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Returner

I remember from some other movie the scene where the hero/anti-hero on a motorcycle is careening down a highway (maybe with a girl-in-jeopardy on the back) chased by the bad guys in a roadster/Hummer/fast car and he jams on the front brake while twisting the handlebars. It forces his cycle into a pirouette and, as it twists, he fires his billion round machine pistol at them causing a gigantic explosion which would take out a small city in most places. And he just smirks. This movie has one of the best of those scenes in it with Miyamoto (Takeshi Kaneshiro) as the gunslinging maverick, Milly (Anne Suzuki) as the girl and a poor old Beamer as the car-in-jeopardy.


Director:  Takashi Yamazaki
Writer:  Kenya Hirata; Takashi Yamazaki
Cast:
Takeshi Kaneshiro -  Miyamoto
Anne Suzuki -  Milly
Kirin Kiki -  Xie
Goro Kishitani -  Mizoguchi
Yukiko Okamoto -  Dr. Yagi
Mitsuru Murata -  Mizoguchi’s Henchman
Kisuke Iida -  Karasawa, Mizoguchi’s Henchman
Kazuya Shimizu -  Murakami, Mizoguchi’s Henchman
Chiharu Kawai -  Liu’s Interpreter
Dean Harrington -  Dr. Brown
Xiaoqun Zhao -  Slave Merchant
Masaya Takahashi -  Liu Laoban, Chinese Godfather
Ahmad Ali -  Future Soldier
Ari Anders -  Future Technition
Byron Baron -  Future Soldier
Bernard Beardsley -  Future Soldier









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Rush Hour

City traffic can make you scream. The lights change too soon, other drivers are distracted by cell phones, dining and personal grooming. What can you do? Well one thing is to have a singalong. Soo Yung (Julia Hsu) may not be a teenager yet but she knows how to have a good time. All you need to do is sing and with a back seat all to herself, she’s finding it a grand endeavour. However, Soo Yung’s bodyguard (Roger Fan) isn’t so lucky since he has a job to do. Neither is Soo Yung’s driver (George Cheung) as he has to keep his mind on the road.


Director:  Brett Ratner
Writer:  Ross LaManna; Jim Kouf
Cast:
Ken Leung -  Sang
Jackie Chan -  Chief Inspector Lee
Tom Wilkinson -  Thomas Griffin/Juntao
Tzi Ma -  Consul Han
Robert Littman -  First Caucasian
Michael Chow -  Diner Guest
Julia Hsu -  Soo Yung
Chris Tucker -  Detective James Carter
Chris Penn -  Clive Cod
Kai Lennox -  Cop at Diner
Larry Sullivan Jr. -  Cop at Diner
Yan Ling -  Consul Secretary
Roger Fan -  Soo Yung’s Bodyguard
George Cheung -  Soo Yung’s Driver
Lucy Lin -  Exposition Official
Rex Linn -  FBI Agent Dan Whitney









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Red Sonja

Kids… What can you do with them? Particularly when they are royalty. Not much as Falkon (Paul L.Smith) knows. He has the unenviable task of being shepherd to the crankiest monarch this side of Cimmeria, Tarn (Ernie Reyes, Jr.), who orders him about as if his kingdom and his people still existed rather than slaughtered by the army of Queen Gedren (Sandahl Bergman). But the royal does have class. After rescuing his little butt from the swivel hand, he has the courtesy to offer Sonja (Brigitte Nielsen) a reward in gold, a job as cook and to dismiss her from his presence. Sonja just smiles.


Director:  Richard Fleischer
Writer:  Robert E. Howard; Clive Exton; George MacDonald Fraser
Cast:
Brigitte Nielsen -  Red Sonja
Arnold Schwarzenegger -  Kalidor
Sandahl Bergman -  Queen Gedren
Paul L. Smith -  Falkon
Ernie Reyes, Jr. -  Tarn
Ronald Lacey -  Ikol
Pat Roach -  Brytag
Janet Agren -  Varna
Terry Richards -  Djart
Donna Osterbuhr -  Kendra, the High Priestess
Kiyoshi Yamazaki -  Kyobo
Tad Horino -  Swordmaster
Francesca Romana Coluzzi -  Red Sonja’s Mother
Lara Naszinski -  Gedren’s Handmaid
Stefano Mioni -  Barlok, Red Sonja’s Brother
Tutte Lemkow -  Wizard









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Rollerball

What alternative is there when you discover your sport is being rigged? Aurora (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) finds that TV coverage is being set up to film what are thought to be accidents. It takes a while to convince her teammates that something nefarious is going on and that what are thought to be accidental deaths are murder for the TV ratings. But it is soon becomes apparent that she, along with the others, are slated to be just another tragedy unless they can convince the viewers that a revolution is in order.


Director:  John McTiernan
Writer:  William Harrison; Larry Ferguson; John Pogue
Cast:
Chris Klein -  Jonathan Cross
Jean Reno -  Alexis Petrovich
LL Cool J -  Marcus Ridley
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos -  Aurora
Naveen Andrews -  Sanjay
Oleg Taktarov -  Denekin
David Hemblen -  Serokin
Janet Wright -  Coach Olga
Andrew Bryniarski -  Halloran
Kata Dobó -  Katya
Alice Poon -  Red Team: #7
Lucia Rijker -  Red Team: #9
Melissa Stubbs -  Red Team: #12
Paul Wu -  Red Team: U Chow – #16
Yolanda Hughes-Heying -  Red Team: #28
Jay Mahin -  Red Team: Toba – #39









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Runaway Jury

What length will you go to achieve your goal? Nick Easter (John Cusack) is finding out. He and Marlee (Rachel Weisz) are meeting clandestinely in a church to plot their jury tampering plan but things are amiss. His apartment has been burned out; one juror, Eddie Weese (Guy Torry) is threatened with exposure to his church and family of his HIV status; Rikki Coleman (Rhoda Griffis) is suicidal over excepting that her family will be told of her abortion and the husband of Millie Dupree (Rusty Schwimmer) has been arrested for attempted bribery. Can their middle hold or will their plan cost more than they will gain?


Director:  Gary Fleder
Writer:  John Grisham; Brian Koppelman; David Levien; Rick Cleveland; Matthew Chapman
Cast:
John Cusack -  Nicholas Easter
Gene Hackman -  Rankin Fitch
Dustin Hoffman -  Wendell Rohr
Rachel Weisz -  Marlee
Bruce Davison -  Durwood Cable
Bruce McGill -  Judge Harkin
Jeremy Piven -  Lawrence Green
Nick Searcy -  Doyle
Stanley Anderson -  Henry Jankle
Cliff Curtis -  Frank Herrera
Nestor Serrano -  Janovich
Leland Orser -  Lamb
Jennifer Beals -  Vanessa Lembeck
Gerry Bamman -  Herman Grimes
Joanna Going -  Celeste Wood
Bill Nunn -  Lonnie Shaver