Action
The enduring popularity of the action movie has drenched the genre in cliche yet glorious invention abounds around the globe - fighting is the international language. Fashionable styles of film-making come and go but action movies just change their shoes and remain centre-stage.
Great glittering galaxies of genre from across the Alice universe have been gleaned to assemble a suitably kick-ass selection of ballistic ballet and poetic pugilism to scintillate the delicate senses of our discerning clientele. Are you ready to rumble? Are you feeling lucky, Sir/Madame? Our suggestions for a hearty evening of action are listed below.
Pictured: Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang springs into action. Sean Connery as agent 007 in "Diamonds are Forever" (1971).
Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995)
7.6/10
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L Jackson
After travelling across America to battle bad guys in the first two films, New York detective Bruce Willis gets to stay on his home turf this time out... Read more
Ned Kelly (2003)
6.5/10
Director: Gregor Jordan
Starring: Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush
Australia, 1880s. After a brutal childhood at the hands of the police and the subsequent death of his father, 16-year-old Ned Kelly is imprisoned on t... Read more
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Extended Edition (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchet...
A new version of the second instalment in the epic trilogy now includes over 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage. Frodo Baggins and the Fellowshi... Read more
Dr No (1962)
7.3/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Ursula Andress, Sean Connery, Bernard Lee, Jack Lord, Joseph Wiseman, Lois Maxwe...
The first of the phenomenally successful Bond movies. 007's mission takes him to the steamy island of Jamaica, where another agent has been murdered,... Read more
Neon Genesis Evangelion 0:2 (1997)
Director: Hideaki Anno
Starring: Animation
Episodes 5-8. The Evangelion is the most powerful combat weapon ever conceived of by man, but at the core of each Eva is a single young human pilot. A... Read more
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 6, Episodes 1-11 (2001)
8.2/10
Director: Donald Petrie, Joss Whedon, David Grossman, David Solomon, Nick Marck, David Fury, Turi Meyer
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Emma Caulfield, Michelle Trachtenberg,...
Elated with having Buffy back from the dead, her friends never wonder if she may have been in a better place. Only Spike knows the truth and as Buffy... Read more
Charlie's Angels (2000)
5.5/10
Director: Joseph McGinty Nichol
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Tim Curry, Cameron Diaz, Crispin Glover, Tom Green, Lucy Liu, Bi...
70's tv's sexiest female sleuths get a high octane updating in this slick actioner. Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu are the lovely, lethal d... Read more
John Wick (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Chad Stahelski, David Leitch
Starring: Ian McShane, Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe, Michael Nyqvist, Dean Winters, Lance Re...
An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. Keanu Reeves is back in this old-fashioned kind of act... Read more
Rob Roy (1995)
6.9/10
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Brian Cox
Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange are at the centre of this historical drama with a liberal dose of sex and romance about the legendary Scottish warrior R... Read more
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
8.6/10
Director: Rian Johnson
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Carrie Fisher, Frank Oz, Laura Dern, Mark Hamill, Andy Serkis,...
Luke Skywalker's peaceful and solitary existence gets upended when he encounters Rey, a young woman who shows strong signs of the Force. Her desire to... Read more