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...

A hard-boiled private dick is hired to retrieve a suitcase, but the pick-up turns nasty and a lot of gangsters get killed. He is then left with little option but violence as he is pursued by a bunch of gun-wielding crims. A pop-pop you're dead who's next violent actioner. find out more...

A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun. Less of an exploitation flick than you might imagine: it has more in common with the hardboiled violent thrillers of the 70s (like the Death Wish series) than recent bloodfest homages like Machete. find out more...

Now excommunicado and with every hitman, hitwoman and hitchild on Earth hunting him for the $14 million bounty, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is starting to break a sweat. Can he somehow win back the favour of the assassin aristocrats of the High Table? And who’s going to look after his dog while he does it? Combat-heavy pulp of the highest order, this is the most enjoyably over-the-top entry so far. Whe find out more...

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A far cry from the perfect movie, Kingsman is at least a pleasant surprise. When Colin Firth heads to the council estate to recruit a young lad for a top secret military project it looks like class war is on the agenda. But, with occasional and somewhat shocking violent outbursts as well as pithy scripting at every turn, Kingsman: The Secret Service is an enjoyable romp. Popcorn entertainment of the highest order, this film puts the Bond franchise to shame.

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When San Francisco's criminal underworld starts getting wiped out you'd think Dirty Harry would be raising his glass in drunken (soon to be unemployed) admiration, but no... Harry's outraged... ‘cause these boys are breaking the law and if there's one thing the monosyllabic Harry can't abide it's law breakers. Lean, hard, brutal and still a PC vacuum "Magnum Force" is either an iconic action thriller or a liberal abomination…. depending upon which side of the fence you're peering over. find out more...

Max Payne is an NYPD police detective who has been unable to focus on a case or connect with another human being since the brutal murder of his wife and child. When Max's police ID is found next to a beautiful corpse he suddenly finds himself directly involved in the dark underworld that is somehow linked to the murder of his family. His only clues are a winged tattoo and a new and highly addictive street drug which causes terrifying and nightmarish hallucinations. The deeper Max digs, the more find out more...

A bunch of n'er do well professional killers are stranded together on an alien planet where they discover that they are the game for a hunting party of aliens and that to survive they must bond as a team. Lots of mayhem and letting of blood results.
Another dab at a sequel to Arnie's much beloved B-movie action thriller of the 1980s; the action scenes are top-rate - OK the characters are cardboard cut-outs, Arnie's off playing politics and the slow burn tension is missing, but who c find out more...

Joey Gazelle is a caring family guy, he's also a mobster flunky, then one fateful day he decides to hang on to a gun used in a mob killing and his two worlds collide, because, unfortunately for Joey, his young son's best mate uses the gun to shoot his abusive father, a man linked to the Russian mafia, and our dubious hero has very little time to the find the weapon and the child. No attempt has been made to create this non-stop movie for the under 18 market, so, if you like fast, brutal, violent find out more...