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).
Waterworld ( Blu-ray ) (1995)
6.1/10
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Costner, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter
Exciting, exhilarating (and expensive) sci-fi saga, set on an ecologically ravaged future Earth covered by water. Kevin Costner, as a solitary wandere... Read more
Way of the Dragon (1972)
7.3/10
Director: Bruce Lee
Starring: Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Nora Miao, Robert Wall
A.k.a. 'Return of the Dragon'. Bruce Lee travels to Rome to help a friend whose restaurant is being terrorised by gangsters. Amazing fights, climaxed... Read more
We Were Soldiers (2001)
7.2/10
Director: Randall Wallace
Starring: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Chris Klein, Barry Pepper, Sam Elliott
Stirring, true-life war epic starring Mel Gibson as Harold G Moore, a Harvard-educated lieutenant colonel who, in November 1965, led 400 American troo... Read more
We Were Soldiers ( Blu-ray ) (2001)
7.2/10
Director: Randall Wallace
Starring: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein, Keri Russel...
Stirring, true-life war epic starring Mel Gibson as Harold G Moore, a Harvard-educated lieutenant colonel who, in November 1965, led 400 American troo... Read more
Welcome to the Jungle (Blu-ray) (2007)
4.4/10
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Two young couples head into the New Guinea wilderness in an effort to find Michael Rockefeller, the heir to the Rockefeller fortune who disappeared in... Read more
Welcome to the Punch (2013)
6.1/10
Director: Eran Creevy
Starring: Mark Strong, Peter Mullan, David Morrissey, James McAvoy, Daniel Mays, Andrea Ri...
Three years ago, master criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) escaped London during a daring robbery that left detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy)... Read more
Welcome to the Punch (Blu-ray) (2013)
6.1/10
Director: Eran Creevy
Starring: Mark Strong, Peter Mullan, David Morrissey, James McAvoy, Daniel Mays, Andrea Ri...
Three years ago, master criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) escaped London during a daring robbery that left detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy)... Read more
Western Heroes: 'Deadline' & 'The Arizona Ranger' (1948)
Director: John Rawlins
Starring: Richard Martin, Tim Holt, Jack Holt
Deadline: 1948. A Pony Express rider discovers some mysterious goings-on during the construction of a telegraph line. When a murder is committed, he i... Read more
Western Union (1941)
6.8/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Sli...
Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott) wants to put his criminal past behind him and gets his chance when he is hired to protect workers constructing telegraph p... Read more
Westworld (1973)
7/10
Director: Michael Crichton
Starring: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the theme park called Westworld. They can bust up a bar or bust out of jail, drop in on a brothel o... Read more