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7 Grand Masters

Sales Rank:9786
List Price: $19.95
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MPAA Rating: Unrated

Format:

Animated
Color
DVD-Video
Subtitled
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Director(s):

Actor(s):

Li Yi Min
Jack Long

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Maximum Risk

Sales Rank:18009
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)

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Closed-captioned
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Director(s):

Actor(s):

Jean-Claude Van Damme
Natasha Henstridge
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Zach Grenier
Paul Ben-Victor

When a kickboxing police inspector is murdered, his kickboxing twin brother infiltrates the Russian mob in order to see justice meted out--as painfully as possible. A slimmed-down Jean-Claude Van Damme is surprisingly effective as the lead(s), but the real star here is gritty Hong Kong director Ringo Lam (probably best known for City on Fire, the film that inspired Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs), who makes a lethal American debut with this hard-edged, convoluted film, which uses the identical-sibling gimmick to considerably darker effect than the goofball Double Impact. Some incredible stunt work and a terrifically ruthless final reel make this underrated action film a winner, although fans of Species may be somewhat disappointed that costar Natasha Henstridge never fully displays the assets that made her famous. --Andrew Wright

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The Bride With White Hair

Sales Rank:21782
List Price: $19.95
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MPAA Rating: Unrated

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Director(s):

Actor(s):

Brigitte Lin
Leslie Cheung
Francis Ng
Elaine Lui
Kit Ying Lam

Ronny Yu (The Bride of Chucky, The Phantom Lover, Warriors Of Virtue) directs this highly operatic fable based on a well-known martial arts novel with LESLIE CHEUNG (Temptress Moon, Farewell, My Concubine) and BRIGITTE LIN (Dragon Inn, Deadful Melody) as doomed lovers caught in the crossfire of warring clans. With beautiful cinematography by PETER PAU (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and over-the-top action sequences, THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR is one of the best swordplay fantasy film ever made.

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Anna and the King

Sales Rank:26849
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)

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Director(s):

Actor(s):

Jodie Foster
Yun-Fat Chow
Bai Ling
Tom Felton
Syed Alwi

What's a director to do? Andy Tennant's previous film was the highly enjoyable Cinderella romance Ever After, which vanished from theaters and became a video hit. Then Tennant made this gorgeous, nonmusical version of Anna and the King, and once again felt the sting of box-office failure. Both films deserved better, and this Anna is certain to eventually find the appreciative audience that eluded it in theaters. In many ways, this delightful costume romance transcends the latter-day quaintness of The King and I to offer a more lavish and rewarding version of the story of Anna Leonowens, based on her diaries and first told in Margaret Landon's 1944 novel.

In an otherwise admirable performance (although many felt her miscast), Jodie Foster struggles with her Victorian accent as Anna, the grieving widow who arrives in Siam in 1860 with her young son. Having accepted a post as tutor for the many children of the polygamous King Mongkut (Chow Yun-Fat), Anna finds herself drawn to the progressive monarch, whose passions swirl in a turbulent political climate. If the chemistry isn't entirely there, this culture clash still has plenty of regal charm, and Luciana Arrighi's production design is appropriately magnificent. Humor and politics are given equal measure, and Chow Yun-Fat is arguably the most endearing king to date--powerful yet tender, forceful but anguished by the heavier burdens of leadership. Bai Ling's intense performance as the tragic lover Tuptim adds emotional depth to one of the most underrated films of 1999. --Jeff Shannon

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Formula 51

Sales Rank:23605
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)

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Anamorphic
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Director(s):

Actor(s):

Samuel L. Jackson
Robert Carlyle
Emily Mortimer
Nigel Whitmey
Robert Jezek

Wildly entertaining but riddled with as many plot holes as bullets, Formula 51 (a.k.a. The 51st State) is a love-it-or-hate-it action comedy that plays like Tarantino on the Thames. It's a raucous hash, highlighted by the sheer pleasure of Samuel L. Jackson--in a kilt, no less--strutting his stuff among denizens of the British underworld. As freelance chemist Elmo McElroy (whose tartan attire remains glibly unexplained), Jackson is perfectly teamed with The Full Monty's Robert Carlyle in a scam involving Elmo's latest pharmaceutical concoction, which promises to yield a fortune on the rave scene. This attracts a loopy British kingpin (the outrageous Rhys Ifans), Elmo's vengeful ex-boss (Meat Loaf), a corrupt cop (Sean Pertwee), and a lovely assassin (Emily Mortimer) with a soft spot for Carlyle. They're all given generous helpings of Stel Pavlou's profanely zesty dialogue, and director Ronny Yu strikes a breezy balance between rampant hilarity and blood-splattering violence. If that's your cup of tea, Formula 51 guarantees a satisfying buzz. --Jeff Shannon

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Mission Impossible Collector's Set (Mission Impossible / MI-2)

Sales Rank:16945
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)

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Director(s):

Brian De Palma
John Woo

Actor(s):

Tom Cruise
Jon Voight
Emmanuelle Béart
Dougray Scott
Thandie Newton

Giftset includes Mission Impossible Special Collector's Edition and Mission Impossible 2 (2 disc set).

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Wong Kar Wai Collection (As Tears Go By / Days of Being Wild / Fallen Angels / Chungking Express / Happy Together)

Sales Rank:15830
List Price: $99.95
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MPAA Rating: Unrated

Format:

Box set
Closed-captioned
Color
DVD-Video
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NTSC

Director(s):

Kar Wai Wong
Sherman Wong

Actor(s):

Brigitte Lin
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Faye Wong
Valerie Chow

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Hard Target/Sudden Death

Sales Rank:20197
List Price: $14.98
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)

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Director(s):

Actor(s):

Jean Claude Van Damme
Lance Henriksen

Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/22/2007

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Flight of the Phoenix (Widescreen Edition)

Sales Rank:13044
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)

Format:

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Director(s):

Actor(s):

Dennis Quaid
Tyrese Gibson
Giovanni Ribisi
Miranda Otto
Tony Curran

As superfluous remakes go, Flight of the Phoenix could've been better, and could've been worse. It's a passable popcorn adventure, especially for those unfamiliar with the 1965 original, which starred James Stewart, made headlines for the crash-landing death of stunt-pilot Paul Mantz, and now stands as a minor classic of its era. This flashy remake stars Dennis Quaid in Stewart's role, adds a woman to the list of plane-crash survivors, and showcases Giovanni Ribisi, who gives a cleverly eccentric performance as the model-airplane designer who proposes to rebuild a crashed cargo plane into a single-engine escape from certain death in the remote Gobi desert. Both films are essentially identical, but this remake is somehow less believable (due to shortcuts in a haphazardly written screenplay) and much more spectacular, owing to the advantage of impressive special effects. Otherwise it's a routine dose of survivalist entertainment from the director of Behind Enemy Lines, never convincing enough to be genuinely compelling, but certainly never boring. --Jeff Shannon

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Twin Dragons

Sales Rank:28035
List Price: $9.99
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)

Format:

Closed-captioned
Color
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Widescreen
NTSC

Director(s):

Actor(s):

Anthony Chan
Jackie Chan
Philip Chan
Sylvia Chang
Alfred Cheung

Jackie Chan resurrects the old Corsican Brothers chestnut of identical twin brothers separated at birth who meet up as adults and discover that they share more than blood ties. Poor boy Chan is a mechanic and race-car driver whose black-market activities have made him the target of some nasty mobsters, while jet-setting Chan is a world-famous conductor back in Hong Kong for a concert. In the same vicinity for the first time in years, they can suddenly feel each other's pain, and more. As one Chan jumps a jet boat for a wild escape, the other becomes a spastic victim of the furious ride, thrown around a posh restaurant while drenching his date with drinking water. Though the American cut has been pared of the worst of Chan's incessant mugging (it's about 12 minutes shorter than the original version), it's still overloaded with silly slapstick and cartoonish mistaken-identity gags as the boys swap girlfriends and dance. But wade through the crude comedy and you're rewarded with a gymnastic free-for-all climax in a car-testing workshop, where Chan leaps over, under, and through cars while taking on an army of gangsters before split-screen brothers team up for a bit of marionette martial arts. Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam codirect, Tsui taking the comedy and Lam handling the action, and John Woo makes a cameo as a priest in the wedding finale. --Sean Axmaker

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