Action Juice

I had a movie night recently with a buddy of mine who’s always keen to watch a foreign film, so I recommended we watch the Danish action comedy Riders of... Read More

Based on the sheer amount of advertising there’s been for The Terminal List, it’s quite obvious that Amazon desperately wants this show to succeed. And why wouldn’t they? The novels... Read More

For some reason, Hollywood produced a ton of airplane-set, big-budget action movies in the 90s. Today, we’re comparing the two that are arguably the best, Executive Decision (1996) and Air... Read More

With January’s Munich – The Edge of War being a cut above Netflix’s average fare, it seemed the streamer may have finally found a film genre that it excels at... Read More

Given my interest in military history, I bought a copy of Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS a couple of years ago. Its author, Ben Macintyre, skillfully wrote a... Read More

Liam Neeson’s most recent action thrillers have been, for lack of a better word, dogshit. Okay, The Ice Road was passable, but Blacklight was an unmitigated train wreck that ranks... Read More

Because of life circumstances, it took me a while to get through Under the Banner of Heaven, and I ended up watching a number of episodes more than once. Yet,... Read More

A few weeks ago, Isaac and Will did a deep dive into The Mummy Trilogy (1999-2008), aiming to illuminate how and why the sequels failed to live up to the... Read More

I mean, it’s a new John Wick. Enough said.... Read More

Writer/director Sean Ellis won me over back in 2016 with his underrated WW2 thriller, Anthropoid. That film was a character-driven gem that featured excellent acting, solid storytelling, and a killer... Read More

When it comes to writing TV series, brothers Harry and Jack Williams have become masters of dichotomies and parallels. Whether it’s something like past vs present, hope vs despair, or... Read More

Few people in the last century have led a life worth retelling more than Harry Haft (born Hertzka Haft in 1925), a Polish-Jewish boxer who somehow managed to survive Auschwitz... Read More

Given the success of novelist Michael Connelly’s Bosch series on Amazon Prime Video, it should come as no surprise that Netflix, Prime’s primary competitor, would take a shot at adapting... Read More