A trailer for the Quentin Tarantino-produced "The Man with the Iron Fists" was just released. On the menu: sex, violence, Kung Fu, and ueber gore. No wonder Tarantino's in charge. Wu-Tang honcho The RZA and Eli Roth ("Hostel") co-wrote the screenplay, the RZA directed this film. "Fists" follows in the vein of the pure Hong Kong Kung Fu which Wu-Tang spent their musical career paying tribute to in ... more >
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Coffee and Cigarettes
A scene from a Jim Jarmusch movie
Bill Murray, GZA and RZA
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
In "Delirium," one of the shorts in Jim Jarmush’s “Coffee and Cigarettes” (2003) GZA and RZA, two members from the rap group Wu-Tang are sitting at a table in a diner, presumably late at night in some place urbanized and dreary—the entire film, in fact, seems to exist against a similar backdrop. GZA proclaims the benefits of drinking tea and avoidance of coffee and goes into an edifying rant about ... more >