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Need for Speed: Underground 2

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Underground 2 entails tuning cars for street races, while resuming the Need for Speed: Underground...

The Art of Painting in Acrylic: Master Techniques for Painting Stunning Works of Art in Acrylic-Step by Step

Varvara Harmon, Alice Vannoy Call, Michael Hallinan and Darice Machel McGuire

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Art and Value: Art's Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics

Dave Beech

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Art as the Absolute: Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer

Paul Gordon

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Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its...

Practical Folk Art: Create Beautiful and Decorative Pieces in the Folk Art Tradition, with 35 Projects

Stewart Walton and Sally Walton

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This title shows you how to create beautiful and decorative pieces in the folk art tradition, with...

Swaminarayan Hinduism: Tradition, Adaptation and Identity

Ramond Brady Williams and Yogi Trivedi

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Swaminarayan Hinduism is rooted in its formation in India at the cusp of the early modern and...

Valuing Music in Education: A Charles Fowler Reader

Craig Resta

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Noted music education and arts activist Charles Fowler has inspired music educators for more than 60...

David McK (3372 KP) rated Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) in Movies

Nov 21, 2021

Marvel does Mystical Martial Arts

Marvel (the film branch) is mainly known for its superhero movies.

We've had Origin stories (upon origin story upon origins story ...)

We've had 'fish out of water' comedies (see: Thor)

We've had outright sci-fi/sci-fantasy (see: Guardians of the Galaxy)

We've had political thrillers (see: Captain America: The Winter Soldier)

We've had team-up (see: The Avengers)

We've had crime capers (See: Ant-man)

Up until now, we've had no Martial Arts movies (sorry, Netflix's 'Iron Fist': you don't count as a movie).

We've also had no movies with a mainly Asian cast. Until now.

This also brings back the 10 Rings organisation (first name-dropped all the way back in 2008's 'Iron Man'), with the plot outline of the movie actually quite different than what I expected - lots of Martial Arts sequences (the fight on the bamboo scaffolding is a high-light), the usual Marvel musings on family, and one or two character inclusions that I wasn't expecting (but really should have been) ...