Action Movies

A few months ago during one of MTV’s stupid awards shows, Lionsgate foolishly released a “teaser trailer” promoting the highly anticipated 2012 release of The Hunger Games. The marketing engine had been building strong buzz for months leading up to the awards show and had been quite effective at doing so – I’d never heard of the books before but even I was starting to believe in the hype.

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When aliens attack, they better not land in inner city South London. That’s the message in Attack the Block, the entertaining but inconsequential action-comedy about a bunch of pitch-black aliens with glowing razor-sharp teeth who meet their match in a group of ragtag hoodlums.

Read FilmJabber’s full Attack the Block movie review.

Ignoring the third movie, the Underworld franchise has delivered some cheap thrills over the years and lots of tight black leather-clad Kate Beckinsale, which is more than can be said for a lot of movies. With Beckinsale’s career not exactly taking off, it’s no surprise that the beautiful actress is returning to another entry in the franchise.

Screen Gems just released a new poster for Underworld Awakening – check it out below.

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In Safe House, Ryan Reynolds plays a young house attendant who must help a  criminal (Denzel Washington) flee from a CIA safe house that’s under attack. The first trailer for the action movie is now online, as well as the first poster and a few movie stills.

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Six. That’s how many times I watched Jurassic Park in theaters. Nearly 20 years later, the Steven Spielberg movie continues to be an entertaining and exciting classic that can be re-watched over and over again. Its sequels… not so much.

Jurassic Park, The Lost World and Jurassic Park III were released last week on Blu-ray for the first time in an “Ultimate Trilogy” package, which naturally features a new documentary that looks back on the franchise, offers even more behind-the-scenes footage and includes all of the archival featurettes released in previous editions. More importantly, the Ultimate Trilogy set gives fans the ability to watch the three movies in “high definition” for the first time.

It also gives me the opportunity to recount on the decline of quality from one movie to the next.

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Paramount Pictures has released the latest trailer for the upcoming action-thriller Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol. The movie, which stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Paula Patton, is about a massive terrorist attack that causes the IMF to be disbanded and Ethan Hunt and his team to go on the run to prove their innocence.

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But in a good way. If you haven’t watched the movie trailer for the upcoming movie Chronicle, which comes to theaters on February 3, 2012, you should do so now. It’s about three teenage friends who stumble across something very mysterious and begin to develop superpowers – namely invincibility, flight and the ability to move things with their minds. While their newfound abilities make for great fun, things begin to spiral out of control, especially when one friend takes things too far.

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Of course you do. After all, if you win, that means it’s free. And it stars Ryan Reynolds. And more importantly, Blake Lively looking hotter than ever. Those are special effects computers can’t make!

Green Lantern is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray, so if you can’t wait to win, buy it or rent it or steal it. Or you can just enter to win here.

Well, that was fast. After a slew of pictures found their way online, Walt Disney Studios and Marvel have released the first trailer – well, an extended teaser trailer – for The Avengers, in theaters May 4, 2012. The movie brings together Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and Black Widow (Scalett Johansson) to protect the world from Loki.

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The glory days of boxing are behind it, in real life and on the silver screen. Modern boxers pale in comparison to the popularity of their predecessors.  Boxing movies continue to be a staple of pop culture, but they reflect on fighters of yesteryear. Boxing is a fading sport, even a faded sport. So it’s only natural to replace those sacks of flesh and bones with fight-to-the-death robots!

Read FilmJabber’s full Real Steel movie review.

Jackie Chan’s 100th film is now playing in select theaters, and if you were unaware, you’re not alone. Unlike the movies he’s known for, 1911, about the Wuchang Rebellion that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, is a gritty, serious and violent war epic. It’s unfortunately also a terrible movie.

Read FilmJabber’s full 1911 movie review.

Easily one of the most anticipated movies of 2012, The Avengers is starting to get its marketing engine churning with the release of several movie stills. The latest photograph depicts Thor and Captain America staring up at some unknown threat, presumably a gigantic, radioactive and naked Scarlett Johansson. Other movie pictures feature Samuel L. Jackson firing a gun, Johansson and Jeremy Renner shooting at something with a green screen and Johansson again, looking all cool as crap explodes around her. I wish I were that cool.

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