By the early nineties, the stock of Jean Claude Van Damme had risen to the point where he now was an acceptable draw at the
Tag: Action
The Fearless Hyena
After years of honing his particular brand of Kung fu laced with broad physical comedy in such flicks as Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow and
Universal Soldier
It wasn’t until 2010’s The Expendables that 80’s action titans Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone finally stood together in the same movie that wasn’t counting
Waterworld
There’s always a stigma that clings to a film like a barnacal if it flops and it was especially true in the 90’s. If your
Gods Of Egypt
Surely no other genre in cinema has benefited from the rise of CGI more than the fantasy film with Harry Potter, Middle-Earth and the incest
The Killer
After the literal smoke had cleared from the iconic climax of A Better Tomorrow II, it seemed that action maestro John Woo was poised to
Paycheck
If I’m being honest, John Woo’s big move from making home grown, Hong Kong, action bangers to adjusting to a career blowing shit up in
Drunken Master
When Jackie Chan and Woo Ping Yuen released Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow onto an unsuspecting public back in 1978, it was only to the
Underworld: Blood Wars
I may have ranted out this particular lament before, but who the Hell insists on watching the Underworld movies enough to the extent that we
Jason Bourne
After an intriguing spin-off that eventually went utterly nowhere, the powers that be decided that instead of offering up Jeremy Renner-shaped alternatives, maybe it was
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Perhaps it’s only fitting that the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies seemed to be getting worse the more money they made at the box office;
The Young Master
With his second directorial effort, we find injury prone, action/comedy deity immortal, Jackie Chan winding ever closer to kung-fu nirvana with his game changing masterpiece,
Underworld: Awakening
At this point, I feel I should ask a couple of pertinent questions, like who out there is actually demanding for more Underworld sequels and
The Bourne Legacy
Usually when the lead character opts out of a franchise, it usually means that the writing is on the wall for that particular series, but
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
I’ve never really been one to complain about inferior sequels taking the sheen of a glowing original, but I really have to think that the
Day Shift
Vampire hunters have taken many forms over the years; hell, even Van Helsing himself has had more facelifts than Jackie Stallone, but with Netflix’s new
Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow
When regarding the ingenious nature of Jackie Chan, action cinema’s beloved whirlwind of punching and prat falls, it’s easy to hold up his 1985 classic,
Resident Evil – Season 1, Episode 8: Revelations
And so we finally get to the end of Netflix’s incredibly muddled Resident Evil adaptation and I don’t mind telling you, it’s been quite the
Frankenstein Conquers The World
Japanese Kaiju movies from the 50’s and 60’s tended to come complete with the weirdest plots, but maybe that’s to be expected from a country
Vampires
During his heyday, genre overlord John Carpenter had an impressive talent of churning out films that were decades ahead of their time. While this often
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