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).
Iron Eagle II (1988)
5.5/10
Director: Sidney J Furie
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr
A young pilot plans a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force Colonel, is shot down over enemy territory and captured. Read more
Willow (Blu-ray) (1988)
7.3/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Billy Barty, Jean Marsh
From a story by George Lucas comes this epic fantasy-adventure in which Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a little person, is entrusted with delivering a... Read more
Akira ( Blu-ray ) (1988)
8.1/10
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Groundbreaking Japanese animated epic set in the post-WWIII metropolis of Neo-Tokyo. The labyrinthine plot revolves around a battle between oppressive... Read more
Rambo III ( Blu-ray ) (1988)
5.8/10
Director: Peter MacDonald
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna
Sylvester Stallone is the one-man fighting machine who heads to Afghanistan to rescue his former Army Commander (Richard Crenna) from Russian captivit... Read more
Die Hard ( Blu-ray ) (1988)
8.2/10
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia
Terrorists seize an L.A. skyscraper and hold everyone inside prisoner...except for New York cop Bruce Willis, whose estranged wife is among the hostag... Read more
The Dead Pool (1988)
6.3/10
Director: Buddy Van Horn
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Clint Eastwood, Evan Kim, Liam Neeson, Jim Carrey
In his fifth and final appearance as detective Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood finds himself hunting down the perpetrator of a hit list known as the 'd... Read more
Young Guns (1988)
6.9/10
Director: Christopher Cain
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Dermot Mulroney, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Casey Siem...
The legend of William H Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, notorious back-shooter and cult western figure, gets still another shot at cinematic immortality.... Read more
The Delta Force (1988)
5.6/10
Director: Menahem Golan
Starring: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Shelley Winters, Robert Forster, Kim Delaney, Robert V...
Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin star as bazooka-wielding super-soldiers, America's last hope against a group of hostage-holding political extremists. Thei... Read more
The Return of Swamp Thing (1988)
4.5/10
Director: Jim Wynorski
Starring: Heather Locklear, Louis Jourdan, Sara Douglas, Dick Durock
Everyone's favourite muck-encrusted plant-man is back and once again fighting the evil Dr Arcane, in this tongue-in-cheek action-adventure. But this t... Read more
The Beast (1988)
7.4/10
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin
This great war yarn is set in Afghanistan, 1981, where the Soviet Union is locked in a futile and bloody battle with the Mujahedeen guerrillas. Sepera... Read more