Jackie Chan's CZ12 ,Terracotta Far East Film Festival and Judy Lee put the kick in Spring

Hello fellow Martial art fans,Martial artists and fans of anything of the orient.

There i have covered you all, Now your wondering what's happening are you not?

Right the main  site has been busy getting some new reviews up and a bit of shuffling of pages to. With some pages being knocked on the head to streamline the site a bit more. 

Anyway first to go was the Game news and Music news pages ,with the Film news page to follow shortly. All news relating to any of the aforementioned topics can now be found along with other news in the new NEWS STREAM on site which was formerly known as the blog of the site. 

Now that's cleared up your want to know what new films have been reviewed on site ,if of course you have not been there of late. We have recently published reviews of Jackie Chan's CZ12 with a photo gallery and more .

Jackie looks small here .

 

  

You Can't touch me!

Girl Fight

Big Big Brother also has had a look in with Wong Jing's Naked Soldier ,Directed by Marco Mak the film stars Sammo Hung as a former Interpol agent who lost his daughter to international kidnappers and Jennifer Tse ( sister of Nicholas) stars as the cold assassin working for Madame Rose who was responsible for the original kidnapping.

Sammo back on screen in Naked Soldier

The Girls of Naked Soldier

Yuen Wah in 2005 film Kung Fu Mahjong 2

 

More from Kung Fu Mahjong 2

Some Mahjong in Kung Fu Mahjong 2

We also looked at a couple of Wong Jing gambling comedies in the form of the recent Mr and Mrs Gambler with Chapman To and Fiona Sit ( The Bounty)  and a earlier film by the name of Kung Fu mahjong which stars Yuen Wah amongst others. 

Our other big film just reviewed was the Wong Kar Wai biopic of Ip Man ,The Grandmaster. The film stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai as Ip Man and Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen star as rival Kung Fu masters .Full review and photo galleries with behind the scenes stills on site now. 

Tony Leung Chiu Wai as Ip Man

Coming up on site are a quite a few varied features for review with the next being published in a few hours .That will be The Guillotines with Huang Xiaoming and Shawn Yue ,directed by Andrew Lau it's a brash in your face type of action film with over the top special effects which we have come to expect from Andrew Lau. 

The end of the week sees the start of the Terracotta Far East Film Festival in London ,though we are unable to make the opening night ,we have a selection of films to view and all will tie in with a feature on site coincide with the festival which will go live in a couple days or so. 

Other films on the horizon include a couple of Classic reviews of 1972 film Queen Boxer with Judy Lee and a 1980 Rocky Man directed film by the name of Blood of Dragon Peril which is a WWII film about a masked hero who fights the Japanese to help the poor Chinese oppressed . 

Classic Judy Lee.

This is one crazy film from Rocky Man

On the games front a review of Wii U and IOS and Android plat-former Kung Fu Rabbit will be up on site in a couple of days.

So that's the latest news from the world of Kickemintheghoulies , I'll be back in a few days to update about the Terracotta Film Festival  and post a few pictures of the event to. 

So be safe ,Train Hard and keep well till we next connect.

Sertes Nake  aka The Snake .

Put Kung Fu in your step this Spring

Hello all you blogspot fans. yes i know it's been a while since i updated this part of K.I.T.G. ,but the main site has had many new reviews and features since the last post here. Getting what we have covered  out of the way first ,so here we go.

If your fans of the Jackie Chan Police Story series then check out our recent retro reviews of the first three films in the series on site now. 

Jackie in the 1985 original Police Story

Other films covered included ''Kill'em All which starred the late great Joe Lewis and Gordon Liu who suffered a stroke shortly after (he's still recovering and we wish him well) .We actually recently got around to posting our review of Bruce Lee Classic The Big Boss with lots of screen shots and posters on site. 

Bruce Lee - The Big Boss

We also looked at a couple of American Classics to ,the first being Cynthia Rothrock's Rage and Honor with which she also starred with Richard Norton and then we had a feature on Martial Outlaw with Jeff Wincott by one of our contributors. 

Kill'em All - Joe Lewis is on the left at the bottom

Cynthia Rothrock's Rage and Honor from 1992

New film wise we reviewed the latest Chow Yun Fat period film ,The Assassins. , to see the review click here. 

Now up to date we are currently readying  two reviews of probably two of the biggest films many have been waiting for ,The first is of course Jackie Chan's CZ12 and the second is Naked Soldier with Jennifer Tse and Sammo Hung, it's the third in the series which started with Naked Killer .

Review shortly

There are some game related articles coming from our games guys ,but i will update as it all happens on that front. 

So till next time Be Safe' Train Hard 
The Snake

Six weeks of action on site in our Christmas run-up

Hi all

Yes back with a another installment in what's going down on K.I.T.G.

Well since last update we have been quite busy with our Korean special on site and all this has fallen inline with the London Korean Film Festival which we have attended on a few occasions in the last ten days.

Reviews up now on site include

War of Arrows on Bluray

The Sword with No Name  on Bluray

The Kick -a Thai / Korean co-production about a family of Taekwondo experts living in Thailand who get involved in a plot to steal national treasures .

Continuing with the Korean theme we will have a review of The Thieves from director Choi Dong-Hun and KPOP comedy ''PAPA'' on site shortly ,all to tie in with our coverage of the Korean Film Festival in London.

KPOP comedy PAPA

The opening Gala film ,The Thieves

Future reviews and features on site include the new Wong Jing film which is the third in the Naked series of films ,yes Naked Soldier is imminent ,it stars Jennifer Tse and Sammo Hung among the players.

A scene from NAKED SOLDIER

Also look out for further Bluray features as we get through another couple of  Europe region Bluray's that offer more kick for your money.

Where also waiting on a couple of Japanese cult movies in the form of 2010's Mutant Girls Squad and 2011 Karate Robo Zarborgar. We just love these wacky flicks ,though there rarely for the faint of heart or those under 18 years of age.

We also look at what the likes of Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme have been doing of late as we tackle a couple of  recent straight to video releases.

On the games front ,our resident games expert has finalised his  Shenmue overview and it's up on site now. Also in the gaming department his coverage of the Eurogamer Expo is complete , published in three installments across each of the groups sites ,the first part appears on K.I.T.G. with successive installments appearing on Shoot'em in the Head.co.uk and Cosplay Heroes.co.uk  .

The new Devil May Cry reboot at Eurogamer Expo in September

Cosplay at Eurogamer Expo

This also means he's free to cover some more gaming gems and of course the new Nintendo Wii U launch which happens in a little under three weeks.

Of note the sites Virtua Fighter page is offline now while it under go's a revamp ,will be back in the new year with a new look and brought bang up to date.

Feature wise we will be attending the Hyper Japan Christmas show at the end of November ,so look  out for a feature on the event with photos and video.

Another feature is we take a preview look at the forthcoming Jackie Chan film CZ12 .it's out on the 12-12-2012 in Asian cinemas ,so a DVD and Bluray release will be shortly afterwards. We build up to the launch of the film and show how Jackie really is the Man and still has what it takes to astonish audiences like he did way back in the 80's.

One of twelve new posters for Jackie Chan's new film -CZ12 aka Armour of God III

Jackie returns to the big stunts in his role as The Asian Hawk

So keep tuned and keep checking the site ,Facebook and twitter for news of what's going down on Kick'em in the Ghoulies.

Till next time ,Train Hard,Be Safe and enjoy Christmas.

The Snake