Tag: ninja
The Most Complete Fighter: The Films of Scott Adkins, Ranked
20 years ago today, Teddy Chan’s The Accidental Spy hit theaters. Within star Jackie Chan’s illustrious filmography, the film is usually considered a minor entry, but it’s momentous for an entirely different reason: it marks the film debut of...
The Many Faces Of Sigourney Weaver
This week sees the release of Neill Blomkamp's Chappie, starring an eclectic mix of actors, non-actors and special effects. Loïc saw the film and had mixed feelings. Among the cast members is Sigourney Weaver though, and that is always worth...
Review: CHAPPIE, Thug Life Doesn't Pay Off
Neill Blomkamp is on everyone's radar now that he's been chosen to direct the new Alien movie. His latest effort, Chappie, might fuel the raging debate, as it shows a weird mixture of sci-fi within the gangsta universe of rap...
I Am Consciousness. I Am Alive. I Am CHAPPIE. We Have Our First Trailer!
Hot on the heels of yesterday's Chappie poster comes our first trailer.It looks like we have another heady science fiction treatment by Neill Blomkamp, with little of the rumoured humour in the film showing face in this trailer. Plenty of heart...
First Poster For Blomkamp's CHAPPIE
He's carved out a reputation as arguably the leading purveyor of high octane science fiction laced with heady ideas in the world today, more or less occupying the space that Steven Spielberg filled in his earlier days. And now it...
First Glimpse Of Neill Blomkamp's CHAPPIE
A Facebook page for Neill Blomkamp's Chappie, a sci-fi comedy starring fellow South Africans Ninja and ¥o-Landi Vi$$er of Die Antwoord as themselves and frequent Blomkamp collaborator Sharlto Copley (Wikus in District 9 and Kruger in Elysium) as the titular android Chappie,...
Die Antwoord and Neill Blomkamp Wrap on CHAPPIE
Die Antwoord's Ninja and Yo-landi Vi$$er have recently wrapped on Chappie, Neill Blomkamp's upcoming sci-fi comedy. They play themselves as the film's (human) leads, with Sharlto Copley voicing the film's robot namesake. This South African acting triad will be accompanied...
Get Behind The Scenes Of NINJA: SHADOW OF A TEAR With Scott Adkins And Isaac Florentine!
Scott Adkins starring, Isaac Florentine directed action extravaganza Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear hit shelves last week and just in case you need further reminders that this particular duo are responsible for the absolute finest martial arts action cinema coming...
The Long Walk to CHAPPIE: An Indignant Release For MANDELA, And An Indulgent Release For Die Antwoord
Most South Africans don't observe Thanksgiving, but if they did it is no hyperbole to say that almost every citizen would pause and give thanks for Nelson Mandela. I happen to be a South African living in California right now,...
NINJA 2: Scott Adkins Needs A Lot More Than Two Graves To Contain The Second Trailer
Action star Scott Adkins and director Isaac Florentine reunite with the upcoming Ninja 2: Shadow Of A Tear and the results are, typically, fantastic. Florentine and Adkins are jointly responsible for a handful of the finest American martial arts films...
Blomkamp's CHAPPIE Underway And Those Die Antwoord Stories Were Very Much True
It was back in May that ScreenAnarchy reported on stories that South African director Neill Blomkamp had tapped his nation's biggest musical export - Die Antwoord - to star in his upcoming third film Chappie. The news was widely met...
Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: NINJA, SHADOW OF A TEAR Kicks Ass. Then Face. Then Ass Again.
Though the script may not be the most sterling work of literature you've ever come across and the production was forced to work within a strictly limited budget Isaac Florentine's Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear stands as one of the...
Neill Blomkamp's CHAPPIE to Star Sharlto Copley and Die Antwoord
Two years ago we reported that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp had another film greenlit after Elysium, no mean feat given that at that point the shoot of his big-budgeted sci-fi epic had yet to start. And then all went quiet...
Watch Die Antwoord In Harmony Korine's UMSHINI WAM
Yes, it is every bit as strange as you think it's going to be.Yolandi Visser and Ninja from frequently bizarre South African rap act Die Antwoord star in Umshini Wam, a new short film from director Harmony Korine. Korine, in...
Neill Blomkamp's CHAPPIE To Follow ELYSIUM
How much do financiers Media Rights Capital like District 9 director Neill Blomkamp? Enough that, though Blomkamp has not yet begun production on his $120 million dollar scifi epic Elysium - which signed a worldwide distribution deal with Sony today...
