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Review: BEAST: THE CHRONICLES OF PARKER (2016) Is A Full-Blooded Martial Arts Action Affair That Shows Its Teeth Accordingly

Following a breakthrough career in the 1990’s as the first African-American member of the Hong Kong Stuntman Association, actor and fight coordinator Robert Samuels has since gone onto work on various other projects to date, including Kaloni Davis’s 2013 sophmore indie effort, Last Days The Saga: Torrent. For this, we now turn to Samuel’s most recent turn at the helm with a project currently enduring following crowdfunding efforts earlier this year, and brings nothing short of an albeit doable concept that enfuses action, hip-hop, martial arts, fantasy and espionage in some pretty appealing ways. Enter the world of Beast: The Chronicles Of Parker, the launchpad of Samuels and writer/producer Robert Jefferson under their R4 Films LLC. banner. Multi-acclaimed Action Martial Arts Hall of Fame inductee, actor Marco Johnson takes the lead for a story that goes underground as our hero, Robert Parker, an agent assisting a woman named “Osiris” – […]

Robert Samuels's BEAST Begins Crowdfunding Campaign On Indiegogo

Lee B. Golden III

If you’re looking for more martial arts action on film 2016, you don’t need to look hard at all. It’s definitely happening and Hong Kong Cinema stunt veteran, producer and filmmaker Robert Samuels (Don’t Give A Damn, Red Wolf) has every intention of taking part in this foray with his feature debut thriller, Beast. Following years of continued development before eventually filming and exclusively premiering a concept trailer late last year in New York City, the Indiegogo campaign has officially launched with the goal of attaining a small-yet-serviceable budget to help make Beast a reality and distribute the film to audiences. Debut actor Marco “Da Answer” Johnson, son of WMAC Masters talent Willie “Bam” Johnson, spearheads this latest effort with a seasoned cast that features Andre Royo and John DeBlasio, and Asian cinema stalwarts Vincent Lyn (Armor Of God 2: Operation Condor), Chang Shan (Shaolin V. Lama), Lo Meng (The […]