“YOU CAN’T RUN FOREVER” (2024) | Film Review
There are movies that make you wish you had a licence to make films. Everyone is allowed to have dreams and fulfil them. But as a viewer, you don’t have to share the same dream. In this case, a pure nightmare of a film.
“HOW TO ROB A BANK” (2024) | Film Review
Using university equipment to make meth and sell it to the Hell’s Angels, flunking out of college before graduating, then building a multi-storey tree house and never actually working – that’s only possible in Seattle and is the stuff of a typical Netflix documentary.
“THE COMEBACK TRAIL” (2020) | Film Review
Films about filmmaking are popular with film fans. Whether it’s ‘BOWFINGER’ (1999) or ‘WAG THE DOG’ (1997), it’s simply interesting to look over the shoulders of the professionals and see how unglamourous Hollywood can be.
“LAST LOOKS” (2021) | Film Review
Crime thrillers are exciting. Readers or viewers want to know who the murderer is and follow the story closely, picking up breadcrumbs, becoming detectives themselves until they realise they are on the wrong track.
Hands of Stone: Jackie Chan’s face and hand prints for the professional collector
When you have reached the lowest point in your life, there is nowhere to go but up. This is where a person’s true character is revealed. In 1994, New York artist Joseph Malara made a virtue of necessity and worked his way up from flea markets to the living rooms of the stars in just a few years with a clever business idea. A true American story.
“You can win an Oscar for playing a stuntman but not for being one” – A comment
Stunt performers have been part of the film business since the beginning of moving pictures. Even though they have always made film stars shine with their anonymous and breakneck actions, they still don’t get the respect they deserve when it comes to the Oscars. Why is that the case? A few thoughts on this.
Stars I would like to see in a film with Jackie Chan (film pitch)
On 16 May 2023, Sony Pictures launched its casting call for a “major motion picture with […] Jackie Chan”. Shooting was scheduled for September to December 2023. Then came the WAG and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Then, on 21 November 2023, Sony Pictures really set the global internet lines ablaze.
Ninjas & Fighting Fists: Sonny Chiba and Jackie Chan together in one film?
Only a few photos exist of Sonny Chiba and Jackie Chan together. What has connected the Japanese “Street Fighter” actor and the Hong Kong “happy go lucky” star for decades, however, is a persistent rumour of a joint film: “Ninja Wars” (1982).