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).
Western Union (1941)
6.8/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Sli...
Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott) wants to put his criminal past behind him and gets his chance when he is hired to protect workers constructing telegraph p... Read more
Westworld (1973)
7/10
Director: Michael Crichton
Starring: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the theme park called Westworld. They can bust up a bar or bust out of jail, drop in on a brothel o... Read more
Westworld ( Blu-ray ) (1973)
7/10
Director: Michael Crichton
Starring: James Brolin, Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner
For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the theme park called Westworld. They can bust up a bar or bust out of jail, drop in on a brothel o... Read more
What Happened To Monday? (2017)
6.9/10
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Starring: Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, Noomi Rapace, Christian Rubeck
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the go... Read more
Wheels On Meals (1984)
7.2/10
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Richard Ng
A Jackie Chan spectacular with Jackie and Yuen Biao selling Chinese food from their van in Barcelona, Spain. Soon, their involvement with a pickpocket... Read more
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
7.7/10
Director: Brian G Hutton
Starring: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure
The mission is clear. Get in. Get the general. Get out. Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to t... Read more
Where Eagles Dare ( Blu-ray ) (1968)
7.7/10
Director: Brian G Hutton
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Richard Burton
The mission is clear. Get in. Get the general. Get out. Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to t... Read more
White Crane Chronicles ( aka Kung Fu Killer ) (2008)
Director: Philip Spink
Starring: Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Cheng Pei-Pei, Osric Chau, Kay Tong Lim, Lim Yu-B...
China, 1929. As the Republic crumbles, only the legendary Wudang monks dare to defy the ruthless warlords trafficking in the opium trade. Among them i... Read more
White Tiger (2012)
5/10
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Starring: Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko, Dimitriy Bykovskiy-Romasho...
Aleksey Vertkov stars as Ivan Naydenov, a mysterious Soviet soldier discovered amidst the wreckage of a destroyed tank. Ninety percent of his body is... Read more
White Vengeance (2011)
6.3/10
Director: Daniel Lee
Starring: Leon Lai, Yifei Liu, Zhang Hanyu, Shaofeng Feng
In a time of tyranny and oppression, deception is everywhere. Insurgency swells among the people as two friends battle for supremacy - and the love of... Read more