The Great White Hype (1996)
The Great White Hype is a broad satire of the boxing industry, particularly in how publicity and marketing govern the suitability of one’s rise to the top more so than sheer talent. Spoofing everything from...
Category: Action
Mortal Kombat (1995)
“Mortal Kombat”, the video game, started in 1991 when game programmer Ed Boon and artist John Tobias sought to create a fighting game featuring a digitized Jean Claude Van Damme, specifically related to his...
Breaking News (2004)
Probably more interesting for being a Johnny To (Fulltime Killer, Love on a Diet) film than as a commentary on the manipulation of the media in keeping citizens compliant, Breaking News nevertheless does offer a few things...
The Dead Pool (1988)
The fifth and final Dirty Harry film may not go out with a bang, but it is an amusing and exciting enough cop thriller to please the genre fans. There are no social obstacles to hurdle...
Street Fighter (1994)
Video game aficionados need no introduction to the “Street Fighter” name. It’s one of the most popular game franchises of all time primarily due to the release of “Street Fighter II” into arcades in...
Dirty Harry (1971)
“Dirty” Harry Callahan (Eastwood, Kelly’s Heroes) is among the most disgruntled of San Francisco’s police force. He doesn’t like the fact that criminals seem to have more rights afforded to them than their victims. Now a...
Wing Commander (1999)
No, the title doesn’t refer to the guy that takes the chicken wings out of the fryer at KFC, although if they can call a Subway employee a “Sandwich Artist” or a Starbucks employee...
Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999)
Batman Beyond: The Movie is a bit of a misnomer, as it isn’t so much a movie as it is five (well, actually six) episodes from the first season of the WB animated superhero series,...
Superman Returns (2006)
After nearly twenty years, Superman finally returns to the big screen, in a sequel (of sorts) of the events and characters as portrayed in Superman and Superman II. It’s a film that has been a long time...
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is more of a spin-off than a sequel, with wholly different characters and storyline than the previous two films in the series, The Fast and the Furious and 2 Fast 2...