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).
Bullet Train (Blu-ray) (2022)
7.4/10
Director: David Leitch
Starring: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Hiroyuki Sanada,...
Five assassins aboard a swiftly-moving bullet train find out that their missions have something in common. Read more
Bulletproof Monk (2003)
5.5/10
Director: Paul Hunter
Starring: Jaime King, Karel Roden, Seann William Scott, Victoria Smurfit, Chow Yun-Fat, Ma...
For 60 years a mysterious monk (Chow Yun-Fat) with no name has zigzagged the globe to protect an ancient scroll - a scroll that holds the key to unlim... Read more
Bullitt (1968)
7.5/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Steve McQueen, Simon Oakland, Robert Vaughn, Robert Duvall, Norman Fell, Jacquel...
The quintessential Steve McQueen role has him as the system-bucking cop Frank Bullitt going after the killers of a government witness. Highlighted by... Read more
Bullitt ( Blu-ray ) (1968)
7.5/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simo...
Steve McQueen stars in this classic action movie about Frank Bullitt, a San Francisco detective who has become hardened to crime. He is assigned by an... Read more
Bullseye (1987)
4.7/10
Director: Carl Schultz
Starring: John Wood, Lynette Curran, Paul Chubb, Bruce Spence, Kerry Walker, John Meillon
In the 1860s, two friends, Harry and Bluey, steal a thousand head of cattle and trek it across country from Queensland to Adelaide. Read more
Bumblebee (2018)
7.1/10
Director: Travis Knight, Travis Knight
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, John Ortiz, Pamela Adlon, Dylan O'Brien, Angela Bas...
On the run in the year of 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying... Read more
Bumblebee (Blu-Ray) (2018)
7.1/10
Director: Travis Knight, Travis Knight
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, John Ortiz, Pamela Adlon, Dylan O'Brien, Angela Bas...
On the run in the year of 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying... Read more
Bunraku (2010)
6.2/10
Director: Guy Moshe
Starring: Demi Moore, Josh Hartnett, Kevin McKidd, Ron Perlman, Woody Harrelson
Stylish, audacious mash-up of spaghetti western, film noir, and samurai opus follows a mysterious drifter (Josh Hartnett) and a sword-slinging ronin (... Read more
Burning Paradise (1994)
7/10
Director: Ringo Lam
Starring: Willie Chi, Carmen Lee, Kam-Kong Wong
Willie Chi plays the legendary Fong Sai Yuk as a Shaolin student escaping with his master from the clutches of Manchu soldiers who have destroyed the... Read more
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
8.1/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
One of the most successful and entertaining Westerns of all time chronicles the hair-raising adventures of outlaws Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (R... Read more