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Arrow Video is now releasing Volume 3 in the Shawscope series and the first disc in the set is a new 4K remaster of the classic One Armed Swordsman starring Jimmy Wang Yu. Accepted to the Golden Sword School after Read more…

In the early 1970s, the Kung Fu movie craze started with the big box office takings for movies such as Enter the Dragon and King Boxer. Meanwhile, the British horror film company Hammer were falling on hard times with many Read more…

When Bruce Lee died in July 1973 the world was shocked, Hong Kong had lost its most famous son just as he was reaching stardom in the West. But soon after the Hong Kong film industry started pumping out what Read more…

Chow Yun Fat became a superstar and icon, especially in Hong Kong and Asia after his hit action films from director John Woo, namely A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Hard Boiled. It was time for Chow to try Hollywood Read more…

Mention the name Steven Seagal these days, and you will probably get some comic or derogatory comments, but back in the late 80’s onwards for about 6 movies he was one of the most successful action film stars in Hollywood, Read more…

One of the early films in director Chang Cheh’s Shaolin Cycle, this one stars Alexander Fu Sheng and Chi Kuan Chun as two students of Shaolin (in this film the destruction of Shaolin has happened long before) who with other Read more…

Jet Li is probably best known to martial arts movie fans for playing the legendary Wong Fei Hung in the Once Upon a Time in China films made by director Tsui Hark. The films regenerated the limping Kung fu movie Read more…

Director Chang Cheh was always the pioneer at Shaw Brothers studios, especially during the 1960s and 70s and Men From the Monastery was one of his first in what was called his “Shaolin Cycle” of films. The film stars Fu Read more…

Brandon Lee is always a person who fans thought was taken just on the edge of achieving stardom worldwide and his shocking death on the set of The Crow is still such a tragic accident. But before being given the Read more…

Action legend John Woo had not directed a film in Hollywood for 20 years (his last was Paycheck) but has now returned to screens with this action revenge thriller Silent Night starring Joel Kinnaman. On Christmas Eve, a man witnesses Read more…