Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi Directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka Faiince John Woo's departure for Hollywood in 1992, the Hong Kong "bullet ballet" has been shooting blanks. At the end of the 1990s, filmmakers Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai re-energized the format with films that satirized the genre as much as they celebrated it. While the plot of Fulltime Killer is really nothing new (two hit men vying for the title of number-one assassin), the movie's stylish quirks and rampant references to "testosterone culture" put it in a league of its own. Standout scene: Killer Tok (Andy Lau) hits on a girl while wearing a Bill Clinton mask. Our former president's legacy endures.

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."