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 […]
Enter The Muscles from Brussels: The Jean-Claude Van Damme Tournament Fight Film
Tom Jolliffe looks at Jean-Claude Van Damme’s history of tournament fight films… If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. For a while in the earlier career of Jean-Claude Van Damme, that seemed to be more or less the case. When Enter the Dragon ended up as a cultural and cinematic phenomenon, a host of imitators […]
Hazy Childhood Movie Memories
Tom Jolliffe on those hazy memories from childhood for movies that may or may not actually exist… When you think back to childhood, some memories remain vividly clear. This can extend to movies of memories that lock themselves into your memory banks without much being re-imagined by your mind. Certain films, like Star Wars always […]
The A-Z of Action Movies: M-Q
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 […]
Blu-ray Review – The Quest (1996)
The Quest, 1996. Directed by Jean-Claude Van Damme. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Roger Moore, James Remar, Janet Gunn, Abdel Qissi, Jack McGee, and Mike Lambert. SYNOPSIS: In the 1920s a street clown, aided by a con man and a journalist, enters an underground fighting competition to help the street kids in his neighbourhood. On paper, […]
