
Using a series of newspaper interviews as a framing device, this riveting thriller follows the rise of a two-bit hood (played by Simon Yam) through the ranks of Macao's underworld. Tired of being triad small fry, the gangster and his cohort (Alex Fong) enlist the aid of a corrupt cop (Kent Cheng) to take control of Macao's casinos. But just as the duo is poised to realize their ambition, a new rival stands in their way.

Rod Steiger plays the titular character -- a man covered with tattoos -- in this adaptation of Ray Bradbury's tale. When a young drifter (Robert Drivas) encounters "the illustrated man," he can't take his eyes off the pictures on the man's torso. But staring at the designs takes the drifter smack-dab into the middle of the pictures -- in one instance, stranded on Venus, in another, on an African veldt and in the third, on the eve of Armageddon.

Still reeling from the death of his wife, Los Angeles detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is devastated when he's named as a suspect in the murder of his partner (Terry Crews). With the help of a young homicide detective (Chris Evans), Ludlow struggles to clear his name. His boss (Forest Whitaker), meanwhile, tries to protect him from a tough Internal Affairs investigator (Hugh Laurie) who's determined to put Ludlow behind bars.

A beautiful seamstress (Zoë Tamerlis Lund) living in New York City is brutally raped twice in the same day. But in a mix of rage and desperation, she kills her second attacker. After she chops his body into tiny pieces and steals his automatic handgun, she sets out to stalk the city, taking out her anger on every man she comes across. Controversial filmmaker Abel Ferrara directs this pitch-black independent comedy.

This prequel to 2002's The Scorpion King tells the heroic tale of young Mathayus (Michael Copon) and his relentless quest for justice against an evil and powerful villain, King Sargon (Ultimate Fighting champ Randy Couture). Mathayus faces many heart-stopping tribulations during his adventurous, odds-defying trajectory toward his ultimate destiny as the formidable warrior king of an ancient desert empire.
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