Bloodsport screenwriter Sheldon Lettich chats about his action movie classics. Best known as the writer of Bloodsport, he’s collaborated with Jean-Claude Van Damme on a raft of stone-cold classics starring the Muscles from Brussels. Those Van Damme credits include Lionheart (AWOL), Double Impact and Legionnaire, while Sheldon Lettich has also worked with Sylvester Stallone on…
Tom Cruise as the new action genre hero in Mission Impossible (1996) The year was 1996 and the action movie was in not in good shape. At the box office all the great action franchises seemed to have fallen silent. The great action movie titans seemed to have had their heyday. The Die Hard franchise…
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…
James Woods Gets Dirty in the Genre-Defining ‘Cop’ (1988) Back in 1997, the adaptation of pulp crime writer James Ellrory’s novel L.A. Confidential hit the screen and was met with rapturous applause. The performances, cinematography, score, writing, editing and direction were all praised and blessed with Oscar noms, and some awards. Hollywood said the makers…
Before he was James Bond, Pierce Brosnan was kicking butt and taking names as Mark Taffin in the Irish action classic Taffin (1988).
An ultimate action movie anime classic, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie packs a pure 90s golden hurricane kick of animated action awesomeness!
Jean Claude Van Damme gets real in Legionnaire (1998) The late 90s was an odd time to be a fan of action movies. Many big action heroes saw their star power fade as audiences began to turn away from their awesome movies of violence and revenge in favour of more tame fare. What a truly hellish…
How ‘Yojimbo’ and ‘A Fistful of Dollars’ shaped the modern action movie star When Italian director Sergio Leone began production on what would become his Western epic, A Fistful of Dollars, little did he know that he would be setting the wheels in motion for what would become the blueprint for the modern day action…
But does the HBO action comedy work? Best known for his time at Saturday Night Live and being buddies with Lebron James in Trainwreck, Bill Hader’s new HBO show Barry blends comedy with classic hitman action – kind of. But what does an action comedy look like in today’s day and age? Is it something…
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) I was raised reading a series of pulp novels entitled The Destroyer. It told the story of a NYPD cop whose death is faked as he’s recruited into a top secret government organization called CURE, tasked with eliminating the enemies of America. In change of his training to become…
