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 Driver (1978)
7.2/10
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani
Ryan O'Neal is The Driver, Bruce Dern is The Detective and Isabelle Adjani is The Player in this minamalist noir-inspired offering. O'Neal is an ice-c... Read more
Battle of the Planets: Volume 1 (1978)
7.6/10
Director: David E Hanson
Starring: Animation
In these two "Battle of the Planets" Cult television Episodes, the G-Force team battle against Zoltar and his aliens as they try to take over Centre N... Read more
Battle of the Planets: Volume 2 (1978)
7.6/10
Director: David E Hanson
Starring: Animation
With the continuation of the 'Battle of the Planets' Cult Animation series, we are lead on more adventures, with the G-Force team. In the 'The Space M... Read more
The Wild Geese (1978)
6.8/10
Director: Andrew V McLaglen
Starring: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger
Their home is the battlefield. Their calling is war. Their only loyalty is to each other. They are the Wild Geese, fifty crack mercenary paratroops co... Read more
Drunken Master (1978)
7.6/10
Director: Yuen Woo Ping
Starring: Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu Tien, Hwang Jang Lee
Wong Fei Hung (Jackie Chan) is sent to train under his uncle , a wine-guzzling master famous for crippling his students. Desperate to escape this brut... Read more
Superman (1978)
7.3/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Valer...
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! Christopher Reeve stars as the Man of Steel, who must thwart notorious criminal masterm... Read more
Game Of Death (1978)
6.1/10
Director: Robert Clouse
Starring: Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Colleen Camp
Bruce Lee died midway through production of this martial arts thriller. Six years later the director reassembled the surviving actors and with the use... Read more
Invincible Shaolin (1978)
7.1/10
Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: Lung Wei Wang, Kuo Chui, Wei Pei, Lo Meng
A non-stop action Kung Fu classic of betrayal and violent retribution, this film delivers outrageous Shaw Brothers' martial arts mayhem at it's best.... Read more
Monkey: Season 1, Episodes 1-13 (1978)
8.7/10
Director: Yusuke Watanabe
Starring: Shiro Kishibe, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masaaki Sakai, Masako Natsume
A surreal blend of Oriental fable, Kung Fu actions, Buddhist philosophy and slapstick comedy are the ingredients of this wonderfully dubbed 70's class... Read more
Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
6.3/10
Director: James Fargo
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Ruth Gordon, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Beverly D'Angelo
Clint Eastwood drives full throttle into this comedy about an easy going trucker whose bare-knuckled brawling sideline takes him from honkytonk to hon... Read more