Fresh off a major screening at Cannes International Film Festival, Choice Skinner will be attending the Atlantic Comicon!! He will be screening The Black Lightning Tobias's Revenge.
Black Lightning- Tobias’s Revenge will screen at the 2018 Atlanta Comic
Con: Friday, July 13th at 6:30-7PM in Room C103!!! I’ll be in
attendance and may even be in Costume!!! See you then!
The film, a two part epic fan film is in my opinion better than the series on TV now. These are of course non profit fan films but are really amazing.
Part 1:
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPDsURkHU1s
Greetings
valued Dan's Movie Report readers. Action man Arnold Chon has a
copious amount of stunt and stunt coordinating experience. In
addition 2018 is set to be a banner year for Arnold as he is
producing the new Ben Ramsey short Interface, and stunt coordinating
the new film from director Daniel Zirilli, Hollow Point among other stunt-work on
projects on big budget films including Peppermint and Ant Man &
The Wasp! Watch for more exclusives on Hollow Point later in 2018, on
your home for all thing movies, and TV-- Dan's Movie Report.
Greetings valued Dan's Movie Report readers, Saban Films is unleashing a brand new thriller/action film 'Siberia'! Watch for more, on your home for cool films, Dan's Movie Report!
DIRECTOR: Matthew Ross
WRITERS: Scott B. Smith, Stephen Hamel
CAST: Keanu Reeves, Ana Ularu, Pasha D. Lynchikoff, Dmitry Chepovetsky, James Gracie, Eugene Lipinski, Rafael Petardi, with Veronica Ferres and Molly Ringwald
SYNOPSIS: When a business deal in Russia goes south, a U.S. diamond merchant (Keanu Reeves) and his lover (Ana Ularu) are caught in a lethal crossfire between the buyer and federal intelligence service.
Above Photos: Screenshots from Forbidden Power, (C) 2018 Paul Kyriazi/Victory Studios
A couple of years ago Nasanin did this spectacular short film called 'Where Am I'. The three minute film is a undulating narration of her coming out, could be interpreted many ways. Beautifully filmed and acted, Nasanin proves she can bring the emotion needed to take her skill to the next level. Check it out below:
Greetings
valued Dan's Movie Report readers. Today we have a special interview,
Action actor and martial arts expert Ron Smoorenburg stops by to chat
Asura! The film is a 100 million dollar Chinese version of a Lord of the Rings
type action/fantasy film, and is sure to turn heads all over the action World. Ron discusses
his character among other things as the film comes out July 13th in
Asia. Get behind the action with Ron! The Questions are below, and
the answers are on this video below!
Describe
your character in the Film his background etc abilities
How
long was pre-production this was a 100 million dollar film was there
storyboards etc?
Describe
your perspective on working with a mixture of western and Chinese
people is there a dynamic that can be challenging?
Even
though the film had a huge budget how open were the directors and
action director to allowing for some onset creativity
What
did you learn from working on Asura that you think independent film
makers and actors can learn from?
Beautiful
garden, thanks for the interview.
Above: The Golden Goddess, Chinese Poster for Asura!
Above: Asura Tease Video Promo
That
is it for now, make sure to watch for more material from Ron as Asura comes out
on Dan's Movie Report,the home for exclusives!
Greetings valued Dan's
Movie Report readers, what else can I say, Eric Jacobus has been on
my radar for 16 years, and this marks our 5th interview
including my Kung Fu Cinema days. Eric is a bearded man, who has a
unique vision in action. Sarcastically inventive, yet quietly
understated, Eric has carved his niche in indie cinema and the World
is taking notice! During this special, exclusive short interview Eric
discusses his new short, Blindsided: The Game. Get your cane, your
truculent microcosm Shih Tzu, and deal up a hand with Eric!
Chat about working with
Clayton and David and expanding the universe of Blindsided, actually
this is the longest short you have done , of course you did the
feature Death Grip.
Blindsided left
people wanting to know what happens next. We knew we had to expand
the world of Walter and Gordon and apple pie, and we tossed around
the idea of doing a feature film and an unrelated short, but we
always went back to the fans. The fans wanted to know what happened,
so we went that way. We had to go into the dark world of gambling and
the mob, so we created the Sal character and connected him with
Gordon, and suddenly we had a whole universe to play with.
Above: I mean are you serious! This man is packing so much heat! Right Arm a pistol, left arm a loaded Shih Tzu
What are some of the
initial ideas that did not make it into the expanded Blindsided: The
Game?
I actually can't
think of any. Clayton and I pegged the story pretty early on. What
you see is what we were penning from the beginning.
Say something about
working with Luke Lafontaine, he has some really creative ideas about
action.
Luke was hands on
with the choreography and we'd go deep into the history of Zatoichi.
He knows every sword movie ever made, so you can never surprise the
guy. Give him a morsel and he creates a whole movie out of it. Then
we scale it back and pick out the diamonds, and those are our fight
scenes.
Above: Eric Jacobus as Walter saves Jogger and Make Up artist Karen Pang from harms way, and looks good doing it! This is the mark of a true gentleman!
I asked this of Clayton
and David, do you ever want to expand on Blindsided: The Game concept
to make a feature film? Have you approached investors?
We'd like to do a
feature or a series. It's more important to find the right people or
company to carry it forward. This happens with almost every project I
work on. Someone says, "Hey, your last project was brilliant,
funny, original, and had great action with great composition. In my
movie I want you to play a cold-blooded killer and do Borne
Identity-style fight scenes and we'll shake the camera a lot."
People always want to transform your project into their own. So we
have to be very careful about that.
Talk about rehearsing
the various fights: what are some of the new techniques and action
you learned along the way?
We start with the
story. Walter has a sword, these guys have guns. You can't make a
long, intricate fight when it's a sword versus a gun. We could do
"gun-fu" or flail the sword around for five minutes like a
Rurouni Kenshin fight scene, but that would only service
our egos as stuntmen. You lose people with that mindset, so as
stuntmen who are creating from the ground up we have to pull back and
ask, "What's the story here? What are the key moments to
capitalize on?" Takeshi Kitano made memorable fight scenes out
of a single move - jamming the hammer on a revolver with his thumb,
or putting a bullet in a guy's mouth and socking him. This is smart
film-making, so we start there. The choreography falls into place
effortlessly then.
Finally, what is on
deck in action for Eric, new projects and short films, maybe big
budget surprises?
JB
Productions is working on the next short, and I've got some
game-related projects in the pipe that should excite some folks. I've
also been invited as the guest to Festigame Chile in Santiago Aug
3-5, where we're setting up a very cool live demo. You'll have to
wait and see for that one.
Greetings Dan's Movie Report readers haha, ok this film literally came out of left field, far of left field! To be quite honest, had it not been for my friend Jessica Nam who plays Superhero Lilly, I never would have heard of it! From writer/director Brian Lonano and writer Victoria Cook comes a tale of menstruation, and yeah it is what it sounds like dirty, silly and downright gross, yet beautiful.
Above: The superheros of BFF girls! Small size, big personality!
Basically you have three young girls who are going through their menstruation periods haha see what I did there? They turn into superheros, played by different actresses who have shall I say unique powers of bleeding pushing people around and selling stuff, ha. This film is not for kids Jessica told me it is aimed at the Adult Swim crowd, I actually see a full length Troma film!
Yes BFF Girls is not for everyone, and the subject matter and exdecution is bound to offend many, but for the core audience it should find a niche I give it a 7 out of 10. Three cheers for bleeding pint sized superheros!
Upcoming Screenings: Popcorn Frights Film Festival Screening: August 16th Preshow before "One Cut of the Dead" Savor Cinema
Greetings
valued Dan's Movie Report readers, today we have a 2018 film
hearkening back to the direct to video films of the 80s and early
90s. Not gonna lie, I used to dig the Andy Sidaris films sexy,
violent and fun! If you like his film style you will enjoy Forbidden
Power. Again this film is pretty low budget, but hits the right notes
of building story, colorful characters and clear filming techniques.
Forbidden
Power is basically the story legend of a girl who was orphaned as her
father shot his whole family and she is said to have gained mystical
powers. All grown up the lady is played with acrimony, zeal and
sexually charged tension by Nasanin
Nuri who does a great job with the script and vamps it up evil!
She is dangerous, fun, alluring and entertaining, an old school
throwback to a time when films were guilty pleasures. Watch for her
interview soon!
Writer/Director
Paul
Kyriazi crafts a great story and has a cool climax and ending
that may leave a sequel open! No spoilers of what happens, but I
really liked the idea of the character interaction in the first act.
My only small complaint was some of the acting was not as good as it
could have been, a bit stiff, Wearing many hats on the same
production can at times a bit bring the quality down, but not always
the case. The characters spoke the lines clearly just the conveyed
emotion was not always there.
The
two leads Lincoln Bevers as George and Nasanin Nuri as Veronica have
a push/pull interplay that is quite engaging, They brought their A
game, but again was a larger cast for an indie so each person may not
have same abilities or experience in acting. This is a bit of an
issue but again it is a direct to video film and clean, campy fun,
well not always clean! HA!
Overall
I enjoyed Forbidden Power, I am on the fence as to ratings, probably
a 7 out of 10, a definite rent or, if you like old school 80s horror films a
buy. I hope to see more of Nasanin, she really worked hard on this
one, she brings the rating up. Order on Amazon now-
