A History Of ViolenceWith A History Of Violence, Tom Breihan picks the most important action movie of every year, starting with the genre’s birth and moving right up to whatever Vin Diesel’s doing this very minute.
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Oh shit, I thought. Here we go. It was 2014. I was in a movie theater, watching the first John Wick, a shockingly…
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Wu Jing, now a massive action star, was in the first Kill Zone, the 2005 Donnie Yen vehicle that helped translate…
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It takes a whole lot to turn The Road Warrior into an afterthought. George Miller’s second Mad Max movie, released…
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When I started this column, I decided that the modern action movie began with Bullitt in 1968. But a strong…
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Last year, when Rogue One came out, America learned something that much of the rest of the world already knew:…
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