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).
Daredevil: Director's Cut (Blu-ray) (2003)
7.6/10
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Farrell, Joe Pantolia...
Grittier and edgier than the original theatrical release, this extended-length Director's Cut version of "Daredevil" contains over 30 minutes of never... Read more
Dark Angel ( aka I Come in Peace ) (1990)
7.4/10
Director: Craig R Baxley
Starring: Betsy Brantley, Brian Benben, Dolph Lundgren
Aka "I Come in Peace". While making a drug bust, police detective Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) witnesses a drug dealer and his partner slaughtered by a... Read more
Dark Angel: Season 1 (2000)
7.4/10
Starring: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, Alimi Ballard, Jennifer Blanc, Richard Gunn, Jo...
Max (Jessica Alba) is a beautiful, unique girl - she should be, she was designed that way. Engineered in a top secret government lab twenty years ago,... Read more
Dark Angel: Season 2 (2001)
7.4/10
Starring: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, Alimi Ballard, Jennifer Blanc, Richard Gunn, Va...
Max (Jessica Alba) is back - in the second and final season of James Cameron's Dark Angel. After the destruction of Manticore, the military organizat... Read more
Darkman (Blu-Ray) (1990)
6.4/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Colin Friels, Dan Hicks, Frances McDormand, Larry Drake, Liam Ne...
When thugs employed by a crime boss lead a vicious assault on Dr. Peyton Wilder (Liam Neeson), leaving him literally and psychologically scarred, an e... Read more
Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019)
3.3/10
Starring: Judd Nelson, C Thomas Howell
By June 1942, the Japanese Navy has swept across the Pacific. In an effort to change the course of the war, a United States carrier group is positione... Read more
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
7.3/10
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer
Debut feature from music video/commercial director Zack Snyder is a chilling, and worthy, remake of George Romero's classic '70s zombie flick which fi... Read more
Dawn of the Dead ( Blu-ray ) (2004)
7.3/10
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Mekhi Phifer, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber
Debut feature from music video/commercial director Zack Snyder is a chilling, and worthy, remake of George Romero's classic '70s zombie flick which fi... Read more
Day of the Falcon (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.7/10
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong
In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, in Arabia, Emir Nesib of Hobeika defeats Sultan Amar of Salma after years of war between their tribes and t... Read more
Daybreakers (2009)
6.5/10
Director: The Spierig Brothers, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Starring: Claudia Karvan, Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Harriet Mi...
In the year 2019, as Earth's human population is outnumbered by vampires (who are always hungry and now low on the red stuff), a leading hematologist... Read more