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).
Freejack (1992)
5.3/10
Director: Geoff Murphy
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Hopkins, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo
A race car driver dies in 1991 and finds his body snatched into the year 2009 so that it may house the soul of a ruthless tycoon. The wasted talent in... Read more
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
7.3/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Salma Hayek, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, C...
Director Robert Rodriguez and star-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino throw in everything they can think of in this tale of a pair of bank-robbing brother... Read more
From Paris with Love (2010)
6.5/10
Director: Pierre Morel
Starring: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden
James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), personal aide to the U.S. ambassador to France, is secretly moonlighting as a low-level CIA operative. Looking for... Read more
From Russia with Love (1963)
7.5/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Pedro Armendariz, Daniela Bianchi, Sean Connery, Bernard Lee, Lotte Lenya, Rober...
The second Bond film is one of the best, with 007 going up against the evil SPECTRE organisation in a race to sieze a Soviet decoding machine. His ene... Read more
From Russia with Love ( Blu-ray ) (1963)
7.5/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Sean Connery, Pedro Armendariz, Daniela Bianchi, Bernard Lee, Lotte Lenya, Rober...
The second Bond film is one of the best, with 007 going up against the evil SPECTRE organisation in a race to sieze a Soviet decoding machine. His ene... Read more
Fudoh - The New Generation (1996)
7.1/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Miho Momoto, Riki Takeuchi, Shosuke Tanihara
This wild hallucinatory yakuza drama, directed by Japan's gonzo cinema auteur Takashi Miike, is about one of the ugliest family squabbles this side of... Read more
Full Circle (2013)
6.8/10
Director: Solvan Naim, Olli Koivula
Starring: Rob Morgan, Kelvin Hale, Mario Corry, Solvan Naim
A young pizza delivery boy, Anthoni, faces a life-changing crisis when his curiosity pulls him away from his delivery order into an adjacent apartment... Read more
Full Contact (1992)
7.2/10
Director: Ringo Lam
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Simon Yam, Bonnie Fu, Ann Bridgewater
Chow Yun Fat plays a bouncer and sometime thief working out of a Bangkok nightclub who gets involved in a hi-jacking scheme involving the ruthless, fl... Read more
Full Metal Alchemist The Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005)
Director: Seiji Mizushima
The long-awaited and thrilling epilogue to the ground-breaking anime series. It's Munich 1923, two years since Ed made the ultimate sacrifice that se... Read more
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
7.6/10
Director: George Miller
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke
Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through... Read more