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10 Essential Action Movies of 1996

March 4, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s stunts aplenty with spinning kicks and punches, as we travel back to 1996 with these essential action movies… The action movie landscape of 1996 was pretty interesting. It saw a noticeable shift in the genre, stepping noticeably away from the previous decade and early 90s reliance on muscle-bound heroes. The beefy big boys like […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Black Mask, Broken Arrow, Daylight, Eraser, Executive Decision, First Strike, Glimmar Man, Maximum Risk, Mission: Impossible, Riot, Sabotage, Silent Trigger, Sworn To Justice, the long kiss goodnight, The Quest, The Rock, The Sweeper, White Tiger

Three Films and Six Van Dammes: The JCVD Dual Role Routine

June 4, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at Jean-Claude Van Damme’s dual role films… Who doesn’t love an action star? Oi, put your hands down now! Still, for us that do, we all have our favourites. Occasionally there were rivalries and camps. You could be an Arnold Schwarzenegger kid or a Sylvester Stallone kid. Maybe you were secretly […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: double impact, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Maximum Risk, replicant

5 Underrated Jean-Claude Van Damme Movies

May 4, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

The Muscles from Brussels returns soon with Darkness of Man, so here’s five of his most underrated films to get you in the mood… There are two kinds of people who don’t like Jean-Claude Van Damme, Crazy folk and Steven Seagal. The rest of us love to partake in a little bit of Van Dammage, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Assassination Games, Desert Heat, Enemies Closer, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Legionnaire, Maximum Risk, Nowhere to Run, replicant, Six Bullets, The Bouncer, Wake of Death

Maximum Van Dammage: The Definitive Top 10 Jean-Claude Van Damme Movies!

December 28, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time for the undisputed, inarguable, and definitive Top 10 Jean-Claude Van Damme movies… The Muscles from Brussels turned 62 this year. He’s had a stellar career filled with majestic, high-kicking action. The most iconic image of Van Damme, aside from his infamous bicep pose, is the glorious sight of him leaping in the air […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bloodsport, double impact, Hard Target, In Hell, JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kickboxer, Lionheart, Maximum Risk, sudden death, The Bouncer, Timecop, Universal Soldier, Universal Soldier: Regeneration, Wake of Death

Underrated Movies from the Masters of Action Cinema

December 1, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe picks one underrated gem from ten of the best action stars of all time… Ah the misunderstood masterpiece. The underappreciated gem. Some films just take a while to get the attention they fully deserve. When it comes to the primo action stars one might argue the ranking list. However, whilst considering the best […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 10 to Midnight, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Charles Bronson, Crime Story, cynthria rothrock, Demolition Man, Dolph Lundgren, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Last Action Hero, Maximum Risk, On Deadly Ground, Rising Sun, Scott Adkins, Silent Trigger, Steven Seagal, Sworn To Justice, Sylvester Stallone, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Wesley Snipes

The A-Z of Action Movies: M-Q

July 25, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

As we continue are A-Z of action, we bring you a selection of entries from M-Q… Explosions, fist fights, one liners and quite a lot of mullets. We’re getting toward the business end of an action A-Z, hitting the middle ground toward the home straight. More carnage will ensue and we’ve all got bigger biceps […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Maximum Risk, Men of War, Midnight Man, nemesis, Nighthawks, ninja: shadow of a tear, Only The Strong, Out for Blood, Out for Justice, Passenger 57, Point Break, Project A, Quigley Down Under, The Quest, The Quick and the Dead

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