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...tribute to the literally hundreds of '70s Hong Kong martial arts dramas that flooded Saturday-morning U.S. TV in the wake of Bruce Lee's success with Enter the Dragon. The plot, of a laggard who undergoes rigorous training to become a great fighter, is familiar from many Jackie Chan films, including the one that made him a star, Drunken Master. Fans of Chang Cheh's Five Venoms movies will have no trouble spotting this movie's Furious Five: the Crane (David Cross), Viper (Lucy Liu), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Tigress (Angelina Jolie) and Monkey - voiced by Chan himself...
...Chan's confidence was well placed. Directors John Stevenson and Mark Osborne may have an unhealthy fondness for humiliating physical humor - there are more sight gags of fat creatures hurting themselves than in an entire run of Super Bowl commercials - but they are essentially respectful toward the conventions of martial arts films and the Zen spirituality underlining them. Once Po stops tripping over things and devotes himself to the exhausting curriculum devised by his Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), the movie shifts into high martial-arts gear, with some sequences so smartly thought out and spectacularly executed that they might have been...
...measurements have to do with Tibet.' CHRISTINA CHAN, Hong Kong University student, after netizens angered by her criticism of China's Tibet policy posted revealing photos and her body measurements online Numbers
...only the large black X on your hand and curious smell wafting over from the Science Center that make you remember you’re at the Queen’s Head Pub for the BGLTSA Drag Night. The four (lip-syncing) singers are, respectively, BGLTSA board members Marco Chan ’11, Brandon T. Perkovich ’11, Christopher L. Turner ’11, and James P. Alexander ’10. Traditionally held in Adams LCR, the event recently moved to Cambridge Queen’s Head—a bigger venue...
Shanghai International Film Festival, June 14-22 To most Western audiences, Chinese cinema means Jackie Chan's goofball chop-socky or the high-wire fighting of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Get the bigger picture at the festival in Shanghai, the historical hub of China's film industry. The country's only international film festival celebrates foreign fare, but its main goal is to help launch the careers of young Chinese actors and filmmakers. Expect to see lots of melancholy love affairs and bizarre comedies. Karate? Not so much...