Discover What’s Streaming On: The biggest movie released in the summer of 1985 was Back to the Future, a lighthearted time-travel romp riffing on ’50s nostalgia during the dead center of the Reagan ...

In the early 2000s, the American action film began slowly drowning in a sea of Asian wire-fu copycats. It wasn’t pretty, and it left 90s action icons like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Van Damme ...

Thirty-three years ago this month, John Woo’s crime thriller “Hard-Boiled” had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and immediately rewrote the action-movie playbook.

“Hell is waiting for you. I’ll be your nightmare forever,” Yoshii (Masaki Suda) is told at gunpoint in one of the most thrilling sequences of Kiyoshi Kurosawa‘s career in “Cloud.” It’s a line, though, ...

Something’s seemed different about No. 1 American action hero Bruce Willis lately. His action movie output in recent years has mostly been stunt casting in mediocre sequels (The Expendables 2, G.I.

“It’s hard to get these things started,” says Walter Hill, dean of the American action movie, speaking to me from Los Angeles. “Action films are, by their very nature, more expensive than what are ...