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).
Captain America: The First Avenger (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.9/10
Director: Joe Johnston
Starring: Hugo Weaving, Neal McDonough, Samuel L Jackson, Stanley Tucci, Tommy Lee Jones,...
Declared unfit for military service during World War II, scrawny Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) gets a chance to serve his country when he undergoes a pro... Read more
Captain America: The First Avenger (Blu-ray/3D) (2011)
6.9/10
Director: Joe Johnston
Starring: Hugo Weaving, Neal McDonough, Samuel L Jackson, Stanley Tucci, Tommy Lee Jones,...
Declared unfit for military service during World War II, scrawny Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) gets a chance to serve his country when he undergoes a pro... Read more
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
7.8/10
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Starring: Robert Redford, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Anthony Macki...
Captain America (Chris Evans) teams with the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and a new ally, the Falcon (Anthony Mackie), in a fight for the future o... Read more
Captain America: The Winter Soldier ( Blu-ray ) (2014)
7.8/10
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Starring: Robert Redford, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Anthony Macki...
Captain America (Chris Evans) teams with the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and a new ally, the Falcon (Anthony Mackie), in a fight for the future o... Read more
Captain America: The Winter Soldier ( Blu-ray ) (3D) (2014)
7.7/10
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Starring: Robert Redford, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Anthony Macki...
Captain America (Chris Evans) teams with the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and a new ally, the Falcon (Anthony Mackie), in a fight for the future o... Read more
Captain Blood (1935)
7.8/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Lionel Atwill, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn is the young physician, sentenced to slavery, who's rescued by Olivia de Havilland and begins a life of piracy on the high seas. Superb sw... Read more
Captain Marvel (2019)
7.2/10
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Gemma C...
Captain Marvel is an extraterrestrial Kree warrior who finds herself caught in the middle of an intergalactic battle between her people and the Skrull... Read more
Captain Marvel (Blu-Ray) (2019)
7.2/10
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Gemma C...
Captain Marvel is an extraterrestrial Kree warrior who finds herself caught in the middle of an intergalactic battle between her people and the Skrull... Read more
Captive (2015)
5.4/10
Director: Jerry Jameson
Starring: Kate Mara, David Oyelowo
A single mother struggling with drug addiction is taken hostage in her own apartment by a man on the run who has broken out of jail and murdered the j... Read more
Carnage Park (2016)
4.8/10
Starring: Alan Ruck
Part crime caper gone awry, part survival horror film, this 1970s set thriller depicts a harrowing fight for survival after a pair of wannabe crooks b... Read more