movie review KARATE KID: LEGENDS Running time: 94 minutes. PG-13 (martial arts violence and some language). In theaters May 30. “Karate Kid: Legends” continues a grand old tradition. And I don’t mean that of one generation handing down ancient martial arts skills to the next. No, “Legends” is the latest in a long line of … Read more
The defense is wrong — but the timing could be right. Ralph Macchio, one of the stars of “My Cousin Vinny,” said that a follow-up to the beloved 1992 comedy movie has been in discussion. “Yeah, I’ve had conversations with other writers about that,” the 63-year-old “Cobra Kai” actor told People. Joe Pesci retired from … Read more
Ralph Macchio is taking a crane kick to criticisms that “The Karate Kid” was “too white.” “People have said it’s a very white cast..that it didn’t dive into the Asian story,” Macchio said in this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine. The 60-year-old actor said the 1984 classic, where he starred alongside Noriyuki “Pat” Morita as … Read more
Ralph Macchio learned he was crane-kicked out of “The Next Karate Kid” by reading about it in the newspaper. Macchio, then in his early 30s, was clueless about the project until reading in 1994 that producer Jerry Weintraub had told reporters the actor was “too old” to continue his role as New Jersey underdog Daniel … Read more
Ralph Macchio is ready to send the secrets of “The Karate Kid” to the mat once and for all. Nearly four decades after wowing audiences as New Jersey underdog Daniel LaRusso in the 1984 classic, Macchio is pulling back the curtain on the iconic movie franchise with a new 256-page memoir, “Waxing On: The Karate … Read more