Perhaps the definitive modern action movie, and also maybe the one with the action sequences that I have loved most over the years, which somehow also has literally many treatises’ worth of material going on just below the surface.
Tag Archives: Action
NEW MOVIE TIME CAPSULE!
Our new feature has our capsule thoughts on new movies in theaters and on streaming, in this case featuring three great women directors and also a new/old take on Shakespeare
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (2001)
These movie about LA street racers stealing electronics is better than it has any right to be, by which I mean it should truly terrible and is mostly fine. Also it somehow spawned a multi-billion dollar franchise.
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996)
Few movies take as hard a left turn than this collaboration between modern schlock masters Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino
DR. NO (1962)
With the 25th James Bond movie releasing today, we revisit the very first, which is much slower but does find the character himself fully formed.
L’HOMME DEL RIO (1964)
In celebration of the late Jean-Paul Belmondo, we visit a big fun 1960s action-adventure, French-style.
THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (1978)
A highly-influential (and deeply cheesy) kung fu movie, without which we not have “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” or a slew of previous martial arts films.
ALIENS (1986)
A bombastic, action-packed sequel that has basically nothing in common with its tense, contained thriller of a predecessor, and yet both are great movies in their own way.
OUR 300th MOVIE: PREDATOR (1987)
The winner of our action movie poll is the muscle-fest called “Predator,” in which Arnold Schwarzenegger fights an alien that see only in very doofy-looking heat vision.
ENTER THE DRAGON (1973)
This mega-hit made Bruce Lee a household name and became maybe the most successful and influential martial arts movie ever made.
Movie Valhalla 