After a year inside, who could resist the siren call of Fast & Furious on the big screen?
The highest-grossing movie of 2020 was an action movie. This was simply by default; movie theaters were only really…
Oh shit, I thought. Here we go. It was 2014. I was in a movie theater, watching the first John Wick, a shockingly…
A funny thing happened to action movies in 2018: Horror movies swallowed them whole. This wasn’t an across-the-board…
If you haven’t seen Wolf Warrior II, the massive 2017 Chinese blockbuster, the first thing you might know about it…
Wu Jing, now a massive action star, was in the first Kill Zone, the 2005 Donnie Yen vehicle that helped translate…
It takes a whole lot to turn The Road Warrior into an afterthought. George Miller’s second Mad Max movie, released…
In the entire history of American action cinema, there are very, very few movies that take their fight scenes as…
About midway through Bong Joon-ho’s 2013’s apocalyptic class-warfare fable Snowpiercer, we get to the scene with the…
You’re all alone. You haven’t even been on the police force for that long, but here you are, disarmed and cut off…
The best Fast & Furious movie charted a path for the series—and got The Rock in on the action, too
Stuntmen loved Fast Five. The year after the movie came out, I spent a few days at ActionFest, a film festival in…
In the 2011 South Korean movie War Of The Arrows, a historical drama about a master archer who practically wins an…
“Was that racist, or did it just seem racist?” That was the basic idea of the conversation that my friends and I had…
When I started this column, I decided that the modern action movie began with Bullitt in 1968. But a strong…
Last year, when Rogue One came out, America learned something that much of the rest of the world already knew:…
Paul Greengrass didn’t invent shakycam. The technique of frantic handheld camerawork and chaotic editing had been…
Quentin Tarantino loves action movies. Quentin Tarantino’s characters love action movies. The history of action…
It’s one of our great action-movie traditions, right up there with the moment that 007, in the middle of the circle,…