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10 Best Movie One vs. Many (Outnumbered) Fight Scenes of All Time

You know an action hero is the baddest of badasses when he or she walks in and the room goes silent. The drug lord’s bodyguards, the mastermind’s henchmen, or even the foolhardy pack of drunkards outside a roadside bar stand at attention, ready for a challenge. It’s just one person. This shouldn’t be too hard. …

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Recommended Viewing for Fans of ‘The Grandmaster’

  Ip Man Directed by Wilson Yip Written by Edmond Wong and Chan Tai-Li Hong Kong, 2008 In this biopic, Donnie Yen is Ip Man, one of the earliest Wing Chun martial arts exponents and the man credited to have elevated its popularity in the early parts of the 20th century. Best known for his …

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U.S. cut of ‘The Grandmaster’ mostly thrilling, despite excessive audience hand-holding

It’s almost impossible to consider the U.S. cut of The Grandmaster without wondering what’s been lost, to the point of regretting that either Harvey Weinstein or director Wong Kar-Wai (depending on which story you read) doesn’t trust American audiences to pick up on simple nuances, character titles and motivations, and historical context.

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The Grandmaster is More Art Film than Action, and a Beautiful One at That

In the last several years, Hong Kong cinema has had a fascination with legendary Wing Chun martial artist Ip Man that borders on manic obsession, to the point where it wouldn’t be surprising to find out that Hong Kong cinema spent a week secretly living in Ip Man’s pool house and going through his garbage.

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Hey Canada: Win Double Passes To The Advanced Screening Of Won Kar Wai’s ‘ The Grandmaster’

With his 10th feature (his first original one since 2007) Won Kar Wai (Chungking Express, Happy Together, In The Mood For Love) mines the generation-spanning heritage of martial arts cinema by bringing us the tale of the kung fu innovator and Wing Chun grandmaster who trained Bruce Lee. The Grandmaster traces the rise of Ip …

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10 non-blockbuster films we’re looking forward to this summer

The summer season has, over the past few decades, become synonymous with movie blockbuster season, as studios have found the months of May to August to contain the most profitable release dates for big-budget tentpole features, leading to the summer of recent years being filled with superhero films, big budget CGI features, and other tentpole …

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