Just a few years before he played James Bond, New Line tried to make Pierce Brosnan into a Bruce Willis-style action hero. The nineties was the heyday of the mid-level action hero. Jean Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal churned out a whole series of increasingly profitable action programmers in the early part of the … Read more
1991’s Ricochet is a terrific action movie starring Denzel Washington and John Lithgow, but it’s frustratingly hard to find. A lot of really fun movies from the eighties and nineties are tough to get decent copies of. While some of the stories have happy endings, other films seem all but doomed to languish until a … Read more
Bob Odenkirk is ready to “get his ass handed to him” once more with Normal, his latest action movie from Nobody screenwriter Derek Kolstad. After getting in on the action game with Nobody, Bob Odenkirk is ready to “get his ass handed to him” once again. It was announced last week that Bob Odenkirk would … Read more
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Death Warrant remains one of the most obscure films of his early output. How does it hold up? 1990 was a peak year for Van Damage. The Muscles from Brussels was on the way to the big time after Bloodsport and Kickboxer (which made our list of the Best Fighting Movies) proved … Read more
With the yuletide season upon us, we revisit a future Christmas classic, Violent Night, starring David Harbour as action hero Santa. Violent Night hit theaters in December of 2022. It was a surprise hit, grossing a solid $50 million domestically, and another $26 million overseas, on a thrifty $20 million budget. The premise was a … Read more
Netflix is trying to launch Kevin Hart as an action hero in their new big-budget heist movie, Lift, co-starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Who’s the next big action hero? Well, if Netflix has anything to do with it, it’ll be Kevin Hart, with them dropping the trailer for the comedian’s upcoming movie, Lift. A heist film in … Read more
All was not well with Sylvester Stallone’s career in the summer of 1995. Judge Dredd had come out, and, despite blockbuster business overseas, the film flopped in the all-important North American market. It would kick off a dry spell in Sly’s career, with many of his follow-up movies also doing poorly, to the point that … Read more