Chad Cruise

Bullet Points: Security

I have made no secret of my belief that the action genre is unbelievably short on action stars at the moment. Maybe more so than in any time in the past 60 years. Each decade has...

Bullet Points: Bad Frank

There have been a lot of movies with the word “Bad” in the title in recent years. Bad Santa, Bad Moms, The Bad Batch; but there haven’t been many movies where the “bad” person headbutt anyone...

Bullet Points: Mifune: The Last Samurai

Legendary actor Toshiro Mifune had a quality about him that is difficult to find these days. His gruffness and grit, his unspeakable masculinity, his ability to tell a story with just his facial expressions; he was...

Bullet Points: Bullets for the Dead

I consider myself something of an expert on foreign cinema. I haven’t seen any of those artsy French flicks where the two girls dye their hair and scissor each other and I don’t watch all those...

Women of Action: Jennifer Lopez – Anaconda

It’s hard to remember a time when a dozen movies weren’t released each year featuring massive animals devouring mostly dim-witted attractive people. Of course there were many of them following the release of Jaws in the...

Bullet Points: Shadowchaser (1992)

The direct to video action landscape of 1992 was very different from what we currently have today. Sure, we have some bonafide DTV stars like Scott Adkins and Michael Jai White, but both of them have done...