Jack Black and Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo have teamed up for a cover of Carl Douglas' 1974 hit "Kung Fu Fighting" for the soundtrack to "Kung Fu Panda," an animated film in which Black stars. By Jonathan ...

No one expected these one-hit wonders from the 1970s to hit No. 1. And we're so glad they did, because these songs are ...

*On this day in 1974, Carl Douglas began a two-week reign at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Kung Fu Fighting,” a song that was recorded in 10 minutes with only two takes, and was actually a ...

That period of American history when everybody was kung fu fighting? It started 50 years ago this month. “Everybody was kung fu fighting” (sing, if you want) is the opening salvo in the Carl Douglas ...

If the birther stuff, recurring images of the Easter Bunny at the White House, and Jimmy Johnson doing ExTenze ads wasn't enough to convince you that we've entered a Philip K. Dick novel, then read on ...

Essay What originally was supposed to be some campy listening turned into a pretty good investment of ’70s soul and, yes, even disco. Still new on the rental shelves of your local video store is ...

Martial-arts films in the United States have come a long way since a young Quentin Tarantino spent his afternoons soaking in cheap kung fu movies at inner-city grindhouses during the 1970s. Those ...

Wong Kar Wai's new movie is a love letter to Ip Man. Ziyi Zhang, left, and Tony Leung Chiu Wai, are shown in a scene from the upcoming film "The Grandmaster." Courtesy The Weinstein Company/AP Photo ...

LevelK has boarded “The Invisible Fight,” Estonian director Rainer Sarnet’s kung fu comedy set in an Orthodox monastery in the former Soviet Union. The film world premieres Aug. 11 in the main ...

We unpack the history of how and why Black Kung Fu films became a sensation in the 1970s. Black Kung Fu films were wildly popular in the 70s, a welcome response to the anger many people felt against ...