Reviewing the sequels that followed in the wake of Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry is somewhat of a thankless task these days. Oh, don’t get me
Tag: Action
The Three Musketeers
It’s easy to picture the people who keep financing Paul W.S. Anderson’s forgettable movies as a smug cabal of European money men desperate to crack
Shaft In Africa
Sequels, like the slick private dick that gets all the chicks himself, always have that pressure to perform when the heat is on. No matter
The Enforcer
By the third time Clint Eastwood dusted off his 44. Magnum, pulled on a pair of $29.50 slacks and did that swept back thing with
Daylight
Thanks to the rapidly expanding technology filmmakers were finding in their tool box, the 90’s saw an explosion of disaster movies the likes of which
Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings
While Marvel Studio’s Phase 4 has shown that the ubiquitous movie making machine hasn’t lost any of its vigour, it’s fair to say that Black
Bullet In The Head
Those of you familiar with the Hong Kong output of action maestro John Woo – before he moved to the States and gave us Broken
Shaft’s Big Score!
Exploding onto the scene in 1971 with possibly one of the most notorious theme tunes in cinema history, Shaft grabbed everybody’s attention thanks to his
Magnum Force
Right up to the moment the titular hero turned his maniacal nemesis into the equivalent of a human polo mint with a slug from his
Resident Evil: Retribution
Despite the occasional blip, the Resident Evil franchise is as reliable as their increasingly annoying codas that usually close their movies with a massive status
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
There’s some of you out there who would claim that the much maligned G.I. Joe franchise desperately needed rebooting (possibly with a bullet behind the
Shaft
Anyone unfamiliar with the blaxploitation pictures of the 70’s usually pictures the more cartoonish end of the spectrum with glorified pimps dressed in garish refinery,
Free Guy
It’s a well known fact by now that movies that adopt the mechanics of how videogame’s work into their plots usually end up being far
Jungle Cruise
Not content with the seemingly endless stream of content they’ve gleaned from Marvel, Star Wars and all the times they’ve remade their own movies into
The Legend Of Tarzan
Hands up if you can remember the last Tarzan movie you saw? Not even the last GOOD Tarzan movie, just the last one, period.A George
47 Ronin
When 2021 ends, there will have been two big budget action films financed by American money that feature Asian leads. Obviously time will tell whether
The Suicide Squad
Much like the laughable, morally murky villians at the core of DC’s The Suicide Squad, the main elements that have put this movie together has
Rollerball
Making futuristic movies in a time when the ability to realise said worlds is heavily limited is tough. Not only can you get bizarrely dated
The Dirty Dozen
You know what most of those war time movies featuring men on a desperate mission have in common – apart from usually having big Hollywood
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Usually the news that Paul W.S. Anderson is returning to direct anything, let alone another chapter of the frequently obnoxious Resident Evil franchise, isn’t exactly
