"I want to breathe the air outside of this town..." Vertical Ent. has released the official trailer for an indie drama from the UK titled As I Am, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker / cameraman Guy Davies. This originally premiered at film festivals in 2019 under the title Philophobia (which means "an overwhelming and unreasonable fear of falling in love") and has been updated for its full release. Set in the English countryside following a story of a shy boy and his friends. One week of school remains for Kai, an aspiring writer, and his friends. How they spend this time will cost one of them their life and leave them changed forever. Joshua Glenister stars in this as Kai, along with Harry Lloyd, James Faulkner, Kim Spearman, Kate Isitt, Jack Gouldbourne, Alexander Lincoln, Charlie Frances, Grace Englert, and Elizabeth Healey. Seems like there's a lot going on here about...
- 3/10/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Across eleven years and now four films, star Donnie Yen and director Wilson Yip have created a sort of mythologised biography of Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man, best known for being the teacher of Bruce Lee. This fourth and final chapter is, like the rest, at best loosely inspired by Ip’s life.
In 1964, Ip discovers he has throat cancer. Believing he has little time left, he travels to San Franciso, to see his student Bruce Lee demonstrate Wing Chun at a tournament and to find a boarding school for his son. He ends up part of two feuds, one between Yonah (Vanda Margraf) the daughter of Master Wan, head of the Chinese Benevolent Society and another girl (Grace Englert) at her school and the other between a student of Wing Chun who wants to get it introduced into army training and his racist commanding officer Geddes (Scott Adkins).
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In 1964, Ip discovers he has throat cancer. Believing he has little time left, he travels to San Franciso, to see his student Bruce Lee demonstrate Wing Chun at a tournament and to find a boarding school for his son. He ends up part of two feuds, one between Yonah (Vanda Margraf) the daughter of Master Wan, head of the Chinese Benevolent Society and another girl (Grace Englert) at her school and the other between a student of Wing Chun who wants to get it introduced into army training and his racist commanding officer Geddes (Scott Adkins).
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- 4/4/2020
- by Sam Inglis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Flat-footed storytelling meets fleet-footed choreography and sumptuous production values in the untaxingly fun “Ip Man 4: The Finale,” the last installment of director Wilson Yip and producer-star Donnie Yen’s glossy mythmaking tetralogy about the famous Wing Chun master.
The insistent subtitle is there for a reason: everyone, Yen included, thought that “Ip Man 3” would be his last time donning Ip Man’s priestlike tunic. Then again, after “Ip Man 2,” still the best in the franchise, Yen was also reportedly reluctant to return. A little like the great, wise, noble sifu (“master-father”) he so convincingly embodies, Yen apparently only re-enters the fray when circumstances (read: box office) leave him no other option.
The problem, then, is how to sustain a story that had largely run out of arc by the bruising climax of the last film? The solution the regular team of screenwriters — Edmond Wong, Chan Tai-lee, Jil Leung,...
The insistent subtitle is there for a reason: everyone, Yen included, thought that “Ip Man 3” would be his last time donning Ip Man’s priestlike tunic. Then again, after “Ip Man 2,” still the best in the franchise, Yen was also reportedly reluctant to return. A little like the great, wise, noble sifu (“master-father”) he so convincingly embodies, Yen apparently only re-enters the fray when circumstances (read: box office) leave him no other option.
The problem, then, is how to sustain a story that had largely run out of arc by the bruising climax of the last film? The solution the regular team of screenwriters — Edmond Wong, Chan Tai-lee, Jil Leung,...
- 12/23/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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