Tag: Kung Fu
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10 Best Female-Led Martial Arts Movies
The beloved martial arts subgenre has been around since the 1920s when the development of the Shanghai film industry took place, and has undoubtedly become one of the most popular in the action film category. Throughout the years, countless genre-defining movies featuring hand-to-hand combat — including kung fu, karate, and wuxia — make for unforgettable,…
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The Equalizer 3 Ending Explained: The Killer Finds Peace
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being reviewed here wouldn’t exist. This article also contains major spoilers for “The Equalizer 3.”The original 1985 TV series “The Equalizer,” starring Edward Woodward, was part of a notable trend in…
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Charles Bronson & Toshirō Mifune Teamed Up in This Samurai Spaghetti Western
Looking through the lens of pop culture, it can sometimes seem that the Spaghetti Western genre begins and ends with Sergio Leone. The same lens can also reduce the samurai genre down to the work of Akira Kurosawa. Not that being so completely defined by two masters of cinema is such a bad thing, but…
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‘I told Jackie Chan, your loss, my bro!’: how Everything Everywhere gave Michelle Yeoh the role of a lifetime
The action superstar shines in a new multiverse comedy. She talks about her high-risk, low-budget Hong Kong days, why you can be a superhero in your 60s – and whether she could kick James Bond’s buttIt was the butt-plug fight sequence that finally broke her, says Michelle Yeoh. Best not to spoil the surprise any…
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Kung Fu Season 2 Trailer: Celebrate The Year Of The Tiger With Some Martial Arts Action
Just in time for the Chinese New Year on February 1 — and the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4 — The CW has released a trailer for the second season of “Kung Fu.” The series is a modern update of the TV shows “Kung Fu” and “Kung Fu: The Legend Continues,” led by the…
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Neo Still Knows Kung Fu In This Matrix Resurrections Featurette
Keanu Reeves is doing it all these days. As if it wasn’t enough to earn the accolades of practically every director he’s ever worked with, put it on his own shoulders to turn “John Wick” into a big original franchise, and most recently talk up his interest in reprising his underrated “Constantine” role once more, the…
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Bruce Lee’s daughter on resurrecting his lost TV epic: ‘We righted the wrong’
Shannon Lee has finally made the martial arts saga her father dreamed up. She remembers ‘the inner energy’ of the kung fu superstar Hollywood – and Tarantino – made a mockery ofThe legend that Shannon Lee grew up with goes like this. In 1971, when her father Bruce Lee was at the height of his…