- Top of the chops: The Screening Room's top 10 kung fu films (CNN.com)
Bad dubbing, angry men with extraordinary facial hair, balletic fighting and more blood than you can shake a nunchuck at: just some of the key ingredients to make a perfect kung fu flick.
- When Jackie Meets Jet (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
Two of Asia?s biggest stars come together for the first time onscreen in a film dubbed as a dream come true for Chinese martial arts lovers. If Jet Li fights Jackie Chan, who will win?
- May 4, 2008 (The Virginia Gazette)
For true fans of martial-arts flicks, the first-ever pairing of the genre's two biggest stars, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, might have generated more sparks in a tougher, meaner film.
- Shaolin Temple offers Olympic blessing (Chicago Tribune)
In a ceremony that was followed by an exhibition of martial arts, the master of the Chicago Shaolin Temple presided over a blessing Sunday in Chinatown of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and of Chicago's bid to host the Games in 2016.
- 'The Forbidden Kingdom' (Newsday)
Rating: "The Forbidden Kingdom" is a family film, aimed at those who have probably never seen earlier chop-sockies like Chan's "Drunken Master" or Li's "Shaolin Temple."
- Kung fu frolics (The Star)
Half a loaf of kung fu is better than five fingers of death, especially when you?re hungry for chop-socky action the likes of which they just don?t make any more.
- [Review]Not Oscar stuff, but a kickin’ kung fu flick (JoongAng Daily)
The big-screen battle between the two greatest kung fu masters is finally here. The rapid-fire martial arts combat between Jet Li and Jackie Chan was worth the wait, even without Coke and popcorn.
- Movie Stars Can't Save Wesley Snipes From Prison (US News & World Report)
Denzel Washington, Woody Harrelson, and two TV judges wrote letters in support.
- Chinese mystical monks demonstrate power of mind (Times of Malta)
Shaolin Kung Fu Monks give a taster of what is to come this month. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli. With a needle in hand, the small monk used intense concentration to channel his energy and then fired the pin at a glass pane in front of him with his bare hands.
- Enter the dragon (The New Statesman)
Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and sculptor Antony Gormley were drawn to the legendary shaolin monastery. The reality they uncovered was not what they'd expected
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