John Woo's first film has all the hallmarks of his later brand of violent, choreographed gunplay. A revenge actioner with Chow Yun Fat as Mark, who teams up with his imprisoned friend's brother, a cop, to defeat his previous bosses, the notorious yakuza crimelords. Action packed. find out more...

Precinct 13 is facing its last night as an active police station, only a skeleton staff is kept on, but then nobody is expecting any trouble, and as a blizzard rages outside everyone settles down for an uneventful evening. A prison bus, no longer able to cope with the weather conditions pulls up to the precinct, and discharges a motley selection of prisoners, one of them a recently convicted high profile ganglord. What follows is a lethally one sided siege, convicts and cops forced into an uneas find out more...

The morally vacuous tale of an architect who goes on a gun-happy vigilante mission after his wife is murdered and his daughter assaulted to the point of catatonia (by a very sleazy looking Jeff Goldblum in his first screen role). Stalking the dark and dingy streets of a New York, where every shadowy corner hides a low-life punk willing to kill you for your loose change, Bronson dispenses his own inimitable brand of justice. Despite its age 'Death Wish' still has the power to pack a punch and its find out more...

From S. Craig Zahler, the cult director of Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99 comes a gritty crime thriller, starring Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn and Tory Kittles. Dragged Across Concrete follows two police detectives who find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics is leaked to the media. With little money and no options, the embittered policemen and a recently paroled convict descend into the criminal underworld and find more than they want find out more...

 

Judge Dredd is assigned to evaluate Cassandra Anderson, a rookie with powerful psychic abilities, but a heinous crime calls them to a neighbourhood where law enforcement rarely dares to tread; a 200 story vertical slum controlled by prostitute turned drug lord Ma-Ma. Soon the duo find themselves up against a relentless wave of heavily armed th find out more...

 

Revered Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and his second in command Aspirante Matias are facing tough times within the corrupt political system of Rio de Janeiro. Following the bloody aftermath of a disastrously handled prison riot, Nascimento gets caught in a lethal political dispute that involves not only government officials, but also the find out more...

This film, which sparked off the reactionary Rambo series, is a gem. Stallone plays a skilled jungle fighter, who finds himself a social outcast on his return from Vietnam, and makes war with the authoritarian uniformed forces whom he once represented. Both cool on action and politically PC, a must watch for those who think the Rambo character was purely a demented racist imperialist with a ridiculously accurate gun. find out more...

Pam Grier displays the charms that made her a 70s icon of the blaxploitation movie. When Foxy Brown's undercover drug squad boyfriend is murdered after her bad-ass brother reveals his identity, she poses as a hooker to take revenge on The Man. Cue bucketloads of gratuitous sex and violence. Brilliant (say some)! find out more...

A team of maverick young Hong-Kong cops, formed to track down a new breed of funky young gangster, uncover a feud between Japanese criminals and a plot to blow up the HK Convention Centre. Cue lots of stylised mayhem, plenty of special effects and a healthy dollop of arse kickin' in this big budget action-comedy. find out more...

A hard-boiled Hong Kong detective (Chow Yun-Fat), who lost his partner in a gunfight, teams up with an undercover cop (Tony Leung) to stop the mob smuggling guns and killing innocent people. Truly one of the most action-packed and hectic mayhem movies ever made and John Woo is as slick as they come when it comes to these. A body count in the thousands. find out more...