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Forgotten 90s Action Movies That Deserve a Second Chance

June 1, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong looks at ten 1990s action movies that are worth revisiting… Action movies were the bread and butter of the 1990s cinema. Hit movies from Terminator 2: Judgment Day to Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance, Lethal Weapon 3 and 4, Mission: Impossible, The Fugitive and Under Siege ruled the box […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies Tagged With: Chill Factor, fair game, Fled, hard rain, Live Wire, Metro, Rapid Fire, Striking Distance, sudden death, Terminal Velocity

10 Great Action Movies from 1995

May 6, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a trip back 30 years to high kick through ten essential action movies from 1995… Action films in the 90s were a mixed bag, to say the least. A lot of the stylistic trends in that era of cinema didn’t particularly date well, at least to the comparatively simplistic way of shooting action […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Assassins, Bad Boys, Crying Freeman, Desperado, Die Hard with a Vengeance, GoldenEye, Last Man Standing, Rumble in the Bronx, sudden death, The Shooter, Tough And Deadly

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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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

Die Hard with Stallone, Seagal and Van Damme

September 13, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe ventures back to the 90’s, when three action icons made Die Hard riffs… It’s often said that the buff action specialists of the 80’s, who were larger than life and almost comically unstoppable were slowly pushed out of the forefront of the market by more every man heroes. Die Hard is often pinpointed […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Andrew Davis, Cliffhanger, Gary Busey, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Lithgow, Peter Hyams, Powers Boothe, Renny Harlin, Steven Seagal, sudden death, Sylvester Stallone, Tommy Lee Jones, Under Siege

Jean-Claude Van Damme at 60

October 18, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

As Jean-Claude Van Damme celebrates a milestone birthday, Tom Jolliffe looks back at a career that has seen box office success, and flirtation with a comeback as a critically acclaimed actor… If you even have a passing appreciation of late 20th century action cinema, you’ll know very well who Jean-Claude Van Damme is. You’ll probably […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bloodsport, Hard Target, JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jean-Claude Van Johnson, sudden death, The Eagle Path, Timecop, Universal Soldier

Michael Jai White stars in UK trailer for Welcome to Sudden Death

February 4, 2021 by Amie Cranswick

A new UK trailer has arrived online for Welcome to Sudden Death, director Dallas Jackson’s reimagining of the 1995 Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Sudden Death. The action thriller stars Michael Jai White as former special forces officer Jesse Freeman, who finds himself in a race against time to save his daughter and an arena full […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Michael Jai White, sudden death, welcome to sudden death

Universal rebooting Sudden Death as buddy comedy with Michael Jai White and Gary Owen

August 21, 2019 by Gary Collinson

Universal 1140 has announced that Michael Jai White (Spawn, Black Dynamite) is set to star in Welcome to Sudden Death, a reboot of the original 1995 movie Sudden Death from director Peter Hyams and star Jean-Claude Van Damme. The reboot is being directed by Dallas Jackson (Thriller), and will put a comedic twist on the […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Gary Owen, Michael Jai White, sudden death, welcome to sudden death

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