Director Zhang Yimou brings the sumptuous visual style of his previous films (Raise the Red Lantern, Shanghai Triad) to the high-kicking kung fu genre. A nameless warrior (Jet Li, Romeo Must Die, Once Upon a Time in China) arrives at an emperor's palace with three weapons, each belonging to a famous assassin who had sworn to kill the emperor. As the nameless man spins out his story--and the emperor presents his own interpretation of what might really have happened--each episode is drenched in red, blue, white or another dominant color. Hero combines sweeping cinematography and superb performances from the cream of the Hong Kong cinema (Maggie Cheung, Irma Vep, Comrades: Almost a Love Story; Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, In the Mood for Love, Hard Boiled; and Zhang Ziyi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). The result is stunning, a dazzling action movie with an emotional richness that deepens with every step.
Le coquin mais sympathique capitaine Jack Sparrow voit sa vie idyllique de pirate complètement chavirée quand son ennemi, le rusé capitaine Barbossa, lui vole son bateau, le Perle Noire pour ensuite attaquer la ville de Port Royal et kidnapper Elizabeth, la jolie fille du gouverneur. Dans un acte de bravoure, Will Turner, l'ami d'enfance d'Elizabeth, décide de faire équipe avec Jack pour tenter de la secourir et de reprendre le Perle Noire. Ce que Will ne sait pas c'est qu'une malédiction a autrefois condamné Barbossa et son équipage à vivre sous la forme de morts-vivants pour toujours.
Quand Chon Wang apprend que son père, qu'il a très peu connu, a été assassiné à Shanghai, il quitte précipitamment sa vie honorable de shérif de Carson City avec son assistant, Roy O'Bannon. Dans leur quête pour restaurer l'honneur de la famille de Wang, ils se retrouvent à Londres, au centre d'un complot ayant pour but d'éliminer la famille royale entière.
Une race de dragons cracheurs de feu émerge après des centaines d'années d'hibernation, brûlant tout sur son passage et détruisant des villes entières, ce qui provoque l'extermination presque totale de la race humaine.
Caustic wit gets a full-body workout in this 1994 comedy, in which a cat burglar (Denis Leary) gets trapped in an affluent Connecticut neighborhood and is forced to hold a bickering couple hostage on Christmas Eve, only to discover that their Yuletide spirit is anything but cheerful. Caroline (Judy Davis) and her husband, Lloyd (Kevin Spacey), have been at each other's throats for so long that they've developed domestic arguments into an art form, and the would-be kidnapper turns into a reluctant mediator, even after he's got the battling couple wound up in bungee cords. The situation grows even more complicated when the couple's smart-aleck son comes home from military school, but it's not the plot here that's a top priority. Instead it's the sheer pleasure of witnessing a three-way verbal jousting match, written with razor-sharp skill and delivered by actors who are perfect for their roles. The movie's got a dark edge, but it never gets too dark--you know that it's not going to slide into more seriously damaging territory, so you can sit back and enjoy the volleys of scathing insults and sarcasm the way you would a Don Rickles performance.