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).
Mutant Girls Squad (2010)
5.8/10
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura, Noboru Iguchi, Tak Sakaguchi
Starring: Naoto Takenaka, Yumi Sugimoto, Yuko Takayama, Suzuka Morita
Rin is a seemingly normal Japanese high school girl, but on her sixteenth birthday, everything in her life changes. After witnessing her mother's face... Read more
My Lucky Stars (1985)
6.6/10
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Sibelle Hu, Richard Ng, Eric Tsang, Bolo Yeu...
The second in the Lucky Stars trilogy following 'Winners and Sinners' and followed by 'Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars'. Jackie Chan reunites with martia... Read more
My Name is Modesty (2004)
4.6/10
Director: Scott Spiegel
Starring: Raymond Cruz, Eugenia Yuan, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Alexandra Staden, Fred Pearso...
The early years of Peter O'Donnell's beloved pulp heroine Modesty Blaise are chronicled in this thrilling actioner. Following her escape from a Balkan... Read more
My Name Is Nobody (1974)
7.5/10
Director: Tonino Valerii
Starring: Henry Fonda, Terence Hill, Jean Martin, Leo Gordon
An enjoyable western spoof with Terence Hill as an easygoing gunfighter who worships an aging Henry Fonda, a gunfighter who wants to retire. Produced... Read more
My Science Project (1985)
6.1/10
Starring: Fisher Stevens, John Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, Raphael Sbarge
A high school student and his friend find a strange, orb-like piece of equipment to use as a science project, but must stop it when it begins to threa... Read more
My Spy (2020)
5.5/10
Director: Peter Segal
Starring: Dave Bautista
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family. Read more
My Way (2011)
7.8/10
Director: Je-kyu Kang
Starring: Jo Odagiri, Dong-gun Jang
Aspiring (and rival) marathon runners Jun-shik (Dong-gun Jang) and Tatsuo (Jo Odagiri) must put their dreams of glory on hold when they are conscripte... Read more
My Young Auntie (1981)
7/10
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Liu Chia-Liang, Kara Hui, Hsiao Hou, Lung Wei Wang, Chia Hui Gordon Liu
A triumph of kung fu comedy with a female lead who knows how to kick butt, this Shaw Brothers classic sees Kara Hui marrying the dying patriarch of a... Read more
Naked Killer (1992)
6.1/10
Director: Clarence Fok, Clarence Fok-yiu
Starring: Svenwara Madoka, Carrie Ng, Kelly Yao, Chingamy Yau, Simon Yam
After viewing her violent tendencies toward men, hitwoman Sister Cindy recruits Kitty (Chingamy Yau) and begins training her in the ways of a professi... Read more
Naked Weapon (2002)
5.6/10
Director: Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Starring: Maggie Q, Anya , Daniel Wu, Jewel Lee
Like a contagious virus, pretty and athletic girls in their teens start disappearing around the world. The mastermind behind these abductions is Madam... Read more