Donnie Yen
One of the actors getting next-leveled thanks to being in Star Wars: Rogue One is the martial arts movie star Donnie Yen.
Yen will be familiar to any avid follower of combat films like Ip Man and Shanghai Knights. But his storm trooper takedowns in the Rogue One should introduce him to a whole new audience.
Sarah wrote about Yen for Asian World Of Martial Arts.
To read the story click here.
Filed under Films, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
The War Show
It’s pretty easy for most of us here in the western world to bury our heads in the sand and ignore what’s been happening in Syria.
Part of this is distance and another part is perceived difference — if you don’t know these people it makes it easier not to care about them, right?
A new documentary called The War Show is helping illuminate what it’s like for the Syrian people and it’s… awful.
I spoke to The War Show co-director Andreas Dalsgaard about this when he was in town for TIFF.
To read the full interview click here.
Filed under Films, Politics, Shameless Promotion
The Fits
It could be fairly argued that the boxing movie as a genre has gotten quite predictable and stale.
That’s why new indie movie The Fits is such an intriguing, welcome new film.
Its use of the sweet science is a bold new direction for fight — or at least fight tangential — films.
Sarah wrote about it for Fightland.
To read about this click here.
Filed under Art, Films, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Ontario greenhouses
For all the rah-rah about how well it treats its citizens, provides a safety net for the less fortunate and supports refugees and immigrants, there’s a semi-secret underclass Canadians should be ashamed about the way they’re treated — temporary foreign workers.
Brought in to Canada on restrictive short term contracts to do farming, manual labour and “jobs Canadians won’t do,” temporary workers are often exploited in this country.
A recent documentary about this subject called Migrant Dreams explores this subject in depth.
I spoke to director Min Sook Lee about it for Samaritan Mag.
To read the full interview click here.
Filed under Films, Shameless Promotion, Television
Jackie Chan
Despite being the second biggest figure behind a whole film genre (next to Bruce Lee), the Academy Awards have never cared all that much about Jackie Chan and his kung fu movies.
Until now, that is.
This past November at the 8th Annual Governors Awards for the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences they gave Chan one of the four Honorary Awards for being one of the “true pioneers and legends in the crafts.”
Sarah wrote about this for Asian World Of Martial Arts.
To read it click here.
Filed under Films, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 