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July 19 - 28, Asia Society

The conspiracies are swirling, the evangelical Christians are frothing at the mouth, it can only mean one thing: Ron Howard's opens this weekend. Will you get sucked in to the Hollywood thriller madness? It's not even Memorial Day yet but Gothamist already has summer blockbuster fever.

A young, beautiful pregnant woman sweats and groans as she tries to give birth alone in a restaurant's commercial kitchen. She's also holding a loaded gun, aimed at the assassin ready to kill her. Yee-haw. Only in the newest releases from Hong Kong cinema could you see such a potent, emotional and violent image.

Despite his place as the second highest paid Chinese movie stars, save for #1 Jackie Chan, Jet Li gets surprisingly little buzz here in the States. To coincide with the release of his 2002 hit in Asia finally making it to our screens, the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens presents a series devoted to Li's movies, "Fist & Sword: A Tribute to Jet Li" running through next Thursday, Aug. 26.