by Matthew Dowling | February 7th, 2011 | Action/Adventure
I asked both of them, “Do you guys have any idea how cool this movie really is?” They look at each other blankly, then turned to me and I kid you not… Walter Hill asks me, “What movie?” He was dead serious. I replied, “The Warriors man! You guys built that one to last!”
by Nathan Strack | February 4th, 2011 | Action/Adventure
The Driver: A man with no real connection in the world except for the person that gets him the gigs. Gets more then he bargained for when he broke his own rules!
by Josh James | January 18th, 2011 | Action/Adventure
An existential action flick about Scottish guys in kilts going on about honor during the middle ages? Really? You bet. It wouldn’t get the attention that Braveheart did a year later, but for my money, Rob Roy (1995) is as good, if not better. While a smaller film in terms of scope (there are no [...]
by Nathan Strack | January 13th, 2011 | Action/Adventure
A story about a man who gets more then he bargained for, and in the true style of a mechanic… He has to fix the situation before the situation fixes him!
by Josh James | January 8th, 2011 | Action/Adventure
For fans of kickass movies, it doesn’t get much more awesome than Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire (1984), which, for whatever reason, didn’t connect when originally released. Which was too bad, because it truly is a classic noir action flick in its own right … set in another time, another place, it combines music and [...]
by Kevin Jacoby | December 20th, 2010 | Action/Adventure
Hudson Hawk is a brilliant piece of B-movie history, worth almost as much as the film it’s printed on. A visual tome that spans the ages, from Da Vinci’s imagining of the modern helicopter to a labyrinth of secret tunnels in the present day Vatican.
by Matthew Dowling | November 28th, 2010 | Action/Adventure
Unlike other action cop films from the 80′s, Cobra distinguishes itself through Stallone’s portrayal of a hard cop, on the edge…
by Matthew Dowling | November 22nd, 2010 | Action/Adventure
Much like the now legendary teaming of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, Chuck Norris and Louis Gossett Jr. are paired up as fortune hunters in this zany buddy romp! What else is there to say really? After the success of Steven Speilberg’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981), the studio’s were scrambling to find the [...]