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KUNG FU LEAGUE Review: Jeffrey Lau’s Zany New Time Travel Action Romp Is In A Lesser League Of Its Own

Cartoonist Fei (Ashin) has been in love with the beautiful Bao’er (Madina) since college. Now working in the same office, he finds a rival in his handsome and rich boss (Zhang) and his feelings of inadequacy skyrocket. Creating a comic where four legendary martial arts masters time travel into the future, he is ecstatic to find that it has come true; Wong Fei Hung (Man), Huo Yuan Jia (On), Ip Man (To), and Chen Zhen (Chan) are now lost in time and apparently the only way back is to help Fei win the girl of his dreams! Prolific director Jeffrey Lau directs this oddball martial arts comedy featuring some familiar faces, heavily stylized martial arts, and some uneven humor for a movie that doesn’t really know what it wants to be and whose story would probably have been better told as a comic from which the protagonist’s inspiration was born. […]

Win A Copy Of Jeffrey Lau’s KUNG FU LEAGUE From Well Go USA!

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Jeffrey Lau’s Kung Fu League is taking to Blu-Ray and VOD releases beginning September 17 from Well Go USA. Starring are Dennis To (Ip Man, Ip Man 2), Vincent Zhao (The Unity of Heros, God of War), Danny Chan (Ip Man 3), Andy On (True Legend), Jay Chou (The Green Hornet) and in his cinematic debut, actor Ashin. When his manager prevents Fei Ying Xiong from getting the girl he loves, he summons the help from four legendary Kung Fu masters to learn the highest level of martial arts from the best in history and to defeat his enemies who stand in the way of the things he wants most. The film’s amalgam of kung fu heroes is a loaded one and clearly the target audience is kung fu fans. I take it some are reading this piece as we speak, in which case, folks keen on winning a Blu-Ray […]

[UPDATE] KUNG FU LEAGUE: Masters Collide This September From Well Go USA

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It’s taken a bit of time to come to, but the long-awaited U.S. release of Jeffrey Lau’s martial arts ensemble romp, Kung Fu League is officially gearing up for a Blu-ray Combo, DVD and Digital release on September 17 from Well Go USA. To update, we also have an official trailer now up and running since this article was published five days ago. Dennis To reprises his TV title performance from the ancillary feature, Ip Man: The Legend Is Born while Vincent Zhao returns in robe and queue as Wong Fei-Hung, Andy On steps up as Huo Yuanjia and Danny Chan relitigates the posterity of famed Bruce Lee persona, Chen Zhen. Leading the narrative is actor Ashin in a debut role as a shy man who summons the four legendary kung fu masters to help him fight for the woman he loves when his manager prevents him from ever reaching […]

FIVE-A-DAY COUNTDOWN: Hollow Point, Invincible, The Green Ghost, Kickboxer: Armageddon, and Kung Fu League

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This is it! The final five!… Hollow Point: As close as director Daniel Zirilli plays things to the chest, it’s hard to keep up with what he’s doing a lot of times. Hollow Point was especially one that I didn’t see coming now with actor Luke Goss getting full frontal billing in actor Dilan Jay’s feature debut about a widowed family man looking for reprisal with the help of a clandestine unit of vigilantes. Michael Pare and JuJu Chan also star. Date pending. Invincible: Look no further than this recently-announced action pic from the aforementioned Zirilli, directing and producing alongside D3 Telefilm. Johnny Strong plays the head of security assigned to hunt down a runaway experimental supersoldier, played by martial arts star Marko Zaror. The Green Ghost: I’m giving this particular superhero adventure another shot. Neither 2016 nor 2017 took for Michael D. Olmos’s fantasy action adventure despite making a […]

KUNG FU LEAGUE: Heroes Headline The First Trailer For Jeff Lau’s Raucous Kung Fu Flick

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Notable Kung Fu Hustle producer Jeff Lau has since entered the fray with his next directorial feat, Kung Fu League. The project has been teases a headlining crowd of folkloric film heroes and now we have a first trailer this week. I gotta say, it’s wackier than I predicted and looks equally ridiculous, save for any hopes of this film being more film than fan service. I suppose it’s mainly because there isn’t a full synopsis available which is why this trailer is so daunting apart from what we already know. Alas, Vincent Zhao stakes his claim as the venerable Wong Fei Hung next to Andy On who takes the mantle as Huo Yuanjia, Danny Chan lending more to the typecast as Bruce Lee persona Chen Zhen, and Dennis To reprising as Ip Man from Herman Yau’s 2010 iteration of the Wing Chun grandmaster… As for this trailer, well… it’s […]