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).
Samurai Assassin (1964)
7.6/10
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Ito Yonosuke, Eijiro Tono
Based loosley on true events, the great Toshiro Mifune plays a masterless samurai in 1860 as the rule of the shogun is coming to an end. A few disgru... Read more
Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 (2005)
5.1/10
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Starring: Yosuke Eguchi, Kyoka Suzuki, Takeshi Kaga
When a modern-day military unit is accidentally sent back to feudal Japan, history changes and the present begins to unravel in this re-telling of the... Read more
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
7.7/10
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Koji Tsurata, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Michiko Saga, Takas...
Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan's "Gone with the Wind". This sweeping saga of the legenda... Read more
Samurai Jack: Season 1 (2001)
8.4/10
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Starring: Voice Of, Phil LaMarr
Bursting onto the small screen in 2001, this imaginative and boldly-styled Cartoon Network show breathed fresh life into the realm of TV animation. T... Read more
Samurai Jack: Season 2 (2002)
8.4/10
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Starring: Voice Of, Phil LaMarr
As Jack continues his quest to return to the past and destroy the evil shape-shifter Aku, the adventures shift from dramatic to farcical and back agai... Read more
Samurai Jack: Season 3 (2002)
8.4/10
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
From Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Cartoon Network's 'Star Wars: Clone Wars', comes the tale of a young samurai cast far into the future by the evil... Read more
Samurai Pirate (1963)
Director: Senkichi Taniguchi
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tadao Nakamaru, Mie Hama, Kumi Mizuno, Ichiro Arishima
In this Japanese adventure, a brave sailor (Toshiro Mifune) called Sinbad (in the English version) is shipwrecked in a strange part of the world and f... Read more
San Andreas (2015)
6.1/10
Director: Brad Peyton
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi,...
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot (Dwayne Johnson) makes a dangerous journey with his ex-wife (Carla Gugi... Read more
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
7.2/10
Director: Allan Dwan
Starring: John Wayne, John Agar, Adela Mara, Forrest Tucker
The Duke was never better than as the haunted Sergeant Stryker, a man hated by his men (with few exceptions) for his unyielding toughness, but it is b... Read more
Savage (2020)
7.3/10
Director: Sam Kelly
Starring: John Tui, Chelsie Preston Crayford
Inspired by the true stories of New Zealand's street gangs across 30 years, SAVAGE follows DANNY at three defining moments in his life as he grows fro... Read more