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).
Hercules Unchained (1960)
4.4/10
Director: Pietro Francisci
Starring: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Sylvia Lopez
Steve Reeves returns as the mighty Hercules in this saga of muscles, maidens and monsters. Robbed of his memory, Herc is a prisoner of the lovely Quee... Read more
One Down Two to Go (1982)
4.6/10
Director: Fred Williamson
Starring: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, Richard Roundtree, Paula Sills, Laura Lof...
During a high stakes karate tournament, Chuck (Jim Kelly) suspects the match is rigged and calls in his buddies Cal (Fred Willimason who also directs)... Read more
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
6.8/10
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence
Tremendously entertaining story of medical team reduced to microscopic size, then injected inside human body. Marvellous special effects and set des... Read more
Dark Angel ( aka I Come in Peace ) (1990)
7.4/10
Director: Craig R Baxley
Starring: Betsy Brantley, Brian Benben, Dolph Lundgren
Aka "I Come in Peace". While making a drug bust, police detective Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) witnesses a drug dealer and his partner slaughtered by a... Read more
The Warlords ( Blu-ray ) (2007)
7.1/10
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Starring: Andy Lau, Jet Li, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jinglei Xu
Far from the stylistic martial arts pics of recent times, this unrelentingly violent historical epic set during the Qing Dynasty of the late 19th cent... Read more
Escape Plan (2013)
6.7/10
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, Sylvester Stallone, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vinn...
One of the world's foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility cal... Read more
Alien 3 (Blu-Ray) (1992)
7.7/10
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Charles S Dutton, Lance Henriksen
INCLUDES BOTH THEATRICAL CUT AND ASSEMBLY CUT. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor when she crash lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wa... Read more
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (Blu-Ray) (1973)
6.8/10
Director: Gordon Hessler
Starring: Caroline Munro, John Phillip Law, Martin Shaw, Robert Shaw, Tom Baker, Douglas W...
Sinbad's adventure pits him against a master magician who's trying to reach the Fountain of Destiny on the lost land of Lemuria in a bid to be crowned... Read more
In Like Flynn (2018)
5.3/10
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Starring: Thomas Cocquerel, Corey Large, William Moseley, Clive Standen, David Wenham, Dan...
A chronicle of Errol Flynn's pre-Hollywood sea adventures up the east coast of Australia. His crew includes his best friend Rex, a wild, visceral youn... Read more
The Hurricane (1937)
7.3/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond M...
In the colonial era, island native Terangi (Jon Hall) spends a blissful honeymoon with his bride, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). Soon after, however, their... Read more