Sweet, chewy, fun-sized and nutty with just a little pinch of sour, this grab bag of cinematic confections amounts to this year's score in imaginative storytelling courtesy of the cool new kids on the block.

Between ghosts coming back from the dead and Chow Yun-Fat disciples on a quest for justice, it's a night full of youthful enthusiasm and rampant mischief--the perfect time to get out of the house and step into the spotlight to sing your way into the hearts of the neighborhood.

Juvenile pranks escalate into an amusing hostage situation at the drop of a hat.

An expectant father's anxieties spiral down flights of madness as he questions his own complicity in his first daughter's death. Share the pain.

Patronized to death by racist customers, two sushi waiters channel John Woo's spirit and serve up some righteous retaliation hard-boiled style.

The Vietnamese Tet Festival in Little Saigon, CA offers a young boy temporary refuge from the daily cruelties he witnesses at home.

The only thing sweeter than Halloween candy is revenge on those bastards who egged the car last year.

A beaten but unbroken man rolls with life's punches. And rolls....and rolls.

A third-generation Japanese Canadian remodels his father's unprofitable greasy spoon into a night spot in hopes of resusci-
tating business and realizing his own
aspirations to be a lounge singer.