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Shortfilm Review – WARRIORS (2016)
At first, I wasn’t too impressed with the action design of the fight IN the underground fight; but after watching a little while, the fight is only used to deliver the message…and that ultimately is what got me to keep watching. I’m usually a very critical person when I watch martial arts movies, and I have things to say about how the choreography was, but I saw the reason why they casted this protagonist. They saved the best action pieces for the fantasy kung fu fighting that goes on in his head. The performers were very capable, and the special effects were also very unique, so I felt the pacing of the fight was very broken to fully appreciate it.
PREDATOR: DARK AGES Is The Shortfilm You Want More Of!
Adrian Bouchett and Amed Hashimi lead the ensemble cast with actor Phillip Lane as the iconic alien hunter. Watch it right now!
The New Shortfilm Teaser For ASCENDED MASTERS Reveals The Son Of God In Training
Director Jela Oba Okpara is currently working on transitioning his latest desert martial arts thriller, The Last Girl into a feature film. The details are under wraps, some of which will hopefully come to light soon enough. In the meantime, Okpara‘s newest endeavor from his Spectacle Pictures banner is now available for viewing in the form of the new shortfilm trailer for Ascended Masters, a conceptualized story centered on the unwritten pages of Jesus Christ’s life between the ages of 12 and 30, entertaining the idea of a possible existence of a “kung fu Jesus” so to speak.
RUN HOME JACK: Help Fund Enligh10 Media's New Martial Arts/Parkour Crime Short
The Austin, Texas branch of independent film company Enligh10 Media is less than a week from the end of their campaign to help fund their newest action-packed short, Run Home Jack. Shortfilm director Mathew Ruybal is set to helm the project with his own script, telling of a mild-mannered introvert in his 30’s whose chance encounter with a group of men seeking to hire him for his “skills” puts him in a moral dilemma that forces him to choose between his new life, or a return to that which he once thought to have abandoned for good.
The New Shortfilm Teaser For YAKUZAMBIE Pits A Mob Princess And Her Sex Slave Against The Undead!
When the daughter of a late Yakuza Boss inherits her father’s mansion, she decides to seduce his right hand man as her own personal sex slave. However, their lustful acts are interrupted…by the UNDEAD!
Edward Zwick Will Direct Live Action Manga, SOUL REVIVER
And just when you thought Hollywood was through with reworking live-action Japanese properties for the big screen, here comes another!
White Guy Gets Beat Up By Asians!!!
…Well, at least not right away, and that is actually the central theme of the latest video from the gang over at EMC Monkeys titled Crazy White People, with comedic performances by instigatory white guy Robert Dill, and our principle quartet of Asian lookalikes, Malay Kim, Tony Sre, Johnny Yang and Xin Wuku. Watch it below, and remember to subscribe to their official Facebook page and keep up with their daily misadventures in kung fu, film, and other monkey business.
PREDATOR: DARK AGES Kicks Off Crowdfunding On Kickstarter
Hollywood director Shane Black may be on the way with a feature-length Predator sequel, but that isn’t stopping a small group over in the U.K. from pushing forward with an independent take of their own with the new shortfilm project, Predator: Dark Ages. The official Facebook page for the project has since long been launched to help gather as much of a readership as possible, with concept art and posters, and a teaser unveiled not too long ago.
That teaser is now accompanied by the brand new crowdfunding video which you can now view at the official Kickstarter page which just launched today.
SYNOPSIS:
Our Predator fan film is set in the Dark Ages, it is a period in history where mankind was plagued by disease and famine, as well as having to live and die by the sword.
Our film follows a group of war-torn Templar knights who have returned from the Eastern lands, back to England, only to find that the enemy is now a lot closer and a lot more deadly than before.
Throughout time the Predator has always looked for the greatest warriors to fight in battle, and with this short film we will see him put to the test against the some of the best history has ever seen, the Templar Knights.
Their battle with the Predator is the thing Myths and Legends are made of.
The Predator stories have always been told in a variety of ways dating back to the John McTiernan-directed classic, even so far the two crossover films that mingled the supernatural hunter with the Alien universe within the last decade. So to see a director use the title character as the driving force for a period short featuring templar knights is not at all odd, but quite the opposite. And with the goal of keeping true to the source material, Predator: Dark Ages appears to be something that guarantees promise.
If you’ve missed out on the teaser then check it out and then head over to the official Kickstarter page to learn more about the intended cast and crew, as well as how to donate, and the perks you will earn on top of getting to see another potentially amazing piece of indie film!
Espionage, Betrayal And Fatal Dichotomy Unfold In The New Short, BOUND
As always with the state of independent movies, unfortunately some projects take a few years before they are allowed an audience. Such was the case for U.K. filmmaker, martial artist and actor Beau Fowler over at Ki Films who has a nice little handful of short films available on his YouTube channel, including a brand new shortfilm titled Bound, an intriguing character study of a special forces Captain and his reluctant, unyielding hostage.
The new action short is more character driven than anything, and provides a nice little dramatic scope into actors Amed Hashimi and Christian Howard, both who appeared in the recent release of the UK action brawler flick, Green Street 3. Fowler also does a terrific job directing this neat gem, as well as offering a neat performance of his own as the seedy agent lurking in the background.
Fowler was recently featured with martial artist and actress Zara Phythian in a shortfilm pitch for an ambitious new webseries by independent filmmaker Brandon Kahn titled The Streets Of Myth, for which production is currently on hold with more developments to come. In the meantime, subscribe to the official Facebook page for Ki Films, and check out Bound in the embed below. And of course, remember to check out Howard‘s newest performance as Ken in Machinima’s live action webseries, Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, making its way to a feature-length cut on DVD, digital download, VoD and Blu-Ray this Fall.
Celine Tran Is A Sexy Vampire Hunter In The New Shortfilm Promo, HEARTBREAKER
It is not often that you see adult entertainment performers step into other aspects of film and acting, and there are quite a few people out there who are doing just that. If you would like an example, then look no further than actress and ex-porn star Céline Tran (formerly known as “Katsuni”), who is now taking her interests into the fun-filled world of comic book lore with Heartbreaker, a new edition of 619 Label’s French comic book anthology, Doggybags, from author, cartoonist and artistic director, Run (a.k.a. William Fox).
And how do you suppose they would market this new installation? Well, the new shortfilm promo below should answer that question, directed by Run and featuring Tran in the lead role as our black-clad sword-wielding, vampire vaporizing superheroine in a full-on assault that takes bullet ballet to a whole new level of sexy!
Wild Stunts (Europe) member Vincent Gatinaud designed the action and VFX with stunt and fight coordinators Kefi Abrikh and Mathieu Lardot.
French comic book aficionados will get first dibs on the new installment beginning June 13. In the meantime, check out the red-hot, NSFW footage in the embed below, and let’s hope this concept gets some feature treatment!