Tag: The Raid
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‘Boy Kills World’ Review – Bill Skarsgård Gets Beaten Down
Action and comedy are usually the perfect combination because, let’s face it, who doesn’t want some laughs alongside a kick-ass action romp? Boy Kills World, a new film from producer Sam Raimi and first-time director Moritz Mohr, feels like it’s an amalgamation of various hit action flicks while also trying to create a satirical tone…
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‘Kill’ Review – Nikhil Nagesh Crafts Bloody Brilliant Action
Every so often there comes an action film that is so confident, so bold, and so fresh, that you just can’t help to believe that there is hope in the genre beyond just big budget blockbusters starring your favorite actors who once played a superhero. Films like The Raid, John Wick, Mad Max: Fury Road,…
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‘The Princess’ Review: Rapunzel Meets ‘The Raid’ in Hulu’s Exasperatingly Cheap Joey King Vehicle
There’s something kind of remarkable about watching a 90-minute film that only has a single idea spread across its entire running time — “what if ‘The Raid,’ but about a fairy tale princess trying to fight her way down from the castle tower where she’s been imprisoned by an evil suitor?” — but my awe…
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‘Havoc’, the New Gareth Evans Action Movie Starring Tom Hardy, Adds Forest Whitaker to the Cast
Havoc, the new Netflix action movie from The Raid franchise director Gareth Evans, has added Forest Whitaker to its cast. Whitaker joins the previously-announced Tom Hardy in the film, which follows a detective working his way through a criminal underworld to find a politician’s estranged son following a drug deal gone bad. And one can…
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Russian Raid review – hostile takeover of screens in steroidal martial arts actioner
Hooligans are up to all sorts of impish mayhem in this rote action flick apparently modelled on The RaidRussia’s hooligan set will have a new Friday-night post-pub favourite with this martial arts film, modelled on Gareth Evans’s The Raid. In a literal hostile takeover, former Spetsnaz sniper Nikita (Ivan Kotik) leads a squad of tracksuited…
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Xyz Films Raises $100 Million in Production Financing
Los Angeles-based production, sales and management outfit Xyz Films has raised $100 million in production financing across a slate of 15 to 20 films.Venture capital firm Ipr.Vc, based in Helsinki, Finland, is co-financing the slate. Xyz made the announcement Thursday on the second day of the American Film Market.Notable Xyz titles include Gareth Evans’ “The…
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Choose Your Fighters: ‘Mortal Kombat’ Casts A New Crew Of Killer Champions
Choose your fighter. Hot on the heels of today’s Liu Kang casting news, The Hollywood Reporter says several actors have signed on for roles in the next “Mortal Kombat” movie being produced by James Wan and currently slated for a spring 2021 release.A few hours after Chinese actor Ludi Lin— best known for roles in…
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‘Mortal Kombat’: Joe Taslim Joins Cast as Sub-Zero
Indonesian actor/martial artist Joe Taslim has been cast as Sub-Zero in New Line Cinema’s epic-action film “Mortal Kombat.” The film is set to shoot in South Australia later this year, an individual with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap.The film, produced by “Aquaman” director James Wan and based on the hugely successful video game franchise,…
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‘Triple Threat’ Trailer: Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Tiger Chen, and Scott Adkins in the Same Movie? Sign Us Up
If you asked a group of diehard genre fans to make a list of the four best martial arts movie stars in the world right now, I imagine an overwhelming majority of the results would include these names: Tony Jaa (the Ong Bak trilogy), Iko Uwais (The Raid films), Tiger Chen (Man of Tai Chi),…