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Rosette Allaband
In 1967, Jimmy Wang Yu was launched into martial arts movie stardom thanks to the Shaw Brothers classic One Armed Swordsman. While he starred in a number of kick-ass flicks, he certainly found a niche playing uni-limbed sword-wielders and would continue this even after his time at Shaw Brothers came to an end thanks to infamous bad behavior. In 1976 he would star in a movie where he would be one of four one-armed swordsmen in the appropriately titled One-Armed Swordsmen.
When a legendary hero is killed by a one-armed rival his protg is left as the sole witness looking for the killer. As it happens two legendary swordsmen, Fong Ping and Li Hao each one arm come into town for an inevitable battle with one another. However, they form a truce for the sake of helping taking down the murderer.
While One-Armed Swordsmen may star, Jimmy Wang Yu and fellow Shaw alumni David Chiang who co-directed this flick, it is clear the production value is not on the level of their earlier works. Things are not helped by the convoluted mystery plot. However the movie more than makes up for it with action. Each fight scene in this film is executed with an abundance of energy making them pure chaotic fun. In particular a raucous throwdown in a restaurant where Fong Ping and Li Hao form a truce to take down a gang is an absolute blast.
While this is far from a perfect film, Jimmy Wang Yu and David Chiang are always a treat for kung-fu movie fans. In the case of One-Armed Swordsmen Chiang has no problem stealing the show bringing a kinetic energy to the role. While the movie is far from perfect great action and some unintentionally hilarious dialogue ensures its entertainment value is high.
In a move I'm sure will be studied in business schools for centuries to come, AMC has carved an indisputable marketing niche as The Official Network of the Post-Apocalypse. AMC already airs two shows in which brain-eating zombies roam the shambles of a ruined America, plus a Web series about zombies taking over commercial airlines (which, I'm sure, Bernie Sanders predicted in the wake of deregulation).
And now comes Into the Badlands, set in a post-apocalyptic world of wretched serfs governed by kung-fu warlords. The show was prompted, no doubt, by persistent fan demand for the desiccated corpse of Bruce Lee to claw its way out of the grave to kick ass and take names in an episode of The Walking Dead.
The apocalypse that set the stage for Into the Badlands was a series of world wars that mostly obliterated civilization. What has emerged since then in the territory known as the Badlands is a feudal society governed by seven rival barons, whose lusts for one another's blood and power are barely held in check by the economic interdependence of their oil and opium empires.
Sunny is the chief lieutenant of Quinn (Marton Csokas, The Lord of the Rings films). Once the most feared of the barons, Quinn's power is now eroded by illness, an ambitious but inept son, and the attentions of a lissome young trophy wife. A new baron, The Widow (British TV actress Emily Beecham), whose wardrobe puts a literal spin on the phrase "killer shoes," is poised to strike at Quinn.
Into this melange of homicidal ambitions wanders a teenage refugee named M.K. (Aramis Knight, General Hospital), the mysterious object of a kidnapping attempt by The Widow. Sunny thwarts it, mostly on the basis of what seems to be the foundational principle of the Badlands, that anything anybody values should be stolen from them immediately. But he soon realizes that M.K. holds some dangerous secrets, including some that may relate to a wispy myth of a less barbarous territory somewhere outside the Badlands.
Into the Badlands is a pastiche of stylistic (and stylish) theft from everything from The Matrix to Mad Max. Even more audaciously, it claims to be based on Journey to the West, an epic Ming dynasty novel about a Buddhist monk's pilgrimage to India that's considered one of the building blocks of Chinese literature.
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At the age of 9, Abraham Lincoln witnesses his mother being killed by a vampire, Jack Barts. Some 10 years later, he unsuccessfully tries to eliminate Barts but in the process makes the acquaintance of Henry Sturgess who teaches him how to fight and what is required to kill a vampire. The quid pro quo is that Abe will kill only those vampires that Henry directs him to. Abe relocates to Springfield where he gets a job as a store clerk while he studies the law and kills vampires by night. He also meets and eventually marries the pretty Mary Todd. Many years later as President of the United States, he comes to realize that vampires are fighting with the Confederate forces. As a result he mounts his own campaign to defeat them.
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When commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth, intercepts an SoS signal from a nearby planet, the crew are under obligation to investigate. After a bad landing on the planet, some crew members leave the ship to explore the area. At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship's computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a call for help. When one of the eggs is disturbed, the crew do not know the danger they are in until it is too late.
The bloodcurdling terror that began in Alien continues in the horrifying sequel to the smash hit! Sigourney Weaver returns as Warrant Officer Ripley, sole survivor of the massacre that took place aboard the spaceship Nostromo. Now an entire horde of acid-bleeding, metaljawed monsters has come to life, and they are even more vicious than their evil predecessors. It's up to Weaver and a troop of futuristic soldiers including battle-hardened Michael Biehn (The Terminator), to stop the attack of these blood-thirsty murderers! Aliens is a nightmarish shocker that multiplies the horror of the original film.
This action packed detective thriller is set in the streets of Los Angeles in the very near future after 300,000 immigrant newcomers arrive from another planet and are integrated into human society. James Caan plays a tough cop determined to find his former partner's killer. Mandy Patinkin portrays the newcomer cop taken on by Caan as his new partner. This oddly-matched pair overcome the boundaries of racial prejudice and, in the process of solving the murder, uncover something far more dangerous.
When a Predator scout ship crash lands in a Colorado town. The Aliens on board escape and kill all the Predators except one. The last remaining Predator must now destroy all the Aliens as well as the horfic Pred-Alien that was spawned in the first AVP. Meanwhile the towns people are helplessly caught in the middle of the ultimate face-off between these two mythic creatures.
Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain. Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present day.
Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek star as Mexico's most unusual - and Most Wanted -- bank-robbing duo, in this wild, wild Western comedy-adventure, set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance...and a few good heists.
A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. At first thought to be a suicide, it is later discovered that she has been murdered, and suspicion immediately falls on the producer. He begins his own investigation in order to clear his name, and one of the first things he finds out is that the young woman wasn't quite as naive and innocent as she appeared to be.
When a research team discovers an incredible new technology that will wipe out the world's need for fossil fuel, Reeves and a beautiful scientist find themselves being framed for murder. With half-a-dozen federal agencies pursuing them across the country, they set out to discover who is behind the conspiracy in a dizzying chase that sets a new speed limit.
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Colonel John Matrix, a retired military commando called into action one more time when a maniacal dictator kidnaps his young daughter. Commando tops The Terminator and Conan for thrilling exploits!
Denzel Washington is a colonel beginning what he thinks is the routine investigation of a candidate for the Medal of Honor. But nothing about his quest is routine. The Medevac pilot in question (Meg Ryan) is the first woman to be considered for this highest award. The White House and the Pentagon are pushing him to rubber-stamp the approval. He's uncovering the survivors' conflicting stories about Ryan's death in the line of duty. And he's being forced to confront the truth about his own past as a tank commander in the fury of the same Gulf War. From the director of Legends of the Fall and Glory comes a moving drama about bravery in combat and peacetime.
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