The chairmanship of the ancient, powerful Wu Sing Society, a Triad alliance is up for 'election', a process by which the 'uncles', a group of ageing Mafiosi sit in a smoke filled room and vote. The trouble is that two characters of vastly different style, relaxed family man Lok and volatile Big D, are rivals for the post and a violent battle ensues for the future of the clan. find out more...

LAPD police officers Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala are bonded by friendship and a crusade to clean up the violent streets of South Central, Los Angeles. Their mission is to serve and protect, their objective is to survive until the end of watch, that last moment in an officer’s patrol when he’s finally off duty. But when a routine traffic enquiry re find out more...

Unwinding on a night out after a hard day fighting fires, Jeremy Coleman stops at a convenience store where he becomes witness to a ruthless murder by white nationalist David Hagan. Jeremy runs from the scene but identifies Hagan and later testifies against him to ensure a conviction. The killer knows exactly who Jeremy is, however, and even going into the wit find out more...

Pam Grier displays the charms that made her a 70s icon of the blaxploitation movie. When Foxy Brown's undercover drug squad boyfriend is murdered after her bad-ass brother reveals his identity, she poses as a hooker to take revenge on The Man. Cue bucketloads of gratuitous sex and violence. Brilliant (say some)! find out more...

Gripping 'hood thriller with James Belushi and the late Tupac Shakur (in the last role before his murder) as two bad-ass detectives who've hit on the perfect scam. While Belushi's glamorous girlfriend acts as the bait in a bogus drug deal, a drive-by shooting enables the corrupt cops to snatch the dead dealer's cash without fear of exposure. As far as the paperwork goes, the murder is obviously gang-related, and, therefore, solved. But the pair start to sweat when they unwittingly kill an underc find out more...

Irish Sicilian Henry Hill always wanted to be a gangster and from running errands as a small boy, he graduates to becoming a trusted member of the "family". A stunning, violent and essential portrait of the Mafia's intimate details. An award winning film, superbly crafted by Scorsese. find out more...

Joe Gavilan is a Hollywood detective on the verge of retirement and trying to supplement his pension with a bit of real estate thingamgiggery, his young partner Calden just wants to be an actor..badly. These two rather distracted coppers have a serious murder case to solve; they're just having a problem finding their priorities. Hollywood Homicide is a buddy, buddy action comedy very much not in the vein of any classics that might spring to mind. Dumb, implausible, pacy, fun. find out more...

Ming is a sergeant in the Hong Kong police force, but his true colours lie with his Triad boss; Yan works for the same Triad boss but his real loyalties are with the police. Both men have spent years leading the same furtive and often fraught existence but for opposing sides, and it is only when a drugs bust goes spectacularly wrong that the two moles become aware of the other's existence, though not their identity. Infernal Affairs is a hard boiled character driven thriller that concentrates he find out more...

This second part of the Infernal Affairs trilogy is set ten years prior to the showdown witnessed in the first film. Here we find Yan and Ming at the very beginning of their careers, one a young police officer undercover with the triads, the other a triad infiltrating the cops. Infernal Affairs II is every bit as slick as the first, an intelligent action thriller that fleshes out the central characters' motivations and, in a pleasantly frustrating way, makes a second watching of Part One unavoid find out more...

The final part of the Chinese gangster epic in which our two protagonists finally come face to face. If you've seen parts 1 and 2 then watch this, if you haven't then watch them. find out more...