Action/Adventure

Dominated by male bravado and heroism (and often a short attention span) the Action genre gets physical with conflict, while Adventure pursues the big quest…

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Beverly Hills Cop (1984): Dir. Martin Brest
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Steven Berkoff; Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley has never been funnier than in this winning combo of action and comedy.
Lawless (2012): Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce…; Three ambitious brothers from the south turn to bootlegging, only to come up against the might of powerful urban gangsters in this vivid Depression-era crime saga from screenwriter Nick Cave and dir. John Hillcoat.
Get the Gringo (2012): Dir. Adrian Grunberg
Feat. Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez; Mel Gibson slums it as a drug runner sent to a hellish Tijuana prison in this lurid south-of-the-border thriller. Befitting of the actor-director's deteriorating public image, the film makes full use of Gibson's down-and-out persona, giving us a nightmarish ordeal at once seedy and blackly humorous. The…
Bourne Legacy, The (2012): Dir. Tony Gilroy
Feat. Jeremy Renner, Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz…; Jeremy Renner plays a fellow estranged assassin to Matt Damon's unstoppable rogue agent in this brisk addition to the Bourne franchise, directed by the series' original screenwriter, Tony Gilroy. A clean sense of continuity places this latest adventure neatly within the Bourne storyline, although those…
Grey, The (2011): Dir. Joe Carnahan
Feat. Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts…; Liam Neeson plays a skilled huntsman charged with leading a group of plane crash survivors through the remote Alaskan wilderness in this chilly survivalist tale.
Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy…; Christopher Nolan directs with bombast and brilliance this long-awaited finale to the "Dark Knight" trilogy, in which Christian Bale's aging Batman returns from self-imposed exile to counter a new terrorist threat to Gotham, lead by the monstrous villain Bane (Tom Hardy). While there's no denying the size…
Good for Nothing (2012): Dir. Mike Wallis
Feat. Cohen Holloway, Inge Rademeyer, Jon Pheloung…; A convincingly mounted 'Pavlova Western' homegrown in New Zealand but set in the traditional American west, about a nameless outlaw's misguided affection for his captive damsel-in-distress. A labour of love for first-time writer/director Wallis and his partner-actress Rademeyer, this is an admirably…