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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

90s Video Action Stars Part I – Lorenzo Lamas, Olivier Gruner, Roddy Piper, Billy Blanks and Frank Zagarino

June 15, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes a time machine back to the booming straight to video action era of the 90s, and looks at some of the headliners… Call me sentimental but the idea of a VHS player whirring away in its machine, having been carefully picked from the local video shop gets me all misty eyed. In […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Automatic, Billy Blanks, C.I.A. Code Name: Alexa, Frank Zagarino, Lorenzo Lamas, Olivier Gruner, Roddy Piper, The Revenger, Tough And Deadly

The A-Z of Action Movies: R-V

August 30, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

In the latest instalment of our action A-Z, we look at films beginning with R to V…  Summer has been in full swing. The cinemas are back up and running and the streaming services have been releasing content left and right. Summer means action! It’s the season. If you’ve run yourself dry of current content […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: rage, Rage and Honor, Seven Samurai, Streets of Fire, Tango and Cash, The Rage, The Shooter, Tiger on the Beat, Tough And Deadly, Under Siege, Undisputed 2, Universal Soldier: Regeneration, V for Vendetta, Violent Cop, Viper

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