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A gunshot rings out. Covered in blood, Kevin Lee slumps to the ground - wrapping up yet another successful turn in a Chinese blockbuster. Back home, the British actor is virtually unknown. But in China he has become a familiar face, always playing the villain who either gets killed or beaten up - defeated by the Chinese hero every single time. Known as Kaiwen in China, he has played a hitman in Jackie Chan's Kung Fu Yoga, and a blue monster in fantasy film Super Me. But he is best known in China for playing American colonel Allan D Maclean...

I am a Potterhead, or Pottermaniac, or whatever you want to call the illogical devotees to J.K. Rowling's books on the magical world of Harry Potter. And as such, we crazies have been devoted to the movies from the beginning. But no movie in the series has been looked forward to like these last two, that will bring the Harry Potter saga to a close. Deathly Hallows is a clear divergence from the rest of the series. Although each iteration of the Potter storyline gets darker and darker, Deathly Hallows magnifies that darkness geometrically. All the other movies, including the...