Jackie Chan

By Chris E. Hayner on June 24, 2020 at 9:18AM PDTIt's been 27 years since we first got a look at the future of San Angeles in the 1993 movie Demolition Man. The iconic action film sees a cop (Sylvester Stallone) and a terrorist (Wesley Snipes) being sent to a…

“Be Water,” ESPN’s “30 for 30” docuseries entry on Bruce Lee and the sophomore effort of director Bao Nguyen (“Live From New York!”), leaves no doubt that Lee’s talent and charisma should have earned him lead roles in Hollywood — or how the industry’s history of marginalizing people of color…

Jun 6, 2020Dotun AkintoyeESPN.com "Be Water," an ESPN 30 for 30 film chronicling Bruce Lee's life, premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN.SOME CAREERS HAVE the good fortune of ending too soon -- they petrify into myth. When Bruce Lee died at 32, on the eve of his first…

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Purge with fire — It's like The Punisher meets V for Vendetta, but in Russian. Jennifer Ouellette - Jun 5, 2020 1:16 am UTC Major Grom: Plague Doctor is adapted from the Russian comics of the same name.A rogue detective who doesn't always play by the rules hunts a costumed…

Jason Statham first came to prominence as a tough-talking bare-knuckle boxing promoter in the Guy Ritchie film Snatch. Since then he’s grown into an action movie box office star, with roles like the Transporter, and most notably the Expendables and Fast and Furious franchises. All told, his movies have earned…

1978 was a big year for Jackie Chan. After years of flailing about in serious kung fu films, with producers and directors attempting (as they did with so many of his contemporaries) to fashion Chan into the next Bruce Lee, he was loaned out to the independent production company Seasonal…

Criterion just put eight Jackie Chan films on the Criterion Channel (possibly the best looking of all the streaming channels out there). With the world being horrible, I thought a look at one of action cinema’s sweeter onscreen personas had a pleasing ring to it. I wish I could include…

Today is the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China, though the best known image from that event, of a man standing before a tank, happened on June 5. Despite the awkward anniversary, China’s crackdown on freedom in Hong Kong continues today. A new law was put in…

Akshay Kumar is Bollywood's highest-paid actor, earning $48.5 million and beating out popular ... western actors like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Photo by Ram Shergill India’s top movie star is doing his best to keep busy. Locked down at home along with much of the country, Akshay Kumar has…