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Superstar Jet Li headlines this action-packed film, his final martial arts epic. The film reunites him with producer Bill Kong and action director and choreographer Yuen Wo Ping. Li plays real-life martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia, who became the most famous fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced incredible personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of... Full Details

All he wants is to be a Mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life in this critically-acclaimed film debut from director Robert Rodriguez. Financed with earnings from a month-long stay in... Full Details

Would you know the colour "Sky Blue" if you'd never seen the sky? The year is 2140. After a catastrophic environmental disaster a small number of elites have built an organic city called Ecoban. Its very existence depends on the work of the "Diggers"; refugees who live outside of the city and mine the wasteland to feed Ecoban's energy consumption. Exploited and fighting for their lives,... Full Details

The year is 2089. An alien race stalks the land in towering machines known as Tripods. They have taken over the earth and enslaved mankind with a mind-controlling device, ceremoniously implanted at the age of fourteen. Will Parker anxiously awaits this ritual but hears of a place where a group of people is organising a resistance movement. Together with this cousin they leave their village,... Full Details