Tag: action
Power Rangers Super Samurai: Vols. 1 & 2
Lionsgate Home Entertainment brings the first eight episodes of Power Rangers Super Samurai to DVD on August 14, 2012 in The Super Powered Black Box (Vol. 1) and Super Showdown (Vol. 2). As you might surmise, Super Samurai continues the story of Red Ranger Jayden and the crew’s battle against Master Xandred and his Nighlok [...]
Hercules, Samson and Ulysses / Damon and Pythias
Recently, the Warner Archive Collection debuted two of the more enjoyable Pepla I’ve seen in their manufactured-on-demand (MOD) line of DVDs, the epic Italian features Hercules, Samson and Ulysses (1963) and Damon and Pythias (1962). Although it may be obvious to you by the titles alone, these Sword-and-Sandal pictures draw heavily from Greek mythology, as [...]
Hijacked
The action film narrative is such a tried-and-true commodity that it is almost impossible to screw up. For all of the times that action films have left us wanting better acting, more polished cinematography, more imaginative plotting, at least they lived up to our expectations as “action movies.” At least they got that part right. [...]
Total Recall: Mind-Bending Edition
Total Recall will always hold a special place in my cinephilic heart, as the film’s mixture of science fiction, nonstop action, and gratuitous violence captured my imagination at an important stage in my personal cinematic growth. And yet, as an adult who has somehow become fairly well-read in the history of the film’s development and [...]
The Delta Force
In the Chuck Norris canon, the Missing in Action films, Lone Wolf McQuade, and, on a good day, Invasion U.S.A. are the only titles people seem to remember. Having battled Bruce Lee in the Roman Colosseum and having made being a Texas Ranger the coolest job in law enforcement, many of Norris’ other action triumphs [...]
Missing in Action/Missing in Action 2
With the cult of Chuck Norris still flourishing, MGM is setting out to debut on Blu-ray some of the action icon’s most beloved films, and in the first batch released earlier this month, his blockbuster Vietnam films Missing in Action and Missing in Action 2: The Beginning are expectedly the main attractions. Filmed back-to-back (but [...]
Seeking Justice
Thirty-year veteran Roger Donaldson (No Way Out, Cocktail, Species, and, more recently, The Bank Job) directs the king of cartoonishly over-the-top acting, Nicolas Cage, in a shockingly restrained and sympathetic performance as a husband sent on a Hitchcockian journey to the depths of his capacity for violence. Following the brutal rape of his wife, Laura [...]
The Next Three Days
Paul Haggis, writer/director of the Oscar darling “Crash”, is a name synonymous with unavoidable ham-handed social commentary. However, his latest “The Next Three Days” proves that he should steer clear from brashly shouting against racism on a megaphone and stick to suspense film making. College English professor John Brennan (Russell Crowe), his wife Lara (Elizabeth [...]
9
After the Human race destroyed itself new life emerges in the form of tiny sentient robots. However life amongst the ruins of civilization is not easy for these new beings as they must contend with the remaining war machines left behind by the humans. These giants prowl the wastes forcing 9 and his companions to [...]
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