Action Movie Hero Names You Can Count On. What’s in a name? A lot, especially when it comes to action heroes. When you think about it, action movie lead character names follow their own unofficial guidelines: first and last names shouldn’t exceed two syllables; they almost hearken back to Westerns; and they have more than…
FACE/OFF (1997): PART 3 OF THE BEIGE VOLVO TRILOGY Note: This is part 3 of The Beige Volvo Trilogy. Read Part 1 on ‘The Rock’ and Part 2 on ‘Con Air‘ first! Well, here we are. The final chapter to this rip roaring saga of mind boggling action! The screaming spartan warrior known as Nicolas Cage gives us…
What ‘Brawl’ means for the future of ultimate action. If you’re unfamiliar, a new actioner is on the scene. Brawl in Cell Block 99, starring Vince Vaughn and directed by S. Craig Zahler, has slowly been burning a name for itself in the modern action movie conversation. So, after a little research and watching Brawl in…
Con Air (1997): Part 2 of the Beige Volvo Trilogy Note: This is part 2 of The Beige Volvo Trilogy. Read Part 1 on ‘The Rock’ first! Whoa, baby. This is it. The Nicolas Cage masterpiece we’ve been waiting for. Although there is one more film in The Beige Volvo trilogy, this is the apex of the…
Ian ‘Shotgun’ Jones Lives On. Welcome to Los Angeles. It’s 1989 and a mad basher is picking up hookers and killing them in cheap hotel rooms. The streets are dirty, the drugs are flowing in from across the border, and justice has a name – Ian “Shotgun” Jones. This is Shotgun, the PM Entertainment direct-to-video…
The Best of Dirty Harry Callahan. Ranked. The very best of Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry franchise films! Tough assignment, this one. The Dirty Harry franchise is my favorite action movie series. Why? Clint Eastwood, of course! The man redefines bad ass in these movies, and his charisma and “don’t give a damn” attitude puts other…
Retro CGI Send-up ‘Kung Fury’ is Set to Go Big Screen. In case you missed it, some totally tubular dudes from Sweden brought us all back in time with their Kickstarter mega-hit Kung Fury, which was up until now, a fun, tongue-in-cheek, CGI-filled romp through 80s action flick nostalgia. However, a long planned feature length…
The Rock (1996): PART 1 OF THE BEIGE VOLVO TRILOGY At the 1996 Academy awards, Nicolas Cage was awarded the Oscar for best actor in a leading role for Leaving Las Vegas, cementing his status, at the time, as one of the best actors of our generation. Now, most actors would have parlayed that achievement into…
EVERYONE LOVES A GOOD HUNT. What is the allure of hunting? It is something I’ve always wanted to try but never got round to. In Australia we do have a hunting culture called “pigging”, where you hunt wild pigs or boars otherwise known as “Razorbacks”. You take out some dogs, usually large mixed breeds and…
American Ninja: Cannon’s Perfection In 1981, Van Halen released “Fair Warning,” their fourth LP. (Note to younger readers: the acronym “LP” stands for long play, i.e., full-length records — which preceded MP3s, compact discs and tapes. Google it if you don’t believe me.) After recording eight songs, the band thought they had the album “in…
