Police Story has two of Jackie Chan’s signature scenes: When he hangs from the double decker bus and the fight in the mall. Police Story 2 sort of gets buried between Police Story and Supercop but it’s got good stuff too like the fight on the playground and in the […]
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Jackie Chan was a martial arts legend around the world before Rumble in the Bronx made him one in the U.S. too. But it was his animated show, Jackie Chan Adventures, that made him a hero to children. The show ran from 2000-2005 but at the press conference for The […]
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It takes a village to make these LEGO movies and that village is called Hollywood, or Warner Bros. more specifically. Dan Lin and Chris McKay are two of the producers overseeing the larger LEGO franchise. McKay directed The LEGO Batman so they were two execs I definitely wanted to talk […]
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Jackie Chan’s latest still delivers an impressive amount of fighting for a 63-year-old martial artist. As he’s done for the past 10 years, Kung Fu Yoga involves many more visual effects, and the VFX aren’t as good as Weta or ILM, but this one is more like a classic Jackie […]
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These were Jackie Chan’s first comedies, both directed by Yuen Woo Ping who would choreograph The Matrix, Crouching Tiger and direct many amazing Hong Kong films himself. The typical kung fu movie was a student trained really hard to avenge his master. Chan spoofed that formula by playing imbeciles whose […]
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Jackie Chan’s latest movie isn’t a martial arts film. It’s more of a total stunt show. It works and Railroad Tigers compares favorably to current Hollywood action movies, even perhaps offering more practical stuntwork, with little touches of Jackie Chan even without kicks. Ma Yuan (Chan) leads a gang of Chinese […]
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After The Lego Movie showed us how creative a movie based on a kids’ toy could be, The Lego Batman Movie took it to the next level. It still captures the wonder of kids playing with their toys, but it spoofs superhero movies too. Now there’s even more Lego Batman […]
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Back in the ‘90s, Hollywood had the idea to dub Jackie Chan movies in English and release them as new movies. New Line was the pioneer of this with Dimension Films following their lead. This week Warner Home Video brings two of the New Line titles to Blu-ray for the […]
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For about 20 years, Jackie Chan has been saying he wants to stop doing action and concentrate on drama. Fortunately, for the past two decades he’s kept doing amazing action movies like The Myth, Rob-B-Hood and Chinese Zodiac, so I’m not too worried anymore. Chan is a good actor, but […]
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