July 06, 2021
Tiger Chen stars in Man of Tai Chi, a 2013 film directed by Keanu Reeves.
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Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut could have been a critical disaster. A bilingual martial arts movie set in mainland China and Hong Kong, it sounds, at best, like an ego trip and at worst like cultural appropriation.
But just as Reeves has always stood slightly apart from the rest of the Hollywood A-list, Man of Tai Chi is a Chinese-American co-production with a difference – the film is actually pretty good. It’s certainly hard to picture another Western star making such a movie with as little fuss and fanfare. Just imagine how boring it would be with Brad Pitt at the helm, or how bonkers with Nicolas Cage ?
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15 Major MGM Movie Franchises Amazon Could Start Production on Immediately
With Amazon s take over of MGM complete, we look at some of the newly acquired movie franchises that Amazon now have at their disposal.
After days of speculation, Amazon was officially confirmed as the new owners of MGM, and by proxy many huge movie and TV franchises are now theirs to do what they like with. Like Disney s acquisition of Fox before it, the merger opens up many new avenues for Amazon to explore - although some movies such as
To indulge our snarky side like this, however, represents a failure on our part to engage with the film on its own terms. Roger Ebertâs po-faced take on the film â âDoesnât deserve one nanosecond of serious analysisâ â sums up the problem. Longoâs film is at its heart a comic-book comedy, and belongs to a tradition of cinematic eccentricity of which Terry Gilliamâs best work might be exemplary. There are nods to the more serious, âcerebralâ sci-fi of Strange Days and The Matrix, but each motif is heightened, given a touch of absurdity.
Prophetically, in Johnny Mnemonicâs 2021 a pandemic ravages the planet. This is no natural virus, however, but the wifi-transmitted disease known as âthe black shakesâ, itâs victims suffering violent seizures caused by the sheer volume of data they are forced to absorb in their techno-crazed society. The cure for this disease is of course to be found in the data file squirrelled awa
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Welcome to “This Week in Genre History,” where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the
Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world’s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.
No, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, the writers behind
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, weren’t smoking anything when they came up with the title characters of their iconic comedy. “We were not stoned, though everyone thinks we were,” Solomon said last year. “I was not a stoner then. I had a bad experience in college and I had a f ing meltdown because I was such a wimp.”