This spring there's going to be this documentary about the B-Boy culture that you need to see. It is simply one of those movies that you cant stop watching...and one that I can't stop rewinding and slow-moing every 20 seconds. It really takes b-boying on a world level—but at the same time it keeps the essence of the culture right at the level it should be. Check out the trailers and stuff at planetbboy.com. And when you get a chance youtube "North Korea vs South Korea from 'PLANET B-BOY'". Too bad they didn't allow embedding cause THAT scene is DOPE.
Posted at 1:31 pm January 21, 2008 in Uncategorized — Tags: movie, review — by Flashpoint Grafix »
Justin Lin’s indie follow-up to his menacing BETTER LUCK TOMORROW is a comedy spoof about the search for “the new Bruce Lee” just after Lee's death in 1973. The film imagines an out-of-touch movie producer hiring his son, a would-be director, to complete the Bruce Lee movie GAME OF DEATH, only twelve minutes of which had been shot before the star’s sudden death. FINISHING THE GAME purports to be a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows a number of hopeful actors through the process as the filmmakers attempt to re-cast the role. Along the way, Lin proves he is a master of both period detail and social commentary. Indeed, Lin’s take-no-prisoners attitude lampoons both Hollywood’s uncomfortable relationship with race and the self-importance of filmmaking itself.
FINISHING THE GAME features Roger Fan, Sung Kang, Dustin Nguyen, James Franco, M.C. Hammer, Ron Jeremy, Meredith Scott Lynn, Monique Curnen and Sam Bottoms.
FINISHING THE GAME theatrical roll out schedule is as follows:
October 5 - New York - IFC Center October 19 - San Francisco - Landmark Lumiere Theatre October 19 - Berkeley - Landmark Shattuck Cinema October 26 - Los Angeles - Landmark NuArt Theatre October 26 - San Diego - Landmark Ken Theatre and in other select cities nationwide in November
Back in 2004 I got this dvd mockumentary about the break up of a hip hop record label. The movie released in 2005 but I never saw it in any local theaters—that's because they limited the release and focussed it in and around the New York and Philly areas. It's supposed to be about the break up of Rocafella. I liked it at the time—mostly because it was around the time of the actual breakup of Jay-Z and Dame Dash. Plus Devon Aoki was in there.
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Posted at 9:53 pm August 15, 2007 in Uncategorized — Tags: movie — by Flashpoint Grafix »
