The Apprentice

Watch as legendary Texas Knifemaker Johnny Stout walks you through the finer points of hollow grinding. Get an over the shoulder view of Johnny teaching you his techniques and secrets on one of the most important aspects of knifemaking. Enjoy multiple camera angles, split scenes, and extreme close-ups as Johnny grinds both fixed blades and folders in this spectacular video. This video is a "must have" for both the beginner and the professional knifemaker!

Dick Strawbridge leads a team of model railway enthusiasts as they attempt to build the longest model railway in the world, 71 miles across Scotland, from Fort William on the west coast to Inverness on the east coast. It's a route the Victorians never managed, so building this miniature railway will be an epic challenge.

The Trump International Hotel and Tower, also known as Trump Tower Chicago and locally as the Trump Tower, is a skyscraper condo-hotel under construction in downtown Chicago, Illinois in the United States. Architect Adrian Smith, who worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill during the building's planning and design stages, designed the building, named after real estate developer Donald Trump. Bovis Lend Lease is building the 92-story structure to a height of 1,362 feet (415 m) including its spire, with its roof topping out at 1,170 feet (360 m). It is adjacent to the main branch of the Chicago River with a view of the entry to Lake Michigan beyond a series of bridges that cross the river. The building received publicity when the winner of the first season of The Apprentice, Bill Rancic, chose to manage the construction of the tower.

Bandits and heroes both come looking for the legendary fighter known as ‘The Shadow Whip’ (Tin Fung) who lives in seclusion with his apprentice Yang Kai-yun (Cheng Pei-pei) and the truth about a crime committed fifteen years ago.
Lo Wei, former film star-turned-director and the self-proclaimed discoverer of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan helmed The Shadow Whip, one of his last films with Shaw Brothers before moving on to Golden Harvest and eventually striking out on his own. This wuxia pien set in the fabled martial world re-teamed Asia’s top martial arts queen Cheng Pei-pei with Yuen Hua five years after the pair wowed audiences and became action superstars in Come Drink with Me. It’s loaded with old school swordplay action that hasn’t aged as well as its contemporaries, but memorable snowy locales and lots of entertaining bullwhip usage, coupled with the stars’ charisma makes this effort worth visiting.

Director: Hoi Mang
Sammo Hung stars in this baffling low-budget kung fu yarn directed by Mang Hoi. The film opens with the improbably named villain Against-Nature Boy (Ken Lo Wai-kwong), vowing to destroy the palace of heaven after a welcomed absence of 18 years. Lama Mud-yuet (Lam Ching-ying) enlists his archenemy Chek-fei (Wu Ma) to help him locate the legendary Sharp-Witted Buddha, the only force that could possibly counter the awesome force of Against-Nature Boy. The Buddha turns out to be Dragon (Chin Kar-lok), Mud-yuet's apprentice. Soon, the trio visit wizened master Gai-lap (Hung) to instruct the lad on how to use his immense powers.

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger create a phantasmagoric marriage of cinema and opera in this one-of-a-kind take on a classic story. In Jacques Offenbach’s fantasy opera The Tales of Hoffmann, a poet dreams of three women—a mechanical performing doll, a bejeweled siren, and the consumptive daughter of a famous composer—all of whom break his heart in different ways. Powell and Pressburger’s feverishly romantic adaptation is a feast of music, dance, and visual effects, and one of the most exhilarating opera films ever produced.

The Three Musketeers is an upcoming film directed and produced by Paul W. S. Anderson based on the novel by the same title by Alexandre Dumas. The film, shot in 3D, is scheduled for release on October 14, 2011. The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

Presenting a vast chronicle of life on the remote Kurage Island, the film centres on the disgraced, superstitious, interbred Futori family and the Tokyo engineer sent to supervise the creation of a new well - an encounter which leads to both conflict and complicity in strange and powerful ways.

A professional hit man is planning to retire, always a difficult move for one in such a profession. A young apprentice appears to be eager to learn all the skills of the trade - but is that all he wants?