Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Taylor Kitsch, Liev Schreiber, Lynn Collins, Will.i.am at the world premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine at Harkin’s Theaters Tempe Marketplace on April 27, ’09, in Tempe,…
Action Movies
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Quantum of Solace box office: Starring Daniel Craig, the $200 million actioner had the best domestic opening ever for a James Bond movie.
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Tropic Thunder box office: Ben Stiller action comedy dethroned The Dark Knight and was dethroned by a Nicolas Cage dud.
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The Dark Knight box office: Is Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed Batman movie truly trailing only James Cameron’s Titanic in North America?
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The big-budget Will Smith superhero movie Hancock is about to become one of the year’s most notable box office hits. Charlize Theron costars.
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A Marvel superhero movie is the top blockbuster at North America’s spring box office, while among the more modest hits is another ‘gay-ish’ Adam Sandler.
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Hulk 2008: Edward Horton in The Incredible Hulk. Way, way back, I used to enjoy watching The Incredible Hulk on television. The plots of most TV episodes, if memory doesn’t…
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The pornographically violent 2007 Steve Austin actioner The Condemned wants to denounce bloodshed while glorifying it.
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Marcus Nispel’s remake of the Oscar-nominated drama Pathfinder is unnecessarily gruesome and arrogantly simple-minded. Karl Urban stars.
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Shooter movie: A graduate of the George W. Bush School of Peace and Democracy, Mark Wahlberg gives a demonstration of his skills as global peacemaker. When former marine corps scout sniper…
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First-rate athlete Tony Jaa is the one positive element in the juvenile and reactionary martial arts actioner Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior.
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Bruce Willis looks none too cheerful. The original Die Hard (1988) will have a special 20th anniversary screening on Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 7:30…
Tobey Maguire is in great shape in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 (2007), which, despite its qualities, is hindered by an overabundance of villains and subplots.
Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 action classic Seven Samurai is one of those rare films that get better and better with each new viewing. Toshiro Mifune stars.