Coining the new term 'action noir' in Korea, director Kim Ji-woon follows up his extraordinary features A Quiet Family and A Tale Of Two Sisters with this blackly comic thriller. Lee Byeong-heon stars as sartorially elegant Sun-woo, a unique character with a curious lifestyle - he's not only the proprietor of a hotel bar but also the right-hand man to the powerful gang leader, Mr Kang. When Kang suspects that his beautiful young mistress Hee-soo might be messing around with another man, he enlis find out more...

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...

Three young Hong Kong hustlers move to Saigon to try and profit, smuggling penicillin and gold, from the war, but their friendship is tested to the limits through greed, betrayal and lust, amid the horrors of a war-torn Vietnam. Comparable to the 'Deer Hunter', this violent epic is the most ambitiously personal and political of John Woo's films, but still comes packed with guns, explosives and balletic action. 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...

 

Revered Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and his second in command Aspirante Matias are facing tough times within the corrupt political system of Rio de Janeiro. Following the bloody aftermath of a disastrously handled prison riot, Nascimento gets caught in a lethal political dispute that involves not only government officials, but also the 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...

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...

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...

US Army Sergeant Will James, Sergeant JT Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit and it is their 38 days together in the chaotic and bloody period following the US/UK led occupation of Iraq that we closely follow. Sanborn plays it by the rules, Eldridge is insecure about his soldiering role and James is seen by his colleagues as a dangerously committed loose cannon and a threat to their survival chances. Hurt Locker is a slick, well directed, performe find out more...

John Woo's 1989 Hong Kong action classic, a stylish bullet-riddled elegy to friendship under fire, firmly established him as the maestro of mayhem and brought him wide-spread recognition in the West. Superstar Chow Yun-Fat, Asia's king of cool, plays the most charming hit man ever, but when one of his killings leaves an innocent nightclub singer blinded he dedicates his life to giving her back her sight. Danny Lee is the cop on his tail, but the two adversaries become unlikely comrades when the find out more...