TAEKWONDO Changed My Life!!!BE INSPIRED by Danny T Nguyen’s martial arts journey through TAEKWONDO. This is a inspirational story for all martial artists, it serves as a reminder of why many of us start to train and why we continue. His story is not a major calamity averted, it’s more a daily combination of the small things that make a big …
by Andrew Staton Honor Blackman was the first woman to bring Martial Arts to UK television as Cathy Gale in the Avengers, and she changed the way film fights were filmed and depicted. Enter Emma Peel, a young woman who used every technique in the Karate manual, instead of an old-fashioned straight punch to the jaw, and then having dealt …
As The World of Martial Arts Magazine Issue 11 prepares to do an expose on the Ip man 4 Tribute fight to Bruce Lee featuring Danny Chan and Mark Strange we have discovered another Bruce Lee Tribute film that started, and then disappeared. Andrew Staton tells the story… Bruce Lee or Bruce Lee? Most of the Bruce Lee fraternity know …
Bruce Lee’s nunchaku skills set a benchmark for all to follow and that influence continues to this day. However for a long time his skills were hidden from the UK public. In the UK, Enter The Dragon was given an ‘X’ rated certificate by the British Board of Film Classification, the BBFC, with scene cuts for the cinema release on …
PLOT A documentary that focuses on the first 21 years of Quentin Tarantino’s career and includes interviews with his frequent collaborators. SYNOPSIS Quentin Tarantino is the most influential filmmaker of the past 30 years. His bloody, talky, nonlinear films pull together dozens of influences to form bracingly original cinematic events. In a Hollywood that worships at the altar of franchises …
Set The Scene… In Quentin Tarantino’s ninth movie Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, where he takes the audience to a fictitious time in 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, a TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his long time stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The writer-director …
The Details… Bruce Lee taught Dean Martin, Sharon Tate and Nancy Kwan a few martial arts moves for their roles in the 1969 Matt Helm movie The Wrecking Crew, a spy comedy somewhat along the lines of Austin Powers. Although Bruce did not appear in the film, he receives a production credit as ‘Karate Advisor’ (choreographer) for the fight scenes. …
The Details… In 1969, Bruce Lee was Hollywood’s martial-arts instructor to amongst others Roman Polanski, Steve McQueen and celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring. Through these connections Lee taught Sharon Tate Gung Fu for her movie “The Wrecking Crew” with Dean Martin. That summer, Bruce Lee was around 29 years of age and Polanski briefly considered him a suspect in the appalling …
The Details… To celebrate the release of Sony Movie’s Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood, directed by Quentin Tarantino, Sony Movie Channel presents a whole week of classic films selected by the director himself. Tarantino will bring his limitless knowledge and love for movies, acting as host for signature films that influenced him during the production of his new film. …
Bruce Lee is back in action in Tarantino’s new movie. Incidentally or intentionally in this his 9th movie Quentin Tarantino dedicates a significant role to the martial arts master Bruce Lee played by Mike Moh. It underscores the influential effect Bruce Lee had on this period in Hollywood, especially regarding his involvement with Sharon Tate and his work as fight …