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We’ve had horror movies about possessed inanimate objects ranging from dolls and cars to clothes and appliances — so why not an arcade game?

Written by D.W. Gillespie (Give Me Something Good to Eat), Grin will be published on August 26 via Delacorte Press.

The 272-page middle grade horror novel is perfect for budding horror fans between the ages of 8 and 12 that like Five Nights at Freddy’s and “Stranger Things.”

12-year-old video game aficionado Danny is overjoyed to be spending a week at his Uncle Bill’s arcade store, Pixelworks — he can play as many video games as he wants; he meets a new friend and possibly crush, Jodi; and the intriguing, incredibly addictive new video game, Grin, shows up in the shop.

But when Uncle Bill starts spending all his time playing the mysterious Grin, he begins acting… different. He’s erratic, impatient, and angry, almost as if he’s possessed.

In Jackie Chan's “Police Story” film series, Stanley Tong took over the helm as director from Chan in “Police Story 3: Supercop” (1992). Michelle Yeoh joined the cast as Inspector Yang from China and gave Chan a good run for his money doing her own stunts and fighting. In “Supercop 2”, Yeoh reprises her role as the main lead this time while Chan returns in a cameo as Inspector Chan and in drag.

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Not long after her return to China from her successful mission in Malaysia, some terrorists are holding hostages in a building. The Government promptly sends Inspector Jessica Yang Jian Wa (Michelle Yeoh) to rescue them. With the help of her boyfriend, Vietnam war veteran David Chang Fung (Yu Rong Guang), who now works as a security guard, they have the situation under control. Yang gets a medal...

All the world loves Jackie Chan, whose cinematic action pictures bridge the gap between silent-era virtuosity and slick modernity. As light comedy entertainment these first two Police Story smash ‘n’ bash epics of eye-popping jeopardy are suitable as ‘family entertainment’ as well. Jackie is a marvelous hero, while Maggie Cheung is an old fashioned girl who doesn’t mind being threatened, kidnapped and occasionally having her scalp split open. You will believe that men can tumble from high roosts onto concrete, and smash through acres of glass countertops without receiving a scratch necessarily going straight to emergency surgery. Criterion has created beautiful new masters, with original soundtracks and extras to make every foolish Jackie Chan fan try some ridiculously dangerous stunt for themselves!

Police Story / Police Story 2

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The Criterion Collection 971, 972

1985 & 1988 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 100 and 122 min. / Ging chat goo si / Ging chaat goo si juk jaap /available through The Criterion...

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Police Story might just be the greatest action franchise of all time. But which movies are the best in the series?

After his disappointing experience in America filming The Protector, Jackie Chan returned to Hong Kong determined to make his own cop film his own way. The result - Police Story - kickstarted perhaps the greatest action franchise of all time; a series of films that still deliver thrills of a near-religious magnitude for genre fans.

Aside from the two reboots, the Police Stories revolve around Jackie's maverick Hong Kong cop Ka-Kui Chan (or Kevin Chan, in the English dubs) with frequent appearances from his lovably inept superior 'Uncle Bill' (Bill Tung) and his long-suffering girlfriend May (Maggie Cheung). The story continuity is a little ropey but instead each instalment offers a new, and usually more improbable, case for Ka-Kui to crack.

There's a blend of comedy,...