Hoping to follow in the success of his first serious journey into the cinematic field, writer/director Babar Ahmed (who won multiple awards on the festival circuit in 2003 for his debut feature Genius) turns his attention from the Romantic Drama department to the Action/Thriller/Chiller genre(s) with his latest effort, the martial arts-driven Royal Kill. The feature, compiled on a shoestring budget boasts an impressive cast, some great aerial cam…...
- 10/9/2011
- Horrorbid
Purely as a matter of discourse, it would be interesting to see if someone could cite a movie that's worse than this miserable catastrophe, that also boasts two bona fide Academy Award nominees on its cast list - even if they are such anonymous also-rans as Eric Roberts (1985's Runaway Train) and the late, great Pat Morita ('Wax on! Wax off!' 1984's The Karate Kid - seriously). An abominable, Frankenstein's monster of a movie, Ninja's Creed purports itself to be a psychological thriller, stitched together from ideas stolen from the likes of The Princess Diaries, both Terminator movies, and capped with a laughably bad twist lifted wholesale from...well, to give that away would stamp out any hint of enjoyment from a film that already teeters on the brink of being unwatchable.
Painted as one desperate man's fever dream recollection, Ninja's Creed comes to us in the form of a great deal of (unreliable?...
Painted as one desperate man's fever dream recollection, Ninja's Creed comes to us in the form of a great deal of (unreliable?...
- 7/20/2010
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
Science fiction followers take note: The 2010 Hugo nominee list is out. For those not so in-the-know, the Hugo awards (named for Amazing Stories' creator Hugo Gernsback) have been recognizing great work in Science Fiction or Fantasy since 1955, and have recently added comic books to their categories under consideration. This year's nominees are an amazing bunch; Allow us to share some highlights.
In the fight for comic book supremacy this year, fan favorite Neil Gaiman leads off in the "Best Graphic Story" category with his Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? Going toe-to-toe with Neil though comes a bevvy of other hot comic talent including Bill Willingham (with, among other folks, Simone & Ajax's Andrew Pepoy) for Fables Vol. 12: The Dark Ages, as well as Paul Cornell for Captain Britain And MI13 Volume 3: Vampire State, and Kaja and Phil Foglio for their Girl Genius Volume 9. Rounding out...
In the fight for comic book supremacy this year, fan favorite Neil Gaiman leads off in the "Best Graphic Story" category with his Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? Going toe-to-toe with Neil though comes a bevvy of other hot comic talent including Bill Willingham (with, among other folks, Simone & Ajax's Andrew Pepoy) for Fables Vol. 12: The Dark Ages, as well as Paul Cornell for Captain Britain And MI13 Volume 3: Vampire State, and Kaja and Phil Foglio for their Girl Genius Volume 9. Rounding out...
- 4/5/2010
- by Marc Alan Fishman
- Comicmix.com
Hoping to follow in the success of his first serious journey into the cinematic field, writer/director Babar Ahmed (he won multiple awards on the festival circuit in 2003 for his debut feature Genius) turns his attention from the Romantic Drama department to the Action/Thriller genre with his latest effort, the martial arts-driven Royal Kill. The feature, compiled on a shoestring budget boasts an impressive cast, some great aerial camera shots, fluid action scenes and a few interesting script surprises. Having commanded an extended theatrical run due to it’s surprising embrace, Royal Kill looks to be a marked improvement, and drastic career boost for the daring Babar Ahmed.
In honor of the Kings seventh child, seven questions with Babar Ahmed:
Matt Molgaard (Fangoria): Tell me the schedule in which Royal Kill was filmed on.
Babar Ahmed: We finished our filming in 2007. We had however, filmed Pat Morita...
In honor of the Kings seventh child, seven questions with Babar Ahmed:
Matt Molgaard (Fangoria): Tell me the schedule in which Royal Kill was filmed on.
Babar Ahmed: We finished our filming in 2007. We had however, filmed Pat Morita...
- 5/22/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
- Fangoria
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