The Essentials: American Civil War Movies
Americans have always been good at war and while it seems our own politicians have gotten in the way in recent decades and handcuffed the U.S. military during wartime, we used to be pretty good at...
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The Essentials: 1981 Action
1981 saw Ronald Reagan sworn in as the 40th President of the United States… Months later President Reagan was shot in the chest during an attempted assassinaton in what was one of the top new stories...
The Essentials: 1990 Action
1990 was a a newsworthy year… Iraqi troops would invade Kuwait getting the wheels in motion for The Persian Gulf War… After more than 27 years, South Africa freed the imprisoned Nelson Mandela… And Margaret Thatcher...
The Essentials: James Lew Fight Scenes
If you made an action movie in the mid 80’s to late 90’s and didn’t use James Lew then you’re an idiot. He had the fight game on lock-down for the better part of two decades...
The Essentials: Underrated Action of the 1990’s
Watching the vast number of great action movies in the 90’s really makes one question the current state of the genre. It didn’t take much for me to come up with the list that you see...
The Essentials: The Best of Ben Affleck
I don’t waste my time writing about non-action movies. Sure, I watch non-action movies from time to time. I’ve seen about every Daniel Day-Lewis movie ever made and can tell you far too much about the...
The Essentials: Child Actors turned Action Stars
As a parent, I don’t think that I could ever allow my child to pursue a career in Hollywood. There is just too much history of abuse, addiction, and downright horribleness for me to ever agree...
The Essentials: Fictional Bands from the Action World
Action movies and music are two things that go together like spaghetti and meatballs. There are so many amazing soundtracks out there that I’m not even gonna list them here. What I’ll do, instead, is to...
The Essentials: Power Couples
Action movies are known for a lot of things… tough guys, explosions, fist fights, car chases and guns ablazing! But as this post will soon prove somewhere soaring between the bullets flying and the exploding helicopters are...
The Essentials: Sean Bean’s Greatest On Screen Deaths
I never get tired of seeing Sean Bean get killed. Someday that line could make me a suspect in a homicide case but it doesn’t change the fact that he is a man who has fully...
