"Actor: Jack Long"

• The Unbeaten 28 | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In THE UNBEATEN 28 young Tiger (Meng Fei) witnesses the brutal death of his father and is taken in by a Kung Fu Master (Jack Long) for training in the ancient disciplines of Shaolin and Wu-Tang in the hope of taking revenge. But the young Tiger must successfully overcome 'The 18 Obstacles' to uncover the secret manual that holds the key to the rebuilding of the powerful 'Wu-Tang Clan'; only then will he have the power to avenge the deaths of his father and the adoptive master to whom he owes his life.

• The World Of Drunken Master | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Made in 1979 The World of Drunken Master appeared at the same time as Drunken Master Part 2, and is an unofficial prequel to Jackie Chan's Drunken Master (1978). As the titular character, Siu Tien Yuen appeared in all three films, though here his role is reduced to a 10-minute cameo and the bulk of the film is a flashback to 30 years earlier. The story unfolds as Jack and Mark Long play a pair of petty thieves who team-up, learn kung fu and fall in love with the daughter (Jeanie Chang) of the owner of a local distillery. Naturally there is a gang of villains who want to close the business down and steal the land, so that the second half of the movie is one long series of fight scenes. Clearly made on a very low budget, the action is nevertheless inventively choreographed and well filmed. Siu Tien Yuen doesn't have much to do, though the framing device and the passage of time to when the old friends meet again lends a poignancy and sense of loss unusual in kung fu movies. The star would reprise the character at greater length in Magnificent Butcher (again, 1979), while Jackie Chan finally delivered his own Drunken Master II in 1994. The title on this print is actually Drunken Dragon. On the DVD: the original 2.35:1 ratio film is presented here at standard TV 4:3, with often little evidence even of any panning and scanning so that the images look badly composed and lack important information throughout. The credits have been simply squashed to 4:3 so that everything looks tall and thin. Worse, the encoding is riddled with compression artefacts and the eye-aching out-of-focus, grainy, washed-out transfer shows clear evidence of originating with a poor quality video than the original film. There is no original soundtrack option, only a dreadful American dub. The sound is mediocre mono. Apart from various language subtitles the only extra is the original theatrical trailer. This is presented anamorphically enhanced, but the picture quality is still very poor and the image has been squashed from 2.35:1 to 1.77:1. The listed trailers for other MIA titles are missing from the disc, which astonishingly claims to be a "Special Edition". The cover blurb even manages to confuse the plot with that of an entirely different film, the same director's The Mystery of Chess Boxing (1979). --Gary S Dalkin

• Seven Grandmasters | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A cast of top ranking Kung-fu experts including the awesome Jack Long who challenges the six top masters to find out who will be number one. Action is choreographed by Yuen Kwai who was recently responsible for the jaw-dropping action in 'Romeo Must Die' and the box office smash 'The One' starring Jet Li.

• Killers Invincible | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John a member of the New York Police Criminal Section and skilled ninja is assigned to the drug squad. Professor Chan father of his girlfriend Nancy and on the brink of finding a cure for morphine addiction is suddenly killed by five mysterious ninjas. On the trail of vengeance John finds that all clues point to Hong Kong...

• Eagle Shadow Fist | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Chan plays a famous actor of the Chinese Theatre who becomes a legendary resistance fighter against the Japanese. This was Jackie Chan's first martial arts film.

• Born Invincible | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Classic Kung Fu fare from the Hong Kong school directed by the old master himself, Joseph Kuo, Born Invincible has only been available in an extremely crackly print for years. Fortunately this version has been cleaned up, though lovers of Oriental kitsch will be glad to hear that the risible, excruciating dubbing remains intact. The plot revolves around the evil Ching Ying (Carter Wong), who has trained since the age of three in the near-impossible art of Tai Chi Kung Fu. His body has become tantamount to a single, deadly muscle, the 108 pressure points of human vulnerability reduced to just one--his sole weakness. His training has also left him with whitened hair and a voice that, dubbed, is a little too close to Harry Enfield's Grayson character from the Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches in high excitement. Having killed two elders of the Lei Ping school in martial combat over an old score, it falls to the students of that establishment to avenge their masters, through three rigorous years of training. The awesome, though often-comical fight scenes (which in no way resemble Tai Chi) dominate the movie, involving as they do protracted acrobatic manoeuvres, few of which seem to involve actual contact with the human body. Still, lovers of The Matrix might care to revisit this, in order to check out how those moves were first committed to celluloid when editing was less of a fine art. --David Stubbs

• Hammer Horror - The Early Classics | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Four Sided Triangle (Dir. Terence Fisher 1953): Murray stars as Dr. Bill Leggat who along with his childhood friends Lena and Robin creates a machine that can flawlessly replicate anything be it animate or inanimate. Undermining the trio's professional relationship is the sexual tension that has been brewing for years. Both men are attracted to Lena but on the eve of the public announcement of their invention Lena declares her love for Robin. Devastated Bill decides to clone Lena and names the clone who has all of Lena's feelings and memories Helen. Confident that Helen will love him Bill takes her on a holiday. However while away Bill's relationship with Helen does not go as planned causing Bill to resort to some shady experiments on Helen that will force her to love him. Produced by Hammer studios and directed by their most celebrated director Terence Fisher Four Sided Triangle was something of a precursor to many of their most famous films The Quatermass Xperiment (Dir. Val Guest 1955): A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in the English countryside two of the crew members have disappeared. The third who is barely alive undergoes a quite terrifying transformation which threatens Earth's very existence... Quatermass 2 (Dir. Val Guest 1957): Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which on his arrival he finds has been completely destroyed... X The Unknown (Dir. Leslie Norman 1956): Penned by master horror screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and intelligently directed by Leslie (father of film critic Barry) Norman. The story sees a mysterious gelatinous monster which feeds off radioactivity terrorising a remote Scottish village.

• Fist Of Anger | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When the Imperial Japanese forces invade mainland China their occupation brings oppression violence and brutality.Jackie Chan stars as the young master forced to resist the occupying forces and rebuild the broken spirit of his fellow countrymen.

• The Super Ninja | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a world of pushers thieves and corruption the only hero is a trained killer. The incredible Alexander Lou stars in this amazing martial arts action extravaganza! Lou is a masterful modern-day Ninja who must defeat dozens of enemies ranging from killers to corrupt cops! Extremely violent and filled with over the top Rambo-like explosive action Super Ninja is super cool kung fu fighting!

• Kung Fu In The Brave Shadow | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A corrupt ruler murders Lin Feng's (Judy Lee) father over a prized sword only to discover that the weapon has been given to her as a family heirloom. He hires a rogue martial artist (Tien Peng) to hunt her down only to have the outlaw join her in the quest to end his evil dominion.

• Ben Hur (Deluxe Series) | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Having swept the board at the Academy awards Ben Hur achieved an outstanding feat in film history winning eleven oscars in 1959 including Best Picture Best Actor and Best Director. After a ten month production schedule and a then massive million budget this 1950''s epic movie has always represented a cinematographic feat that has rarely been bettered...

• Hammer Collection | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The five most popular Hammer films now in this DVD box set! Titles included on this release are: The Quatermass Experiment Quatermass II The Abominable Snowman X the Unknown and Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter.