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).
King Kong ( Blu-ray ) (2005)
7.2/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts, Thomas Kretschmann, Jack Black, Jamie Bell, Colin Han...
Peter Jackson's astonishing special effects extravaganza is light years from the plasticine models of the 1933 original, yet the heart of the story is... Read more
King Kong ( Blu-ray ) (1976)
5.9/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Charles Grodin, Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange
Updated misfire of the 1933 classic, produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Jeff Bridges as an anti-establishment paleontologist who stows away o... Read more
King Kong Lives (1986)
3.8/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Brian Kerwin, Peter Elliott, Linda Hamilton, George Yiasumi, John Ashton
John Guillerman follows up his cheesy 1976 Kong remake with this possibly even cheesier sequel starring a pre-'Terminator' Linda Hamilton. Kong appare... Read more
King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition (2005)
7.2/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Jamie Be...
Peter Jackson has cut an extra 13 minutes into his monkey movie, including an underwater beastie attack at Skull Island, a charging ceratops and much... Read more
King of Beggars (1992)
6.9/10
Director: Gordon Chan
Starring: Stephen Chow, Man Cheung, Norman Chu, Ng Man-Tat
Stephen Chow is So, an acclaimed martial artist with a snooty attitude who can barely read. Thanks to a few shifty characters and his own laziness he... Read more
King Of The Royal Mounted (1940)
7.4/10
Director: William Witney, John English
Canadian Tom Merritt has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure infantile paralysis, which he extracts from a mine at Caribou, Canada. A c... Read more
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King Solomon's Mines (1985)
5.2/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Herbert Lom, Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone
Based on H. Rider Haggard's celebrated novel, this fast moving action safari stars Richard Chamberlain as daredevil soldier of fortune Allan Quatermai... Read more
King Solomon's Mines (2004)
6/10
Director: Steve Boyum
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Alison Doody
H. Rider Haggard's legendary adventurer, Allan Quatermain (Patrick Swayze), searches the jungles of 19th-century Africa for the missing father of the... Read more
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
6.8/10
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Colin Firth, Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Mark Strong, Michael Gam...
With their headquarters destroyed and the world held hostage, members of Kingsman find new allies when they discover a spy organization in the United... Read more
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Blu-Ray) (2017)
6.8/10
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Colin Firth, Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Mark Strong, Michael Gam...
With their headquarters destroyed and the world held hostage, members of Kingsman find new allies when they discover a spy organization in the United... Read more