Sometimes, the bad guy in a kung fu movie is so deliciously evil that they make the movie enjoyable all by themselves.

HERE'S a pertinent question for you in these pandemic times. How crass do you like your cult films to be during lockdown? Do you want seriously low-rent exploitation fodder – you know, the kind of ...

The 1980s produced a long list of must-watch classics in the martial arts genre. There's no forgetting landmarks films like The Karate Kid or gems like Five Elements Ninjas, Jackie Chan's The Young ...

Hong Kong cinema is renowned for periodically reinventing itself, and 1980’s Encounter of the Spooky Kind (also known as Spooky Encounter) was another successful attempt to rejuvenate the martial arts ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

Everyone with an interest in martial arts films has heard of the Shaolin Monastery on Songshan mountain near the former Chinese imperial capital of Luoyang in Henan province. According to film critic ...

If there's one thing the battle between upstarts Pixar and DreamWorks and the old-school Disney has wrought, it's a dose of welcome competition to mainstream animation. (The fact that Disney now owns ...

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