With the late evening sun casting a dramatic light across the 65th floor of an empty Hong Kong office block, everything was primed for a spectacular entrance from Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo.
Producer Judd Apatow continues his popular assault on common decency in "Pineapple Express," an R-rated celebration of recreational drugs, anti-authoritarianism and mindless violence.
In "Shoot 'Em Up," Clive Owen plays a man named Smith who never, ever stops firing his guns. He fires them two at a time, leaping across rooms -- blam! blam! blam! -- in glorious slow motion. He fires them in the middle of the sky, after plunging out of a plane without a parachute.
In the 1980s and 1990s, U.S. television executives mined stand-up comedy for show concepts. More recently, they've turned to European reality shows (Big Brother, Pop Idol) to fill their schedules. Could comic books be the next source of inspiration?
The natural successor to Italian 60s screen sirens Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, Maria Grazia Cucinotta has emerged as one of her country's most striking exports.
With the late evening sun casting a dramatic light across the 65th floor of an empty Hong Kong office block, everything was primed for a spectacular entrance from Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo.
Producer Judd Apatow continues his popular assault on common decency in "Pineapple Express," an R-rated celebration of recreational drugs, anti-authoritarianism and mindless violence.
In "Shoot 'Em Up," Clive Owen plays a man named Smith who never, ever stops firing his guns. He fires them two at a time, leaping across rooms -- blam! blam! blam! -- in glorious slow motion. He fires them in the middle of the sky, after plunging out of a plane without a parachute.
In the 1980s and 1990s, U.S. television executives mined stand-up comedy for show concepts. More recently, they've turned to European reality shows (Big Brother, Pop Idol) to fill their schedules. Could comic books be the next source of inspiration?
The natural successor to Italian 60s screen sirens Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, Maria Grazia Cucinotta has emerged as one of her country's most striking exports.
Hero, Crouching Tiger and House of Flying Daggers -- Chinese martial arts movies have been making some breathtaking moves on the international cinema circuit in recent years.
Lock and load -- you're being called to duty in the latest chapter of the "Time Crisis" series. "Time Crisis: Crisis Zone" is on store shelves for the PlayStation 2 console.
As movies prepare to go from fast-paced and gas-guzzling this summer to introspective and Oscar-aspiring in the fall, let's have a look at films that might be picking moviegoers' pockets a scant 10 months from now.
Why doesn't anyone know how to engineer the successful transition of the finest Asian film exports? Though a few scattered blockbusters make their way to the fore, Hollywood still hasn't been able to truly use the amazing palette of potential talents like Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, John Woo, Jackie Chan and their ilk.
Notebooks can finally provide the 3-D video power punch that serious gamers demand, thanks to nVidia's recently released GeForce2 Go 3-D graphics chip.
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