The Man With The Iron Fists
has to be one of the most closely guarded films in recent memory. It wrapped production over a year ago, yet
not so much as a single frame of footage has surfaced in that time. That can easily be seen as a bad omen. After all, The RZA’s two previous directorial
efforts (The elusive Bobby Did It and
Wu-Tang Vs. the Golden Phoenix) have
yet to see the light of day. One would
hope that same fate doesn’t befall The Man
With The Iron Fists, especially seeing as how it boasts considerable talent
both in front of and behind the camera. Perhaps
hoping to curtail any sort of bad buzz before it starts, RZA recently tweeted
the first official image from the film.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Eye Popping First Image from ‘The Man With The Iron Fists’
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Lucy Liu,
Pam Grier,
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Quentin Tarantino,
Ricky Yune,
Russell Crowe,
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The Man With The Iron Fists
Television Show Trailer: Make It Rain
I have a couple of confessions to make. I like strippers, and
I like strip clubs. To be
fair, it’s been years since I’ve actually set foot in one. They happen to be a colossal waste of money,
and aren’t very good places for finding a girlfriend or a wife. Still, they have their appeal. Back when I used to frequent such places regularly,
I’d go to a club called Sue’s Rendezvous. Sue’s is located in Mount Vernon, New York,
and caters to a mostly Black and Latino clientele. Some wild things used to happen there from
time to time. Me being the movie buff
that I am, I soon realized that a Black strip club would be the ideal setting for
a modern crime story. The Players
Club, Ice Cube’s directorial debut, doesn’t really count. It was mostly an after-school special that
alternated between broad melodrama and broader slapstick. That's not nearly gully enough for true aficionados of booty clubs and/or gangster flicks.
Movie Trailer: Alex Cross
The trailer for Alex
Cross has finally arrived. Skeptics will
now chime en masse about their fears having been confirmed. That is understandable, to a degree. As thrillers go, it looks like a fairly
standard stuff. All the tropes and
trappings are clearly in place. It isn’t
enough for the villain to simply be psychotic and murderous, he must be eccentrically
and/or perfectly so. The character of Michael
"The Butcher" Sullivan, played by Matthew Fox, is an MMA fighter with
Special Forces training. With that kind
of resume, he might as well be a super villain.
Mr. Cross has no such attributes.
He’s simply an exceptional psychologist/detective. The more I think about, the more I see parallels
to one of this summer’s most anticipated releases: The Dark Knight Rises. Think
about it: a super detective faces off against a villainous bodybuilder who
means to destroy all that he holds dear.
Labels:
Action Film,
Alex Cross,
Black Heroes,
Book Adaptation,
Matthew Fox,
Movie Trailer Review,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Tyler Perry
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