Tag Archives: martial arts

A visual knock out that may leave you baffled

A visual knock out that may leave you baffled

Joyce Glasser reviews The Assassin Taiwanese Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s  (The Flight of the Red Balloon, A City of Sadness) new film, The Assassin is so subtle that it would even be misleading to call ...
An identity crisis in The Grandmaster

An identity crisis in The Grandmaster

When a new Wong Kar-wai film comes out, the art house crowd takes notice. Kar-Wai is the auteur of the stylishly shot, beautifully made, internationally-accessible Chungking Express, Happy Together an ...

Kicking back

Sprightly Ken Nevison is never giving his hobby the chop after becoming the oldest double martial arts black belt in Britain – AGED 84. Super-fit Ken took up martial arts at the age of 58 when h ...