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By 2004, Jackie Chan thought that it was time to reboot the “Police Story” series, which eventually led to the 5th installment in the franchise, with him playing not Chan Ka-kui anymore, but Inspector Chan Kwok-wing. The most important difference with the previous installments, however, is that “New Police Story” is essentially a drama, almost completely leaving the comedic premises of the previous series to the background.

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The movie begins with Inspector Chan being a total mess, completely drunk, with even the taxi drivers avoiding him. Flashback one year earlier, he and his group of young cadets are about to be in a showdown with Joe, the leader of a gang, and his crew of youths who, apart from robbers, are also cop killers. The fight between the two groups ends up in a devastating defeat for the police, with...

Humans, wizards, witches, and everything magical in between is in danger in the third installment of the “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” franchise.

Part of the “Harry Potter” universe, “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” pits Dumbledore (Jude Law) against rebel Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) in a battle to protect the fate of mankind living alongside wizard. “The Secrets of Dumbledore” premieres April 15 in theaters.

“Memory is everything,” an older and wiser Dumbledore says in the new trailer. “Without it, we are blind. Without it, we leave the fate of our world to chance.” Watch the full trailer below.

Set in the 1930s, the film centers on the lead-up to Wizarding World’s involvement in World War II, with hero Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) entering battle against Grindewald alongside Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), Lally Hicks (Jessica Williams), Theseus Scamander (Callum Turner), and Dumbledore, as they battle Credence Barebone...

One of Hong Kong’s top genre directors after a string of hits over the last few years, Dante Lam follows his character-based Mma drama “Unbeatable” with “That Demon Within”. Though it again sees Lam teaming with acclaimed actor Nick Cheung, the film is a very different proposition, a psycho drama with horror touches and violent action sequences that follows the descent into madness of a troubled cop. Daniel Wu plays Dave Wong, an uptight Hong Kong police officer currently side-lined to a quiet security job in a hospital. One night his life is thrown into disarray after he agrees to give a blood transfusion to a seriously injured man (Nick Cheung), who turns out to be Han, the leader of the criminal Demon Gang, responsible for a recent spree of violent heists. Blamed by his colleagues for saving the life of a cop-killer, Dave finds himself cracking under the pressure after Han escapes,...

Rock-dumb Hong Kong thriller That Demon Within is exhausting, and only sometimes batshit enough to be engaging. Popular action filmmaker Dante Lam (The Beast Stalker, Stool Pigeon) never capitalizes on the exciting conceit he and co-writer Wai Lun Ng have come up with to introduce Dave Wong (Daniel Wu), a psychologically disturbed cop.

Through narration addressed to no one particular, Dave resolutely but vaguely explains that his police uniform shields him from the fears that define him. He only announces this after Hon (Nick Cheung), a thief, is shown praying to demons and donning a mask before his next heist. That juxtaposition is tantalizing: Like Dave, Hon treats his work clothes as armor.

Their connection is further confirmed when Dave gives ...

Directed by Don Coscarelli

Featuring Paul Giamatti, Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Glynn Turman

How would I succinctly pitch John Dies at the End? I think it’s kind of like if Charlie Kaufman fused Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, then got it directed by Spike Jonze.

Not having read the hugely popular book upon which it’s based, I can’t speak on its faithfulness to the source material, but the film has a twisty and unpredictable plot, and an abundance of bonkers energy to it. Unfortunately it’s only intermittently entertaining and just a little too weird to connect with a wide audience.

Helmed by cult horror fave Don Coscarelli (who did the similarly quirky but widely adored Bubba Ho Tep, not to mention Phantasm), the film starts off with one strongest and funniest pre-credit sequences I’ve seen in a horror film in a long time,...