2046: Opening in the year 2046 in which a man named Tak (Takuya Kimura) attempts to persuade wjw1967 (Faye Wong) to travel back in time with him the film soon shifts to the year 1966 in which Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) a struggling author asks the woman he loves Su Li-Zhen (Gong Li) to sail with him from Singapore to Hong Kong on Christmas Eve. She declines and over the next three years we return to Chow Mo-Wan on December 24 as he finds himself with another woman
Director Ringo Lam helms this standout action psycho-thriller. Perfectionist workaholic Inspector Pao finds himself up against Mak a seasoned criminal intending to use his explosives skills to pull off a billion heist. Now Pao must use his own resources to stop Mak and prevent heavy civilian casualties. With heartstopping car chases on the streets of Hong Kong and brilliant performances by the two leads Full Alert is an intelligent high velocity action movie considered by many as Lam's finest work.
Milly (18) and her brother Max (20) are both students. They share a flat in Kilburn with engineering student David Chang (21). Vernon (Ade Edmonson) is Max and Milly's dad. After a messy divorce in which his wife takes everything Vernon's left broke and homeless - so he moves in with his kids! It's a three bedroom flat and Vernon has to sleep in the cupboard under the stairs (just big enough for a single mattress). At heart Teenage Kicks is a family sitcom but the normal family structure has been turned upside down: here the young kids can't get rid of their stupidly rebellious father.
Jim Kelly is back as Black Belt Jones ex-CIA and lethal. 'The North Star' is a priceless diamond. Its theft from an American courier leads Lucas - Black Belt Jones - into a seedy world of strippers and hookers. Fists fly as he smashes his way through the heart of a den of thieves.
Manic martial arts action from decorated Hong Kong director Joseph Kuo.
La Femme de l'aviateur was the first in Eric Rohmer's celebrated Comedies and Proverbs series. Francois (Philippe Marlaud) loves Anne (Marie Rivire). However his nightshift job at the post office means they rarely get to spend much time together. One day he sees her leaving home with her ex Christian (Mathieu Carrire) who had come to break up with her for good. Reeling from the news Anne lets Francois fall prey to his jealous imagination. Obsessed with the idea that she may hav
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
Hong Kong legend Chow Yun Fat is reunited with long time on-screen lover Cherrie Chung in this explosive retelling of Peter Weir's 'Witness'. The ever-charismatic Chow stars as a cynical big city cop charged with protecting a vulnerable murder witness from the sadistic killer who wants her dead whatever the cost... An intense hardboiled love story-thriller 'Wild Search' twins nerve shredding tension and incendiary gun play with uniquely compelling performances from the director
A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in what may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this undeniably exciting flick succeeds by letting Van Damme play to his strengths: namely, minimal acting and a lot of impossibly acrobatic splits while kicking people in the head. Bloodsport is a guilty-pleasure testosterone blast of the highest order, with a memorable villain (the massive Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon) and a multitude of well-choreographed fight scenes. An embarrassed-looking Forest Whitaker cameos as a hapless (and non-kickboxing) cop. --Andrew Wright
A hard-partying bisexual rent boy faces unexpected responsibility when his older lover dies suddenly in this introspective drama starring Csar-winning actress Julie Depardieu. Though Thomas (Sbastien Roch) genuinely loves his deceased lover's teenage son Grgoire (Jeremy Sanguinetti) as his own Thomas' hedonistic lifestyle and other legal complications prevent him from adopting the troubled and homeless youngster. When Grgoire is subsequently sent to an orphanage Thomas attempt
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Dir. Ang Lee 2000): Amazing martial arts fighting sequences (choreographed by Yuen wo Ping - The Matrix) stunning special effects action adventure and romance have made Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon the most talked about movie of the year. Martial arts masters Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) and Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) battle against evil forces to recover their stolen sword the legendary Green Destiny. Warriors Of Heaven & Earth (Dir. Ping Lee 2003): China 700AD: the Tang Dynasty assumes far-reaching political influence culminating in battle against the Turks. Wen Zhu (Zhao Wei) the daughter of a top Chinese general spearheading the forces massed against the Turkish enemy is entrusted to the care of Lai Xi (Kiichi Nakai) the Japanese emissary and feared imperial bounty hunter who hunts down rebels in the Western Frontier who is ordered take her back to the capital city of Changan. Lai Xi longs for a return to his beloved Japanese homeland but his assignment is hijacked by the command to hunt down rebel Li (Jiang Wen) a lieutenant condemned to death for disobeying a direct order to murder innocent women and children in the name of war. However as dedicated to carrying out his duty as Lai Xi is when he tracks down Li he is surprised to find his foe transporting a sacred Buddhist relic across the Gobi desert to its rightful resting place. As Turkish forces mass to attack in an effort to steal the relic Lai Xi must question his loyalty to his superiors and his Buddhist faith... Likened to the multi-Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou's No.1 U.S. box office hit Hero China's official entry for the Best Foreign language Academy award Warriors Of Heaven And Earth is epic entertainment! Legend Of The Red Dragon (Dir. Wong Jing 2001): The epic story of a man who challenged the limits of courage and fought for the heart of a nation. When his wife and entire village are brutally murdered by evil Manchu soldiers the master warrior Kwun (Jet Li) sets out on a mission of vengeance with the only survivor of the massacre - his son Ting. For seven years the two journey across ancient China on their quest for revenge always staying one step ahead of the deadly army. But Kwun is forced to face the past when they come across a wealthy benefactor with five young Shaolin masters in his charge who unbeknownst to Kwun have the detailed map to a priceless treasure trove tattooed on their backs. It is not long before Manchu officials find out about the maps and deadly soldiers came after the masters. Now in an ancient battle that will pit Kwun against one of the very soldiers who helped to kill his family he and Ting will unite with the young masters of Shaolin for a fight to the death. Get ready for an ancient martial arts battle with the world's most masterful warriors!
Martial arts action featuring the famous drunken style of Kung Fu...
A criminal comes to town in order to kill Billy Chong over a past dispute. But instead of getting his own hands dirty he hires a Taoist wizard to animate some zombies to do the job for him. The plan goes horribly wrong and the criminal ends up getting killed in his own trap. This antagonises the villain's spirit and he forces the priest to reincarnate him - only they can't find a suitable body. Meanwhile an undead fiend of sorts comes to town to kill Billy's father over some other
'Once In The Life' is a powerful urban crime thriller written directed and starring Lawrence Fishburne. Estranged half-brothers Torch and Mike 20/20 are re-united in a prison cell. Both are involved in the citys underground crime scene - Torch to raise cash to feed his drug habit and Mike wanting to raise enough to enable him to leave crime behind. Mike is planning to intercept a heroin deal and persuades Torch to help. When the manic junkie-brother shoots one of the young drug couriers the pair take refuge in an abandoned building. Mike seeks help from his friend and old cell-mate Tony not realising that the dope they have stolen is his. Based on Fishburne's play 'Riff Raff'.
The story of a man who learns the art of kung fu from a shaolin master in order to avenge the death of his father by ruthless gangsters. Fight choreographed and directed by Jackie Chan 36 crazy fists is one of the most action filled pictures he's ever made and includes some of the most stunning kung fu fights ever filmed.
In ""Fearless Hyena "" he plays a young man whose grandfather and teacher Master Chen escapes from the tyrannical Ching Dynasty and come to live in his village. Although Jackie wants to learn martial arts more than anything his grandfather won't permit this out of fear that the villainous Ching rulers will come after him. After seeing his grandfather murdered Jackie promises to get revenge. So he enlists the aid of a local Master who teaches the young student Kung Fu. Soon the pupil has learned enough to make him invincible --even against the infamous ""death blows."" Now Jackie sets out to avenge his grandfather's death...
The bosses control everything in this underground world where modern day gladiators fight for the entertainment and unrelenting addiction of the gambling and audience. When a female journalist and her team are given an assignment in Las Vegas to investigate a brutal new martial arts competition they are less than enthusiastic. But when one of the fighters is killed in competition her instincts are to research and report on the seedy and violent world of real-life fight clubs and the
Ricochet: 'Cape Fear' meets its match as uber-producer Joel Silver turns on the terror in the fast and furious no-frills thriller 'Ricochet'. Denzel Washington is crack cop turned deputy DA Nick Styles. LA's hottest hero he's on a roll and a rocket ride to the top. John Lithgow is vindictive sadistic psycho Earl Blake sent down by Styles and he's out for revenge. For Blake taking Styles' life will not be enough - tearing it apart will be much more fun! The ultimate in screen suspense Ricochet takes the pace to breaking point as one man's pain becomes another man's very twisted pleasure. Once In The Life: A powerful urban crime thriller. Estranged half-brothers Torch and Mike 20/20 are re-united in a prison cell. Both are involved in the citys underground crime scene - Torch to raise cash to feed his drug habit and Mike wanting to raise enough to to enable him to leave crime behind. Mike is planning to intercerpt a heroin deal and persuades Torch to help. When the manic junkie-brother shoots one the young drug couriers the pair take refuge in an abandoned building. Mike seeks help from his friend and old cell-mate Tony not realising that the dope they have stolen is his. Based on Fisburne's play 'Riff Raff'. Murder Of Crows: Lawson Russell is a prominent New Orleans attorney whose legal savvy and unbeatable charm have gained him the reputation of being a man who can get even the most guilty suspects off the hook. That is until Russell can no longer bear to defend the guilty and drops his wealthy client Truman Banks. Disbarred and disgraced Russell leaves for Key West to write a novel and attempt to pull the pieces of his life back together. A chance meeting and moment of indiscretion put Russell into a dangerous web of murder treachery and deceit. Time is running out as Russell battles to prove that he is an innocent man...
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