We unpack the history of how and why Black Kung Fu films became a sensation in the 1970s. Black Kung Fu films were wildly popular in the 70s, a welcome response to the anger many people felt against ...
What martial arts movie launched the kung fu craze of the 1970s? Enter the Dragon played a big part, of course, but isn't the film that started it.
Have you ever wanted to play a fighting game that let you find out who would win in a fight between various 1970s kung fu movie stars? New York-based Jae-Lee Productions did. And so the tiny studio ...
The Chronicle reported recently on the rise of a self-defence system called Krav Maga. Meaning “contact combat” in Hebrew, and originating in Bratislava, Slovakia, in the 1930s, it was first used by ...
In 1974, the disco song “Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting” shot to the top of the pop music charts in Canada, the U.S., Britain, and Australia. This catchy certified “gold” tune by Carl Douglas ...
In 1974, the disco song “Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting” shot to the top of the pop music charts in Canada, the U.S., Britain, and Australia. This catchy certified “gold” tune by Carl Douglas ...
Angela Maoas gaze is as scornful as her kicks are swift. There's something weird and wonderful about kung fu movies from the '70s. Six such films on two affordable DVD sets are sure to roundhouse-kick ...
A group of friends who spent their childhoods in the 1970s making mini-movies reunited to complete one of them 47 years later ...
If the mega-hit status of the Charlie's Angels movie is any indication, kung fu fighting is clearly making a comeback. Sure, the movie is souped up with today's Matrix-style effects and booming techno ...
Nothing beats a good ol’ 1970s disco track. And “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas is one of the most well-loved disco tracks of that era. This song was both born of and created in praise of the ...
Eddie Murphy, the voice behind four “Shrek” films-worth of the crass character Donkey, will continue the sass as Hong Kong Phooey in a film version of the 1970s Hanna-Barbera animated series, TheWrap ...
Du Yuhang in THE GRANDMASTER OF KUNG FU. Courtesy of WellGo USA For fans of Chinese martial arts movies, THE GRANDMASTER OF KUNG FU offers a variation on a very familiar theme. Set in the early 20th ...