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...general crowd pleaser that will hopefully revive the Western genre that was so badly maimed after last year's Western bomb, Wild Wild West, Shanghai Noon is an entertaining action and adventure flick that mixes the Wild West and the Far East. Jackie Chan, the talented martial arts guru, stars as the acrobatic Imperial Guard, Chon Wang who travels to America to rescue the beautiful kidnapped Chinese Princess (Lucy Liu). Chan must rely on the help of a partner who he does not trust (Owen Wilson), a wife he doesn't want, and a horse he cannot ride. Combining mean...
...only website to offer this service, but it has by far the best music selection, in part through a partnership with Sony. Last week imix.com raised the stakes by offering DVDs as well, featuring hard-to-find movies and music videos. So far the selection is a bit martial-arts heavy--Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee figure prominently. Life's tough...
...always hard to beat a guerrilla army fighting for independence on home ground, but even more so when the insurgents are better armed than the government forces. Sri Lanka found itself forced to declare martial law Thursday following another dramatic defeat at the hands of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who last week took control of the gateway to the disputed Jaffna province, leaving some 40,000 government troops trapped and surrounded. And to make matters worse, India - whose government includes parties from India's Tamil province, and which was eventually asked by Sri Lanka to withdraw the last...
Tired of seeing their community portrayed as a martial camp in the Everglades, moderate Cuban Americans in Miami are finally raising their voices above the din of the city's Spanish-language, anticommunist talk radio. Political debates that used to be whispered in Little Havana kitchens are now held in clubs where the rhythms of once forbidden Cuban salsa bands like Los Van Van resound. Members of the new Cuban-American guard despise Castro too--but not so much that they disdain the First Amendment. As a result, they see their ascendancy as more than a chance to democratize Miami...
Under sniper fire during an embassy demonstration in Yemen, a Marine colonel (Samuel L. Jackson) orders his men to shoot at the demonstrators; 83 Yemenis are killed. At the colonel's court martial, his attorney (Tommy Lee Jones) cries bureaucratic cover-up--which the script, from a story by former Navy Secretary James Webb, sees as more damning than the massacre of civilians. The issues demand nuance, not the rhetorical bombast offered in this muddle. It has something to offend every political sensibility but little to offer in thoughtful drama...