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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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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

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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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

Silent Trigger: Straight-to-Video Arthouse Action

June 18, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at an interesting entry into mid-90’s, straight to video action as Dolph Lundgren plays a haunted assassin in Silent Trigger… By the time action titan, Dolph Lundgren had reached the middle of the 90’s, he’d become pretty much established as a video specialist. Though he’d make an appearance in the Keanu Reeves […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Dolph Lundgren, Gina Bellman, Russell Mulcahy, Silent Trigger

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