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).
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
6.8/10
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Starring: Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton
Horror, action, and dark comedy mix in this offbeat tale that follows Brothers Grimm siblings Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) as ad... Read more
Hapkido (1972)
6.8/10
Three graduated Hapkido students return to China from Japanese-occupied Korea in order to set up their own school. However, problems start to arise wh... Read more
Hard Kill (2020)
4.1/10
Director: Matt Eskandari
Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Bruce Willis
The work of billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers (Willis) is so valuable that he hires mercenaries to protect it, and a terrorist group kidnaps his d... Read more
Hard Kill (Blu-ray) (2020)
4.1/10
Director: Matt Eskandari
Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Bruce Willis
The work of billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers (Willis) is so valuable that he hires mercenaries to protect it, and a terrorist group kidnaps his d... Read more
Hard Luck (2006)
5.3/10
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Mario Van Peebles, Cybill Shepherd, Luis Guzman
From director Mario van Peebles ('New Jack City'), who also stars, this fast-paced thriller has the unlucky 'Lucky' (Wesley Snipes) as a drug dealer t... Read more
Hard Rain (1997)
5.8/10
Director: Mikael Salomon
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid
This routine, effects-soaked thriller about a bank heist complicated by massive flooding (the aborted pre-release title was 'The Flood') stars Christi... Read more
Hard Target (1993)
6.1/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen
Crashes, shoot-outs, massacres and explosions are the hallmark of John Woo's (ex Hong Kong cult filmmaker) outing in New Orleans. Jean-Claude Van Damm... Read more
Hardcore Henry (2015)
6.7/10
Director: Ilya Naishuller
Starring: Tim Roth, Haley Bennett, Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Andrei Dementiev
A man wakes up in a Moscow laboratory to learn that he's been brought back from the dead as a half-human, half-robotic hybrid. With no memory of his f... Read more
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
6/10
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field, Tom Sizemore, Vanessa Williams
A futuristic comic-adventure starring Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson as cycle-riding rebels who plot a daring armoured car robbery in order to save the... Read more
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
7.6/10
Director: David Yates
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Robb...
The sixth film in the ever-darkening series is visually stunningly and has its fair share of gleeful humour too, as the young wizard's inevitable batt... Read more