Fistfights, explosions, car chases, Tom Cruise running in a straight line —there's nothing like a good action movie. However ...

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 ...

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.

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.

“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, ...

There are plenty of great action movies from all over the world, and some of the best don't even come from American studios. While many American action movies from the past feature big gunplay and ...

NPR's Megan Lim and Ryan Benk, two action sequence aficionados, discuss the elements of a great cinematic fight scene. DETROW: I think that was one of the first fight scenes that really stuck with me, ...

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