A young gambler going by the nickname of Iron Monkey seeks vengeance for the massacre of his family...
The Battle Epic Collection
Twin Warriors: An action-packed high-octane tale of two boys who grew up together but whose lives took very different directions and are in later life brought back together on a collision course! Fist Of Legend: When Chen (Li) discovers that his beloved teacher and mentor has been murdered he swears to avenge his death! Then with an unwavering commitment to vengeance Chen puts everything on the line to settle the score! International superstar Jer Li explodes on the screen in this thrilling martial arts action story about courage honour and revenge! The must see modern remake of a Bruce Lee classic 'Fist Of Fury' Fist Of Legend packs hard hitting excitement and incredible hand to hand combat into one unstoppable adrenaline rush! The Legend: Hard-hitting international superstar Jet Li (Romeo Must Die Lethal Weapon4) delivers nonstop action in this thrilling story of a young martial arts expert fighting to save his father's life! A ruthless emperor is targeting members of an underground revolutionary group that is attempting to overthrow his powerful regime. When Fong Sai Yuk (Li) learns that his father is part of the resistance movement and has been marked for retribution he boldly seeks a head-on confrontation with the might of this evil empire!
This is it: one of the most talked about cult films ever made. A maniacal masterpiece of the macabre the martial arts and the just plain weird. The Shaws' first international star Lo Lieh stars as the insane swordsman who makes lamps from yes the skin of his enemies' sisters mistresses and wives. Although insanely conceived it is beautifully filmed and unashamedly performed by a first rate cast of sexy starlets and kung fu favourites. It must be seen to be believed!
In the Japanese theatre of war during W.W.II the allies must strike back at the Japanese who have captured their top generals. A commando unit is assembled with the most notorious criminals fighters and soldiers and this dream team -- the fantasy mission force -- will crumble the Japanese force. Jackie Chan is among the recruits of this team.
Jet Li stars in Fist of Legend, a 1994 remake of The Chinese Connection (also known as Fists of Fury, which starred the greatest martial arts legend of them all, Bruce Lee). This film is set in 1937, when Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese and racial tensions were high. Jet Li is Chen Zhen, who returns to Shanghai to avenge the death of his master, whom he learns was poisoned. His popular freestyle fighting technique and Japanese girlfriend do not endear him to his former friend, now his master's successor at the martial arts school. If Jackie Chan is inspired by Buster Keaton, Li seems to be channelling Steve McQueen here. He speaks softly and carries a big kick, and like Steven Seagal, even when he is under siege by a horde of attackers, no one can lay a finger on him. The dialogue and dubbing are atrocious, but the fight sequences are incredible (they were choreographed by Woo-ping Yuen, who lent his expertise to The Matrix). Perhaps most memorable is a bout between Chen and his girlfriend's uncle during which the combatants wear blindfolds. This is essential viewing for martial arts buffs and Li's growing legion of fans. --Donald Liebenson, Amazon.com
Suspicion: After another dangerous encounter with the Wraith the Earth team begin to suspect they have a traitor in their midst. Suspicion falls on the Athosians and Teyla finds herself caught in the middle. Childhood's End:The team crash-land on a planet where the locals in fear of the Wraith practice ritual suicide when they reach the age of twenty-five. Poisoning The Well: The team investigate a drug that has the potential to repel the Wraith's feeding on humans. Home The Atlantis team plan to use a planet's unique atmospheric fog to acquire the power they need to gate back to Earth. However once they step through the gate they can sense that something is not quite right...
Originally made in 1983, Shaolin vs Lama is an example of the kung fu movie at its most cultish. The story is largely unimportant but concerns Yu Ting and his search for a kung fu master, a search that leads him into conflict with the Flying Eagle gang and their leader, Golden Wheel Lama. This is as far as it goes plotwise, not that that really matters. The focus of the film is, of course, the fight sequences and breathtaking they are too, though the whole film is given unmistakable aura of campness by its comical English dubbing. Still, it would be churlish to argue with the glowing recommendation of the Wu Tang Clan's Rza (a man who knows his kung fu stuff) of Shaolin vs Lama as one of the giants of the genre. On the DVD: filmed in a rather basic manner, Shaolin vs Lama is a colourful visual experience but not one that particularly shines on DVD. The 2.0 Dolby Digital sound gives the fight sequences an added bite but, as is so often the case, the potential of the format is frustratingly underused. There is no attempt to provide any sort of background to the film or the kung fu genre in general, instead leaving us with scene selection and the original theatrical trailer. --Phil Udell
Based on the Legend of Crying Freeman Dragon from Russia is a spectacular visually flamboyant 'Manga in motion' concept adventure from the director of 'Naked Killer'. An invincible killer the Crying Freeman is the most skilled assassin of the Secret Chinese Society 'The 108 Dragons'. Once an ordinary artist with a passion for life and love he was kidnapped by the society's leader the Dragon Master and trained in the deadly arts of the sect. His memory erased he has no recol
Fists fly as fast as lightning in this revenge-fuelled martial arts flick.
An exciting tale of three martial artist monks who are pitched into a life or death adventure when the peaceful studies of the Shaolin temple are shattered by the Manchu dynasty...
Parties are not always as fun as they look like they should be. Case in point: Groove. The distinction lies in the realm between watching people have fun and actually having fun. Set in San Francisco over the course of one night, this is the story of a rave, plain and simple. Preparation includes inhabiting an empty warehouse, finding the power supply and sending out coded invitations. The film kicks in as the party does, when people start arriving and the DJs start spinning. There's a nice moment early on when a cop shows up asking for the owner of the building, who is then taken on a tour of "a new Internet start-up". It becomes even funnier when the cop turns out to be smarter and more compassionate than anyone would expect. Writer-director Greg Harrison cleverly focuses the story on David, a novice who's never been to a rave before, which breaks the story out of what could have been the suffocating, insular world of rave culture. Unknowingly dosed by someone, David is adopted by Layla, an attractive but lonely East Coaster who has begun to regret her party lifestyle. Other characters include a guy who's just proposed to his girlfriend, a college teaching assistant selling his own manufactured drugs, a DJ who gets to meet his idol and a gay couple having trouble finding the party. If the characters turn out to be just character types, that's OK because the film itself floats by on its own high-octane enthusiasm. Groove is light and frothy entertainment with a beat you can dance to. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com
Are you ready to be possessed and believe that ghosts are real? A young woman haunted by fleeting images of ghosts visits a psychologist who tells her that the visions are all in her mind. But when the psychologist starts having the same visions the two begin to unravel a mystery that leads to a forgotten past... This was the final big screen performance from the wonderful Leslie Cheung (1956-2003) who took his own life shortly after the film was released.
No screen team was more triumphant than in the 'golden age' of kung-fu cinema than the 'iron triangle' of director Chang Cheh and his protgs David Chiang and Ti Lung. This is their quintessential historical epic set during the waning Tang Dynasty it's literally brother against brother as Chiang and Lung display their remarkable martial arts prowess!
A new Stargate team embarks on an incredible journey to the lost city of Atlantis. The team must battle to defeat a gruesome powerful new enemy known as the Wraiths quickly forge new alliances... and simply survive. Their success will dictate whether they live long enough to gather the resources needed to return home from the intergalactic adventure of a lifetime.... Episodes comprise: Underground: Gating to the planet Genii to trade for food the team discover what appears to be a simple farming population. But they are preparing a deadly weapon to attack the Wraith and when Sheppard and McKay are interrogated it appears the Genii may not make the best of allies. The Storm: With a monstrous storm that occurs only once every 20 or 30 years bearing down on Atlantis Sheppard requests temporary refuge for the Atlantians on Manara. Meanwhile as McKay and Zalenka hatch a plan to use the electricity from the storm to raise Atlantis' protective force-field and Teyla Ford and Beckett become stranded on the Athosian mainland! The Eye: Betrayed by the Manarians Sheppard plays a dangerous game of cat and mouse with soldiers who have seized control of Atlantis and taken Weir and McKay hostage. With Atlantis under the control of the Genii and the team scattered Sheppard must save the remaining members of the Stargate team as the city faces imminent destruction. The Defiant One: Sheppard's team investigates a downed Wraith ship and find themselves stuck on a planet with a lone Wraith survivor.
Letter From Pegasus: With a brief opportunity to send a data transmission to Earth members of the Atlantis expedition compose video messages home to their loved ones. The Gift: Plagued by terrifying nightmares Teyla begins to recall a time when she and her father were captured by the Wraith and subjected to disturbing experiments. The Siege (1): With a group of Wraith hive ships on the way to Atlantis the team searches for a place to flee and a way to destroy the city. McKay leads a team to try and activate the Ancients' orbital weapons platform. The Siege (2): A new military contingent from Earth is sent to take command of Atlantis and defend it from the impending Wraith attack.
A gritty and sardonic portrait of modern China as epitomized by two Chinese con-men and their system for making money from owners of illegal coalmines.
The latest film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, The Road Home (1999) is a story of past and present. In black and white we see a young businessman return to a rural village where his father has died. His mother wants a traditional funeral, which involves carrying the coffin several miles in the depths of winter. Then, in flashback and brilliant colour, we are told the story of his parents' courtship. His father had come as the local schoolteacher and had fallen in love with his mother, a local girl. Political complications ensue and they are separated for two years, but at last reunited. This apparently simply tale is told with great insight and dazzlingly beautiful camerawork, in a style which echoes the Italian neo-realist films of the 1940s. Perhaps it doesn't have the complexity of the director's earlier film, Raise the Red Lantern (1991), which starred the luminous Gong Li, but The Road Home has her match in Zhang Ziyi, who also starred in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). On the DVD: The quality of the sound and picture (in 2.35:1 ratio) are excellent. There are no additional features except for subtitles in English and 15 other languages. --Ed Buscombe
Sanctuary: The Atlantis team encounter a pre-technological world untouched by the Wraith and hope to negotiate with the local population to provide a home for the refugees of Wraith attacks currently living in Atlantis. Hot Zone: Several residents of Atlantis are infected with a deadly nanite virus forcing a lockdown of the city. Before I Sleep: A woman is found in suspended animation in Atlantis and the team is shocked to see that it is Dr. Weir herself who tells them of her trip 10 000 years into the city's past. The Brotherhood: The planet Dagan may be home to a vitally important zero-point module capable of restoring Atlantis' shield and protect the city from the Wraith but a mysterious 'Brotherhood' on the planet - and knowledge of the Genii - suggest that the planet may not be what it seems.
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