Action Films

Dull epic based on the adventures of Edgar Rice Burrough's hero Tarzan. Not even the fine performances of Ralph Richardson and Christopher Lambert can save Greystoke.

Dec 16, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

Since Douglas Fairbanks became the first actor to play Robin Hood back in 1922 there have been many many different approaches to the Robin Hood legend.

Dec 10, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

Action movie from the writer/director team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor Gerard Butler stars as prisoner competing in an online computer game.

Nov 28, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

In the 1930's Errol Flynn starred in Captain Blood and became the natural successor to Douglas Fairbanks, the man who had pioneered the swashbuckler.

Nov 14, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

Douglas Fairbanks became the first actor to play Robin Hood on film in this 1922 swashbuckler directed by Allan Dwan.

Oct 9, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

Douglas Fairbanks stars as Zorro in this classic from 1920. Fred Nibla directs The Mark of Zorro, the first movie to feature the masked hero.

Oct 8, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

A look at how the action movie was influenced by literature and how Douglas Fairbanks became cinema's first action star.

Oct 1, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

Based on an original script by comics writer Ed Brubaker, Zoe Bell stars as a deadly assassin who turns on her masters after suffering a gruesome head injury.

Aug 21, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

Chev Chelios (Statham) returns from the dead in a hilariously over-the-top follow-up to Crank. It has to be seen to be believed; it really does.

Apr 23, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

Christmas morning was alluded by more than just Santa this year, with the release of the highly anticipated movie, Sherlock Holmes.

Dec 31, 2009 - Cassandra Norris

Billionaire weapons maker Tony Stark is is captured and forced to build a deadly weapon. After confronting the damage he has done he decides to make things right.

Dec 30, 2009 - Christopher Sharman

Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams star in the updated version of Sherlock Holmes now in theaters.

Dec 26, 2009 - Mckenzie Cassidy

Overly done for the 21st century audience, or keeping Sir Arthur Conan Doyle safely positioned in his grave?

Dec 26, 2009 - Melissa Thayer

Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law play a rememberable brotherhood in the new movie released today. The movie is a beautiful divergence of old and new.

Dec 25, 2009 - Tobey Strauch

This movie, now out on DVD, starring Dennis Quaid, is a bit of an overbearing technological bore.

Dec 23, 2009 - Tobey Strauch

Christian Bale, Sam Worthington and Bryce Dallas Howard star in Terminator Salvation, a film set in Earth after a nuclear holocaust.

Dec 22, 2009 - Mckenzie Cassidy

With his latest film Avatar opening at number on in the box office, director James Cameron has once again pushed the boundaries of film expectations.

Dec 21, 2009 - Travis Block

It may not be the biggest Punisher film. It made not be the best. But Punisher: War Zone follows the Marvel Comics version of the vigilante hero better than prior films.

Dec 14, 2009 - Jason Parent

The original cast return. And that's the only positive.

Dec 12, 2009 - Rhys Bendix-Lewis

Trendy Japan & Ailen Sit's brilliant fight choreography stand out in a movie about spy intrigues. Good chemistry from actors Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ekin Cheng & Kelly Chen.

Dec 7, 2009 - Lynette S.K. Webster

The 2009 Sherlock Holmes film trailer shows Holmes and Watson as action heroes. Was life at 221B Baker Street really that exciting or has director Guy Ritchie made it up?

Dec 6, 2009 - Bert Collingwood

A group of armored guards, led by Matt Dillon, heist a cool $42 million before dissension sets in with Columbus Short proving "troublesome" in Nimrod Antal`s new drama.

Dec 4, 2009 - Robert Waldman

Roland Emmerich might not get 12-camera coverage on a single explosion like Michael Bay, but he'll always be a better overall director of canonical cornball action.

Dec 3, 2009 - Nick Rogers

Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, this futuristic view of secret military tactics hits right on target . . . in some other dimension.

Dec 2, 2009 - Jennifer Seydel

For his latest venture into mass chaos Roland Emmerich pulls out all the stops. His movies often received mixed reviews and it's very easy to see why.

Dec 1, 2009 - Kevin Crowley

Boondock Saints 2 stars Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Clifton Collins Jr., Billy Connolly, Julie Benz, and Judd Nelson. Directed by Troy Duffy.

Nov 24, 2009 - Lauren Flanagan

Roland Emmerich directs the grand daddy of disaster movies with 2012. The world is about to end, but with any luck John Cusack will live on.

Nov 24, 2009 - Lauren Flanagan

Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus star in the continuing saga about vigilante justice.

Nov 24, 2009 - Leslie C. Halpern

Roland Emmerich's 2012, an epic adventure about the end of the world, certainly didn't live up to expectations.

Nov 21, 2009 - Nicholas Anderegg

Roland Emmerich's 2012 is an action-movie busting at the seams with special effects, suspense, and epic doom. It works.

Nov 21, 2009 - Justin Key

On a hot day in downtown LA, a man abandons his car and tries to return home. He has snapped under the weight of the world and becomes angry with life's frustrations.

Nov 17, 2009 - Christopher Sharman

John Cusack is on hand to save humanity in Roland Emmerich's quite disastrous disaster movie 2012. Read a review of the film below.

Nov 16, 2009 - Gareth Harding

Another disaster flick from Roland Emmerich staring John Cusack, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Woody Harrelson.

Nov 16, 2009 - Kyle Leinen

In the movie the Dark Knight Gotham wants Batman to take off his mask and reveal himself. But Gotham does not get what it wants; instead, Gotham gets what it deserves.

Nov 13, 2009 - Michael Ashworth