Martial Arts Madness: Operation Condor (1991)

By Jason Haskins

I was a kid in the mid to late nineties and I remember being at my aunt's house when Jackie Chan swept the place. All of my random cousins were hugely into him, but I hadn't even heard of him...until they put on Operation Condor, which got me hooked. Now, he has become a colossal box office hero...though he has succumbed to Hollywood in recent years--making cheap films that have indubitably weakened his image. I will put my cards on the table and say that eighties/nineties Jackie Chan is still the man and this movie is one of the reasons why.

Cult Films: Apocalypto (2006)

By Jason Haskins

Mel Gibson sure has been in and out of some controversy the past handful of years. Going from the clean-cut action/thriller go-to guy role he displayed in such classics as Braveheart and Ransom to the man responsible for the biggest marketable movie of all time: The Passion of the Christ (hey, I enjoyed it!) and later getting buzzed for being buzzed (and driving no less with anti-Semitic motives!).

However, we all forget that some people lose themselves when drunk and mistakes happen. Obviously his public persona has been bashed for years, but Apocalypto proves that he actually has some talent behind him as a filmmaker instead of a man simply trying to cash in on Jesus Christ.