Most of my friends know what I've been doing during the last three months: working with the VFX team on the german movie John Rabe. Sadly, no trailer has been officially released yet so I don't really have anything to show. But! 'Majestic Film Verleih', the company who will bring the movie to german cinemas this year (or so I hope) released 8 official press pictures.
Jason Statham plays a farmer called Farmer (no joke) who has to go on a mission to save the world, after an evil sorcerer (Ray Liotta) decides to take over it. His son gets killed on the way along and his wife captured. There's also Burt Reynolds as some dumb king as well as men in suits who are supposed to be a warrior race called…
When we drove back from Wuzhen to Shanghai in January, we encountered the above posted police car. The first time it passed us by, I was like 'wtf?', that can't really be a police car. But then I noticed the siren on top of the car as well as the white licence plate - and got really angry that I didn't take a picture. But our…
Yesterday we took a day off from all that family-meeting-during-spring-festival business and took a almost two hour long walk on the famous Xi'An city wall. The Xi'An city wall surrounds completely the inner downtown area, which makes it a incredible 13.74 kilometers long. It was established in the year 582, which was the second year of the Sui dynasty and it was always repaired and kept…
Top topic among people in the wife's and mine age rank this spring festival: the stolen sex tape pictures from Hong Kong star Edison Chen, the Sexgate. So this dude is a famous singer slash actor, and bedded recently quite an impressive amount of chinese female stars (god knows how many before, the thieves probably didn't steal all his tapes, and he probably didn't film every…
"Dangerous" was probably the album I listened to the most as a young, dumb boy. And I absolutely loved Michael's great music videos on Mtv, too! I guess I'm one of the hardcore fans from him. Anyway, his last two or three albums were really bad, so I had almost forgotten about him. Well, his music, in the news he appeared more than enough, didn't he?…
My wife, my parents-in-law and myself had a nice little Mahjong session just now. Real chinese Mahjong is played with 136 tiles which contain about 30 different characters, so that each one is about four times to be found in the game. Sounds a lot like Poker, doesn't it? Wikipedia tells me that the game may have been invented 500 years before christ by a guy…
Die Handlung als Spiegel der Sensationsgier Die Idee hinter The Condemned ist simpel, aber effektiv: Ein skrupelloser TV-Produzent organisiert ein mörderisches Spektakel, bei dem zehn zum Tode verurteilte Straftäter:innen auf einer abgelegenen Insel ums Überleben kämpfen. Nur wer als letzte:r überlebt, erhält die Freiheit. Die Kämpfe, gefilmt von hunderten Kameras, werden live im Internet übertragen – Zuschauer:innen zahlen 50 Dollar, um das blutige „Spiel“ zu verfolgen.
Ein frischer Wind im Horror-Genre In einer Zeit, in der das Horror-Genre von unzähligen Remakes und Sequels dominiert wird, bietet The Return von Regisseur Asif Kapadia eine willkommene Abwechslung. Es ist ein Film, der nicht auf Schockeffekte und Jumpscares setzt, sondern auf subtilen Grusel, bedrückende Atmosphäre und eine unaufgeregte, aber dennoch faszinierende Erzählweise. Hier geht es nicht um Monster, sondern um die inneren Dämonen der Hauptfigur…
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