big bad film fest 2024

Big Bad Film Fest 2024 Review: In BANGKOK DOG, Chaya Supannarat’s Debut Bites Just Enough To Match Its Bark

8 min. read I have been eyeing the progression of actor and martial artist D.Y. Sao – almost for as long as I’ve been on this platform. His credits extend a little further back including a small role in R.L. Scott’s 2010 sequel endeavor, Champion Road: Arena, and some several years later he’d be the subject of several indie web and film crowdfunding ventures as a member of Usurp Productions at the time. In recent memory, the Cambodian-born Long Beach townsman found himself in a more momentous space with the likes of martial arts filmmaking troupe, Martial Club. The actor also did two feature films with late director Pearry Reginald Teo: 2021 revenge thriller Fast Vengeance, and indie action dark fantasy, Shadow Master the following year, both which also saw the involvement of Chaya Supannarat in a producing capacity to add to her extensive miscellaneous film set credits. The latter […]

BIG BAD FILM FEST: RELOADED: ‘Life After Fighting’, ‘Bangkok Dog’ And More For The Action-Packed Festival In Its Sophomore Year!

Lee B. Golden III

Last year saw the start of a new wave of action film festival fare in Glendale with the Big Bad Film Fest. The line-up then was immediately promising, and this year for its West Coast festivities, things are already looking better. The festival has already announced that Timo Tjahjanto’s 2018 Netflix hit, The Night Comes For Us, will make way for attendees looking to watch the epic Joe Taslim-led thriller on a plar bigger than the average 65″ screen. They also made clear plans to screen Eye For An Eye 2, Qin Peng-Fei’s sequel to his 2021 period blind swordsman actioner starring Xie Miao (upcoming The Furious). On Monday, the Big Bad Film Fest went full throttle with the goodies to come, slating Qin’s film for the festival’s opening night kickoff on Friday, August 23 at 7pm. The remaining two days will see a bevy of features and shorts to […]