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In the Martial arts section...

Beautiful Boxer

Thursday, December 29th, 2005
You couldn’t make it up! The bizarre true story of the man who became Thailand’s most famous kick-boxer to pay for an operation to become a woman… (more…)

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Buddha’s Palm

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
A fun filled pantomime from the Shaw Brothers - with super extending legs that can deliver a kick from a distance, dwarfs that squirt Alien-like acid puss from their spots and pet dragons… (more…)

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Dragon Tiger Gate

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
With brilliant fight scenes has Donnie Yen’s time in the spotlight finally come?… (more…)

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Dreadnaught

Monday, March 24th, 2008
Yuen Biao makes a martial art out of doing the laundry, but this mashup of genres goes too far for anyone to come out clean… (more…)

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Fist Of Fury

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
Bruce Lee’s landmark movie gets another outing - but what does the new double-disc DVD release add the existing UK version?… (more…)

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Flash Point

Saturday, March 29th, 2008
The latest teaming of director Wilson Yip and star/action choreographer Donnie Yen (Dragon Tiger Gate, S.P.L.) brings the sort of top-notch martial arts we’ve come to expect – so why is it so light on action? (more…)

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Fong Sai Yuk

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
Bizarre, inspired fight scenes and farcical fun, Corey Yuen directs Jet Li in a silly but highly enjoyable movie… (more…)

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Hapkido

Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Fist Of Fury gets the feminine touch in this rediscovered old school kung fu classic… (more…)

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High Risk aka Meltdown

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
A martial arts movie star famous for his stunts? Now who could Wong Jing be lampooning in this Jet Li vehicle?… (more…)

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King Of Beggars

Monday, March 28th, 2005
Fans of Kung Fu Hustle are going to enjoy this fun early effort from Stephen Chow and his ’sleeping kung fu’… (more…)

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Kung Fu Hustle

Monday, March 28th, 2005
Shaolin Soccer’s Stephen Chow is back and this time he’s doin’ the Hustle… (more…)

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Magnificent Bodyguards / The Protector

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Yet more Jackie Chan films from the archives, but do we really need them in ‘Ultra-bit’ quality?… (more…)

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New Police Story

Sunday, January 21st, 2007
A return to form for Jackie, but this could be way too sentimental for Western action audiences… (more…)

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Ong-Bak

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
A full blown strike to the cranium of Hollywood, Tony Jaa steps up as the successor to Bruce Lee’s crown in a real old school knockabout kung fu movie that doesn’t rely on CGI or wirework… (more…)

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Seven Swords

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
The latest Tsui Hark movie is more than a decent stab at a ‘wuxia’ movie in the wake of Zhang Yimou’s Hero and House of Flying Daggers - but does it fall short of being the epic he intended?… (more…)

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Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow / Drunken Master

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
The ground breaking martial art films that broke Jackie Chan as a superstar… (more…)

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The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin

Friday, December 16th, 2005
Gordon Liu (Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2) stars in a kung fu classic that is so much more than your average revenge movie… (more…)

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The Avenging Fist

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
Andrew Lau and Corey Yuen direct this silly, fun sci-fi fight movie - but often messy, this is a bit ‘choppy’ in the wrong way… (more…)

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The Blood Brothers

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
A morality tale from the master of the ‘extreme close-up’ Zhang Che on why its best not to shag your best mate’s wife… (more…)

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The City Of Violence

Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Crying Fist director Ryoo Seung-hwan out Kill Bill’s Tarantino in this enjoyable Korean action movie with some real crowd-pleasing scenes… (more…)

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The Fearless Hyena / Hand Of Death

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Hong Kong Legends launch their ‘Ultra-bit’ tag with two formative films from the career of Jackie Chan… (more…)

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The Forbidden Kingdom: UK Preview

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Jet Li and Jackie Chan - together for the first time ever…! (more…)

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The Touch

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
Michelle Yeoh both produces and stars in this good looking, enjoyable action film by Peter Pau, the Oscar-winning cinematographer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But as possibly the first Hong Kong/Chinese production entirely in English, does it work?… (more…)

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The Twins Effect

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
A shameless cash in on the Hong Kong pop phenomenon the Twins lands them in Buffy territory, but this very stupid comedy has some of the best fight scenes around… (more…)

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Tower Of Death

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
Don’t fear the peacocks… Ng See-yuen takes the director’s chair on this sometimes bizarre and often unintentionally funny Bruce Lee cash-in. Baffled? You will be… (more…)

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Vengeance!

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
Zhang Che’s landmark film - a bitter tale of revenge and the template for every kung fu movie of the seventies… (more…)

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Warrior King

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
Director Prachya Pinkaew and stars Tony Jaa and Phetthai Wongkhamlao reunite for what is effectively a slicker remake of Ong-Bak, but a lot less fun… (more…)

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Zatoichi

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
‘Beat’ Takeshi’s (Violent Cop, Battle Royale) reinvention of the popular 60s samurai b-movie character for the 21st century, the blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman… (more…)

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