To celebrate the GOAT, you can watch this classics here on Black Belt+ Here are our two favorites. First is Return of the Dragon: “Return...

We have our editor's picks for the best new action movies to watch this December. All of the films have been hotly anticipated, some for...

Courtesy of Cobra Kai/Sony With the success of the Cobra Kai series, Sony is launching a search for the next martial arts superstar to...

Dr. Craig's Martial Arts Movie Lounge The first kung fu film I saw was in 1973, Bruce Lee's The Big Boss (aka Fists of Fury; 1971). Since...

Q&A with “The man you may never see on the Cover of Black Belt Magazine” George Chung far right Chung is no stranger to martial arts. He...

Ahsoka Part 1: Witness the Evolution of Jedi Fights Before Your Eyes By Dr. Craig D. Reid All Photos and Images are Courtesy of...

In the annals of cinematic history, few films have had as profound an impact on popular culture as Enter the Dragon. Released by Warner...

Phillip Rhee is a master martial artist, actor, and filmmaker best known for creating the Best of the Best film franchise with his producing partner and mentor Peter E. Strauss (former chairman of Lionsgate) and Frank Giustra (founder of Lionsgate). The first Best of the Best starred Academy Award-nominated actors, James Earl Jones, Eric Roberts, Louise Fletcher, Sally Kirkland, and Chris Penn was distributed through Sony Pictures. In 2015, Best of the Best was chosen by Fa

by Andrew Bryan This is the fourth in a series of articles in which I talk about the history of martial arts and professional wrestling....

It’s a Wild & Wooly, Western, WuXia, Samurai Tour de Force Epic by Dr. Craig D. Reid John Wick is at a boiling point. Feel it! Hands up, down and sideways, the best American martial arts movie in 2023 is John Wick: Chapter 4 ( JW4 ) as he returns under more attritional circumstances. Turn on the end of the 2023 Saturday night floodlights for all to see, it is a film where its very essence of what it is, how it is, and where it can take us into 2024, where it might just mu

BY JASON WILLIAM MCNEIL The year was 2006, and it was my first visit to Hollywood. Whom did I choose to meet first on that day? The...

Wuxia films 1905-1982: Quasi Non-Fiction Wrapped in Fantastical Fight by Dr. Craig D. Reid The coolest wuxia film of the 1920’s, Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (1928) Who could have guessed that the fate of the first 44 years (1905-1949) of wuxia cinema was heavily affected by the sexist attitudes of the Ching Dynasty? It all started in 1772, the year the Ching government banned females from performing on stage, which created the tradition of female impersonators in B

Michael Jai White is one of the biggest stars of martial arts movies today. Much like Scott Adkins he was born a little too late, and...

Clay Donahue Fontenot is one of Hollywood's most sought after and successful stuntmen and coordinators. He has doubled some of...

Diana Inosanto on the set of Ahsoka via StarWars.com If you aren’t in the martial arts world, you might not notice that the driving...

via Naver, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73783277 By Charles Earley With Netflix releasing a continuous stream of...

NBA Legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar, forever known for his role in the Game of Death, with his mentor Bruce Lee by M. Uyehara He ducked his...

Clay Donahue Fontenot is one of Hollywood's most sought after and successful stuntmen and coordinators. He has doubled some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

After Shaolin monks saved the Ching dynasty (aka the Manchus) in 1685 from Russian invasion, who’d have thought that by refusing payment...

While the films of the 1970s were often characterized by the term “gritty realism,” the 80s seemed to want to venture far away from...

Many martial artists aren't just known for their physical prowess, but for their philosophical strength, too. We collected some of the...

When we heard that this one A-list comedian was an advanced BJJ practitioner, we decided to dig and find other surprising celebs that ...

Aside from Kung Fu Panda, we are counting down Jackie Chan’s top films! Jackie Chan, the renowned martial artist, actor, and filmmaker,...

How Many Have You Seen? The ‘60s were an exploratory time for cinema and martial arts films were no different. Bringing us kung fu...