that's one of mine.*" Action Movie Fans have watched their favorite action movies a handful of times. Action Movie FREAKS can recite the entire opening scene word-for-word from at least 2 movies they're obsessed with! "The Hovitos are near, the poison is still fresh—3 days,...
This scene IS interesting in that it proves that somehow, word leaked out about Bruce’s REAL “Game of Death.” In Bruce’s original story, as shown in “Warrior’s Journey,” Ji Han Jae flips on a red light on the fourth floor of the pagoda, and warns Bruce that the red light ...
A high concept chase thriller that's so high concept you only need the one word of its title to know what it's all about. Dennis Hopper's put a bomb on a bus, Keanu Reeves isn't having that, Sandra Bullock's behind the wheel keeping the whole thing going above 50mph. It's beaut...
This is maybe 20 to 30 minutes into the movie, no more than that, and from that moment on, the movie has nowhere in particular to go. Billed as an action comedy, it is in fact neither. The two leads have no particular chemistry together, and try as hard as I could, I could not ...
I live on the benches of the beautiful Wasatch Mountains with two lovely children, one teenager, and a very patient husband. I graduated from Utah State University with a B.A. degree in English, not because of my love for the written word, but because it was the only major that didn’...
introit - a composition of vocal music that is appropriate for opening church services solo - a musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment) duette, duo, duet - a musical composition for two performers
◊ A piece of the action or (chiefly US) a cut of the action or (chiefly Brit) a slice of the action is a portion or share of the money that can be earned from something. He saw that his friends were making money illegally, and he wanted to get a piece of the action. b sl...
Anyway, this movie was a refreshing departure from Drunken Master, Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow, and Fearless Hyena, largely because Jackie doesn’t need any 90-year old men with hair growing out of every bodily orifice to teach him how to fight (that is, if the word “fight” can be...
With four chapters under its belt, this franchise, set off by the killing of a hitman’s (Keanu Reeves) dog, packs so much heat that it’s become the action movie sensation of the late 2010s. 300 (2006) “This…is…Sparta!!!” Is there a line from a 2000s action movie that’s...
It might be time for a rethink: The Wild Bunch is still very much with us, in every movie that gushes slo-mo rivers of blood in the name of brotherly principle, in every action film that lunges for timely political complexity amid the spent ammo casings and slung epitaphs. The Vietnam...