Actors & Directors
- Gloria Hendry
- Art Lund
- Julius Harris
- Arthur Marks
- Larry Cohen
- D'Urville Martin
- Fred Williamson
Run time: 285 min.
Creator: Peter Sabiston
List Price: $24.96
Price: $189.90
Review Fred Willimason (3pc) / American International Pictures (AIP):
Actors & Directors
- Sydney Pollack
- Robert Duvall
- Tom Cruise
- Randy Quaid
- Cary Elwes
- Nicole Kidman
- Tony Scott
Run time: 370 min.
List Price: $24.98
Price: $79.99
Review The Tom Cruise Collection (The Firm/Top Gun/Days of Thunder) / Paramount:
Actors & Directors
- Peter Brown
- Arthur Marks
- Antonio Fargas
- Kathryn Loder
- Terry Carter
- Pam Grier
- Jack Hill
Run time: 275 min.
List Price: $24.96
Price: $75.00
Review The Pam Grier Collection: Coffy, Foxy Brown, & Friday Foster / MGM (Video & DVD):
Actors & Directors
- Teri Hatcher
- Brion James
- Jack Palance
- Kurt Russell
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Albert Magnoli
- Sylvester Stallone
Run time: 104 min.
List Price: $9.98
Price: $122.00
Review Tango & Cash (Spanish) / Warner Home Video:Another action flick from an unlikely source (wildly inconsistent Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky), buddy movie Tango & Cash teams Sly Stallone and Kurt Russell as bullet-dodging cops who get on each others' nerves while uniting against a slimy French drug kingpin (Jack Palance). Violent, profane, and packed with implausibilities, this is one of those big-budget, stunt-laden affairs that gets by on the charisma of its stars, and they almost pull it off. Tango & Cash was Stallone's first attempt to share the spotlight with another hero, and he's casually laid-back in his change-of-pace role (well, OK, it's not that change-of-pace), while Russell is equally enjoyable as Sly's well-coifed sidekick. Ridiculous all the way, this one is entertaining if only as a virtual catalog of action-movie clichés. -Jeff Shannon.
Actors & Directors
- Leung Wing Chan
- Hosted By Jet Li
Price: $19.98
Review Shaolin Kung Fu / Tai Seng Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Ringo Lam
- Manol Manolov
- Lawrence Taylor (II)
- Carlos Gómez (II)
- Lloyd Battista
Run time: 98 min.
Price: $14.94
Review In Hell (Spanish) (Dub Dol Slip) / Sony Pictures:
Actors & Directors
- Bak-Ming Wong
- Melvin Wong
- Yun-Fat Chow
- Sally Yeh
- Lieh Lo
- Ronny Yu
Run time: 91 min.
Price: $39.99
Review The Occupant / Tai Seng Video Marketing:
Actors & Directors
- Gary Hudson
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
- Dolph Lundgren
- John Bennett
- Valerie Chow
- Isaac Florentine
Run time: 91 min.
Price: $9.94
Review Bridge of Dragons (Spanish) / Hbo Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Ann Hui
- Hoi Mang
- Michelle Yeoh
- Ken Lo
- Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
- Micheal Lam
Price: $19.98
Review Ah Kam / Tai Seng Video Marketing:
Actors & Directors
- Kar Lok Chin
- Chi-Kwong Cheung
- Kwok Kuen Chan
- Jackie Chan
- Jackie Chan
- Wai Yee Chan
Run time: 102 min.
Price: $9.99
Review Legend of the Drunken Master / Walt Disney Video:
Release date: 2000-11-14
Run time: 84 min.
Price: $19.98
Review Abbot Hai Teng of Shaolin / Tai Seng Video Marketing:
Release date: 1997-08-15
List Price: $14.99
Price: $79.69
Review Charles Bronson 3 Video Collectors / United American Video:
Actors & Directors
- Kevin Dunn
- Andrew Davis
- Morgan Freeman
- Keanu Reeves
- Rachel Weisz
- Fred Ward
Run time: 107 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Chain Reaction (Spanish) / 20th Century Fox:Anyone want to venture a guess that Keanu Reeves was sorry he passed up Speed 2 to make this turkey? Both a ridiculous suspense piece about a renegade intelligence community and an ill-considered hunk of do-gooder agitprop about alternative energy technology, Chain Reaction makes Reeves and almost everyone else involved look about as dumb as dumb can be. Hollywood's own Little Buddha plays a streetwise lab technician who survives an organized assault on his hydrogen-power project. The FBI assumes he's really a spy working for some foreign power, but the truth is that a CIA offshoot is behind the project's funding. Morgan Freeman plays the ramrod-straight company man who sabotages Keanu's excellent experiment, and Rachel Weisz portrays a physicist who goes on the run with the alleged saboteur. Directed by Andrew Davis (The Fugitive), who seems more interested in seeing how many absurd places he can mount a chase scene than offering a solid clue as to who these characters are and why we should care about them. -Tom Keogh.
Actors & Directors
- Peter Weller
- Jeff Kober
- Wanda De Jesus
- David Caruso
- Marg Helgenberger
- Barry Primus
Run time: 109 min.
List Price: $60.95
Price: $79.99
Review Elmore Leonard's Gold Coast / Paramount:
Actors & Directors
- Mark DiSalle
- Rochelle Ashana
- Dennis Alexio
- Tony Chan
- Dennis Chan
- Haskell V. Anderson III
Run time: 97 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Kickboxer (Spanish) / Lions Gate:
Actors & Directors
- Pam Grier
- Romano Orzari
- Eugene Clark
- Rutger Hauer
- Rodney Gibbons
- John Dunn-Hill
Run time: 92 min.
List Price: $89.95
Price: $85.45
Review Wilder (Spanish) (Sub) / Mti Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Michelle Yeoh
- Rongguang Yu
- Athena Chu
- Emil Chau
- Stanley Tong
- Siu-Wong Fan
Run time: 109 min.
Price: $39.99
Review Project S / Tai Seng Video Marketing:This popular and beloved film, produced by Tsui Hark and directed by Ching Siu Tung, is a standout in the Hong Kong supernatural-action genre and spawned many sequels and copycats. A Chinese Ghost Story stars Leslie Cheung as Ning Tsei-Shen, a timid and likable tax collector. Looking for a place to stay the night, he comes upon a spooky abandoned temple occupied by a tough Taoist swordsman (Ma Wu). Despite his warnings, Tsei-Shen stays anyway. Later he encounters a beautiful maiden (Joey Wang) who he quickly falls in love with. Unfortunately, she is a ghost who is being forced to trap men for an evil spirit who feeds on their souls. A Chinese Ghost Story has been widely praised for infusing the genre with humor, action, romance, and inventive special effects. Memorable images include an attacking mile-long tongue and a cloak opening to dozens of ghastly decapitated heads. The final battle in hell is said to have inspired scenes in Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness. And the film has its share of homage: A group of crusty zombies are reminiscent of the skeletons in special-effects guru Ray Harryhausen's 7th Voyage of Sinbad-and they are eliminated by Tsei-Shen in comedic slapstick fashion, not unlike the style of Charlie Chaplin. [+]Cheung and Wang are a likeable romantic pair, and Ma Wu creates a hilarious character who breaks out into song and a martial arts dance when drunk. The DVD transfer is topnotch, with the film's misty mood lighting and fluttering gowns appearing layered and crisp. It's a must-see for Hong Kong action film fans. -Shannon Gee Former Miss Malaysia and current butt-kicking Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh leaped to international attention costarring alongside Jackie Chan in Supercop. The film was actually the third installment of Chan's successful Police Story series, but that didn't stop cagey producers from turning out Supercop 2 as a solo vehicle for the lean, lithe Yeoh. She travels from mainland China to Hong Kong to "advise" local cops on a Chinese drug lord and discovers Rong Guang Yu (from Iron Monkey and Rock and Roll Cop), her former lover and now the leader of a militia-style gang in partnership with her quarry. Yeoh is in fine form, kicking off the picture with a thrilling close-quarters battle in a high-rise hotel, but the complicated plot of high tech crime, double crosses, and conflicted loyalties strangles the action and slows the film despite such action highlights as an impressive three-man raid on a well-armed criminal den. (Jackie Chan's jokey cameo as a cop in drag doesn't really help matters. ) The film finally regains its energy in an explosive free-for-all bank heist climax, in which the painful English dubbing becomes all but unnoticeable as bullets fly, bodies crunch, and balletic Michelle Yeoh moves like a dynamo. -Sean Axmaker.
Actors & Directors
- Peter Stebbings
- Christian Camargo
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Harrison Ford
- Sam Spruell
- Roman Podhora
Run time: 138 min.
Creator: Dieter Nobbe
Price: $9.95
Review K-19 - The Widowmaker / New Films International:Based on an incident that was officially suppressed for 28 years, K-19: The Widowmaker is a fine addition to the "sub-genre" of submarine thrillers. The first major American film about Russian cold war heroes, it re-creates the nightmare endured in 1961 by the crew of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19, when an exposed reactor core nearly resulted in a nuclear catastrophe. Several crewmen died, and K-19's captain (played by Harrison Ford) had to assert his command when near-mutiny favored his executive officer (Liam Neeson). This escalating tension gives the film its potent dramatic thrust, and both Ford and Neeson deliver intense performances while director Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, Strange Days) ably controls a sub full of seething testosterone. It's not as viscerally thrilling as the classic Das Boot or U-571, and some K-19 survivors protested the inclusion of inauthentic drinking scenes, but the movie benefits from grand-scale production values, seamless computer graphics, and a compelling real-life twist. -Jeff Shannon.
Actors & Directors
- Wesley Snipes
- DeVaughn Nixon
- O.L. Duke
- Khandi Alexander
- Marquise Wilson
- Leon Ichaso
Run time: 128 min.
Price: $6.98
Review Sugar Hill (Spanish) / 20th Century Fox:Roger Ebert tagged Sugar Hill as one of the best of 1994. Leon Ichaso's film is not an action flick; no, this stylish drama wants to be a small gangster epic. Call it Roemello's Way: a thoughtful drug lord (Wesley Snipes) wants to get out of his business but takes forever to do so. A Shakespearean tragedy slowly-far too slowly-evolves. While it has a definite street-smart sense, no new ground is covered. Snipes is worth watching, though, and Clarence Williams III (seen far too seldom on screen) is terrific as his doomed father. -Doug Thomas.
Actors & Directors
- Tom Arnold
- Charlton Heston
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- James Cameron
- Bill Paxton
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Run time: 150 min.
Price: $9.98
Review True Lies (Spanish) (Dub Spnp) / 20th Century Fox:Arnold Schwarzenegger is special agent Harry Tasker, a top spy in the ultra-secret Omega Sector who also dances a mean tango- although to his neglected wife, Helen, (Jamie Lee Curtis) he's just a dull computer salesman. But while Harry's been busy fighting terrorists, Helen's been gathering secrets of her own. And when their two secret lives unexpectedly collide, Harry and Helen find themselves in the clutches of international terrorists, fighting to save not only their marriage but their lives as well. Packed with non-stop action, spectacular special effects and unprecedented stunts, this "domestic epic" from director James Cameron (Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day) is a rollicking `90's twist on the super spy genre.
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