Action/Adventure

Dominated by male bravado and heroism (and often a short attention span) the Action genre gets physical with conflict, while Adventure pursues the big quest…

Show In-store Rental Home-Delivery

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947): Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner; Overlooked masterpiece of British crime noir which blends kitchen sink realism with the poetic sensibilities of 30's French cinema. An escaped convict hides out in his ex-lover's family bomb shelter, disrupting her claustrophobic domesticity, while a detective closes in on him. Based on the novel by Arthur…
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000): Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi…; A fantasy-fuelled, Chinese feudal melodrama laced with jaw-dropping combat sequences (arguably the best ever staged), this represents a new high watermark for Asian cinema both artistically and commercially (now the highest-grossing foreign-language film of all time). While indebted to a long tradition…
Legend of Baron To'a, The (2020): Dir. Kiel McNaughton
Feat. Nathaniel Lees, Uli Latukefu, Nathaniel Lees…; Ridiculously bad-ass action comedy set in South Auckland where a displaced Tongan man discovers the championship wrestling belt that was a priceless family heirloom has been stolen, and is hell bent on it's retrieval. Combining his analytical skills with his deceased father's wrestling techniques, he decides…
Ford v Ferrari (2019): Dir. James Mangold
Feat. Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal…; Handsomely-mounted standard issue Hollywood biopic of how the Ford motor company entered the motor-racing game to try to topple Ferrari's supremacy at the famous Le Mans championship in 1966. Unlike RUSH (2013), and perhaps contrary to marketing expectations, the two leads do not face off against one…
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019): Dir. Kriv Stenders
Feat. Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey, Richard Roxburgh…; Australian war film set in a Vietnamese rubber plantation in 1966, where 108 inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting against 2500 Vietnamese soldiers.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019): Dir. David Leitch
Feat. Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba…; Ever more over-the-top (ergo, ludicrous) spinoff of THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS (aka FF8), focusing on Dwayne Johnson's US Diplomatic Security Agent Hobbs forming an unlikely alliance with adversary Jason Statham's Shaw when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity.
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019): Dir. Jon Watts
Feat. Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal…; Marvel-lous sequel to the hugely successful reboot 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', this follows the events of 'Avengers: Endgame', with Peter Parker aka Spider-Man recruited by Nick Fury (Jackson) and Mysterio (Gyllenhaal) to face the Elementals while he is on a school trip to Europe. And for those keeping…