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).
Hollow Man (2000)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Dickens
Paul Verhoeven's nasty, high-tech variation on "The Invisible Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a self-absorbed scientist working on a government invisibility... Read more
Hollow Man ( Blu-ray ) (2000)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Dickens
Paul Verhoeven's nasty, high-tech variation on "The Invisible Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a self-absorbed scientist working on a government invisibility... Read more
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
5.3/10
Director: Ron Shelton
Starring: Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Lol...
In Hollywood, no one is who they really want to be. Veteran police detective Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) and his rookie partner K.C. Calden (Josh Hart... Read more
Holt Of The Secret Service (1941)
6.7/10
Director: James W Horne
Starring: Jack Holt, Evelyn Brent, Tristram Coffin
A murderous gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped the government's best engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Se... Read more
Hornblower 1: The Even Chance (1998)
Director: Andrew Grieve
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Dorian Healy, Michael Byrne, Robert Bathurst
Set against the backdrop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British naval history, these films trace Hornblower as he grows... Read more
Hornblower 2: The Examination For Lieutenant (1998)
Director: Andrew Grieve
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Denis Lawson, Ian McNeice, Andrew Tiernan
AKA 'The Fire Ship'. A TV dramatisation of CS Forester's classic maritime adventure. Here Horatio Hornblower faces many challenges as he tries to st... Read more
Hornblower 3: The Duchess and the Devil (1999)
8.2/10
Director: Andrew Grieve
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Cherie Lunghi, Christopher Fulford, Ronald Pickup
Epic in scale and full of action, adventure, suspense and romance, the Hornblower series is based on C S Forester's classic maritime adventures - the... Read more
Hornblower 4: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)
Director: Andrew Grieve
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher, John Shrapnel, Samuel West, Peter Va...
AKA 'The Wrong War'. Hornblower's ship, the Indefatigable, together with three other ships carrying French emigre troops (the Frogs) and British Infan... Read more
Hornblower 5: Mutiny (2001)
Director: Andrew Grieve
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, David Warner, Paul McGann, Nicholas Jones, Jamie...
On board the 74-gun frigate Renown, destination unknown, and with a deeply paranoid and deluded Captain, discipline quickly starts to deteriorate and... Read more
Hornblower 7: Loyalty (2003)
Director: Andrew Grieve
Starring: Lorcan Cranitch, Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann, Julia Sawalha, Barb...
Our man Horatio takes advantage of his time off and falls in love, but it's not long before he's called back as the Commander of the Hotspur and he se... Read more