John Woo Takes a Dual-Pistoled Leap into Hollywood

The many ways in which Harrison Ford’s ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ (1994) has aged. Before Harrison Ford reprised his famous role for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull underwhelmed audiences, Temple of Doom was the de facto “worst” Indiana Jones movie. Audiences and critics didn’t seem to know what to do with it….

The RAMBO V: LAST BLOOD (2019) trailer is here! Here’s everything we know about Sylvester Stallone’s final John Rambo performance…

Neglected but not forgotten. The 90’s were a strange, fluid time for action flicks. The old model of making them – a huge star would be the lead, the budget would be in the high millions, there’d be a ton of blood and one-liners thrown about, along with f-bombs – was changing into a safer,…

Cynthia Rothrock is the Ultimate Queen of Action Movies! Women have always played roles in action movies, but in this testosterone fueled genre they mainly took a backseat to the men. They were sidekicks, eye candy, victims who needed saving. Cynthia Rothrock was the first to punch and kick her way through those stereotypes with…

Re-examining Kevin Costner’s ‘Waterworld’ (1995) and how it could have been made ultimate! Believe it or not Kevin Costner was once thought as an action movie star. Not for long. He had a few films categorized as action; The Postman and Dances with Wolves (which was more of a drama) for example. But the film…

Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) takes on its ultimate COPYCAT Black Scorpion (1995)! We have ourselves another ultimate showdown between Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) and the B-movie rip-off Black Scorpion (1995) in this edition of COPYCATS! (Check out past episodes on Lethal Weapon vs LA Vice, The Fugitive vs. Fugitive X, and RoboCop vs. RoboVampire) Copycats is a bimonthly column about…