Category Archives: Action
The Ascent
Release 2019
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Director: Tom Paton
Writer: Tom Paton
Stars: Rachel Warren, Simon Meacock, Bentley Kalu, Samantha Schnitzler, Toby Osmond
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8439934/
Special ops squad "Hell's Bastards" are sent to infiltrate a civil war to retrieve intel. The unit soon find themselves trapped on a never-ending stairwell forced to climb or die. To survive, they must revisit their past sins if they ever want to get off.
Extraction
Release 2020
Genre Action
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Director: Sam Hargrave
Writers: Joe Russo, Joe Russo
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Shivam Vichare, Piyush Khati, Randeep Hooda
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8936646/
Tyler Rake, a fearless black market mercenary, embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he's enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.
She Never Died
Release 2019
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Director: Audrey Cummings
Writers: Jason Krawczyk
Stars: Olunike Adeliyi, Peter MacNeill, Kiana Madeira, Michelle Nolden, Noah Dalton Danby
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8569578/
When a girl goes missing, a woman with a mysterious past tracks down the people responsible.
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge
Release 2020
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation
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Director: Ethan Spaulding
Writers: Jeremy Adams, Ed Boon
Stars: Joel McHale, Grey Griffin, Jennifer Carpenter, Kevin Michael Richardson, Steve Blum
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9580138/
Plot unknown. Reportedly an animated project based on the long-running Mortal Kombat video game franchise.
Proxima
Release 2019
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Director: Alice Winocour
Writers: Alice Winocour, Jean-Stéphane Bron
Stars: Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Aleksey Fateev, Lars Eidinger
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7374926/
An astronaut prepares for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station.
The Rhythm Section
Release 2020
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Director: Reed Morano
Writers: Mark Burnell, Mark Burnell
Stars: Blake Lively, Richard Brake, Elly Curtis, David Duggan, Matilda Ziegler
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7134096/
A woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.
My Spy
Release 2020
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Director: Peter Segal
Writers: Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber
Stars: Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Kristen Schaal, Greg Bryk
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8242084/
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
Coffee & Kareem
Release 2020
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Director: Michael Dowse
Writers: Shane Mack
Stars: Ed Helms, Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, Betty Gilpin, RonReaco Lee
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9898858/
Twelve-year-old Kareem Manning hires a criminal to scare his mom's new boyfriend -police officer James Coffee - but it backfires, forcing Coffee and Kareem to team up in order to save themselves from Detroit's most ruthless drug kingpin.
The Mystery Of The Dragon Seal
Release 2019
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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Director: Oleg Stepchenko
Writers: Dmitry Paltsev, Alexey A. Petrukhin, Oleg Stepchenko
Stars: Jason Flemyng, Xingtong Yao, Anna Churina, Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6218010/
Early 1700: Cartographer Jonathan Green (Jason Flemyng) from Viy (2014) is back to map the Russian Far East. He's forced on to China, where he confronts the Dragon Master et al. The iron masked Russian Czar escapes the Tower of London to a Russian ship.
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
Release 2019
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation
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Director: Sung-ho Hong, Moo-Hyun Jang, Young Sik Uhm
Writers: WoongSub Ahn, Sung-ho Hong, WooChul Jung
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Claflin, Gina Gershon, Patrick Warburton, Jim Rash
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4429160/
Princes who have been turned into Dwarfs seek the red shoes of a lady in order to break the spell, although it will not be easy. A parody with a twist.