Category Archives: Action
Poker Face
Release 2022
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Director: Russell Crowe
Writers: Stephen M. Coates, Russell Crowe
Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Lynn Gilmartin, Russell Crowe, Elsa Pataky, Jacqueline McKenzie
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14714980/
A tech billionaire hosts a high-stakes poker game between friends, but the evening takes a turn when long-held secrets are revealed, an elaborate revenge plot unfolds, and thieves break in.
Paradise City
Release 2022
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Director: Chuck Russell
Writers: Edward Drake, Corey Large, Chuck Russell
Stars: Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Stephen Dorff, Amber Abara, Blake Jenner
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14656632/
Ryan Swan must carve his way through the Hawaiian crime world to wreak vengeance on the kingpin who murdered his father.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Release 2022
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Director: Edward Berger
Writers: Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell
Stars: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus, Adrian Grünewald
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016150/
A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.
R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned
Release 2022
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Director: Paul Leyden
Writers: Andrew Klein, Paul Leyden
Stars: Jeffrey Donovan, Penelope Mitchell, Richard Brake, Kerry Knuppe, Jake Choi
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21094994/
Set in the American West of 1876, 'R.I.P.D.2: Rise of the Damed' is a spiritual (pardon the pun) sequel to 2013's 'R.I.P.D.' Sheriff Roy Pulsipher isn't too thrilled about finding himself dead after a shoot out with a notorious outlaw gang, but he does get a second chance to return to earth after being recruited by the R.I.P.D. (Rest In Peace Department.). But avenging his own murder may have to take a back seat to saving the world when a gateway to hell is opened in the old mining town of Red Creek threatening not only the locals... but all of humanity itself.
The System
Release 2022
Genre Action
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Director: Dallas Jackson
Writer: Dallas Jackson
Stars: Jeremy Piven, Terrence Howard, Tyrese Gibson, Ric Reitz, Laura Aleman
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14037272/
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
Enola Holmes 2
Release 2022
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime
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Director: Harry Bradbeer
Writers: Jack Thorne, Harry Bradbeer, Nancy Springer
Stars: Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, David Thewlis, Louis Partridge, Susan Wokoma
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14641788/
Now a detective-for-hire, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends - and Sherlock himself - to unravel
Hunted
Release 2022
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Director: Tommy Boulding
Writers: Ray Bogdanovich, Dean Lines
Stars: Samantha Bond, Malachi Pullar-Latchman, James Lance, Hannah Traylen, Nick Moran
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15241758/
A stately home robbery takes an evil turn one night when a gang of young thieves are caught by the owners of the house and then hunted across the estate for the proprietor's entertainment.
The Woman King
Release 2022
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Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Writers: Dana Stevens, Maria Bello
Stars: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, John Boyega
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8093700/
A historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Blade of the 47 Ronin
Release 2022
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Director: Ron Yuan
Writers: Aimee Garcia, A.J. Mendez, John Swetnam
Stars: Anna Akana, Teresa Ting, Mike Moh, Dustin Nguyen, Chris Pang
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12610794/
Ancient Japanese Ronin warriors set 300 years after 47 Ronin, in a modern-day world where Samurai clans exist in complete secrecy.
The Lair
Release 2022
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Director: Neil Marshall
Writers: Charlotte Kirk, Neil Marshall
Stars: Jonathan Howard, Charlotte Kirk, Jamie Bamber, Kibong Tanji, Leon Ockenden
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13468602/
When Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is shot down over Afghanistan, she finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made biological weapons - half human, half alien - are awakened.