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).
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
6.1/10
Director: Lewis Teague
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
In the blockbuster Romancing The Stone, novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) and wanderer Jack Colton (Michael D Douglas) went sailing off into the... Read more
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
6.3/10
Director: George Miller, George Ogilvie
Starring: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Angelo Rossitto
The third in the 'Mad Max' Trilogy pits Max (Mel Gibson) against the sadistic Aunty Entity (Tina Turner) while he leads a tribe of wild children to th... Read more
Shaker Run (1985)
5.5/10
Director: Bruce Morrison
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Leif Garrett, Lisa Harrow
A seasoned stunt-car driver and his mechanic are finding things at low ebb in Dunedin. In return for needed cash they agree to provide transport to Cl... Read more
Red Sonja (1985)
5/10
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger takes a back seat to Brigitte Nielsen in this sword and sorcery adventure film with the title character a fearless female warrio... Read more
Pale Rider (1985)
7.3/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress
Clint Eastwood wears two hats as director and actor in this first-rate western adventure, Eastwood's homage to "Shane". Clint stars as the mysterious... Read more
A View to a Kill (1985)
6.3/10
Director: John Glen
Starring: Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Christopher Walken, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee
Has 007 (Roger Moore) finally met his match in lean, mean female assassin May Day (Grace Jones)? Set in California's Silicon Valley, where Christopher... Read more
Commando (1985)
6.7/10
Director: Mark L Lester
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Alyssa Milano
John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a former Special Forces colonel who attempts to rescue his kidnapped daughter (Alyssa Milano) from South Americ... 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
Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom (Blu-Ray) (1984)
7.6/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Amrish Puri, Dan Aykroyd, Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Philip Stone, Ric Young,...
A prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) set in 1935, the year before, the professor, archaeologist and adventurer by the name of Indiana Jones is... Read more
Red Dawn ( Blu-ray ) (1984)
6.4/10
Director: John Milius
Starring: Ben Johnson, C Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Harry Dean Stanton, Jennifer Grey,...
It's gung-ho action all the way as a troop of small-town teenagers take on the Commies when the U.S. of A. gets invaded. Opening with a truly memorabl... Read more