When creating spectacular movies, filmmakers often neglect the laws of natural science. Let’s analyze three well-known films from the scientific viewpoint. Scientific Inaccuracies in Hollywood Blockbusters If you look closely, you can find mistakes in any movie. From the scientific point of view, perfect movie stories do not exist. The more movie directors try to impress us, the more they get carried away and forget about reality and science. In … Continue reading →

Remember those days when we used to gaze at the Star Trek Movie, wondering how are these things even possible? Years later, here we are, actually talking to machines and using them as assistants in our daily lives. Scientists have pondered on the same, and students still work on papers on the transformation of technologies from movies to real life. From the electronic tablets in Space Odessey to the foldable … Continue reading →

On April 2nd, 2019, ITN Distribution is releasing the DVD for 2018’s No Surrender, an Egyptian-produced period actioner starring… Actually, don’t let the DVD cover fool you! Although Adkins is front and center, the real lead of the film is Amir Karara, but that’s not to say that Adkins (Triple Threat) fans should skip this (just watch the Trailer below). Alexandria, Egypt. 1940. Three young Egyptians come to the aid of an Egyptian woman who is being attacked by … Continue reading →

China will soon see the release of Love Song to the Days Forgone (previously known as Once Upon a Time in Northeast China), a crime thriller directed by Kong Ergou, who is mostly known for producing John Woo’s epic The Crossing saga, and The Three-Body Problem: I. The film stars Zhang Jingchu (Sky on Fire, The Adventurers), Xia Yu (Birth of the Dragon, Mojin: The Lost Legend), Hu Jun (Bodyguards and Assassins, Firestorm) and Wu Yue … Continue reading →

Danny Chan Kwok-kwan (Keep Calm and Be a Superstar), the actor mostly known for portraying Bruce Lee in Legend of Bruce Lee, Ip Man 3 and the upcoming Ip Man 4 (not to mention the Bruce Lee-inspired goalie in Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer), is back in Willam So’s Quan Dao: A Journey of a Boxer. Quan Dao: A Journey of a Boxer also stars Ka Nin Ngo (Ip Man 2), Awayne Liu (Unbeatable), Ashina Kwok … Continue reading →

Here’s a look at some of the titles that were presented at the HKFilmart 2019, which took place on March 18th-21st at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Minamata: HanWay Films is promoting Andrew Levitas’s Minamata, an upcoming thriller starring Johnny Depp. In the film, Depp plays celebrated WWII photographer W. Eugene Smith, who ventures to the sleepy Japanese town of Minamata, which was the scene of one of the world’s greatest … Continue reading →

Visionary director Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Handmaiden) will be directing The Brigands of Rattlecreek (aka The Brigands of Rattleborge), an ultra-violent Western written by up-and-coming filmmaker S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99 and the upcoming Dragged Across the Concrete). The Brigands of Rattlecreek, which has been picked up by Amazon Studios, follows a sheriff and a doctor who seek revenge against a group of bandits who … Continue reading →