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A treasure hunter, Tang Yunlong (Vincent Zhao), enrolls his daughter in the martial arts tournament marking the 500th anniversary of the Wu Dang Temple, as a front to steal the temple's hidden treasures, including an ancient sword made from an asteroid that's also being sought after by Tian Xin (Mini Yang)

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Detective Xu Bai-jiu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) travels to a rural Chinese paper-making town to investigate the deaths of two dangerous criminals who were seemingly killed through the dumb-luck of Liu Jinxi (Donnie Yen). Xu, however, thinks Liu is a powerful martial arts master trying to keep a low profile and aims to uncover the truth.

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Bill Man (Lau Kar Leung) is the head of the Chun-Yuen Delivery but when he is betrayed by his brother Pao (Chiang Chun Wan) and presumably killed. Later Ka-Yip (Lau Wing Kin) and his granduncle Chan (Wu Jing) try to track down Bill Man so that they can draw an illustrated guide to Monkey Fist-style kung-fu.

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Despite the ever present dirge of schlocky sci-fi films, there are always a few…

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A gang of circus performers led by Zhang (Collin Chou) inhales a toxic gas that turns them into powerful mutants that wreck havoc on Hong Kong. Only Sunny (Aaron Kwok) the circus clown, isn't disfigured…

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The 64th Cannes Film Festival is currently in full swing and while we can't be there to cover it (*sigh* maybe next year), we thought we'd bring you up to speed on the developments so far and give you a quick snapshot of all the moving and shaking currently going on in Cannes, southern France:

 

• Hugo Weaving ('The Matrix', 'Lord of the Rings') will once again be joining The Wachowski…

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A female cop befriends a mysterious martial arts drifter who turns out to be an assassin.... who I guess is legendary?

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The Shaolin Fist an the Wu Tang Sword are bitter long time rivals, but their top students Hung Jun-kit (Gordon Lui) and Chao Fung-wu (Adam Cheng) are actually close friends. When a local Qing lord (Wang Lung Wei) hears of the two schools he first attempts to steal their secrets, and later hopes to pit the two schools against each other, so their powerful kung-fu… Continue

Anyone who’s read my “Kung-Fu Revu” knows by now that my use of the term “kung-fu” is a little hyperbolic. I use it to refer to martial arts films from all over the world, as well as many other Asian action or suspense films. With that established, here are some of the “kung-fu” films you can look forward to in 2010





No Mercy: January 7th







Sol Kyung-Gu plays a staff member of the National Institute… Continue

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Kong (Jacky Wu Jing) is a martial arts champion who gets pulled deeper and deeper into the world of underground boxing. With the help of his friend Captain (Ronald Cheng,) and his ‘girlfriend’ Sui Tin (Ma Ho-Keung) he’s seemingly unbeatable…



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Oh man… this is a terrible movie. And the frustrating thing is: it didn’t have to be so terrible. There was… Continue

As we come into the second volume of Iron Man: Armored Adventures there really isn’t much new to report and what new there is is the squandering of the optimism I saw in its potential from the first six episodes in Armored Adventures Vol. 1 i wrote… Continue