Category Archives: Action
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Release 2016
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Director: Greg Mottola
Writers: Michael LeSieur
Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, Gal Gadot, Patton Oswalt
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2387499/
A suburban couple becomes embroiled in an international espionage plot when they discover that their seemingly perfect new neighbors are government spies.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Edward Zwick
Writers: Lee Child, Richard Wenk, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz
Stars: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3393786/
Jack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name. On the run as a fugitive from the law, Reacher uncovers a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever.
Warrior's Gate
Release 2016
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Director: Matthias Hoene
Writers: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Stars: Mark Chao, Ni Ni, Uriah Shelton, Francis Ng, Dave Bautista
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4652532/
A teenager is magically transported to China and learns to convert his video game skills into those of a Kung Fu warrior.
Deepwater Horizon
Release 2016
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Director: Peter Berg
Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand, David Rohde, Stephanie Saul
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, James DuMont, Joe Chrest
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860357/
A dramatization of the April 2010 disaster when the offshore drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Collide
Release 2016
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Director: Eran Creevy
Writers: F. Scott Frazier, Eran Creevy
Stars: Felicity Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Nicholas Hoult, Ben Kingsley, Nadia Hilker
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2126235/
An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, though he winds up on the run from his employers across Cologne high-speed Autobahn.
Max Steel
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
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Director: Stewart Hendler
Writers: Christopher Yost
Stars: Ben Winchell, Josh Brener, Maria Bello, Andy Garcia, Ana Villafañe
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1472584/
The adventures of teenager Max McGrath and his alien companion, Steel, who must harness and combine their tremendous new powers to evolve into the turbo-charged superhero Max Steel.
The Hollow Point
Release 2016
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
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Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego
Writers: Nils Lyew
Stars: Lynn Collins, Patrick Wilson, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, Jim Belushi
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2918606/
A new sheriff of a small town along the U.S. & Mexico border investigates a drug cartel deal that went horribly wrong.
Kill Ratio
Release 2016
Genre Action
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Director: Paul Tanter
Writers: Steven Palmer Peterson
Stars: Tom Hopper, Amy Huberman, Nick Dunning, Lacy Moore, Michelle Lehane
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5020372/
An attack on the new President of a fledgling Eastern European democracy pits an American covert operative against the country's ruthless military leader determined to seize control of the government.
Contract to Kill
Release 2016
Genre Action
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Director: Keoni Waxman
Stars: Steven Seagal, Russell Wong, Jemma Dallender, Mircea Drambareanu, Sergiu Costache
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5470222/
Harmon is a CIA/DEA enforcer investigating Arab terrorists captured in Mexico. With his team--seductive FBI agent Zara and spy-drone pilot Sharp--he flies to Istanbul and uncovers a brutal plot: Islamic extremists plan to use Sonora drug-smuggling routes to bring deadly weapons, and leaders, into the U.S. To prevent an attack on America, Harmon must turn these two savage forces against one another before his time--and his luck--run out.
Spectral
Release 2016
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Nic Mathieu
Writers: Ian Fried, John Gatins, Jamie Moss, George Nolfi
Stars: Emily Mortimer, Clayne Crawford, Max Martini, James Badge Dale, Bruce Greenwood
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106651/
A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.