Festivals And Events
TACFEST 2024 Brings The Heat Back To Illescas With Loads Of Action And Martial Arts Fanfare In May
Our own Mike Garcia has been busy previewing some of the stuff that’s ramping for the sophomore edition of the Toledo Action Films Festival And Expo, or TACFEST & EXPO. You can check out his select write-ups by clicking here, while the word is now out for the five-day event kicking off in the Spanish municipality at the Illescas House of Culture on May 15.
Philip Ng To Star In New Martial Arts Actioner, WITHOUT REMORSE
Asia’s leading film and TV marketplace, FILMART, recently saw Philip Ng (Once Upon a Time in Shanghai) take the stage to announce his upcoming film, Without Remorse, which he will star in alongside frequent co-star and martial arts giant, Andy On (True Legend). Philip Lui Koon-Nam is set to direct. Lui’s previous (and only) film as director, Undercover Punch and Gun, also starring On and Ng, was met with fairly positive reviews from martial arts fans upon its initial release in 2019.
BRUSH OF THE GOD Teaser Strokes A Mighty Cinematic Offering From A Kaiju Cinema Legend
An idea more than forty years in the making and two years since heading up crowdfunding efforts at Kickstarter and Motion Gallery, celebrated kaiju costume designer Keizo Murase will finally get his day with upcoming kaiju feature, Brush Of The God. Plans are in motion to premiere the film at the 19th edition of the Osaka Asian Film Festival in March, before scoring releases throughout Japan and abroad.
FRIED Trailer: Economic Pitfalls And Mental Illness Violently Unravel In Richard Goss’s Indie Thriller Webseries
21 festivals and 38 awards in, actor and filmmaker Richard Goss is still on the road with black comedy psychological thriller, Fried, starring Goss alongside Jake McDaid. Independently funded and produced by Goss who co-directed with Jessica Crooks, Fried presents a half-hour tale told in four acts for its webseries format, notably inspired by previous works such as Bruce Robinson’s Withnail & I, Jon S. Baird’s Filth and Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges.
RIDE BABY RIDE Review: Sofie Somoroff’s Feminist Revenge Thriller Is One For The Road!
TW: This review discusses subject of rape with a supernatural context.
AHITH 2023: The Legend Continues Debuting Alec Bonk’s Feature Presentation With Inspired Indie Crime Flick, BLIND COP 2!
The evolution behind Alec Bonk’s feature debut here is funny as hell given the mythic nature of an inaugural “Blind Cop” movie. The official website has more info on why this is so, take it or leave it, but for better or worse Bonk and his team have taken an idea stemmed from a character created for a short 2014, and have all but run with it full speed ahead to produce what we now know as Blind Cop 2, billed as “a throwback to the 80s with over the top humor and violence and an antidote to factory made studio blockbusters”.
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