The Road Warrior (1981)
The follow-up to 1979’s Mad Max is called, very simply, Mad Max 2 in its initial release in Australia and other countries where it proved lucrative. However, in the United States, where it was the...
Category: Adventure
Mad Max (1979)
An introduction hardly seems necessary for the granddaddy of modern post-apocalyptic action films, even if civilization is only on the world collapsing, not yet the barely habitable wasteland shown in the movies to come. ...
Escape from New York (1981)
Escape from New York is set in a future 1997, during a time when, after the crime rate has skyrocketed out of control, the island of Manhattan has been turned into an ultra-maximum security...
American Dreamer (1984)
JoBeth Williams stars as suburban Ohio housewife and mother Cathy Palmer, who escapes her joyless marriage in her spare time by reading her favorite romantic thriller novels, all starring a Modesty Blaise-like globe-hopping female...
Triple Frontier (2019)
After a nearly five-year hiatus from writing and directing films (with the exception of his untimely departure from Deepwater Horizon) , J.C. Chandor re-emerges with Triple Frontier (not the best title, taking its name from, according...
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
The Jewel of the Nile is a sequel to the successful romantic adventure comedy of the year prior, Robert Zemeckis’ Romancing the Stone, featuring the same main players in Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny...
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), a best-selling writer of romance novels, has little romance in her own life. She dreams of a tall, dark and handsome man to rescue her and whisk her off her...
Dragonslayer (1981)
Set in the fictional British kingdom of Urland in the 6th Century, Peter MacNicol stars as Galen, apprentice to an aging sorcerer named Ulrich (Richardson). Ulrich has been enlisted for help in trying to stop...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the third, and, for many years, it would be considered the last installment of the successful action-adventure trilogy. While it doesn’t make the dynamic impact that Raiders of the...
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
While on the whole not really a horrible film, it’s still a giant leap down from the inspired intelligence that was the driving force behind the crowd-pleasing Raiders of the Lost Ark. It seems this...