Captain America: The Winter Soldier
After the events of The Avengers, Steve Rogers AKA Captain America (Chris Evans) is still struggling to adjust to life in the 21st Century. Luckily a flirtatious Black Widow (Scarlett Johannson) […]
Tag Archives: action
The Fifth Element
In the distant past, alien protectors came to earth to defend it in times of emergency, but have remained hidden for millennia. Now, in the future, humans are in need as they […]
Southern Comfort
A hapless band of soldiers in the National Guard are on a training mission in the forests of Louisiana. When a gung-ho member of the team play-fires at a group […]
Judge Dredd
Almost 20 years on, this doesn’t quite deserve its reputation as one of the worst comic book movies ever. In a terrifying dystopian future, where Sylvester Stallone wears painfully tight […]
Robocop (2014)
I can’t describe the plot of this film any better than my co-Goblin Dan did in his recent review of the 1987 original. Therefore I’ve copied and pasted it and […]
The Wild Bunch
A group of renowned outlaws are caught in a set-up and forced on the run to Mexico. There they meet General Mapache (Emilio Fernández), who hires them to steal arms, […]
Kickboxer
JCVD is in safe territory in Kickboxer as he plays Kurt, the younger brother of US kickboxing champion Eric (Dennis Alexio). When Eric is challenged to a fight in Thailaid […]
Apocalypto
I’ve put off watching this for a while. If it’s any good an American director will remake it in English. Oh wait… Mayan certainly isn’t the most common of languages […]
Patriot Games
Some films try new things, so even if they don’t quite work they can be forgiven. At least they tried something different. Not Patriot Games. Patriot Games is happy to […]
Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder follows in the great tradition of films about film production, from Adaptation to Barton Fink, Seven Psychopaths to Galaxy Quest. It’s most similar to this last film, as a […]
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