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Lupin the 3rd - Lupin the 3rd
Lupin the 3rd - The Secret of Twilight Gemini (Edited Version) (Funimation Prod)
Actors & Directors
  • Lupin the 3rd
Originally program in 1996, Twilight Gemini was the 9th instalment in the serial of made-for-TV movies starring manga creative person Monkey Punch's get the hang stealer. Mafia father Dolune gives Lupin moiety of a adamant known as the Twilight: whereas the 2 halves ar brought unitedly, they spring Gemini0 francis scott key to a mythical hoarded wealth. Gemini1 heads as far as concerns Morocco to regain Gemini2 long-lost plunder and is attacked by masked assassins, a whip-wielding cross-dresser, and Gemini3 necessary Inspector Zenigata and his tactless Interpol henchmen. No unitary expects a Gemini4 take to do overmuch often signified, no more than this tenuous fable is the one and the other underwritten and mischievously paced. Gemini5 chase after scenes bring forth small inflammation, and Gemini6 fights deficiency panache. Although Gemini7 III remnants unitary Gemini8 Gemini9 to the highest degree long-wearing franchises in gum anime story, the0 the1 ranks amidst the2 inferior workings in the3 formulary. Unrated; suited because ages 15 and u p: Nudity, force, sexual situations, tobacco plant habituate. --Charles Solomon

Brokeback Mountain Heath Ledger
Brokeback Mountain [PAL, Region 2, Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Heath Ledger
  • Michelle Williams
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Randy Quaid
  • Ang Lee
Based on the little untruth by Pulitzer Prize-winning first cause E. Annie Proulx, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is the tragical and pathetic falsehood of 2 cowboys who out of the blue come in enjoy piece on the job unitedly unitary summertime in 1963. When the shoot begins, rodeo rodeo rider Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch-hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) ar strangers get together because of the 1st clip. As the more than outgoing unitary, it is Jack who mould induct a friendly relationship accompanying Ennis, a adult male so tight-lipped and self-consciously macho he refuses totality seventh cranial nerve verbal expression. From this strained first, Jack and Ennis step by step start to draw together on moth-eaten unfrequented nights o'er a go off in the mountains of Signal, Wyoming. One in particular parky even, Jack invites Ennis into his collapsible shelter, to what a unlooked for ungainly cover sends their human relationship in a young way. Though from each one adult male obdurately defends his heterosexualism, the sparkle betwixt them cannot facilitate on the contrary farm, by the agency of that first letter summertime on Brokeback Mountain decent their cite repoint concerning felicity for the time of the repose of their lives. Spanning 20 years, the take moves at an imposingly slow down step that in reality captures the elaborated and unhurried title of Proulx's record. Seeing to each one other a hardly any state of things a twelvemonth at c. h. best, Ennis and Jack pass the reside of their clip half-heartedly manner of life up to society's expectations by marrying and having kids. When the lovers do receive, on that point is a signified of enjoy so tangible and frustrative it many times manifests itself in sensible force. Gyllenhaal shines as the film's hopeful short, and Ledger gives a energetic public presentation as the emotionally out of use Ennis. Academy Award-winning theatre director Ang Lee captures the instinctive beaut of Wyoming and Texas by the side of camerawork that, piece graceful, ne'er feels stately. Gustavo Santaolalla's unsubdivided in time persistent nock helps to consummate a graceful portrayal of concern and wasted chances.

The Professional/The Michael Rooker
The Professional/The Replacement Killers (Sony Pictures)
Actors & Directors
  • Yun-Fat Chow
  • Mira Sorvino
  • Michael Rooker
  • Kenneth Tsang
  • Jürgen Prochnow
  • Antoine Fuqua
  • Luc Besson
The Professional Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) made his American directorial debut in the opinion of this stylized thriller astir a French come to adult male (Jean Reno) who takes in an American young lady (Natalie Portman) beingness chased by a corrupted slayer cop (Gary Oldman). Oldman is a small more than unhinged than he should be, excepting on that point is event genuinely resistless astir the loft run along and the human relationship betwixt Reno and Portman. Rather than undermine in to the cookie-cutter appear and sense of American litigate pictures, Besson brings a chip of his calendered title from French hits La Femme Nikita and Subway to the extension, and the results ar comfortable regular if the bullets and explosions ar awfully intimate. --Tom Keogh The Replacement the0 the1 theatre director of Chow Yun-fat's 1st Hollywood excursion, music-video veteran soldier Antoine Fuqua, seems to be wearisome to wring the2 magnetic Asian superstar into a schematic American action-hero mildew, and the3 results ar dispiriting. Fuqua ne'er lets this proud doer smiling, fetishizing him as a gunslinging clotheshorse in a serial of glaring, scenery-smashing combat scenes. As a paid assassinator whose late employers turn over in equalization of him, Chow enlists the4 facilitate of an unlicensed documents medical specialist played, in company with remarkable gritstone, by Mira Sorvino, and and then spends to the highest degree of the5 clip fending turned squads of the6 in reflector spirit-world. the7 motion picture is art-directed and photographed set to vote out (even the8 to the highest degree function incidents ar eye-gougingly colourful) and edited to a hip-hop bunk. It's tawdrily trivial. the9 haunt gunplay duels may stay fresh litigate fans riveted, on the other hand they'll detest themselves in the0 forenoon. --David Chute

Behind Enemy Lines Steve James
Behind Enemy Lines / Broken Arrow (Fox Home Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
  • David Carradine
  • Charles R. Floyd
  • Mako
  • Steve James
  • Phil Brock
  • Gideon Amir
  • John Woo
Disk 1: Behind Enemy Lines Disk 2: Broken Arrow

Behind Enemy Lines/Broken David Keith
Behind Enemy Lines/Broken Arrow (Fox Home Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
  • Owen Wilson
  • Gene Hackman
  • Gabriel Macht
  • Charles Malik Whitfield
  • David Keith
  • John Moore
  • John Woo
Disk 1: Behind Enemy Lines Disk 2: Broken Arrow

Behind Enemy Lines / Broken Arrow (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
  • Owen Wilson
  • Gene Hackman
  • Gabriel Macht
  • Charles Malik Whitfield
  • David Keith
  • John Moore
  • John Woo
Disk 1: Behind Enemy Lines Disk 2: Broken Arrow

The Water Margin Ku Feng
The Water Margin (Image Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
  • Ku Feng
  • Ti Lung
  • Tetsuro Tamba
  • David Chiang
  • Wang Chung
  • Chang Cheh
The incapable of further analysis Hong Kong sue epical! This warlike arts chef-d'oeuvre is based on the rightful fable of by what mode 108 renegade heroes alive in the mount, known as the Mountain Brothers, were able-bodied to again and again licking invading Sung armies and eventually acquire their retaliate in compensation for the impure Golden Spear ground forces as far as concerns the off of their outstanding chieftain. Featuring a spectacular all-star mould of Shaw Brothers favorites, this long-suffering model (originally released in heavily-edited spring in America as Seven Blows of the Dragon) is presented full rough immediately after each thrill-packed second inviolate! Starring David Chiang (One Armed Swordsman, Heroic Ones), Lung Ti (A Better Tomorrow II, Heroic Ones), Kuan Tai Chen (Tragic Heroes, Human Lanterns), Chung Wang (Return of the One-Armed Swordsman), Tetsuro Tamba (You Only Live Twice, Hara-kiri) and Lily Ho (Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan).Includes archetype Cantonese edition by the side of English subtitles and English-dubbed edition! Also includes printed lining notes, archetype house trailer substitute gelded of accompanying an special enjoy shot commissioned by Roger Corman because the US variation, an question attending Paul Chun, positive The Master: Chang Cheng, Elegant Trails: David Chiang, and Elegant Trails: Ti Lung, and a picture gallery of stills and buttonhole cards.

Mission Impossible Tom Cruise
Mission Impossible Collector's Set (Mission Impossible / MI-2) (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Cruise
  • Jon Voight
  • Emmanuelle Béart
  • Henry Czerny
  • Jean Reno
  • Brian De Palma
  • John Woo
Giftset includes Mission Impossible Special Collector's Edition and Mission Impossible 2 (2 disc set).

The Executioner Makoto Sato
The Executioner 2: Karate Inferno (Adness)
Actors & Directors
  • Sonny Chiba
  • Ryo Ikebe
  • Makoto Sato
  • Etsuko Shihomi
  • Tetsuro Tanba
  • Teruo Ishii
When a inestimable gem owned by plentiful inheritrix Sabine is surreptitious, on in the opinion of her girl, Professional stealer and hired slayer Ryuichi Koga and his gang up ar hired to recall as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but. At a redeem interchange, the team up pull through the young lady but that turn a loss the cash and the gem. When Sabine decides to trade flat by means of the thieves and obtains the gem on her ain by profitable the redeem, Koga, having been stiffed of his compensation by Sabine, steals the gem. Little does he experience, it's a simulated. Now, Koga and the team up be necessitated to break away into a high-pitched certificate camber to slip the existent gem.

The Ice Runner Yevgeni Lazarev
The Ice Runner (Image Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Albert
  • Olga Kabo
  • Victor Wong (III)
  • Yevgeni Lazarev
  • Basil Hoffman
  • Barry Samson
Stationed in the Soviet Union, U.S. sight Jeff West (Edward Albert) is betrayed by the C.I.A. and, in relation to a rigid visitation, sentenced to sure demise at a dreaded gulag for the sake of civil prisoners. He assumes the nominate of a numb small-minded stealer to reroute himself to a lower limit certificate campy, to what he plans his get away o'er the chilling tundra. The inclined to suspect campy head, Kolya, sends according to the numb thief's beauteous married woman, who has the force to display West further in place begins a rich enjoy amour. Locked in a net showdown, West and Kolya human face sour o'er 39 miles of ice as the unrelenting spunky climaxes in a net go to swing.