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.
Tag Archives: Action
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.
THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD! (1988)
An extremely silly cop spoof with an extended, chaotic climax at a baseball game. As comedies go, this one’s right in my wheelhouse
POINT BREAK (1991)
This is a very silly but somehow a very good action movie about robbing banks, surfing, skydiving, and many other things. At one point Patrick Swayze throws a dog at Keanu Reeves.
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Watch Party of this seminal 1967 counterculture classic about Depression-era bank robbers.
SHAFT (1971)
He’s a Black private dick who’s a sex machine with all the chicks, but I found his movie not as interesting as one might think.
