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).
Stargate (1994)
7.1/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson
In Egypt, archeologists uncover a gigantic stone ring that, decades later, is found to be an interplanetary nexus. Scientist James Spader and Air Forc... Read more
Running With The Devil (Blu-ray) (2019)
5.4/10
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne
A large batch of cocaine smuggled from Mexico to Canada through the United States is mysteriously lost along the way. The head of the drug cartel inst... Read more
Primal (Blu-ray) (2019)
8.7/10
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Famke Janssen, Kevin Durand, Michael Imperioli
A big-game hunter for zoos has booked passage on a Latin American shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, i... Read more
The Day Shall Come (2019)
5.9/10
Director: Christopher Morris, Chris Morris
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Kayvan Novak
An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for... Read more
Highlander II: Renegade Version (Special Edition) (Blu-ray) (1991)
4.3/10
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Starring: Christopher Lambert, John C McGinley, Michael Ironside, Sean Connery, Virginia M...
It's 2024 and MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) and Ramirez (Sean Connery) are back to save planet Earth. Ozone depletion, time travel and corporate greed... Read more
Pale Flower (Blu-ray) (1964)
7.8/10
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Starring: Seiji Miyaguchi, Eijiro Tono
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young wo... Read more
Crackers (1984)
5.2/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn, Christine Baranski
Reduced to minding the counter at a crusty pawn shop, Weslake tumbles onto a scheme by some disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than b... Read more
Project Wolf Hunting (2022)
6.1/10
Follows dangerous criminals on a cargo ship who are transported from the Philippines to South Korea, as they unleash a sinister force after an escape... Read more
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
4.1/10
Director: Mic Rodgers
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Bill Goldberg
This theatrical sequel to the 1992 actioner features Jean-Claude Van Damme as the former "unisol" who must take on a rogue government supercomputer na... Read more
The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1974)
Director: Teruo Ishii
Starring: Sonny Chiba
Meet the meanest karate master ever to rule the streets. He's Sonny Chiba, the greatest martial arts sensation since Bruce Lee! Chiba explodes as Terr... Read more