Action… Movie #1 2023: Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 15 Jan 202315 Jan 2023 Hooray! We're finally onto my 2023 First Watches. So what a better way to begin... than with one of the top films of 2022? Sigh. I'm sorry. In my defence…
Action… Movie #179 2021: Black Widow (2021) 12 Jul 202112 Jul 2021 I can't believe this movie is finally here. Not only was it due for release in May 2020, but it was pushed back at least twice due to... well, you…
Action Movie #137 2021: Quantum of Solace (2008) 24 May 202119 May 2021 Remember when I watched Casino Royale? Don't worry, neither do I. And it's probably because I watched it last June. It was the only Bond movie I'd seen before this…
Action… Movie #125 2021: Taken (2008) 12 May 20214 May 2021 Taken feels like one of those movies that every human of my generation has seen. Well guess what? Not me. What a surprise. So many people have seen this movie…
Action… Movie #17 2021: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 23 Jan 202116 Jan 2021 A week later, I completed the Indiana Jones trilogy! (No, I'm still not acknowledging the fourth movie. That may change, but I wouldn't hold your breath.) Thanks for being patient.…
Action… Movie #366 2020: Tenet (2020) 31 Dec 202030 Dec 2020 Here it is: the only blockbuster of the entire year to be released in cinemas. And what a risk that was. Although it only made a 'modest' $162 million in…
Action… Movie #360 2020: Speed (1994) 26 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 Well, that's Christmas over and done with. I do hope you all had a lovely day considering the circumstances. Does that mean the end of the Christmas film at The…
Action… Movie #213 2020: Mission: Impossible (1996) 15 Jun 202013 Jun 2020 No. Okay? No, I haven't seen any of the Mission: Impossible films before. I intend on changing that. (I say, as I have yet to watch a single James Bond…
Action… Movie #21 2020: John Wick (2014) 26 Feb 2020 Keanu Reeves as John Wick Just when you thought you were sick of franchises, along comes John Wick. What's odd about this as a franchise is that it's not overly…
Action… Movie #10 2020: Looper (2012) 11 Feb 2020 Joseph Gordon Levitt as Joe and Bruce Willis as Old Joe This is a new one for me in that it's probably the first review I've written for TQR that…
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