Enter the Soya: A Nerd Origin
Two mysterious lands far away from one another — yet linked by seas of soybeans — birthed a child born of melody, harmony, rhythm, and the smell of soy sauce. The child was destined to become a...
View ArticleThe Way of the Dragon: The Career of Cung Le
Just to get the obvious out of the way: Cung Le is no Bruce Lee. Nobody ever will be. That said, I don’t think anyone else currently walks in the shadow of The Dragon quite like Dragon Eyes. As he...
View ArticleReturn of the Dragon Tides Starring Bruce and Brandon Lee
In this week’s episode, guest host Nelson sits down with Artistic Justice Games’ Alex Lim to talk about the company’s latest project, Dragon Tides, and officially licensed tabletop game featuring the...
View ArticleNOC Poetry: For Bruce, 11/27/40 – 7/20/73
Originally posted on The Real Chow: Like Water:Excerpts from Bruce Lee’s Last Interview Hong Kong, July, 1973 I guess it all adds up to bad karma, man. My father used to talk about these demons that...
View ArticleBesouro: Black Lives Matter
With all that has been happening surrounding the Black Lives Matter movements nationwide, I began thinking about the powerful legacies of African resistance, struggle, and revolution in the face of...
View ArticleNOCs of the Roundtable: Best Fight Scenes Ever
As our friend Angry Asian Man broke the nerdtastic news this week that some fine fighters from The Raid would be joining the cast of Star Wars, it seemed as good a time as any to convene a roundtable...
View ArticleEnter the White Privilege
Over the weekend Ain’t It Cool News revealed that the internet’s favorite hack director Brett Ratner is interested in remaking Enter the Dragon. At a screening of Rush Hour in Los Angeles, Ratner told...
View ArticleEnter the GTFOH
On March 21, 2015 Ain’t it Cool dropped the mother, father, cousin, and incarcerated uncle of all bombshells: Brett Ratner wants to remake one of the most iconic films in cinema history, which starred...
View ArticleThe NOC Review: Donnie Yen’s Back in Kung Fu Killer
As a rabid martial arts film nerd, I’m not easily impressed. It’s one of those things where if you’ve seen one film, you’ve seen them all. So a movie has to really step outside of the box to garner my...
View ArticleOld Film Reviews: One-Armed Swordsman
Originally published at BadAzz Mofo The Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong was responsible for producing some of the greatest Wushu martial arts films of all time. In the 1970s kung fu flicks flooded...
View ArticleScored Too Soon? The Career of Michael Jai White: A Retrospective
In most sports, scoring early is a good thing. If you’re a soccer player or fan, though, you know the woes of scoring too early. If any of you listen to or watch Men in Blazers, you’ve heard this all...
View ArticleThe Challenger: No Challenge at All for a Few Minutes of Your Time
I had no interest in watching the first Democratic Party debate without analysis from Democracy Now and commentary from my favorite late night and podcasting comedy crews. So, it worked out well that...
View ArticleBlack Tiger: Hunter Hunted: Interview with Director Patricio Ginelsa
The same day that the final Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer hit this week, a lesser known project called Black Tiger: Hunter Hunted released its 20-minute pilot episode on YouTube. Black Tiger...
View ArticleDaniel Wu Goes Into the Badlands
by Timothy Tau | Originally posted on Hyphen Daniel Wu is a Chinese American actor/director/writer/producer that has already had quite an impressive career overseas in Hong Kong, appearing in over 60...
View ArticleFollow the N.O.C. to Win Into the Badlands Swag
We’ve been gearing up all week for the debut of Into the Badlands this Sunday night after an all-new episode of The Walking Dead. Yesterday, we re-posted Timothy Tau’s Hyphen interview with star Daniel...
View ArticleAMC’s Into the Badlands: The Time is Now
Originally posted at Angry Asian Man As we near the end of 2015, one thing is for sure: it’s a great time to be an Asian American television consumer. For the first time in history, you’ll need two...
View ArticleThe Daniel Wu Diet
by Lynn Chen | Originally posted at The Actor’s Diet Oh, how I love when my fellow actors post photos of food, especially when they’re on set. The yumminess below is from Daniel Wu’s Instagram feed,...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: #WheresWidow
For obvious reasons, we’ve been riding the Into the Badlands train from jump, and now that it’s here — and a huge hit — we couldn’t wait to add the show to the Recap rotation. We’ve been holding on to...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Who Run the World? Girls!
The third episode of Into the Badlands — “White Stork Spreads Wings” — will be the last one to follow The Walking Dead since last night was the mid-season finale for everyone’s favorite zombie show....
View ArticleNOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Warriors vs. Clippers
Last night’s Into the Badlands — clunkily titled “Two Tigers Subdue Dragons” and not to be confused with this — was tasked with propelling us into the end of the season. In addition to a promised Baron...
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