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).
King Kong ( Blu-ray ) (1976)
5.9/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Charles Grodin, Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange
Updated misfire of the 1933 classic, produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Jeff Bridges as an anti-establishment paleontologist who stows away o... Read more
SuperFly (2018)
4.9/10
Director: Director X.
Starring: Esai Morales, Jennifer Morrison, Big Boi , Michael Kenneth Williams, Jason Mitch...
Cocaine kingpin Youngblood Priest realizes that it's time to get out of the game after surviving a violent attack from a crazed rival. Hoping for one... Read more
Black Sails: Season 1 (2014)
8.3/10
Director: Various
Starring: Toby Stephens, Zach McGowan, Luke Arnold, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Louise Barnes,...
1715. The Golden Age of Piracy. New Providence Island is a lawless territory, controlled by historys most notorious pirate captains. The most feared... Read more
Darkman (Blu-Ray) (1990)
6.4/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Colin Friels, Dan Hicks, Frances McDormand, Larry Drake, Liam Ne...
When thugs employed by a crime boss lead a vicious assault on Dr. Peyton Wilder (Liam Neeson), leaving him literally and psychologically scarred, an e... Read more
Out Of Justice/Hard To Kill (1990)
Director: John Flynn
Starring: Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Jerry Orbach
The gruesome murder of a Brooklyn Detective will turn the case into a personal vendetta when the deceased's best friend and fellow officer will unleas... Read more
Sucker Punch (Bul-ray) (2011)
6/10
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Carla Gugino, Jena Malone, Scott Glenn, Abbie Cornish, Emily Browning, Oscar Isa...
From co-writer and director Zack Snyder ("Watchmen") comes this stylish fantasy actioner. Baby Doll (Emily Browning), a teen placed in an asylum where... Read more
London Has Fallen (2016)
5.9/10
Director: Babak Najafi
Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning is caught up in a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders. Read more
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
5.7/10
Calvin Barr, an old, bitter recluse who was once a legendary assassin for the US government, and whose task to kill Hitler almost changed the course o... Read more
U.S. Marshals (Blu-ray) (1998)
6.5/10
Director: Stuart Baird
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr
This action thriller features the marshal (Tommy Lee Jones) from 'The Fugitive' and his team, who are back on the case when a criminal suspect flees a... Read more
Hazell (1978)
7.3/10
Starring: Nicholas Ball, James Faulkner
A British television series about a fictional private detective named James Hazell and his adventures. Read more