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While The Godfather romanticized the American Mafia in the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku's five-film series known as The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity revolutionized the Japanese yakuza film with unprecedented intensity. A post-World War II epic that broke Japanese box-office records...

Professional assassin leon reluctantly takes care of 12-year-old mathilda a neighbor whose parents are killed and teaches her his trade. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/07/2000 Starring: Gary Oldman Natalie Portman Run time: 133 minutes Rating: Nr...

John Wayne was in the early stages of superstardom when this lavish Cecil B. DeMille adventure was produced in 1942, so it's interesting to see the Duke in a heroic supporting role as opposed to the commanding one. Here he's on equal footing with Ray Milland in the romantic lead; they play a pair o...

The glowering brutality that is aikido headbanger Steven Seagal's substitute for a star persona at least gives us a rancid taste of authenticity in this cookie-cutter action picture. This glum lug seems to really enjoy hurting people; he snaps limbs and shatters noses with visible relish. Pitted aga...

Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson and Adam Baldwin crank up the heat when a Chicago cop and his Appalachian kin take on the mobsters that killed his younger brother.System Requirements:Starring: Patrick Swayze, Laim Neeson, Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt,...

The director of Chow Yun-fat's first Hollywood outing, music-video veteran Antoine Fuqua, seems to be trying to squeeze the charismatic Asian superstar into a conventional American action-hero mold, and the results are dispiriting. Fuqua never lets this high-spirited actor smile, fetishizing him as ...

Van Damme is back! And this time the action superstar has nowhere to run and nothing to lose. An escaped prisoner hiding from authorities, Sam (Van Damme) always manages to be in the wrong place at the right time. Risking his hard-fought freedom, he aids...

One of the key films of the 1970s, John Boorman's Deliverance is a nightmarish adaptation of poet-novelist James Dickey's book about various kinds of survival in modern America. The story concerns four Atlanta businessmen of various male stripe: Jon Voight's character is a reflective, civilized fell...

Between his directorial duties on A Perfect World and The Bridges of Madison County, Clint Eastwood starred in this pulse-racing 1993 thriller. In the Line of Fire was directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the brilliant director of the World War II U-boat masterpiece Das Boot. Eastwood gives one of his be...

Embittered by his experience working with 20th Century Fox on The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), and weary of the Poe films for American International Pictures, Roger Corman was in dire need of inspiration for his next production. He found it in Life magazine, which featured a photo of the fun...