Category Archives: Action
The Rhythm Section
Release 2020
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Director: Reed Morano
Writers: Mark Burnell, Mark Burnell
Stars: Blake Lively, Richard Brake, Elly Curtis, David Duggan, Matilda Ziegler
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7134096/
A woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.
My Spy
Release 2020
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Director: Peter Segal
Writers: Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber
Stars: Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Kristen Schaal, Greg Bryk
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8242084/
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
Coffee & Kareem
Release 2020
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Director: Michael Dowse
Writers: Shane Mack
Stars: Ed Helms, Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, Betty Gilpin, RonReaco Lee
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9898858/
Twelve-year-old Kareem Manning hires a criminal to scare his mom's new boyfriend -police officer James Coffee - but it backfires, forcing Coffee and Kareem to team up in order to save themselves from Detroit's most ruthless drug kingpin.
The Mystery Of The Dragon Seal
Release 2019
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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Director: Oleg Stepchenko
Writers: Dmitry Paltsev, Alexey A. Petrukhin, Oleg Stepchenko
Stars: Jason Flemyng, Xingtong Yao, Anna Churina, Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6218010/
Early 1700: Cartographer Jonathan Green (Jason Flemyng) from Viy (2014) is back to map the Russian Far East. He's forced on to China, where he confronts the Dragon Master et al. The iron masked Russian Czar escapes the Tower of London to a Russian ship.
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
Release 2019
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation
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Director: Sung-ho Hong, Moo-Hyun Jang, Young Sik Uhm
Writers: WoongSub Ahn, Sung-ho Hong, WooChul Jung
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Claflin, Gina Gershon, Patrick Warburton, Jim Rash
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4429160/
Princes who have been turned into Dwarfs seek the red shoes of a lady in order to break the spell, although it will not be easy. A parody with a twist.
Underwater
Release 2020
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Director: William Eubank
Writers: Brian Duffield, Adam Cozad, Brian Duffield
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, T.J. Miller, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5774060/
A crew of aquatic researchers work to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
The Gentlemen
Release 2019
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Director: Guy Ritchie
Writers: Guy Ritchie, Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Lyne Renee
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8367814/
An American expat tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
The Hunt
Release 2020
Genre Action, Horror, Thriller
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Director: Craig Zobel
Writers: Nick Cuse, Damon Lindelof
Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall, Ethan Suplee
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8244784/
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Above Suspicion
Release 2019
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Director: Phillip Noyce
Writers: Chris Gerolmo, Joe Sharkey
Stars: Thora Birch, Emilia Clarke, Karl Glusman, Jack Huston, Johnny Knoxville
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5688068/
The story that lead to the first conviction for murder of an FBI agent.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
Release 2019
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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Director: J.J. Abrams
Writers: Chris Terrio, J.J. Abrams, Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow, George Lucas
Stars: Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2527338/
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga.