action Hero
Haywire reunites director Steven Soderbergh and writer Lem Dobbs, the creative duo behind the masterpiece The Limey. Haywire shares a flashback structure similar to The Limey, though nowhere near as layered and complex. Both films also share a dark moral ambiguity.
The Limey is about a bad man going after a badder man who may have killed his daughter. The »
- Michael Ryan
The Raid Sequel in the Works
3 February 2012 7:04 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
I have yet to see Gareth Evans’ “The Raid”, his follow-up to 2009′s “Meranthau” with Tony Jaa lookalike Iko Uwais kicking some serious ass (or so I’ve heard), but you can bet your bibby I’m seeing it when it hits SXSW in March. Until then, though, there’s something else to look forward to: Evans and Uwais have already signed on for a sequel, set to shoot on location in Jakarta by the end of 2012. This is on top of earlier news that the film has already been snapped up for a Hollywood remake. Which one will hit first? We can only hope the original boys work faster than slow-moving Hollywood, which probably won’t be too hard. Currently working under the title of “Berendal”, the sequel will have a bigger budget than the first movie (International acclaim and hit status will tend to do that to a »
- Nix
DVD Review - Yamada: Way of the Samurai (2010)
30 January 2012 10:51 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Yamada: Way of the Samurai (a.k.a. Yamada: The Samurai of Ayothaya), 2010.
Directed by Nopporn Watin.
Starring Seigi Ozeki, Kanokkorn Jaicheun, Sorapong Chatree, Thanawut Ketsaro, Winai Kraibutr and Buakhao Paw Pramuk.
Synopsis:
Betrayed and left for dead, the young Japanese samurai Yamada finds a new home in Siam and soon faces his greatest battle against the elite warriors he once regarded as brothers.
Based upon the exploits of Yamada Nagamasa, a Japanese samurai and adventurer who rose to prominence during the Sukothai Dynasty in Ayutthaya in the 17th century, Yamada: Way of the Samurai is a historical action epic from Thailand that brings together Japanese swordplay with the bone-crunching, hard hitting Muay Thai style made famous by Tony Jaa with the likes of Ong-bak and Warrior King. Although there’s a decent amount of high-impact martial arts entertainment on offer, Yamada is hampered somewhat by its low production values »
- flickeringmyth
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