This Isn’t Twilight…
Who wants to bet this is better than the actual Twilight?
Hmm…
Who wants to bet this is better than the actual Twilight?
Do you want Search?
Random Post
Search
Search
Who wants to bet this is better than the actual Twilight?
Upcoming Film: Bad Blood
Bad Blood is an upcoming Hong Kong action film that got our interest because Jiang Luxia has a role. Besides her, the film itself looks like it has some neat fighting sequences. Unfortunately, their official website is a Flash-heavy slow loading mess. The plot concerns a Triad boss getting executed, and the massive fighting for the empty seat that follows. And someone is secretly behind it all, of course. Simon Yam rules, so here’s hoping for a good actioner!
Cast:
Simon Yam Tat Wah
Andy On Chi Kit
Bernice Liu Bik Yi
Hung Yan Yan
Chris Lai Lok Yi
Pinky Cheung Man Chi
Jiang Lu Xia
Ken Lo Hui Kwong
Michael Chan Wai Man
Lam Suet
Jiang Luxia plays Dumby, a mute girl. Once again, they’re making a charismatic person non-charismatic. But the director of Coweb also has a role in Bad Blood, so that will be interesting.
More Fighting Women from Thailand
There are several female-centric action vehicles coming out of Thailand in 2010. As TarsTarkas.NET is a big fan of female action films, this news made our day.
We got Ta Bang Marn, the next project from Ong Bak director Prachya Pinkaew. Ta Bang Marn is in production now and is slated for a 2010 release.
The new epic martial arts action adventure set in a land long forgotten in the Southeast Asian history. Prachya Pinkaew is back to direct his most ambitious project to date about a group of village girls who team up to protect the “special child” that will change the destiny of the region against all harm.
In addition to Ta Bang Marn, Prachya Pinkaew has another upcoming project with Jija Yanin, star of Chocolate and Raging Phoenix, and American Marrese Crump. There is currently no title. This one is slated to begin filming in 2010.
American martial artist Marrese Crump has been confirmed to be in talks with action director Prachya Pinkaew to star in his next film. The news was announced through a video that was released on YouTube outlining not only Crump as starring, but Yanin ‘Jeeja’ Vismitananda as well.
We recently got a hold of Raging Phoenix and have put it in line to get watched and reviewed, so hopefully things will go quickly on that end. But life has a way of slowing things down.
ANAK NG BULKAN and other wonderful Filipino films
ANAK NG BULKAN is a Filipino film involving a giant bird that was known only by several posters to the folks who hunt down giant monster movies. But as luck would have it, one day a poster at Kaijuphile stumbled upon a blog that had pictures of the actual Anak Ng Bulkan film (from 1959), which showed that A- The film survived, B- The film is available in some format, and C- There is a giant bird in the film. All of that rules. What also rules is poking around on the blog are all sorts of photos from other fantastic Filipino films. Some of which I wasn’t sure if they existed, some I knew existed but had never seen actual photos of. Sadly, too many of them are just posters and magazine photos (although many of the magazine photos are new to me) and the films are still lost. A shame. In any event, here are some of the pictures and the relevant links, and you should probably poke around yourself if you are into that sort of thing (I know a few of you are!)
DARNA AT ANG BABAING TUOD (1965)
SI DARNA AT ANG IMPAKTA (1963)
GEMMA, ANG BABAING KIDLAT (1976)
Other good sources for Filipino cinema include Video48 and The Search for Weng Weng. Video48 is where some of the posters are pilfered from.
New Review – Bratz Babyz
The new review is Bratz Babyz, the compelling modern day soap opera about how America is doomed and will crumple upon its own excess. Or something. Whatever it is, it’s terrible, and we got lots of pictures and movie clips so you can suffer as well. Take that, suckerz! Read it today!
Bratz Babyz (Review)
Bratz Babyz
2006
Directed by Davis Doi
Written by John Doolittle
AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, no… NOOO! Not more Bratz movies! Okay, the live action one wasn’t terrible, but the cartoon ones are simply awful. And now we have them in Muppet Babies form! Yes, instead of teenage girls dressing as slores with giant eyes, now we have two year olds dressing as slores with giant eyes. What wonderful toys for your young daughters!
We need an update as to the status of The Bratz toyline since out other two reviews. Bratz was the center of a lawsuit where Mattel filed suit against MGA for infringement claiming the Bratz concept was developed by employees of Mattel who were still working at Mattel at the time. Mattel eventually won, and it was announced that the Bratz line would be pulled from store shelves after the Christmas 2008 season (the ruling was appealed and the Bratz line will be on shelves at least through 2009.) In 2009, Mattel came out with the Moxie Girlz line, which is an attempt to replace the Bratz. But then more lawyers showed up as artist Bernard “Butch” Belair declared the Bratz design was stolen from him and he sued both Mattel and MGA. Bernard “Butch” Belair claims to be from Brooklyn, NY, but I have it on good authority he is from West Philadelphia, born and raised, on the playground is where he spent most of his days…
The Bratz Babyz line was brought in as part of the Bratz strategy of flooding the market with everything Bratz in order to suck up every last cent from Mommy’s pocketbook. Bratz Babyz were epecially designed to hook young girls before they can even form complete sentences into the world of Bratz. They also were the target of several criticisms over the Bratz Babyz toys, including the “Babyz Night Out” fashion pack, the “Brattoo Parlor” playset (where your three-year-old can give herself a tramp stamp tattoo!), and the Big Babyz toys wearing what looks like thongs (but is just some plastic molding designed to prevent their skirts from riding up.)
This was the first Bratz Babyz movie, followed later by Bratz Super-Babyz, where the babies are superheroes.
Hey, that stuff was far too serious! How many of you were truely interested in the history of the Bratz Babyz franchise? Really? Well, all of you are freaks.
Bratz Babiez does us the disservice of not saying who voiced who in the credits. It’s like they are mocking me, personally. Damn you, Bratz Babiez!
|
Is it sad I know these four main characters without cheating by now? They all have a pet or something, including Cloe’s pig with wings, Yasmin’s frog, Jade’s cat, and Sasha’s rabbit.
