All posts tagged "Action"
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Cate Marquis | September 27, 2024
WOLFS – Review
Brad Pitt and George Clooney team up as a couple of lone wolf professional “fixers” for clients who...
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Mark Glass | July 19, 2024
CUSTOMS FRONTLINE – Review
In CUSTOMS FRONTLINE, Hong Kong delivers plenty of high-octane, large-scale action in this subtitled contemporary cop adventure. The...
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Cate Marquis | July 19, 2024
TWISTERS – Review
It’s summer, and tornadoes might be on the news and on your mind, so if a studio is...
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Cate Marquis | May 3, 2024
THE FALL GUY – Review
A love letter to Hollywood and stunt men, THE FALL GUY is an entertaining, stunt-packed action/comedy film wrapped...
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Jim Batts | April 5, 2024
MONKEY MAN (2024) – Review
Since we’re now into the slow slide from Easter/Spring Break into the Summer cinema season, how about an...
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Jim Batts | March 20, 2024
ROAD HOUSE (2024) – Review
So, last weekend saw the release of a sequel, the fourth in a franchise concerning the powerful Po,...
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Mark Glass | February 8, 2024
AIR FORCE ONE DOWN – Review
How many times have you seen this plot: terrorists take over a big (fill in the blank); they...
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Mark Glass | February 6, 2024
FOGGY MOUNTAIN – Review
Regular readers will know I’ve praised a slew of East Asian martial arts and action flicks in the...
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Mark Glass | January 30, 2024
RANSOMED – Review
South Korea has exported a slew of first-rate action flicks in the past few years, and RANSOMED counts...
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Mark Glass | January 25, 2024
BAD HOMBRES (2024) – Review
BAD HOMBRES is a gritty little action drama based in the drug trade and illegal immigration along the...
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Mark Glass | January 24, 2024
WOLF PACK – Review
WOLF PACK is a fast-paced, subtitled action flick from China that’s well worth having to read the dialog...
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Mark Glass | January 12, 2024
THE BEEKEEPER – Review
By now, Jason Statham’s fans expect his movies to have a generous dose of over-the-top action sequences, with...
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Mark Glass | December 3, 2023
SILENT NIGHT – Review
For years, film buffs have enjoyed arguing about whether DIE HARD is a Christmas movie. The “yeas” emphasize...
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Mark Glass | November 29, 2023
EYE FOR AN EYE: BLIND SWORDSMAN – Review
Chinese martial arts films have a long tradition of including quite an array of masterful fighters with significant...
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Cate Marquis | September 29, 2023
THE CREATOR – Review
In the sci-fi action extravaganza THE CREATOR, a mash-up of hero-quest movies from STAR WARS to BLADE RUNNER,...
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Mark Glass | July 20, 2023
THE ISLAND – Review
To be honest, Michael Jai White headlines a lot of action flicks that many would consider beneath their...
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Mark Glass | July 20, 2023
NIGHT OF THE ASSASSIN – Review
South Korea has been exporting a lot of high-octane action flicks in the past several years. They tend...
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Cate Marquis | June 30, 2023
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY – Review
Indy’s back, in a new chapter that is a throw-back to that original Steven Spielberg RAIDERS OF THE...