Articles Tagged action film

REVIEW: JCVD

The opening sequence of JCVD is an exercise in filmmaking smarts. In a single long take, a battle ready Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks, punches, dodges and weaves, stabs and shoots his way through a horde of armed assailants, while Curtis Mayfield’s lyrics for ‘Hard Time’ (‘…I played the part I feel they want of me’) […]

REVIEW: Hot Fuzz

Describing his cult TV show Spaced which ran between 1999 and 2001, director Edgar Wright reportedly remarked, “It’s a show by geeks, for geeks”. For many, the comment would’ve been an equally apt description of his successful 2004 zombie-horror-comedy, Shaun of the Dead. In what may prove to be music to the ears of men-children […]