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"Why do these messy things keep happening?" Good Deed Ent. has debuted the first official trailer for a film called Lucky Grandma, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Sasie Sealy. This already premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, and also played at the London, Montana, Leiden, Hawaii, and San Diego Asian Film Festivals last fall. Set in New York City's Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck - and in the middle of a gang war. Starring Tsai Chin as the titular "lucky grandma", along with Wai Ching Ho, Hsiao-Yuan Ha (aka Corey Ha), Michael Tow, Woody Fu, Yan Xi, and Clem Cheung. Okayyy, whaaat?! This looks so badass! A Chinese Grandma taking on everyone and giving no f**ks about it. I'm down. Respect your elders! Here's the first official Us trailer for Sasie Sealy's Lucky Grandma,...

After its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival, an 85-year-old grandma is now conquering the London Film Festival. The charming dark comedy “Lucky Grandma” is a pleasant addition to the recent stream of American films like “Crazy Rich Asians” and “The Farewell”, representing both the Asian Community and women in the cinema industry. Directed with an almost all-female crew by Sasie Sealy, who also co-wrote it with Angela Cheng, the film was aided by the AT&T funding scheme “Untold Stories” that granted $1 million to the lucky project.

“Lucky Grandma” is screening at the BFI London Film Festival 2019

Chain-smoker Grandma Wong (Tsai Chin) lives alone in New York City’s Chinatown despite her son’s insistence to go and live in leafy suburbia with him and his typical Chinese/American family. What he doesn’t really understand is that Grandma is finally having her “me-time” after a life raising the kids,...

Coming to theaters and movies on demand September 9th, Shaolin looks about as good as anything I've seen in the martial arts genre in quite some time. That may be because it's something like an accidental martial arts film, if that makes any sense, in that it focuses on people who happen to know martial arts, rather than being a story crafted to create excuses for action.

Of course, that might just be how it seems at the moment, but the trailer certainly paints a welcoming picture.

Check out some info on this one, plus the trailer and some images. Let me know what you think.

As feuding warlords fight to expand their power, the noble monks of the Shaolin Temple clean up the mess left behind, tending to the injured while trying their best to protect the poor and weak. General Hou (Andy Lau, Warlords, House Of Flying Daggers...