Dave, Devindra, and Germain discuss Marvel's attempt at bringing the Avengers universe to television, chat about the merits of Keanu Reeves' directorial debut, and praise Ron Howard's latest indie film. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, like us on Facebook! Download or Play Now in your Browser: Subscribe to the /Filmcast: …
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After starring in a few martial arts-influenced films, Keanu Reeves is moving on to directing one of his own. His debut Man of Tai Chi stars Tiger Hu Chen as a talented martial artist who's recruited by a shady figure (Reeves) to participate in an underground fighting tournament. The first trailer focused mostly on the…
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One of the best film events of the year is Fantastic Fest, which takes place at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX. The first wave of the 2013 fest has been announced, and it has some great stuff. There's Keanu Reeves, who'll appear with his directorial debut Man of Tai Chi (trailer); the Cannes weirdness of…
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One of the most prestigious film festivals in North America, the Toronto Film Festival, has begun to announce its line up for 2013. The event takes place September 5-15 and as usual, the line-up includes pretty much every highly-anticipated awards contender scheduled for release through the end of the year. Just a few examples are…
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This new trailer for Keanu Reeves' directorial debut Man of Tai Chi is quite an improvement over the last look we had at the movie. This is a fight film, pure and simple, but this trailer suggests a lot more story and a more complicated moral path for the main character. The movie looks more…
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Here's the first footage from Keanu Reeves' directorial debut, Man of Tai Chi, and it isn't quite what I expected to see. This is a fight film through and through, which we knew to expect, but one that seems to have more in common with a film like Bloodsport than the fight-heavy films Reeves is known…
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Keanu Reeves has been in a couple of big martial arts influenced movies (those Matrix films come to mind, and there's the delayed 47 Ronin) and now he's directing his own. The film is called Man of Tai Chi, and features Reeves as the villain, with Tiger Hu Chen (who worked in the Matrix stunt team) as the…
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A couple decades ago, and even today, the best way to shoot a complex martial-arts fight scene is the simplest: get good stuntmen, choreograph the hell out of the scene, and then set the camera back in such a way that it really captures their work, with the longest takes that make sense. Jackie Chan…
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For some time, Keanu Reeves has been talking about directing and acting in a film called Man of Tai Chi. Now he has funding set up for the movie, thanks to money committed by Village Roadshow Pictures Asia, China Film Group, Wanda Media and Universal, which will distribute in the US. As he has said…
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Last year Keanu Reeves started talking about Man of Tai Chi, which would be his first feature project as a director. The martial arts film would be set in the present day, but is intended as an homage to classic kung-fu films. Now Mr. Reeves says he wants to play the villain in the film,…
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