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film It’s Cage versus Travolta in the sublime overacting Olympics of Face/Off
By Tom Breihan March 24, 2017 | 5:00am
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film Cage and Connery bust into The Rock, the one good movie Michael Bay ever gave us
By Tom Breihan March 10, 2017 | 6:00am
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film Action movies are just starting to recover from Michael Bay’s Bad influence
By Tom Breihan February 24, 2017 | 6:00am
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film Keanu Reeves boards a bus that can’t slow down for one of the great ’90s action movies
By Tom Breihan February 10, 2017 | 6:00am
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film The Fugitive scored action cinema some acclaim—and a Best Picture nomination
By Tom Breihan January 27, 2017 | 6:00am
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film Bullets, badasses, and babies: John Woo’s masterful pistol opera has it all
By Tom Breihan January 13, 2017 | 6:00am
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film The CGI era begins in earnest with James Cameron’s blockbuster sequel, Terminator 2
By Tom Breihan December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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film With Total Recall, Schwarzenegger got to blow things up and blow minds
By Tom Breihan December 2, 2016 | 6:00am
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film John Woo transforms the gunfight with his seminal shoot-’em-up The Killer
By Tom Breihan November 18, 2016 | 6:00am
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film Die Hard humanized (and perfected) the action movie
By Tom Breihan November 4, 2016 | 5:00am
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film The first Lethal Weapon: We’re never too old for this shit
By Tom Breihan October 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Aliens is nothing like Alien—and all the better for it
By Tom Breihan October 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Rambo becomes a cartoon, in more ways than one
By Tom Breihan September 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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film The Terminator makes Arnold a star—and changes action cinema forever
By Tom Breihan September 9, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Jackie Chan perfects his goofy, amazing, insanely dangerous style
By Tom Breihan August 26, 2016 | 5:00am
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film John Rambo makes his dramatic entrance in First Blood
By Tom Breihan August 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Did 1981 belong to Mad Max, Indiana Jones, or Snake Plissken?
By Tom Breihan July 29, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Ninjas get their big American break, with a little help from Chuck Norris
By Tom Breihan July 15, 2016 | 5:00am
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film The Warriors come out to play, turning ’70s action cinema on its ear
By Tom Breihan July 1, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Michael Mann, Quentin Tarantino, and Drive all owe a debt to this arty crime classic
By Tom Breihan June 17, 2016 | 2:00pm
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film Taxi Driver author Paul Schrader pens a messed-up action movie about ’Nam
By Tom Breihan June 3, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Before Halloween, John Carpenter unleashed an army of faceless thugs
By Tom Breihan May 20, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Touring the surreal dystopias of The Lobster and High-Rise
By A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 13, 2016 | 7:40pm
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film You don’t need a budget when you have a hero this damn cool
By Tom Breihan May 6, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Death Wish pioneers a new action hero: the angry middle-aged vigilante
By Tom Breihan April 22, 2016 | 5:00am