1999 and Sierra Leone is in the midst of civil war, the rebels infamously using an army of indoctrinated children to do their genocidal work. In the midst of this bloodshed two unlikely men are drawn together, one a desperate father whose son has become a rebel soldier, the other a self-serving white Rhodesian mercenary in search of an immense uncut diamond. The two are bound together by their wildly divergent, but inextricably linked, quests and it is here that the action of the film lies as th find out more...

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Keeping it modern, but taking the man with more lives than an over-subscribed cattery back to his beginnings, we follow the suave thug-in-a-suit as he earns his ‘00' licence to kill status. This Bond is one mean hard-arsed mother and it's nice to see him played by an actor who looks like he can genuinely run without a group of nervous paramedics circling just out of camera shot. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, it's brooding, brutal, dark and replete with some great action sequences, but, as my find out more...

Our hero, repeating his role as the villainous London wide boy Chev, stomps his way round LA looking for the dastardly sod who has nicked his heart and replaced it with a battery run pump that needs regular high-level external electric boosts to keep functioning. A fine, darkly comic, over-the-top, non-stop, action flick, with tongue firmly in cheek and some great set pieces. find out more...

Clint Eastwood plays an over-the-top fascist cop prepared to break all the rules in order to nail the "bad guys". Excellent entertainment, oft quoted by US politicians, and a warning to us liberals - keep the buggers under control. find out more...

A preppie young Paris based American diplomat is assigned as buddy to gun-toting psycho fellow CIA man Charlie. Charlie has been sent to clear 'les roi' of scum; drug dealers and terrorists normally of Arab or Asiatic origin. Put your PC glasses away and you may enjoy this high octane killing spree with its balletic action scenes. find out more...

Based on Eidos' popular third-person shooter series Hitman is a fast and furious foray into the action-packed shoot 'em up territory as previously occupied by (ahem) ‘Shoot 'Em Up', ‘xXx' and 'The Transporter. Olyphant is Agent 47, a genetically manufactured assassin who gets embroiled in a conspiracy involving the assassination of the Russian President. find out more...

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Superbly stylish thriller played out amongst the seedy Paris underworld. A pimp is forced to turn informer when the flics put the hard word on the hooker he adores. Car chases and bar room brawls abound, but it's the painfully real emotions which make this tale of love and betrayal truly outstanding. find out more...

Finny, Rage and Too Fine are known as 'Time Served', an up and coming hip-hop act who seem to be on the verge of breaking into the big time. However, their dreams are shattered when Too Fine is brutally murdered for unpaid 'street debts'. The remaining group, along with his sister Hope, are left to pick up the pieces. Dropped by their record company and gripped by revenge, they are sucked back into the world that they had tried so hard to escape - an uncontrollable spiral into drugs, guns, and s find out more...