How ‘Point Break’ Perfectly Balances Ironic and Sincere Awesomeness

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…

Tom Cruise meets John Woo in M:I-2 Note: this is Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) – part of a 6-part series on all the movies in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Click here to read Part 1 on the original Mission: Impossible (1996). By the summer of 2000 the action movie was absolutely back in favor with audiences…

Arnold Schwarzenegger shares some behind the scenes insights into some of the “more extreme” fights and one-liners in his classic COMMANDO (1985).

Apparently ‘Parabellum‘ is Latin for overblown? UAMC reviews John Wick 3 (2019) 2014’S John Wick was a pleasant surprise. And ticked all the boxes for a successful action movie – brutal shootouts, a cool lead character, excellent cinematography, pulsing music and slimy villains – but best of all, our hero wasn’t just a stone-faced killing…

It’s the question that has dogged fans of Sylvester Stallone’s Demolition Man ever since the film was released back in 1993 – and it’s got nothing to do with the three seashells. For close to three decades fans have been waiting and hoping for a follow up to Sly’s slick sci-fi action epic about a…

The story of how Jean-Claude Van Damme “wept” when he saw the first cut of Bloodsport, and how he was able to get it recut into the ultimate action classic!