Li Lianjie is perhaps one of the most famous Chinese martial artists in the world, although you might better know him as Jet Li. After retiring from the Beijing Wushu Team in 1979, he would then go on to star in numerous martial arts films. It's a career that actually started in Hong Kong, where he
Anyone with even the most remote interest in martial arts films will recognize Li Lianzi, better known by his stage name of Jet Li. This Chinese-born Singaporean started his martial arts career after three years of training under the wushu/kung fu master Wu Bin. That training quickly bore fruit in
The Forbidden Kingdom is a rather unique take in the wuxia film genre. A genre which is defined by Chinese martial arts galore, as well as CGI magic attacks for quite a few of them. Such films also tend to follow Chinese folklore, which this counts as. Journey to the West is a novel that came to us
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
Daemons of the Shadow Realm slows down the plot just a bit to plan things out in Ep. 21 "Zashiki-Warashi and Higashi Village". First to let Danji and Kiri the Zashiki-Warashi daemons give Yuru and Asa some important backstory to explain the past of Higashi Village. Then to let the twin siblings to
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
