Scene of the Week: Shanghai Knights
When Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong movie career really started to take off, it was only natural for Chan to try and replicate that success in Hollywood. Numerous attempts were made over the years starting with 1980’s...
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Bullet Points: Vanguard (2020)
I don’t believe anyone can argue that Jackie Chan is a living legend in the movie industry. And the fact that Jackie Chan is still living after all the death defying stunts he has performed over...
Bullet Points: Wheels on Meals
You don’t have a career that spans more than four decades without evolving. And the career of Jackie Chan has had many phases of evolution. Phase one, the bit parts that he took as an up...
Bullet Points: Bruce and Shaolin Kung Fu Part 2
1977’s Bruce and the Shaolin Kung Fu took the path of many Bruceploitation films and sold itself as a sequel to one of Bruce Lee’s classics, in this case 1972’s Fist of Fury. But unlike any...
An Interview with Roger Yuan
When it comes to the world of action entertainment, Roger Yuan has pretty much done it all. He has been an actor in movies like Shanghai Noon and Bulletproof Monk. He has done fight training and...
Bullet Points: New Fist of Fury
Back in 1976, Jackie Chan was a star on the rise laying the foundation for what would end up becoming a monumental movie career both in his native Hong Kong and here in the United States....
Bullet Points: Rumble in the Bronx
Jackie Chan had a pretty good 2017. His new film The Foreigner opened with both critical and commercial success, and Chan found himself one of the newest inductees into the Bulletproof Action Hall of Fame. You...
Hall of Fame: Chan Ka Kui
For the final week of the year, we thought it might be a good idea to induct into our BPA Hall of Fame a character has been just barely on the outside looking in each year....
An Interview with Brahim Achabbakhe
The classic 80’s action adventure series The Fall Guy had a memorable theme song. The star of the series himself, Lee Majors, crooned “The Unknown Stuntman” during the opening credits of The Fall Guy. The song...
Bullet Points: Dragon Blade
I never knew that I wanted to see John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in an action movie together until I saw them in Face/Off. The same could be said for John Cusack and Jackie Chan. Separately,...
