November 26th, 2007 by dingdans
Kung Fu Fighter is an action Kung Fu movie star Vanness Wu of JVKV (formerly known as F4). The story is about a young man named Ma (Vanness Wu) who searches for his kung fu expert father in 1930s Shanghai. Inheriting his father’s super strength, he secures a job at a martial arts house and befriends Fat (Lam Chi Chung). The two fall into a trap and the Shanghai triads want to hunt them down. Meanwhile, Ma also has a crush on singer Lung (Emme Wong), but will the love between them blossom? With so many different parties plotting against each other, will Ma survive all the conspiracies?
November 22nd, 2007 by dingdans
“The Mist,” based on a Stephen King story, a violent storm blows in a heavy mist that envelops that favorite King locale, a village in Maine. When the electric power goes out, David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his young son Billy (Nathan Gamble) drive slowly into town to buy emergency supplies at the supermarket. They leave mom behind, which may turn out to be a mistake. Inside the store, we meet a mixed bag of locals and weekenders, including Brent Norton (Andre Braugher), the Draytons’ litigious neighbor; Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden), a would-be messianic leader, and the store assistant Ollie (Toby Jones), who, like all movie characters named Ollie, is below-average height and a nerd.
You may not be astonished if I tell you that there is Something Out There in the mist. It hammers on windows and doors and is mostly invisible until a shock cut that shows an insect the size of a cat, smacking into the store window. Then there are other things, too. Something with tentacles. (“What do you think those tentacles are attached to?” asks David.) Other things that look like a cross between a praying mantis and a dinosaur. Creatures that devour half a man in a single bite.
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November 22nd, 2007 by dingdans
Earlier this week we reported about a potential delay for Wolverine, the X-Men spin-off. The studio denied that the movie will be delayed, and now there suddenly appears to be progress on the film, with a major piece of leaked casting news.
Wolverine will follow the early adventures of Hugh Jackman’s character, exploring his mysterious back story. As fans of the X-Men know, a big part of Wolvie’s background involves a love story with a woman known as Silver Fox. The two live in a cabin in the Canadian Rockies until she is eventually killed by Sabretooth. We know the movie plans to make use of Sabretooth, so it only makes sense that Silver Fox will be used as well.
According to IESB, Maggie Q (Live Free or Die Hard) is in talks to play Silver Fox. In fact, she may very well be cast, although confirmation isn’t exactly readily accessible with this being a holiday week.
There’s no doubt, Maggie Q would be a very cool addition to the cast. Depending on how true they stay to Wolverine’s established canon, this could be quite an interesting part, as Silver Fox plays a big part in the “Weapon X” project that transforms Wolverine into the killing machine he is today.
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November 22nd, 2007 by dingdans
In the name of the mighty Odin, what this movie needs is an audience that knows how to laugh. Laugh, I tell you, laugh! Has the spirit of irony been lost in the land? By all the gods, if it were not for this blasted infirmity that the Fates have dealt me, you would have heard from me such thunderous roars as to shake the very Navy Pier itself down to its pillars in the clay.
To be sure, when I saw “Beowulf” in 3-D at the giant-screen IMAX theater, there were eruptions of snickers here and there, but for the most part, the audience sat and watched the movie, not cheering, booing, hooting, recoiling, erupting or doing anything else unmannerly. You expect complete silence and rapt attention when a nude Angelina Jolie emerges from the waters of an underground lagoon. But am I the only one who suspects that the intention of director Robert Zemeckis and writers Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary was satirical?
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November 22nd, 2007 by dingdans
This may only be my quirky way of thinking, but if you wanted to move through the world as an invisible hit man responsible for more than 100 killings on six continents, would you shave your head to reveal the bar code tattooed on the back of your skull? Yeah, not me, either. But Agent 47 has great success with this disguise in “Hitman,” which is a better movie than I thought it might be.
Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) has no name because he was raised as an orphan from birth by a shadowy organization named the Agency, which is “known to all governments” and performs assassinations for hire. He has been trained in all the killing skills and none of the human ones, which is why the young woman Nika (Olga Kurylenko) is such a challenge for him. A prostitute held in slavery by the drug-dealing brother of the Russian president, she follows him, obeys him, offers herself to him and, although he remains distant, 47 cannot remain indifferent.
Agent 47 is in Russia on a job: Assassinate Belicoff (Ulrich Thomsen), the president. This he thinks he does. Yet Belicoff appears in public almost immediately after the hit, alive and speaking. How did this happen? An Interpol agent named Mike (Dougray Scott) is just as puzzled: “My man doesn’t miss.”
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November 22nd, 2007 by dingdans
“I’m Not There” is an attempt to consider the contradictions of Bob Dylan by building itself upon contradictions. Maybe that’s the only way to do it. If you made a biopic with Dylan played by the same actor all the way through, it might become the portrait of a shape-shifting schizophrenic. Todd Haynes’ approach is to create six or seven Dylans, depending on how you count, and use six actors to play them. This way, each Dylan is consistent on his own terms, and the life as a whole need not hold together.
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