http://geeksofdoom.com Stuff by geeks, about geeks, for geeks. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:53:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/27/conversations-with-god-the-forbidden-kingdom-co-star-li-bing-bing/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/27/conversations-with-god-the-forbidden-kingdom-co-star-li-bing-bing/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:54:34 +0000 Movies At Midnight Li Bing-BingThe Forbidden Kingdom http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=4739 The Forbidden Kingdom screenwriter John Fusco and his influences that helped forge the script. Now, I am lucky enough to speak with one of the film's co-stars, Li Bing-Bing, who makes her Hollywood debut playing Ni Chang, better known as The Bride With White Hair.

Geeks Of Doom: Thank you for taking some time today to answer some questions about your current film, The Forbidden Kingdom which is your first English language film, after ten years of acting in Hong Kong cinema. Did you have any trouble adapting to an American production work schedule?

Li Bing-Bing: I was very lucky to be part of The Forbidden Kingdom. The Forbidden Kingdom has a fantastic filmmaking team with director Rob Minkoff, cinematographer Peter Pau, martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping, and Jet Li, and Jackie as world class martial artists and teachers. Everyone was very professional. The Forbidden Kingdom cast and crew also had a great team spirit attitude -- they had high expectation for all cast members, no matter that their backgrounds maybe. Everyone had the same treatment and everyone was thoughtful as well. I quickly became accustomed to the U.S. filmmaking culture and learned a lot from the experience [...]]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/27/conversations-with-god-the-forbidden-kingdom-co-star-li-bing-bing/feed/ 0 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/24/dvd-review-son-of-sam/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/24/dvd-review-son-of-sam/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:18:51 +0000 Movies At Midnight Bertrand PareCassandra ChurchDawna ChaeElissa DowlingJamie BernadetteUlli LommelYogi Joshi http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=4751 Ulli Lommel. Lommel, who has been making movies since the early 1970s, has seemingly made his post-2000 career out of writing and directing low budget direct-to-video tales about true-life serial killers or knockoffs of Hollywood fare. One would guess that after a handful of misses he’d finally get one right, but Son of Sam is not that film. Here, Lommel takes broad strokes with the most generic information about Berkowitz to paint a clearly unnecessary fictionalized account of the Son of Sam murders. Truth is always stranger than fiction [...]]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/24/dvd-review-son-of-sam/feed/ 2 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/13/tv-review-kung-fu-killer/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/13/tv-review-kung-fu-killer/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:01:10 +0000 Movies At Midnight Chau OsricCheng Pei-PeiDaryl HannahDavid CarradineJames TaenakaKung Fu KillerLim Kay-TongLim Yu-Beng http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=3342 David Carradine) returns to his monastery after wandering the world for two decades to spend the rest of his days. But soon after he returns, an army battalion under the rule of criminal mastermind Khan sweeps into the monastery and systematically wipe out most of monks. White Crane vows to take revenge and soon finds himself in Shanghai, where he actually becomes the bodyguard of Khan in order to get close to him, and learns of Khan's plan in creating a gas that will kill countless thousands.

White Crane also meets up with Jane (Darryl Hannah), a singer from Brooklyn who is now the main attraction at a local bar, and whose brother coincidentally is the scientist who is being forced to work on Khan's death gas. When Khan is finally ready to test his new gas, White Crane sees this as the moment to show his true allegiance, and strikes with vengeance in his heart and in his fists!...]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/13/tv-review-kung-fu-killer/feed/ 3 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/12/dvd-review-the-morgue/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/12/dvd-review-the-morgue/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:02:24 +0000 Movies At Midnight Bill CobbsChris DevlinGerson SanginittoHalder GomesHeather DonahueLisa CrilleyNajla Ann Al-DooriTaylor Lipman http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=4010 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/12/dvd-review-the-morgue/feed/ 8 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/08/conversations-with-god-the-forbidden-kingdom-screenwriter-john-fusco/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/08/conversations-with-god-the-forbidden-kingdom-screenwriter-john-fusco/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:19:19 +0000 Movies At Midnight adventurefantasyhong kongjackie chanjet liJohn Fuscomartial artsThe Forbidden Kingdom http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=3356 John Fusco’s latest screenplay to hit the big screen and about to be released on DVD this Tuesday is The Forbidden Kingdom, which will be remembered for the first on-screen appearance of both Jet Li and Jackie Chan. Fusco was the pen behind the Young Guns films, as well as the Viggo Mortensen flick Hidalgo, and he also scripted the Weinstein Company’s upcoming re-imagining of Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai.

Geeks Of Doom: Were you aware of the Chan and Li team-up when you began writing the script?

John Fusco: It actually began as a bedtime story for my young son who was beginning martial arts. Because I have a background in kung fu, I wanted to introduce him to what I felt was the right foundation: the philosophy and literature and mythology that informs the practice. If I had tried reading Lao Tzu or the Four Classics to him I would have lost him. So I made up a fun time travel journey that would be something of a primer... ]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/08/conversations-with-god-the-forbidden-kingdom-screenwriter-john-fusco/feed/ 5 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/08/dvd-review-lost-boys-the-tribe/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/08/dvd-review-lost-boys-the-tribe/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:17:23 +0000 Movies At Midnight Angus SutherlandAutumn ReeserCorey FeldmanCorey HaimLost BoysLost Boys: The TribeTad Hilgenbrink http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=3330 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/09/08/dvd-review-lost-boys-the-tribe/feed/ 2 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/31/dvd-review-trapped-ashes/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/31/dvd-review-trapped-ashes/#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:16:39 +0000 Movies At Midnight Dennis BartokHenry GibsonJayce BartokJoe DanteJohn GaetaJohn SaxonKen RussellLara HarrisMonte HellmanRachel VeltriScott LowellSean S CunninghamTrapped Ashes http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/31/dvd-review-trapped-ashes/ Black Sabbath from Mario Bava and EC Comics inspired Tales From The Crypt by Freddie Francis. Anthology horror on the big screen took on new life in the US in the 1980s with Creepshow and sputtered out in the early 1990s with Tales From The Darkside: The Movie. Meanwhile in Hong Kong, a ghostly anthology series called Troublesome Night has been going strong since 1997 and most recently the East Asian anthology films Three and Three: Extremes have been chilling audiences around the world. But is there hope for a revival of this horror niche here in the United States? Writer Dennis Bartok would like to think so. Bartok, who has spent much of his career on the fringes of the film community as the head of programming at American Cinematheque in Los Angeles and as an interviewer for DVD featurettes, makes his screenwriting debut with Trapped Ashes, and with the help of some Japanese financing has brought along some top-name talent to back him up...]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/31/dvd-review-trapped-ashes/feed/ 2 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/26/dvd-review-human-lanterns/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/26/dvd-review-human-lanterns/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:25:54 +0000 Movies At Midnight Asian CinemaChen Kuan-TaiLinda ChuLiu YungLo LiehLo MengMona FongNi KuangShaw Yin-YinSun ChungTien Ni http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/26/dvd-review-human-lanterns/ Lo Lieh) to construct a lantern guaranteed to win the competition. Meanwhile, a psychotic madman with a mastery over monkey-style kung fu has vowed to take away everything that is precious to Tan and Lung. Dressed in black and donning a skull mask, the madman begins to kidnap women including Tan’s sister and Lung’s wife. Tan and Lung at once begin to suspect each other, and bring in the local police to place blame on one another. The police begin to search for clues, hoping to find the women still alive, unaware the kidnapped victims have already been skinned alive to be used as material for the madman’s dazzling lanterns. Mixing the expected incredible martial arts choreography that the Shaw Brothers are known for with the rising desire for macabre subject matter of the early eighties, director Sun Chung (The Sexy Killer, The Avenging Eagle) along with co-writer Ni Kuang, who has written pretty much every worthwhile Shaw Brothers title since the mid 1960s, created what would become one of the studio’s most sought after cult films...]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/26/dvd-review-human-lanterns/feed/ 1 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/08/dvd-review-tai-chi-master/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/08/dvd-review-tai-chi-master/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:26:20 +0000 Movies At Midnight Asian CinemaChin Siu-HoDragon DynastyFannie YuenJet LiLau ShunMichelle YeohYuen Cheung-YanYuen Wo-Ping http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/08/dvd-review-tai-chi-master/ Tsui Hark in the Once Upon A Time In China series and Ching Siu-Tung in Swordsman II, helped to set him apart from the rest of his movie compatriots as a solitary actor but even more so as a martial arts master. However, it was his first work with legendary martial arts choreographer and director Yuen Wo-Ping in 1993 including Tai-Chi Master that truly unleashed a fury that had been building in him for the better part of twelve years. Under the guidance of Yuen Wo-Ping and with the aid of his talented his stunt team, Jet Li gives a performance that was arguably unparalleled at the time of the film’s release (but would be universally surpassed the following year with Fist of Legend). ]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/08/dvd-review-tai-chi-master/feed/ 3 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/04/dvd-review-doomsday/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/04/dvd-review-doomsday/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:43:37 +0000 Movies At Midnight Adrian LesterAlexander SiddigBenedict CarverBob HoskinsCraig ConwayDavid O039HaraDoomsdayMalcolm McDowellNeil MarshallRhona MitraSean PertweeSteven Paul http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/04/dvd-review-doomsday/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/04/dvd-review-doomsday/feed/ 4 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/15/dvd-review-invisible-target/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/15/dvd-review-invisible-target/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:05:22 +0000 Movies At Midnight Andy OnAsian CinemaBenny ChanCary ChengElanne KwongInvisible TargetJacky Wu JingJaycee ChanLing Chi-ManNicholes TseSam LeeShawn Yue http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/15/dvd-review-invisible-target/ Rob-B-Hood, Hong Kong director and co-writer Benny Chan returns to the shadowy streets of honor and revenge for his latest cops versus robbers spectacle.]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/15/dvd-review-invisible-target/feed/ 1 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/12/movie-review-batman-mask-of-the-phantasm/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/12/movie-review-batman-mask-of-the-phantasm/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:44:08 +0000 Movies At Midnight Alan BurnettBatmanBruce W. TimmDana DelanyEric RadomskiKevin ConroyMark HamillMartin PaskoMichael ReavesPaul DiniStacy Keach http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/12/movie-review-batman-mask-of-the-phantasm/ Batman Begins hit theaters in 2005, 1993's animated feature Batman: Mask of the Phantasm was arguably the best big-screen representation of the iconic superhero. ]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/12/movie-review-batman-mask-of-the-phantasm/feed/ 4 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/07/dvd-review-the-eye-3/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/07/dvd-review-the-eye-3/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:26:55 +0000 Movies At Midnight Asian CinemaChen Bo-LinDanny PangEric TsangGu YuIsabella LeongKate YeungMark WuOxide PangPeter ChanRay MacDonaldThe Eye http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/07/dvd-review-the-eye-3/ The Eye 10 and The Eye: Infinity in the international market, the writing/directing duo of the Pang Brothers take their in-name-only sequel in a new direction to pump some fresh blood into the series for what is mostly its final outing. ]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/07/dvd-review-the-eye-3/feed/ 1 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/27/comic-review-the-black-coat-one-shot/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/27/comic-review-the-black-coat-one-shot/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:42:11 +0000 Movies At Midnight Ape EntertainmentBen LichiusChris StudabakerDave RotheGarbriel HardmanJeremy ColwellJim CharalampidisJoe SuitorThe Black Coat http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/27/comic-review-the-black-coat-one-shot/ Black Coat co-creator and writer Ben Ben Lichius contains two Black Coat tales, Heart of Ice and First Blood.]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/27/comic-review-the-black-coat-one-shot/feed/ 1 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/26/dvd-review-the-eye-2008/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/26/dvd-review-the-eye-2008/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:57:58 +0000 Movies At Midnight Alessandro NivolaDavid MoreauDon GrangerFernanda RomeroJessica AlbaParker PoseyPaula WagnerRade SerbedzijaRoy LeeSebastian GutierrezThe EyeXavier Palud http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/26/dvd-review-the-eye-2008/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/26/dvd-review-the-eye-2008/feed/ 1 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/21/comic-review-the-black-coat-a-call-to-arms-tpb/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/21/comic-review-the-black-coat-a-call-to-arms-tpb/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:11:05 +0000 Movies At Midnight Adam CoganApe EntertainmentBen LichiusChris StudabakerFrancesco FrancavillaJeremy ColwellThe Black Coat http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/21/comic-review-the-black-coat-a-call-to-arms-tpb/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/21/comic-review-the-black-coat-a-call-to-arms-tpb/feed/ 1 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/13/remakes-run-rampant-one-missed-call-2003/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/13/remakes-run-rampant-one-missed-call-2003/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:58:40 +0000 Movies At Midnight Anna NagataAsian CinemaAtsushi IdaKazue FukiishiKou ShibasakiMariko TsutsuiMinako DairaRemakes Run RampantShinichi Tsutsumi http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/13/remakes-run-rampant-one-missed-call-2003/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/13/remakes-run-rampant-one-missed-call-2003/feed/ 1 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/06/frenzied-fans-set-to-invade-nilbog/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/06/frenzied-fans-set-to-invade-nilbog/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:13:09 +0000 Movies At Midnight The Nilbog InvasionTrollTroll 2 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/06/frenzied-fans-set-to-invade-nilbog/ Troll 2. ]]> http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/06/frenzied-fans-set-to-invade-nilbog/feed/ 0 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/05/black-dynamite-r-rated-trailer/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/05/black-dynamite-r-rated-trailer/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:16:06 +0000 Movies At Midnight Arsenio HallBlack DynamiteByron MinnsMichael Jai WhiteRoger YuanScott SandersTommy Davidson http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/05/black-dynamite-r-rated-trailer/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/05/black-dynamite-r-rated-trailer/feed/ 2 http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/02/dvd-review-intimate-confessions-of-a-chinese-courtesan/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/02/dvd-review-intimate-confessions-of-a-chinese-courtesan/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:06:52 +0000 Movies At Midnight Asian CinemaBetty Pei TiChiu Kang-ChienChu YuanIntimate Confessions Of A Chinese CourtesanLily HoRunme ShawYueh Hua http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/02/dvd-review-intimate-confessions-of-a-chinese-courtesan/ http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/06/02/dvd-review-intimate-confessions-of-a-chinese-courtesan/feed/ 1