Shaolin Soccer is a fantastic movie, for all the things you've mentioned and more. I've yet to see Hustle, only because we rented it once and tried to watch it with Henry and the opening scene kind of put us off of viewing with The Boy.

I read the first four books. When I got to Book Five it all started getting so depressing that I just stopped. It suddenly became work to get through a novel, and unless it's Tolstoy and I'm getting a grade for it, that isn't happening again.