Sentences with phrase «who kung»

Now the window is over, the two Davids have brought in Patrice Evra, a 36 - year - old who was excellent 10 years ago but now remembered as the man who kung - fu kicked a fan and received a seven - month ban.

Not exact matches

But when her 2014 cash crisis hit, Carson, who stands just 5 foot 3 inches, was literally ready for battle, thanks to a lesson she learned from her time competing in kung fu.

Anyone who can make brown food lumped in a bowl — kung pao chicken — look delicious is a food blogger worth following.

He trained with some kung fu dude who used foam bats to hit Farr around his body to quicken Farr's reaction time in blocking them and hand placement.

The Frenchman having just been dismissed in a game against Crystal Palace then, as we all watched aghast, launched a wild, almost comical, kung - fu kick on a supposed football fan who was, I think we will agree, a thug who himself was jailed when he quite stupidly attempted a similar - style kick at the prosecution counsel during his own trial for using threatening behaviour.

BASIC SYLLABUS SESSION 1 Yin Yoga Teacher Certification Learning the foundation of Yin yoga principles and postures Alchemy fundamentals Group discussion on practice Birthing and yielding cycles Basics of teaching philosophy Student practice teaching Primary Yin yoga postures SESSION 2 Yin Yoga Teacher Certification Review Teaching techniques Flow and transition movement Reading assignment discussion Adapting teaching philosophy for specific audiences and student needs Taoist philosophy Power yoga Student practice teaching Yin yoga posture variations SESSION 3 Yin Yoga Teacher Certification ADVANCED TRAINING - open only to students who have completed session 1 or 2 How to become attuned with your own flow How to create flow sequences of postures for students Practice teaching with specific evaluation and guidance Yin yoga postures - Participants must demonstrate proficiency in content from sessions 1 and 2 Advanced alchemy using birthing and yielding cycles with accompanying postures Medical chi kung, standing forms of exercises (Aura Palm) Alchemical meditations for cultivating elemental energetic properties Relationship of the organs, emotions, and the five elements

One of the wolves wears a symbol that Po vaguely associates with his murky childhood, and he ultimately learns that it is the mark of Lord Shen (Gary Oldman), a vicious peacock who plans to take over China and abolish kung fu, and may have had a hand in Po's separation from his parents.

Overall, KUNG FU PANDA 2 is a good time, and guaranteed to please anyone who liked the first film.

The sequel picks up with Po in the ranks of the Furious Five as the legendary Dragon Warrior, the kung fu master who can bring peace to the rabbits, pigs, sheep, and goats of this fantasy version of ancient China, and Po, now a celebrity and skilled fighter, loses that sympathetic hook that made his first tale such an enjoyable one.

But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu.

And so it is with Po (Black), this time around facing a particularly evil, slow - burning peacock (Oldman) who won't be content until he's conquered China and eradicated all kung fu from the land.

This time out, Kung Fu Panda 2 rewards us all with a terrific script that actually adds charadter development to the previously introduced characters, brings up to date everyone who may have missed Kung Fu Panda (the first) and sets up a very big surprise for our lead character, the clumsy kung fu master iPo (Jack Black) to discover in Kung Fu Panda 3, coming in 2013 or 2014.

In DreamWorks» enjoyable, largely unsentimental 2008 animated movie, Jack Black lent his voice to Po, a roly - poly, medieval panda who works in his adopted father's noodle restaurant and through his passion for kung fu becomes the new Dragon Warrior of his Chinese valley.

Jack Black (The Holiday, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny) voices a bumbling panda bear named Po, who dreams of being a master of kung fu all the while being groomed to take over the family noodle business.

The Nintendo Direct presentation then went on to showcase two characters: revealing the super-fast kung - fu fighter Min Min with her extendable ramen arms, and the energetic, determined Spring Man, who specialises in bouncing back from near - defeat.

Known for its combinations of action and comedy as well as a varied cast, the titular hero is a musician and slacker extraordinaire who, in order to actually date Ramona Flowers, the girl of his dreams, he must engage her seven ex-boyfriends in kung - fu battle.

In the former, Chan plays Chien Fu, an orphan who works as a janitor in a kung fu school run by tyrannical teachers who literally and figuratively use him as a punching bag.

1» (Miramax) Quentin Tarantino's long - awaited homage to»70s kung fu films stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, a professional killer who wakes from a coma to seek revenge against the assassins who ruined her wedding.

And any time spent thinking about how ridiculous what they're actually talking about is, is still more entertaining than some of the antics the supporting characters get up to, be it John Malkovich trying to kung fu a robot or a former Special Forces soldier complaining stress or all the running he was having to do, or dear God anything having to do with Sam's parents who offer nothing to the film but reminders why they shouldn't be in it.

John Woo, for example — who Chan last worked with more than 30 years ago, when both were doing cheap kung - fu movies — is an old hand at this kind of neo noir.

Remarking therein that anyone who'd seen a few examples of this relentlessly formalized genre could write one himself, Schrader spoke from experience: his own The Yakuza, touched up a smidge by Robert Towne and formally permissive enough to incorporate some double - dealing American gangsters along with its Japanese pro- and antagonists, looked a likely enough successor to the kung - fu cycle in popularity that Warner Brothers paid a hefty price for the screenplay ($ 300,000, according to Newsweek).

The film stars Jackie Chan as a kung fu master, alongside Dave Franco, who plays a ninja.

It's fun seeing a man who once shook his booty wearing a feather tiara and engaging in a kung - fu showdown with the Speed star.

He is confronted by a legendary Shaolin monk named Wong Jack Man, played by Yu Xia, who is upset that he is sullying the art and spirituality of kung fu.

When: November 2nd Why: Anyone who knows anything about Wu Tang Clan founder RZA is that he loves kung fu cinema, so you can be sure that his directorial debut is going to be nothing short of a love letter to the genre, albeit one with a hip - hop soundtrack.

An animated movie about a panda bear who masters the martial art of kung fu has obviously been popular enough to spark a successful franchise.

Eighteen years later, the two siblings are on opposite sides of a battle which results in a tournament to the death to see who will be the next Supreme kung fu master of the land.

He loves her for who she is (a lady who loves kung - fu movies) not what she does (hooker).

But climb them he does, dragging a noodle wagon, because all the people of the valley have gathered up there to witness the choosing of the Dragon Warrior, who will engage the dreaded Tai Lung (Ian McShane) in kung - fu combat.

The latest is Taichi Zero, starring Yuan Xiaochao as a bumbling kung fu prodigy who moves to a remote village renowned for its special «Chen - style» technique, named for a mysterious master who by law is forbidden to teach his methods to outsiders.

It's still a wall - to - wall homage to the»70s spaghetti Westerns and kung fu movies that inspired the young Quentin Tarantino, and those who dismiss him for only making movies about movies will have all the ammunition they need.

Among those nudging and guiding Po is Master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim), an ancient turtle with a mellifluous voice and long, liquid neck who, um, invented kung fu and now serves as the spiritual adviser (Yoda) to an elite squad, including a kung fu master, the mustachioed red panda Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), and his students, the Furious Five: Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Viper (Lucy Liu), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Crane (David Cross) and Mantis (Seth Rogen).

Tony Leung plays Ip as a suave, white - fedora - wearing romantic hero, while the story deals with martial - arts masters before and after the Second Sino - Japanese War, who saw kung fu schools popping up on every corner like Starbucks.

Instead, production designer Raymond Zibach and art director Tang Heng, who spent years researching Chinese art and architecture (not to mention kung fu movies), have inserted vast, moody, misty landscapes, fanciful interiors and traditional Chinese colors (red and gold dominate) to give the movie an epic, expansive, ancient quality that's a real pleasure to inhabit.

But Po's life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu.

Or, you know, the fact that they turned John Carpenter's little - indie - horror - that - could into a reality television parody, complete with a lame subplot involving a Blade Runner fan, underwritten idiots, and a kung - fu loving Busta Rhymes who delivers the trailer - ready, achingly 2002 line: «Trick or treat, motherfucker.»

This DreamWorks adventure, which stars Jack Black as a fat, clumsy panda who learns kung fu, proved that Pixar weren't the only ones who could produce animated classics and that even the most rotund of animals can learn to fight for themselves.

In 1998, when the other superhero movies starred known entities like Batman, New Line Cinema made a film about a leather - clad, kung - fu vampire, played by Wesley Snipes, who fought other vampires at underground raves, and barely concealed sex dungeons.

It's funny to me that men from one of the most populated places on the planet have, in the American cinema, been reduced to hilarious, impotent sidekicks or wise old men who know kung fu — or is there some kind of Little Richard image - castration going on here to protect delicate Caucasian egos from bedroom Yellow Peril?

This medieval mish - mosh attempts to incorporate Ritchie's wearing - thin shtick of quick - edits, jagged cuts and seizure - inducing visuals with the legend of the Round Table, complete with massive battle elephants (think «300,» but on boatloads of HGH), African warriors (who no doubt dotted the ancient British landscape), Asian kung - fu masters (the film even uses the term, «kung - fu,» believe it or not), exploding arrows and, of course, the famed sword Excalibur which, after being removed from its stone prison, begins to take on a life its own (certainly much more than those acting in this film).

HollywoodNews.com: Russell Crowe isn't the only actor who will be kung - fu fighting in a new film, but Kevin James is set to give some roundhouse kicks on the big screen as well.

But Po will need everyone's help — including a clan of pandas who've long been living in a mystical, mountaintop land — to fight the power - hungry Kai (Simmons), who seeks to rule all by stealing the chi of kung fu masters across China.

We see Cumberbatch as an expert surgeon who suffers some kind of injury to his hands, before embarking on a wild journey involving mirror images of himself, Matrix-esque kung - fu, and some Inception - worthy Earth - bending, building - warping shots.

The events leading up to, including, and after the said fight cumulate in an entertainingly - romanticized kung fu fable that still manages to be true to the spirit of who Bruce Lee is, cinematically.

Plus, having worked in the action movie industry in Hong Kong for the last 15 years as both an actor and martial arts choreographer on over 35 film and television productions afforded me not only the skill set to confidently film a kung fu movie, I have also worked with many people who were close with Bruce and shared with me many of their anecdotes.

Author Steve Hockensmith has written a hilarious behind - the - book essay for BookPage, in which he confesses to his life - long dream of writing a «prequel to a best - selling book about English girls who kill zombies with kung - fu.»

During the Nintendo Direct presentation, two characters were put under the spotlight: the newly - revealed and super-fast kung - fu fighter Min Min, with her extendable ramen arms, and the energetic, determined Spring Man, who specialises in bouncing back from near - defeat.

You play as a kung fu actor (of your choice) who is looking for his / her break into the movie business, and throughout the game it's your job to beat ninjas to make scenes for a movie.

That being said I found that the game was ridiculously set against players who wanted to be kung fu masters.

But the difficulty ramps up significantly in the back half, where it tosses you cats (dressed up as M. Bison from Street Fighter II, complete with his slide move), Muay Thai birds (inspired by Sagat), kung fu monkeys (complete with track suit homage to Bruce Lee), and, the worst of them, Doberman Pinschers dressed like bouncers, who move with both incredible speed and strength.