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Bullet Points: The Killer (2024)

There were two things that I knew about The Killer before I even hit play… Stepping outside the action fanatic bubble for a moment, you have to think that there is a sizeable chunk of the...

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Silent Night

It seems like each year there is a new film released trying to be that big holiday crowd pleaser. Last year was Violent Night and this year we got the American return of John Woo in...

Bullet Points: Silent Night (2023)

2022 gifted action fanatics with Violent Night. 2023 has followed with Silent Night… a new Christmas action movie every year is a trend I can certainly get behind. Silent Night is not going to be everyone’s...

10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Killer

When you’re talking about directors who have built a repertoire of incredible action movies John Woo is right near the top of that list. He’s successfully made movies that action lovers drool over in both Hong...

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Hard Target

Kino Lorber’s release of 1993’s Hard Target is now available and mere hours after it ended up at my door I found myself watching the John Woo/Jean-Claude Van Damme collaboration in all its 4K Ultra HD...

Bulletproof Podcast: Episode 51 – Hard Target

Our Twitter followers have spoken and Episode 51 of The Bulletproof Podcast is all about the John Woo/Jean-Claude Van Damme classic, Hard Target! Chris the Brain and Chad Cruise talk all things Hard Target, including JCVD’s...

Bullet Points: Hard Target

I could talk forever about John Woo’s Hard Target. Instead, I decided to do a quick review that highlights some of the reasons why I love this film.  The Most Dangerous Game: I enjoy Most Dangerous...

Scene of the Week: Mission: Impossible II

Mission: Impossible is a very successful movie franchise that started with some pretty successful television shows. A mission impossible is also the task to make sequels that are as good or better than the original. Leave...

Bullet Points: The Killer

By the time that John Woo made his first movie here in America in 1993 (Hard Target), he was already a God among men when it came to directing action sequences. He had already been directing...

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Face/Off

When I think of directors who have made the biggest impact on action cinema over the last 25 years, my mind skips past names like James Cameron and Michael Bay and goes to the man who...