{"id":21910,"date":"2016-08-15T04:50:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21910"},"modified":"2016-08-17T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T14:00:52","slug":"brix-and-the-bitch-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/15\/brix-and-the-bitch-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Brix and the Bitch (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BRIXandtheBITCH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BRIXandtheBITCH.jpg\" alt=\"BRIXandtheBITCH\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a>Director and Writer Nico Raineau\u2019s award winning \u201cBrix and the Bitch\u201d is a remarkable drama about the powerful love two women share, and how it can potentially decide their future when one of them is stuck <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">in a terrible situation. Dre Swain is fantastic as Bitch, a martial artist who engages in a near endless string of fights for an illegal gambling circuit. Despite her girlfriend Brix\u2019s insistence that she stop before she\u2019s killed, Bitch engages in bone shattering fights every night. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">She does this for her bookie who she owes a ton of money, which he is collecting through her winning matches. <\/span>Raineau establishes the dilemma beautifully, relying on important flashbacks that emphasize the passionate and loving relationship between the pair of women. This successfully reflects the main character\u2019s drive to win every match and complete her debt. \u201cBrix and Bitch\u201d delivers a very heavy and excellent plot twist that isn\u2019t just a fine turn of events for the climax, but is something of a poetic testament to the romance that ensues on-screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Everyone is on their game here, from star Swain, the equally stellar Alex Marshall-Brown, and Raineau whose filmmaking prowess culminates in to a bone crushing martial arts film where every hit and kick is emotionally taxing thanks to the sincerity and heart Raineau injects in every frame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cBrix And The Bitch\u201d\u00a0will be playing at the HollyShorts Film Festival on Tuesday August 16th at 10:00pm\u00a0in the &#8220;Action&#8221; block. <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brixshortfilm\/\">Follow the film on Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director and Writer Nico Raineau\u2019s award winning \u201cBrix and the Bitch\u201d is a remarkable drama about the powerful love two women share, and how it can potentially decide their future when one of them is stuck in a terrible situation. Dre Swain is fantastic as Bitch, a martial artist who engages in a near endless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[58,120,240,302,391,501,631,874,938],"class_list":["post-21910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-b","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-gangster","tag-indie-film","tag-martial-arts","tag-romance","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21953,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21910\/revisions\/21953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}