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).
X-Men: First Class (Blu-ray) (2011)
7.7/10
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt, Rose Byrne, James McAvoy, January Jones, Michael Fass...
Set against the backdrop of the looming Cuban Missile Crisis, this thrilling prequel shows mutants Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lensherr (Mi... Read more
30 Minutes or Less (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.1/10
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Fred Ward, Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Pena, Nick Swardson, Danny McBride, Aziz Ans...
In this frenetic comedy, down-and-out pizza delivery guy Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) gets kidnapped by a pair of bumbling, would-be criminals (Danny McBrid... Read more
Killing Gunther (2017)
4.8/10
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bobby Moynihan, Hannah Simone
A group of eccentric assassins are fed up with Gunther, the world's greatest hitman, and decide to kill him, but their plan turns into a series of bun... Read more
Strike Back: Season 3 (2012)
8.2/10
Starring: Eva Birthistle, Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Amanda Mealing
Based on the book by Chris Ryan ("The One That Got Away"), "Strike Back" is a high-octane, globe-spanning thriller series with storylines ripped from... Read more
Outlaw (2007)
5.7/10
Director: Nick Love
Starring: Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Bob Hoskins
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their Police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they... Read more
Big Game (2014)
5.4/10
Director: Jalmari Helander
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber, Mehmet Kurtulus, T...
A young teenager camping in the woods helps rescue the President of the United States when Air Force One is shot down near his campsite. Read more
The Trials Of Cate McCall (2013)
6.3/10
Director: Karen Moncrieff
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte, James Cromwell, Mark Pellegrino
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal... Read more
Code 8 (2019)
6.1/10
Starring: Kari Matchett, Lawrence Bayne
A super-powered construction worker falls in with a group of criminals in order to raise the funds to help his ill mother. Read more
Momentum (2015)
5.5/10
Starring: Olga Kurylenko, Morgan Freeman, James Purefoy
Four criminals steal diamonds from a safe-deposit box in Cape Town00including a drive containing a US senator's evil plans. He'll do anything to get i... Read more
Edge Of Eternity (Blu-ray) (1959)
6.4/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam
In the 1950s, Arizona Deputy Sheriff Les Martin is pressured by his community to solve a string of mysterious murders around a mining ghost town in th... Read more