the halsall brothers

THE HIT LIST – August 15, 2016

Well, my weekend was another work weekend. Apart from that I just played it low key and tuned into some more anime and more Hit List content, and I didn’t think I would find a lot to load for the second playlist. As you’ll see, I found plenty to share amid all you can now enjoy in this week’s installment, including a new set of stunt and action demo reels Joseph Ray Santos, Erika Keck, Jon Miguel, Monica Lopez Aleman, Paul Drechsler, Ben Van Huis, Michaela McAllister, Sean Kohnke, Darren Holmquist and Gibb Diaz Ng Yu. Rounding it out is a spiritual tribute to the one and only Jean-Claude Van Damme from filmmaker and well known independent action extraordinaire, Vlad Rimburg. Highlights from many of his earlier hits such as Cyborg, Kickboxer, Double Impact, Lionheart, Hard Target and Timecop are all included with an opening theme central to the exposition […]

100 BULLETS Takes Gruesome Comic Book Vengeance Through A Real-World Lens

Lee B. Golden III

I have to thank certain directors in my purview who are a bit more abreast of other up and coming filmmakers than I have been able to keep up with. And for this, we now look toward a very special project that will undoubtedly raise eyebrows and flutter hearts from filmmakers Matt and Simon Halsall (If I Only Had A Heart). Thus, take a gander at 100 Bullets, an inspiring webseries take on the popular Vertigo comic which, for this iteration, pits actor Min Jung Kim as a soldier in the heart of North Korea, mourning over the death of his wife and is given a unique opportunity to avenge her. Apart from the narrative brings a heavy-handed, attentive look past the façade of faux peace and harmony, casting a bright light onto the very darkness and horror of a dictatorship that has walls itself from the rest of the […]