Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2192 Films to Buy & Rent
Haywire (2011)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Gina Carano, Michael Angarano, Channing Tatum…
- Steven Soderbergh directs this classy action vehicle for mixed martial arts star Gina Carano, here playing a black ops spy who is double crossed on…
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
- Dir. Jason Eisener
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Gregory Smith, Brian Downey
- Spawned from the leftovers of the Tarantino–Rodriguez 'Grindhouse' double–bill, this ropey pastiche of revenge movies and B–grade…
Hunter, The (2011)
- Dir. Daniel Nettheim
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Frances O’Connor…
- Willem Dafoe plays a mercenary sent to hunt for an endangered Tasmanian tiger in this sparse, psychological showcase of the Australian wilderness.
I Am Number Four (2011)
- Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Alex Pettyfer, Dianna Agron, Timothy Olyphant…
- Youthful sci–fi thriller centred on a teenage fugitive who, in hiding from mysterious forces, settles in a small Ohio town.
Immortals (2011)
- Dir. Tarsem Singh
Feat. Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff…
- Supreme visual stylist Tarsem Singh (THE FALL) directs this B.C. spectacle about a mortal stonemason elected by Zeus to overthrow the tyrannical King…
Ironclad (2011)
- Dir. Jonathan English
Feat. Brian Cox, Jason Flemyng, James Purefoy…
- Thumping medieval actioner has a group of Knights Templar fighting to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John. Satisfyingly bloody…
Justified - Season 2 (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Joelle Carter…
- Further episodes from the slick urban western about an old–school U.S. Marshal reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural…
Killer Elite (2011)
- Dir. Gary McKendry
Feat. Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro…
- Tough guy Jason Statham teams up with a wily Robert De Niro in this Mexican standoff between ex–special–ops agents with bounties on their…
Legend of the Millennium Dragon (2011)
- Dir. Hirotsugu Kawasaki
- An impressively animated young–adult fantasy, centred on a 15–year–old school kid who is transported back to medieval Japan, and…
Lost Bladesman, The (2011)
- Dir. Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Feat. Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang
- Yet another big screen reinvention of the 'Three Kingdoms' legend, this time from the perspective of talismanic figure Guan Yu, whose exploits on the…