Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2192 Films to Buy & Rent
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
- Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Bingbing Li…
- Further adventures in the undead, with Milla Jovovich continuing to kick zombie ass with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
Rurouni Kenshin (2012)
- Dir. Keishi Otomo
Feat. Takeru Sato, Emi Takei, Teruyuki Kagawa…
- A gracefully violent adaptation of the popular manga series, about a brilliant shogun who retreats from society during an era of decline for samurai,…
Safe (2012)
- Dir. Boaz Yakin
Feat. Jason Statham, James Hong
- Jason Statham, the hardest working badass in showbiz, fights to protect a child maths prodigy from the snatches of the New York Triads in this handy…
Safe House (2012)
- Dir. Daniel Espinosa
Feat. Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga…
- Efficient thriller with CIA rookie Reynolds in charge of keeping rogue agent Washington alive after their safe house is attacked by mercenaries.…
Shackleton's Captain (2012)
- Dir. Leanne Pooley
Feat. Craig Parker
- The Endurance's ship captain, Frank Worsley, is given the spotlight in this searing reenactment of Ernest Shackleton’s troubled expedition to the…
Skyfall (2012)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench…
- Bond’s 50th anniversary outing is his most spectacular and serious yet, with 007 drawn back to London, and eventually his Scottish homeland, in…
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
- Dir. Rupert Sanders
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron…
- Dark re–imagining of the classic fairy tale with the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed becoming her protector and…
Sweeney, The (2012)
- Dir. Nick Love
Feat. Ray Winstone, Ben Drew, Hayley Atwell…
- Ray Winstone phones it in as the 'ard as nails Flying Squad detective determined to bring down an old adversary planning a major bank heist. Maximum…
Taken 2 (2012)
- Dir. Olivier Megaton
Feat. Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace…
- Middle–aged badass Liam Neeson returns in this enjoyable, if perfunctory sequel to the bloody–minded kidnapping hit, in which his family…
Thieves, The (2012)
- Dir. Dong-hun Choi
Feat. Gianna Jun, Hye-su Kim, Yun-seok Kim…
- This slickly engineered Korean blockbuster (the second highest earning in the country's box office history) plays all the right cards in its…