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10 Badass Action Movies You Might Have Missed

May 15, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Load up for ten bad-ass action movies you might have missed… There’s a well-worn genre that continues to attract the biggest audiences from the big screen right down to streaming. It’s action! From Cowboys to Commandos and everything in between, a good action film sets the pulse racing and provides audiences with a wild rollercoaster […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Badland Hunters, Drive, Extreme Prejudice, Full Contact, Nobody, Showdown In Little Tokyo, Sisu, Stone Cold, To Live and Die in L.A., Undisputed 2

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

1991: The Year in Action Movies

December 1, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe ventures back 30 years to a year well stocked in action films…  Upon revisiting the cinematic landscape of 1991 recently, I noticed something that tickled my nostalgia no end. The year was chock full of action films, with a large number of films packing audiences in cinemas and a number also keeping video […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Armour of God 2, double impact, Final Impact, Guyver, McBain, Once Upon a Time in China, Out for Justice, Point Break, Ring of Fire, Showdown In Little Tokyo, Stone Cold, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Last Boy Scout, The Perfect Weapon, Tiger Claws, Timebomb

Enjoyably Preposterous Movies

October 1, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe pays homage to films that are utterly ludicrous, but are enjoyable because of it… If you can enjoy one thing about cinema, then it’s probably the wealth of variety at our disposal. We can watch the sublime, the dramatic, powerful, hilarious, thrilling, or we can also watch something that compounds (and beats the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aquarium of the Dead, Gone Girl, Mega Shark Vs Crocosaurus, Non-Stop, Sharknado, Showdown In Little Tokyo, The Commuter, The Fast and Furious, The Game, unknown

Essential Dolph Lundgren Movies That Every Action Fan Should Watch!

November 19, 2020 by Red Stewart

Marvelous Videos presents Dolph Lundgren’s best films… There’s a story that circulated the news a while back wherein robbers broke into actor Dolph Lundgren’s home, but hauled out of there the second they realized it was his house. That really says something about his image. Combining a huge physique with natural charisma, Lundgren became an […]

Filed Under: Movies, Random Videos, Red Stewart Tagged With: Dark Angel, Dolph Lundgren, joshua tree, Marvelous Videos, Masters of the Universe, red scorpion, Rocky IV, Showdown In Little Tokyo, Skin Trade, sweepers, The Punisher, Universal Soldier

The Brandon Lee Retrospective Triple Bill: Showdown in Little Tokyo, Rapid Fire and The Crow

October 1, 2020 by admin

Tom Jolliffe takes in a Brandon Lee triple bill of Showdown in Little Tokyo, Rapid Fire and The Crow… The Lee legacy on cinema is no small matter. Bruce Lee of course remains more iconic and more influential, having changed the face of martial arts on screen. That should not take away the fact that […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Brandon Lee, Rapid Fire, Showdown In Little Tokyo, The Crow

10 Great Buddy Cop Movies Not Written or Directed By Shane Black

May 20, 2016 by Kieran Fisher

To coincide with the release of The Nice Guys, Kieran Fisher recommends 10 other buddy cop movies worth checking out… This weekend marks the release of Shane Black’s new film The Nice Guys, starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as a law enforcement duo investigating a missing persons case.  It also sees Black return to […]

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