DVDs & Videos.Byline: Alan Little Alan Little (born 5th February, 1955 in Horden, England) is an English former footballer and manager. Playing career Little served his apprenticeship at Aston Villa and, alongside his brother, Brian, was in the youth side which beat Liverpool to win the FA Youth Cup in * RED CLIFF (15) .... DIRECTOR John Woo For other uses, see . John Woo Yu-Sen (Chinese: 吳宇森; Pinyin: Wú Yǔsēn heads back east to helm the most expensive Chinese language film in history, set during the rule of the Han Dynasty Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) Second great Chinese imperial dynasty. In contrast to the preceding Qin dynasty, the Han was a period of cultural flowering. One of the greatest of the early histories, the Shiji by Sima Qian, was composed, and the fu, a poetic form that in 208 AD. Starring Takeshi Kaneshiro Takeshi Kaneshiro (Japanese and Chinese: 金城武, Hepburn: Kaneshiro Takeshi, Pinyin: Jīnchéng Wǔ), (born October 11, 1973) is a male actor and model. as brilliant strategist Zhu-Ge Liang and Zhang Fengyi as scheming Prime Minister Cao Cao, the scale of this historical epic is immense as two mighty armies congregate on the banks of the Yangtze River at Red Cliff. The original two-part Asian release with a near five hours running time has been condensed into 147 minutes of political intrigue and spectacular battles. Despite the constant distraction of subtitles, the film is surprisingly easy to follow amid all of the beautifully orchestrated carnage. * FAST & FURIOUS (12) ... THE turbo-charged and haphazardly plotted fourth instalment of the street-racing franchise is back with original cast members Vin Diesel and Paul Walker as bad boy Dominic Toretto and Detective Brian O'Connor whose paths cross in the search for a shadowy underworld figure who hires drivers to run drugs across the Mexico-US border. Opening with an explosive action set-piece on the winding roads of the Dominican Republic, the script in this preposterous tale of revenge and redemption directed by Justin Lin runs on empty. * ANYTHING FOR HER (15) ... A HUSBAND is willing to risk everything for his wife in Fred Cavaye's slow-burning yet gripping thriller which culminates in an edge-of-seat finale. Domestic bliss turns into a nightmare for Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Julien (Vincent Lindon) when she is arrested for the brutal murder of a colleague in an underground car park. Evidence implicates Lisa who's jailed for 20 years despite protesting her innocence, but determined Julien has other ideas. Though his metamorphosis from mild-mannered schoolteacher to criminal mastermind strains credibility, this is a slickly-engineered jailbreak thriller that cranks up the tension. * FIGHTING (15) ..' THERE are similarities to David Fincher's Fight Club in this no-holds-barred tale of one young man's introduction to the bare-knuckle brawl scene in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , but this one hasn't got Flight Club's biting wit and directorial pizzazz. Writer-director Dito Montiel reunites with rising star Channing Tatum as counterfeit goods seller Shawn MacArthur. Tatum copes magnificently with the extreme physical demands of his role, but though unflinchingly brutal brawls set to a thunderous soundtrack assault the senses at every opportunity, characters never engage the mind. |
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