Quiz Call: The 300 Spartans
An answer to ‘Films with numbers in the title‘, I’d remarkably heard of The 300 Spartans already as it started popping up on supermarket DVD shelves in ambiguous packaging around […]
Tag Archives: action
The Dark Tower
A boy, Jake (Tom Taylor) has strange visions of another world, where a dark tower keeps darkness at bay (…except its own). When he finds his way there he meets […]
Shaft (2019)
Shaft cleverly avoids the ludicrous titles of other long-running franchises by just calling every installment Shaft. But as this latest Shaft features the original John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), his nephew, […]
Rambo
Given the number of decades he’d spent in genre flicks by 2008, you’d be forgiven for expecting Sylvester Stallone to at least know how to direct an action sequence, but […]
Rambo III
In his third outing (wisely not called First Blood: Part III) Sylvester Stallone’s traumatised vet turns Afghanistan into Afgunistan when he goes there to rescue his only friend, Colonel Trautman […]
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Ahead of September’s new Rambo movie (Rambo Number 5?) let’s look back on this 1985 sequel and ultraviolent Coca-Cola advert. Not so much a film as a catalogue of shots […]
Hulk
Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) is a nuclear researcher with a dark and convoluted past. His estranged father (Nick Nolte) coincidentally worked in the exact same field, carrying out experiments with […]
Assault on Precinct 13
A gang storms an LA police station in this 1976 actioner, the fantastic first half-hour of which cooks up a sizzling street tension, before a little girl (Kim Richards) buys […]
The Mummy
It’s the first in our new series where we’re reviewing all the films in the Universal Dark Universe! It begins with the discovery of an Egyptian tomb in London (yes, […]
The Fugitive
Harrison Ford is Richard Kimble, a doctor who’s wrongly accused of murdering his wife, not to be confused with John Kimble, a cop who pretends to be a kindergarten teacher. […]
