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).
Zatoichi 16: The Outlaw (1967)
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Rentaro Mikuni
Zatoichi, played of course by the brilliant Shintaro Katsu, wanders into yet another village in turmoil as rival gambling houses are putting the squee... Read more
Enemy Of The State (1998)
7.3/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean, Jake Busey, Barry...
Will Smith is on the run from dangerous, secretive forces who believe he is carrying essential, covert information. Gene Hackman plays the contact who... Read more
Heroes of the East (1979)
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Chia Hui Gordon Liu, Yuka Mizuno
A Chinese man (Gordon Liu) marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issu... Read more
Fearless ( Blu-ray ) (2006)
7.7/10
Director: Ronny Yu
Starring: Jet Li, Nathan Jones, Jean Claude Leuyer, Brandon Rhea, Shido Nakamura, Betty Su...
Rumoured (sadly) to be Jet Li's last wushu film this epic biopic tells the story of Chinese national hero and founder of the Jingwu Sports Federation,... Read more
Butterfly Lovers (2008)
6.5/10
Director: Jingle Ma
Starring: Charlene Choi, Ge Hu, Chun Wu
Aka "The Assassin's Blade". Based on an ancient Chinese legend, Charlene Choi stars as Zhu Yanzhi, a girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to e... Read more
The Furious Disciples Collection: Way of the Dragon / Young Master / Knockabout / Dragon Fist (2009)
Director: Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Lo Wei, Sammo Hung
Starring: Bruce Lee, Donnie Yen, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao
Ancient Chinese martial arts tradition dictates that only those loyal initiates who trained the longest and fought the hardest were to have access to... Read more
The 5 Deadly Venoms (1978)
Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: Lung Wei Wang, Philip Kwok
One of the loopiest kung-fu movies ever made, a garish masterpiece of martial arts kitsch by the hard-boiled master of the genre, Chang Cheh. The five... Read more
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (Blu-Ray) (1977)
6.4/10
Director: Sam Wanamaker
Starring: Jane Seymour, Patrick Troughton, Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting
Legendary adventurer Sinbad (Patrick Wayne) stops in a port town to visit his friend Prince Kassim (Damien Thomas), only to find the city walls locked... Read more
Hollow Man ( Blu-ray ) (2000)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Dickens
Paul Verhoeven's nasty, high-tech variation on "The Invisible Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a self-absorbed scientist working on a government invisibility... Read more
The Parts You Lose (2019)
5.4/10
Director: Christopher Cantwell
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Scoot McNairy
A young boy in a small North Dakota town befriends a potentially dangerous fugitive. Read more