Posts Tagged ‘chinatown’

The Freshman (1990)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Matthew Broderick | Bruno Kirby | Penelope Ann Miller | Frank Whaley | Jon Polito | Paul Benedict | Richard Gant | Kenneth Welsh | Pamela Payton-Wright | B.D. Wong | Maximilian Schell | Bert Parks | Tex Konig | Leonardo Cimino
Directors: Andrew Bergman
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Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine “Jimmy the Toucan” Sabatini, an “importer” bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can’t refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Kim Cattrall | Dennis Dun | James Hong | Victor Wong | Kate Burton | Donald Li | Carter Wong | Peter Kwong | James Pax | Suzee Pai | Chao Li Chi | Jeff Imada | Rummel Mor | Craig Ng
Directors: John Carpenter
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Somewhere in the 80s, trucker Jack Burton arrives in a small town to deliver his cargo and win a few bucks playing cards with the locals down at the Chinese market. Practically bankrupting nearly all of his opponents, his friend Wang bets him a game of “double or nothing” to try and regain his cash and loses. Jack wants his well earned money, but Wang explains he doesn’t have the cash on him and that’ll he pay later because he’s due to pick up a long, lost girlfriend from the airport. Convinced Wang’s pulling something sly, Jack insists he drive Wang to the airport so they can stick together. However, at the airport Wang’s girlfriend is captured by the Lords of Death, a streetwise Chinatown gang. She is essential for an upcoming plan to revive a thousand year old Chinese sorcerer and bring him back to the world as a mortal again. So begins a daring adventure to rescue Wang’s girl and stop the ruthless operation that’s going on down in Little China. Teaming up with a cast of very different individuals, Jack and Wang delve deep into an uncovering conspiracy in which everything’s not exactly as it seems. Here comes big trouble…

Crank (2006)

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jason Statham | Amy Smart | Jose Pablo Cantillo | Efren Ramirez | Dwight Yoakam | Carlos Sanz | Reno Wilson | Edi Gathegi | Glenn Howerton | Jay Xcala | Keone Young | Valarie Rae Miller | Yousuf Azami | Laurent Schwaar | David Brown
Directors: Mark Neveldine
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Chev Chelios is a professional assassin working for the West Coast crime syndicate. Chev’s girlfriend Eve doesn’t know what Chev does and Chev is planning to quit the crime syndicate so he can spend more time with her. But for Chev, things about to get very bad, when he learns he has been injected with a poison called “The Beijing Cocktail” by his rival Verona, which will kill him if his heart rate drops. Trying to stay alive and seeking help from friend, Kaylo and Doc Miles, to keep his heart pumping. Chev sets out to find answers as well as protecting Eve, and get his revenge on those who have betrayed him before the poison kills him.

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Jaden Smith | Thandie Newton | Brian Howe | James Karen | Dan Castellaneta | Kurt Fuller | Takayo Fischer | Kevin West | George Cheung | David Michael Silverman | Domenic Bove | Geoff Callan | Joyful Raven | Scott Klace
Directors: Gabriele Muccino
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Chris Gardner has big dreams for him and his family but it doesn’t seem to come together for him. Chris has an opportunity to be a stock broker but first he has to go through a grueling internship which means no pay. Chris decides to do it but when his wife leaves and he is evicted, he has to take care of his son on his own. So they find themselves sometimes living on the street and struggling to get by. But Chris is determined to make it.

The Golden Child (1986)

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: J.L. Reate | Eddie Murphy | Charles Dance | Charlotte Lewis | Victor Wong | Randall 'Tex' Cobb | James Hong | Shakti | Tau Logo | Tiger Chung Lee | Pons Maar | Peter Kwong | Wally Taylor | Eric Douglas | Charles Levin
Directors: Michael Ritchie
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Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost children. He is told he is the ‘Chosen one’ who will find and protect the Golden Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and more evidence of demon worship as he investigates.

The Replacement Killers (1998)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow | Mira Sorvino | Michael Rooker | Kenneth Tsang | Jürgen Prochnow | Til Schweiger | Danny Trejo | Clifton Collins Jr. | Carlos Gómez | Frank Medrano | Leo Lee | Patrick Kilpatrick | Randall Duk Kim | Andrew J. Marton | Sydney Coberly
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
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John Lee is a hitman who works for Chinese crime lord, Terence Wei. It seems that Joh is obligated to Mr. Wei and so far has done everything he was told to do. Now Mr. Wei wants John to get revenge on a police detective who killed his son. John was about to carry out the job but for some reason can’t do it. When Mr. Wei hears of this, he sends for some replacements. John now has to return to China to help his mother and sister whom Mr. Wei will now target because of his disobedience, but first he needs a passport. He needs find someone who can give him a passport who is not beholden to Mr. Wei. He is told of Meg Coburn, a small time documents forger. John goes to see her and was in the process of making his passport when some Wei’s people come in shooting. While John gets away, Meg is caught by the police but is released by the cop whom Mr. Wei has a beef with. John goes to her and still needing a passport, forces to go with him. Mr. Wei’s people finds them and was about to take care of them but John managed to escape. So now the two of them are not only hunted by Mr. Wei but also the police.

The Corruptor (1999)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow | Mark Wahlberg | Ric Young | Paul Ben-Victor | Jonkit Lee | Andrew Pang | Elizabeth Lindsey | Brian Cox | Byron Mann | Kim Chan | Bill MacDonald | Susie Trinh | Ho Chow | Olivia Yap | Lynda Chiu
Directors: James Foley
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A New York police officer (Wahlberg) goes undercover in a dangerous crime scene to investigate abductions and drug-trafficking operations. He obtains backup with the help of another brave Hong Kong police officer (Yun-Fat) who works for the NYPD. They partner up together to stop the operation before the city goes down. The criminal orginization is called the “Fukanese Dragons” who are likely terrorists and illegal immigrants who are about to tear up Chinatown in New York City.

The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Keanu Reeves | Al Pacino | Charlize Theron | Jeffrey Jones | Judith Ivey | Connie Nielsen | Craig T. Nelson | Tamara Tunie | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Debra Monk | Vyto Ruginis | Laura Harrington | Pamela Gray | Heather Matarazzo | George Wyner
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality.

Gremlins (1984)

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoyt Axton | John Louie | Keye Luke | Don Steele | Susan Burgess | Scott Brady | Arnie Moore | Corey Feldman | Harry Carey Jr. | Zach Galligan | Dick Miller | Phoebe Cates | Polly Holliday | Donald Elson | Belinda Balaski
Directors: Joe Dante
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Gremlins begins with inventor Rand Peltzer trying to find a quick gift for his son Billy before returning home from a New York trip. He settles on a unique pet in a Chinatown curio shop–a cute, furry creature known as a Mogwai. Before he leaves, he is warned by the shop’s owner that three rules must be obeyed by a Mogwai owner: 1) Keep it away from bright light, 2) Don’t get any water on it, and 3) Never, never ever feed it after midnight. Rand takes note of these rules and returns home with the Mogwai to his idyllic small-town home of Kingston Falls. Rand’s gift is an instant hit: Billy loves his adorable new pet, naming it Gizmo and taking it everywhere he goes. Unfortunately, he and his friends also begin breaking the rules of Mogwai care. When water is accidentally spilled on Gizmo, it causes him to multiply and produce a number of mischievous little brothers. Among these is the mean-tempered Stripe. Soon enough, the new Mogwai get hold of some food after midnight and this causes them to change from cute fur-balls into nasty, scaly monsters dubbed ‘Gremlins.’

Hard to Kill (1990)

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Steven Seagal | Kelly LeBrock | William Sadler | Frederick Coffin | Bonnie Burroughs | Andrew Bloch | Branscombe Richmond | Charles Boswell | Zachary Rosencrantz | Lou Beatty Jr. | Nick DeMauro | Nick Corello | Justin De Rosa | Stanley Brock | Evan James
Directors: Bruce Malmuth
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In 1983, Senator Vernon Trent is running a high-profile re-election campaign. Los Angeles cop Mason Storm videotapes a meeting where Trent hires killers to kill his opponent so he won’t lose the election. When Mason’s cover is blown, he gets away temporarily, but when he calls in this information to his partner Kevin O’Malley, he is overheard by corrupt cops who work for Trent. On his way home, Mason stops at a liquor store to pick up some champagne to celebrate his undercover coup with his wife Felicia and his 5-year-old son Sonny. 5 thugs come into the store with guns and blow away the cashier, and Mason kills the thugs. At home, Mason tucks Sonny in, and Mason and Felicia open the champagne. The corrupt cops who overheard Storm’s call to Kevin go to Storm’s house and start firing their guns. Felicia is killed, and Sonny is missing and presumed dead. Mason himself, declared dead at the hospital, revives only to remain in a coma. Kevin enlists the help of a doctor to keep Mason’s survival a secret until he can recuperate and give information on his assailants. 7 years later, in 1990, Kevin has been forced off the LAPD, with Trent and his men now running the show. Mason is in a coma center under the alias of “John Doe,” and he’s being cared for by nurse Andrea “Andy” Stewart. Mason wakes up from his 7 year coma, and takes some time to recover. After recovering, Mason is reunited with Sonny, who is now 12-years-old, and Mason plans his revenge on Trent.