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The Essential 90s Action Movies

May 28, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Following our deep dive into 1980s action cinema, lock and load for our list of essential 1990s action movies… The 1990s brought about a shift in the action genre. As the decade progressed there seemed to be shift from the 80s icons into the likes of Nicolas Cage and Keanu Reeves becoming action stars. Likewise […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Assassins, Bad Boys, Blade, Cliffhanger, Crying Freeman, Demolition Man, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Drive, Eraser, Hard Boiled, Hard Target, Marked For Death, Out for Justice, Passenger 57, Point Break, Rapid Fire, Rumble in the Bronx, Rush Hour, Showdown In Little Tokyo, Speed, Stone Cold, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Last Boy Scout, The Matrix, Timecop, True Lies, Under Siege, Universal Soldier

The Films of 1992: A Great Year For Movies

November 1, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe ventures back 30 years to 1992, a year full of breakouts, action spectacle, iconic soundtracks and more… In my retrospective delve into the year of 1982, I boldly claimed that it might have been the greatest year of film ever. As I thrust my time machine forward a decade, I wandered the cinematic […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aladdin, Alien 3, Army of Darkness, Basic Instinct, Batman Returns, Blackbelt, Bloodfist III, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Candyman, Death Becomes Her, El Mariachi, Encino Man, Final Impact, Hard Boiled, Honeymoon in Vegas, Illicit Behaviour, Lady Dragon, Last of the Mohicans, Liars Edge, Mission of Justice, Mo Money, My Cousin Vinny, nemesis, Out for Blood, Passenger 57, Rage and Honor, Sexual Response, Single White Female, Sister Act, Sleepwalkers, Split Second, Stay Tuned, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, Supercop, Talons of the Eagle, The Bodyguard, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Lawnmower Man, The Mighty Ducks, The Player, The Swordsman, Trespass, Twin Dragons, Under Siege, Universal Soldier, Wayne's World, White Men Can't Jump

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

Wesley Snipes and a Welcome Return to Character Acting

September 7, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at Wesley Snipes’ recent film work, and there seems to be a welcome shift to the kind of interesting character actor roles he was known for earlier in his career… Wesley Snipes saw something of a career down turn after hanging up his shades for Blade. Of course there have been well […]

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