Aliens (1986)
Debates may rage on as to whether Aliens is actually a better film than Alien, and I’m of two minds myself on it myself, but regardless of the conclusion, one thing is clear — they are...
Category: Action
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 2 is a bit of an oddity for an action-packed superhero summer blockbuster. Perhaps no other in the genre has ever bothered devoting so much effort into character development, which is quite the gamble...
Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
SNL alum, Chris Farley, plays Haru, who lands among a clan of ninjas when a ship he is on is shipwrecked while he is still a baby. Prophecy has foretold that a Great White...
Dodgeball (2004)
Rawson Marshall Thurber may be a first-time big-screen writer-director, but he had already made a splash in sports comedy with a series of television commercials for Reebok called, “Terry Tate: Office Linebacker”. Thurber started...
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
Cradle 2 the Grave marks the third hip hop kung fu gangsta flick from Polish cinematographer Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds being the other two), and the result isn’t bad, it’s just more of the same. Cradle is...
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Very loosely based on the classic Jules Verne novel, and made into a movie more than once already (most notably in 1956 with David Niven), Around the World in 80 Days is an old-fashioned adventure in...
Coogan’s Bluff (1968)
Although still utilizing his Western persona, Coogan’s Bluff marks the first Eastwood cop flick, and the first of five films he would do for director Don Siegel, the most notable of which would be his second...
District B13 (2004) | District 13 | Banlieue 13
With a premise not dissimilar to that of Escape from New York (with a heavy nod to John Carpenter’s other crime thriller, Assault on Precinct 13), a thriller style not far from that of The Rock, and action...
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Some people have been calling The Day After Tomorrow a throwback to the Irwin Allen disaster films of the 1970s, but in reality, it is more of a throwback to the disaster films of the...
Stakeout (1987)
Stakeout is a buddy movie done right, and one of the rare exceptions where the plot is actually almost as interesting as the comical interpersonal hi-jinks between the two stars. It also pairs two people...