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).
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Blu-ray) (1980)
8.7/10
Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring: Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams, Alec Guinness, Vo...
The sequel to the original 'Star Wars' (Episode IV) finds our heroes under attack by the Evil Empire. Luke is taking advanced Jedi training from Yoda... Read more
Superman II (1980)
6.8/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder
The Man of Steel is back, Metropolis is in trouble as three super-villans threaten destruction, and Lois Lane marries Clark Kent, only to find him a s... Read more
Shaolin Wooden Men (1980)
6.6/10
Director: Chen Chi-hwa
Starring: Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan witnesses his father's death by the skilled hands of a martial arts master with an unknown killing technique, After being chump of a Shaol... Read more
Any Which Way You Can (1980)
6.1/10
Director: Buddy Van Horn
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geoffrey Lewis, Sondra Locke, William Smith, Harry Guardino, Rut...
Clint Eastwood stars in this sequel to 'Every Which Way But Loose', about the comic adventures, fights and romantic pursuits of a Los Angeles trucker... Read more
Goodbye Pork Pie (1980)
6.9/10
Director: Geoff Murphy
Starring: Tony Barry, Kelly Johnson, Claire Oberman
Gerry is a 19-year-old unemployed no-hoper from Auckland who illicitly rents a yellow Mini with little more than mischief in mind. He offers a ride to... Read more
The Dogs Of War (1980)
6.3/10
Director: John Irvin
Starring: Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely
Christopher Walken is a sentimental mercenary in this film of Frederick Forsyth's novel about a plot by a business conglomerate to overthrow an Africa... Read more
The Young Master (1980)
7.3/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Wei Pei, Yuen Biao, Li Li-Li, Sheck Kin
One of Jackie Chan's first films as director/star that rocketed him to world-wide recognition. This colourful period-comedy follows Jackie as he seeks... Read more
Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979)
7.2/10
Director: John Woo
A son sets out to avenge his father and gets two sword fighters to help him in John Woo's take on the heroic fantasy movie genre. With plenty of outst... Read more
Heroes of the East (1979)
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Chia Hui Gordon Liu, Yuka Mizuno
A Chinese man (Gordon Liu) marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issu... Read more
Moonraker ( Blu-ray ) (1979)
6.3/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Roger Moore, Corinne Clery, Richard Kiel
The sky's no longer the limit for 007 when Roger Moore, as James Bond, blasts into orbit to bring down an obsessed tycoon with his own space station a... Read more