Category: Action

While stuck with non-actors, for Mr. Nice Guy that doesn't matter as the pace and ridiculously perfect action makes up for everything else.

6000 SUX The remarkable thing about RoboCop is how right it was. Robocop’s news is broadcast in three minute chunks, predicting short attention spans. Commercials for branded artificial hearts …

Not My Samurai My Samurai uses a running gag in which Deborah (Lynne Hart) disparages Taekwondo. “It’s too violent,” she says to instructor Young Park (Julian Lee). To defend …

Kung Fu Gizmo Action Remember Stripe, leader of the naughty monsters from Gremlins? The producers behind director Andrew Lau’s Kung Fu Monster certainly seem to remember the movie, blatantly …

More Hot Action From Andy Sidaris Using a bevy of buxom Playboy playmates in lead roles, Andy Sidaris takes his campy formula of girls, bullets, and action to new …

Son of the Son of Shaft If possible, look past the drug investigation plot of Shaft. It’s a menagerie of cliches, routine, and derivative non-surprises. Underneath that though comes …

King Hu’s Early Wuxia Masterwork Lee Khan, a powerful general under the Mongolian Emperor in the Yuan dynasty era, acquires the battle map of the Chinese rebel Chu Yuan-chang’s …

Doling Out Punishment to the Man White Line Fever holds the unique distinction of being the only pro-trucker soap opera in all of cinema. Take pro wrestling out of …

Mature Storytelling Comes To DC Streaming Television These are not your father’s Teen Titans and this show is definitely not fit for the CW. Having seen Marvel obtain success …

Magic Man Shazam doesn’t have a secret lair; he doesn’t have a permanent home, either. So, Shazam visits a real estate agent to see if they have anything, say, …

Upsized TV Gold Before Anakin Skywalker shouted “Yipee!” from the driver seat of his pod racer, there was Justin’s “Ya-hoo!” in Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. The difference is …

John Woo Lashes Out Heroes Shed No Tears features more close-ups of guns than people. This is John Woo fantasizing about his action-laced future, stuffed into a puerile post-Vietnam …