REVIEW: My Own Swordsman (2011)
This screwball wuxia comedy is the big screen treatment of a popular mainland Chinese sitcom of the same name that aired 80 episodes beginning in 2006. The TV series’ main cast reunites as an oddball group of [...]
REVIEW: Vengeance of a Snow Girl (1971)
Screen beauty Li Ching is a crippled swordswoman armed with the martial world’s most deadly weapon, the Jade Phoenix Sword, and burning hot enmity for four martial elders responsible for the deaths of her parents. What begins [...]
Sleeping Dogs (2012) [VG] – Announcement Trailer
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Square Enix formally announced the impending release of their open-world cop-drama video game SLEEPING DOGS (formerly Activision’s TRUE CRIME: HONG KONG) with this action-packed live-action short film starring veteran Hollywood stunt actor Brian Ho and featuring the [...]
REVIEW: Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011)
Six years after directing SEVEN SWORDS, Tsui Hark returns to the wuxia genre in a big way with this epic reimagining of his own 1992 classic DRAGON INN, itself a remake of King Hu’s 1967 masterpiece. It’s [...]
Viggo Mortensen Talks About Bob Anderson
The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA, an Art Deco movie palace run by a non-profit foundation, has a longtime reputation for innovative programming. It was one of the first art house venues in the Boston area [...]
The Girl with the Naked Eye (2012) – Trailer
Wushu and san-shou artist Jason Yee (DARK ASSASSIN) stars as a professional driver for an escort service operating out of “The Naked Eye” strip club. After the escort he has fallen in love with is found murdered [...]
REVIEW: Lady of Steel (1970)
Wuxia queen Cheng Pei-pei stars in this action-packed swordplay adventure from Shaw Brothers and director Ho Meng-hua concerning a young swordswoman named Fang Ying-qi (Cheng) who sets out to join a gathering of the martial world’s leading [...]
Vincent Zhao exits Donnie Yen’s ‘Special Identity’
Martial arts actor Vincent Zhao, star of TRUE LEGEND, announced on Sunday that he will no longer be involved in Donnie Yen’s modern-day actioner SPECIAL IDENTITY. He cited a breach of his contract by way of unilateral [...]
Petaling Street Warriors (2011) – Trailer
Malay martial arts comedy starring Mark Lee as a 1900s-era street vendor in Kuala Lumpur who discovers he is the descendant of a Ming Dynasty Chinese emperor. When a Chinese eunuch, Japanese ninjas and a British colonial [...]
REVIEW: Petaling Street Warriors (2011)
Mining the screwball antics of Stephen Chow’s KUNG FU HUSTLE, this lesser Malaysian martial arts comedy from director James Lee stars leading Singapore comedian Mark Lee and features the wire-enhanced fight choreography of Hong Kong action director [...]
Nunchucks (2012) – Trailer
Inspired by Bruce Lee, NUNCHUCKS is directed and starring Dragon Chen as a martial arts expert who suffers a breakdown and rediscovers peace when he returns home. The martial arts actioner opened March 2nd, 2012 in China.
REVIEW: From the Highway (1970)
Nine months before Shaw Brothers released Jimmy Wang Yu’s groundbreaking kung fu classic THE CHINESE BOXER, rival studio Cathay unleashed the first real example of second generation kung fu moviemaking in Hong Kong and Taiwan. FROM THE [...]
REVIEW: Kung Fu Wing Chun (2010)
Riding the popularity of Wing Chun in martial arts cinema that began with IP MAN (2008) is this blandly titled yet highly entertaining kung fu movie from producer Ng See-yuen that stars genre newcomer, late actress Bai [...]
Ryan Gosling to Kickbox in ‘God Only Forgives’
Hollywood actor Ryan Gosling is currently shooting his second film with DRIVE director Nicolas Winding Refn. The film, entitled ONLY GOD FORGIVES, will feature some martial arts action in the form of Muay Thai on the part [...]
REVIEW: Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (2011-2012) [TV]
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After 34 successful years on television, the Japanese phenomenon known as the Super Sentai Series continues. To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the inception of the series, this special series features a group of space pirates with [...]
REVIEW: Wandering Swordsman, The (1970)
A free-spirited knight-errant who steals from baddies and gives to the poor mistakenly helps a gang of thieves pilfer a shipment of valuable treasure and subsequently fights to return it. Chang Cheh directs David Chiang in this [...]
Kung fu actress Bai Jing murdered
Shocking news from mainland China this week as media reports the stabbing death of actress Bai Jing, 29, by her husband Zhou Cheng-hai, 44, in an alleged murder-suicide in their home in Beijing on Tuesday. The TV [...]
REVIEW: White Vengeance (2011)
Daniel Lee writes and directs his third history-based wuxia epic centered on conflict between two allied warlords in ancient China who overthrow the government only to turn against each other in a complex contest of mind, might [...]
REVIEW: Winged Tiger, The (1970)
Tasked by senior members of the martial world, a flying swordsman infiltrates a martial clan to retrieve the deadliest of all kung fu manuals in this intrigue-filled, old school wuxia adventure from Shaw Brothers and writer-director Shen [...]
REVIEW: 7 Grandmasters, The (1978)
Independent kung fu moviemaker Joseph Kuo directs this exceptional kung fu classic filled with top-tier fighting from action directors Corey Yuen and Yuen Cheung-yan that depicts the efforts of an aging Bak Mei kung fu master to [...]
