Showing posts with label Action-Adventure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Action-Adventure. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2022

TRANSPORTER 2 (2005)

 


Directed By: Louis Leterrier Written By: Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen  Cinematography: Mitchell Amundsen Editor: Christine Lucas Navarro & Vincent Tabaillon

Cast: Jason Statham, Amber Valletta, Alessandro Grossman, Kate Nauta, Matthew Modine, Jason Flemyng, Keith David, Francois Baerleand, Annalynne McCord

Transporter Frank Martin surfaces in Miami, Florida, and is implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official.

Saturday, August 8, 2020

ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP (2019)


Directed By: Ruben Fleischer Written By: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick & Dave Callahan Cinematography: Chung-Hoon Chung Editor: Chris Patterson & Dirk Westervelt 
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Rosario Dawson, Luke Wilson, Thomas Middleditch, Zoey Deutch, Avan Jogia, Victoria Hall, Victor Rivera 
A decade after their first adventure, the zombie-bashing team of Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland. Here, they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of their own makeshift family.

TRANSPORTER: REFUELED (2015)




Directed By: Camille Delamarre Written By: Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Luc Besson Based on Characters Created by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen  Cinematography: Christophe Collette & Vincent Richard  Editor: Julien Rey 
Cast: Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol, Gabriella Wright, Tatiana Pajkovic, Noemie Lenoir 
In the south of France, former special-ops mercenary Frank Martin enters into a game of chess with a femme-fatale and her three sidekicks who are looking for revenge against a sinister Russian kingpin.

ANOTHER 48 HOURS (1990)



Directed by: Walter Hill Written By: Larry Gross, Jeb Stuart & John Fasano Based on characters created by: Roger Spottiswoode, Walter Hill, Larry Gross & Steven E. De Souza  Story By: Eddie Murphy  Cinematography: Matthew F. Leonetti  Editor: Donn Aron, Carmel Davies, Freeman Davies, Tim Ryder 
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Andrew Divoff, Brion James, Kevin Tighe, Brent Jennings, Ed O’Ross, David Anthony Marshall, Bernie Casey, Tisha Campbell
With a pending old debt from the past and the genuine threat of losing his badge for good, the tough and gruff San Francisco police officer, Inspector Jack Cates, pushes his luck and turns to his reluctant former partner, Reggie Hammond. Having spent seven long years in jail after the events of 48 Hrs, Reggie is about to taste the air of freedom, when an attempt on his life drags him into a new circle of violence, as Jack is almost obsessively trying to prove that the elusive criminal mastermind known as the "Iceman" exists. But, this time, the odds are against the mismatched duo. Will Cates clear his name?

Thursday, December 5, 2019

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012)



Directed By: Marc Webb 
Written By: James Vanderbilt & Alvin Sargent & Steve Kloves 
Story By: James Vanderbilt 
Based on Characters Created By: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko 
Cinematography: John Schwartzman 
Editor: Alan Edward Bell, Michael McCusker & Pietro Scalia 


Cast: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Irrfan Khan, C. Thomas Howell, Campbell Scott, Embeth Daviditz, Chris Zylka, Amber Stevens, Tia Texada, Hannah Marks, Vincent Laresca 


After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to save the city from the machinations of a mysterious reptilian foe.

SPIDER-MAN 3 (2007)



Directed By: Sam Raimi 
Written By: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi & Alvin Sargent 
Screen Story By: Sam Raimi & Ivan Raimi 
Based On Characters Created By: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko 
Cinematography: Bill Pope 
Editor: Bob Murawski 


Cast: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church, James Franco, J.K. Simmons, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rosemary Harris, James Cromwell, Theresa Russell, Dylan Baker, Bill Nunn, Elizabeth Banks, Ted Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Becky Ann Baker, Willem Dafoe, Cliff Robertson 


Peter Parker has finally managed to piece together the once-broken parts of his life, maintaining a balance between his relationship with Mary-Jane and his responsibility as Spider-Man. But more challenges arise for our young hero. Peter's old friend Harry Obsourne has set out for revenge against Peter; taking up the mantle of his late father's persona as The New Goblin, and Peter must also capture Uncle Ben's real killer, Flint Marko, who has been transformed into his toughest foe yet, the Sandman. All hope seems lost when suddenly Peter's suit turns jet-black and greatly amplifies his powers. But it also begins to greatly amplify the much darker qualities of Peter's personality that he begins to lose himself to. Peter has to reach deep inside himself to free the compassionate hero he used to be if he is to ever conquer the darkness within and face not only his greatest enemies, but also...himself

Saturday, November 16, 2019

ANNA (2019)



Written & Directed By: Luc Besson 
Cinematography By: Thierry Arbogast 
Editor: Julien Rey 

Cast: Sasha Luss, Cillian Murphy, Luke Evans, Helen Mirren, Lera Abova, Alexander Petrov, Anna Krippa 

Anna is a young beautiful girl who managed to make a career in the fashion world. More recently, she was a simple model from Moscow, but in a very short time she was able to enter the elite. Once she entered the hotel of an influential and very dangerous person, after which a whole mountain of corpses was discovered there. The girl is being interrogated by special services, but she has absolutely nothing to tell on this fact. She looks scared, and no one suspects her. Anna goes free and begins preparing for a new business. Under the guise of a fragile beauty, is hiding the world's most dangerous assassin, who has not yet misfired.

DEATH WISH (2018)



Directed By: Eli Roth 
Written By: Joe Carnahan 
Based On The Novel By: Brian Garfield 
Based On the original Motion Picture Screenplay By: Wendell Mayes 
Cinematography: Rogier Stoffers 
Editor: Mark Goldblatt & Yvonne Valdez 


Cast: Bruce Willis, Elisabeth Shue, Vincent D’Onofrio, Camilla Morrone, Dean Norris, Beau Knapp, Kimberly Elise, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Len Cariou, Jack Kesy, Stephen McHattie, Jaslene Gonzalez 


Dr. Paul Kersey is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of his city's violence as it's rushed into his ER -until his wife and college-age daughter are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With the police overloaded with crimes, Paul, burning for revenge, hunts for his family's assailants to deliver justice. As the anonymous slayings of criminals grabs the media's attention, the city wonders if this deadly avenger is a guardian angel...or a grim reaper.

PEPPERMINT (2018)



Directed By: Pierre Norel 
Written By: Chad St. John 
Cinematography By: David Lanzenberg 
Editor: Frederic Thoraval 


Cast: Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz, Juan Pablo Raba, Annie Ilonzeh, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Tyson Ritter, Richard Cabral 


An unidentified woman is engaged in a brutal fight with a man in a car and finally dispatches him with a shot to the head. Five years earlier, the same woman, Riley North, is working as a bank teller in Los Angeles struggling to make ends meet. Her husband Chris owns a failing mechanic shop. They have a ten-year-old daughter, Carly. Chris' friend tries to talk him into robbing Diego Garcia, a powerful drug lord. Chris turns him down, but not before Garcia has already discovered his involvement and ordered his men to make an example of him. Riley and Chris take Carly out for pizza and to a carnival for her birthday since no one showed up to her party. At the carnival, Carly orders peppermint ice cream. As the family walks to the car, Diego's men gun down her husband and daughter in a drive-by shooting. She is wounded, but survives.

Saturday, November 9, 2019

LETHAL WEAPON 4 (1998)



Directed By: Richard Donner 
Written By: Channing Gibson 
 Story By: Jonathan Lemkin, Alfred Gough & Miles Millar 
Based On Characters Created By: Shane Black 
Cinematography: Andrzej Bartkowiak 
Editor: Dallas Puett, Kevin Stitt, Eric Strand & Frank J. Urioste 


Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Jet Li, Joe Pesci, Chris Rock, Rene Russo, Kim Chan, Steve Kahan, Darlene Love, Richard Riehle, Mary Ellen Trainor, Ebonie Smith 


With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.

Thursday, September 26, 2019

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (2019)



Directed By: Jon Watts 
Written By: Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers 
Based On Characters Created By: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko 
Cinematography: Matthew J. Lloyd 
Editor: Leigh Folsom Boyd & Dan Lebental 


Cast: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jake Gylenhaal, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Favreau, Cobie Smulders, Marisa Tomei, Jacob Batalan, Tony Revolori, Martin Starr, J.B. Smoove, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Peter Billingsly, Angourie Rice 


Our friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter's plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks, creating havoc across the continent.

THE AVENGERS (2012)



Written & Directed By: Joss Whedon 
Story By: Zak Penn & Joss Whedon 
Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey 
Editor: Jeffrey Ford & Lisa Lassek 


Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johanssen, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Renner, Chris Hemsworth, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgard, Samuel L. Jackson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alexis Denisof, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jenny Agutter, James Eckhouse, Harry Dean Stanton, Stan Lee 

Nick Fury is the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., an international peace-keeping agency. The agency is a who's who of Marvel Super Heroes, with Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When global security is threatened by Loki and his cohorts, Nick Fury and his team will need all their powers to save the world from disaster which is formed by Loki and his team

THOR (2011)



Directed By: Kenneth Branagh 
Written By: Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, & Don Payne 
Story By: J. Michael Strazynski & Mark Protosevich 
Based on the Comic Book By: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby 
Cinematography: Haris Zambarloukos 
Editor: Paul Pubell 

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Rene Russo, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Stellan Skarsgard, Clark Gregg, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Jaime Alexander, Adriana Barraza 

The reckless Thor, son of Odin, challenges his brother Loki's claim to the throne of Asgard. To teach him humility, Odin casts the young warrior down to Earth to live amongst humans. Robbed of his powers, Thor falls in love with scientist Jane Foster. While Loki usurps the throne of Asgard for evil gain and plans revenge, Thor's love for Jane and his lessons of humility turn him into the true hero and legendary and immortal warrior-defender of the people of the Earth, saving them from destruction.

Thursday, August 22, 2019

POINT BLANK (2019)



Directed By: Joe Lynch 
Written By: Adam Green 
Based on characters created By: Fred Cavaye 
Cinematography: Juan Miguel Azpiroz 

Cast: Frank Grillo, Anthony Mackie, Marcia Gay Harden, Stuart F. Wilson, Christian Cooke, Teyonah Parris, Boris Micgiver, Markice Moore 

An ER nurse and a career criminal are forced into an unlikely partnership in taking down a ring of corrupt cops threatening the lives of both their families.

13 ASSASSINS (2010)



Directed By: Takashi Miike 
Written By: Daisuke Tengan 
Story By: Shoichirou Ikemiya 
Based on A Screenplay By: Kaneo Ikegami 
Cinematography: Nobuyasu Kita 
Editor: Kenji Yamashita 


Cast: Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya, Arata Furuta, Sosuke Takaoka, Koen Kondo, Masataka Kubota, Ikki Sawamura, Seiji Rokkaku 


A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Thursday, July 4, 2019

RIM OF THE WORLD (2019)



Directed By: McG 
Written By: Zack Stentz 
Cinematography: Shane Hurlbut 
Editor: Vincent Tabaillion 

Cast: Jack Gore, Miya Cech, Benjamin Flores Jr., Alessio Scalzotto, Anabeth Gish, Michael Beach, Andrew Bachelor, Scott Macarthur, Dean Jagger, Lynn Collins, Chris Wylde 


Four misfit teenagers join forces to save the world when an alien invasion interrupts their summer camp.

Sunday, June 2, 2019

THE CROW: CITY OF ANGELS (1996)

Directed By: Tim Pope 
Written By: David S. Goyer 
Based on the Comic Book Series By: James O’Barr 
Cinematography: Jean-Yves Escoffier 
Editor: Michael N. Knue & Anthony Redman 

Cast: Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, Richard Brooks, Iggy Pop, Thomas Jane, Thuy Trang, Beverley Mitchell, Vincent Castellanos 

Some time ago, Ashe Corven and his son Danny were killed when they stumbled across a pack of drug dealers murdering a fellow dealer. The dealers work for Los Angeles drug kingpin Judah Earl. Local tattoo artist Sarah, who has great knowledge of the crow legend because of what happened with her late friend Eric Draven, has been having dreams about Ashe and Danny. One night when a crow leads her to the scene of the murders of Ashe and Danny, Ashe appears before her. The crow has resurrected Ashe, so Ashe can go after Judah and his right hand man Curve. With the guidance of the crow, Ashe starts killing off Judah's men one by one, on his way to Judah.

Sunday, April 21, 2019

DEADPOOL 2 (2018)



Director: David Leitch 
Written By: Rhett Rhesse & Paul Werneck, Ryan Reynolds 
Cinematography: Jonathan Sela 
Editor: Craig Alpert, Michael McCusker, Elisabet Ronaldsdottir & Dick Westervelt 
Music By: Tyler Bates 


Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Zazie Beetz, Julian Dennison, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Leslie Uggams, Briana Hildebrand, Eddie Marsan, Rob Delaney, Terry Crews, Bill Skarsgard, Alan Tudyk 


After losing the love of his life, 4th wall-breaking mercenary Wade Wilson aka Deadpool must protect Russel must assemble a team of mutants and protect Russel from Cable, a no-nonsense, dangerous cyborg from the future and Deadpool must learn the most important lesson of all, to be part of a family again.

Friday, March 29, 2019

CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019)



Directed By: Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck 
Written By: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet 
Story By: Nicole Perlman, Meg LaFeuve, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet Cinematography: Ben Davis 
Editor: Debbie Berman & Elliot Graham 

Cast: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Annette Bening, Jude Law, Lashana Lynch, Clark Gregg, Lee Pace, Gemma Chan, Dijmon Hounsou 

Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.

BUMBLEBEE (2018)



Directed By: Travis Knight 
Story & Written By: Christina Hodson 
Cinematography: Enrique Chediak 
Editor: Paul Rubell

Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Pamela Adlon, Jason Drucker, Stephen Schneider,John Ortiz, Glynn Turman, Len Cariou, Fred Dryer, Megyn Price 


On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.