Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2161 Films to Rent
Blades of Blood (2010)
- Dir. Jun-ik Lee
Feat. Seong-hyeon Baek, Seung-Won Cha
- The dir. of THE KING AND THE CLOWN returns to the Chosun era with an energetic tale of working class uprising in the shadow of Japanese invasion. A…
Blood Fight: Bang Rajan 2 (2010)
- Dir. Tanit Jitnukul
- Though not quite on the scale of the battle–heavy original, this fiery sequel nonetheless charges forth with another succession of brutal,…
Book Of Eli, The (2010)
- Dir. Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Feat. Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis…
- Post–apocalyptic fable with attitude sees Denzel Washington play a hard–bitten prophet who must fight his way across America in order to…
Boy Wonder (2010)
- Dir. Michael Morrissey
Feat. Caleb Steinmeyer, Bill Sage
- Superhero vigilantism with a serious tone, this thematically rich thriller about a Brooklyn teenager who adopts a 'boy wonder' alter ego in pursuit…
Bruce Lee My Brother (2010)
- Dir. Manfred Wong, Yip Wai-Man
Feat. Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Aarif Rahman, Christy Chung
- A rambunctious, rose–tinted chronicle of Bruce Lee’s child and teenhood before departing for the USA to cement his screen legend.
Doubling…
Bunraku (2010)
- Dir. Guy Moshe
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman…
- A gaudy east–west actioner in the spirit of recent martial arts mish–mashes (a la THE WARRIOR'S WAY) that comes off a little cheap at…
Captain Amazingly Incredible and the Space Vampires from the Evil Planet! (2010)
- Dir. Karl Burnett
Feat. Roy Snow, Nicko Vella, Karl Burnett…
- Micro–budgeted comic caper from Shortland Street's Karl Burnett has superhero (and pimper of homeless people) Captain Amazingly Incredible do…
Centurion (2010)
- Dir. Neil Marshall
Feat. Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Noel Clarke…
- Riveting, albeit bloody chase film has a splinter group of Roman soldiers fighting for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is decimated…
Covert Affairs (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Anne Dudek…
- Compulsive spy caper with Piper Perabo vamping it up as a CIA trainee inexplicably thrust into the front line and order to hunt down her…
Date Night (2010)
- Dir. Shawn Levy
Feat. Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg…
- Steve Carell and Tina Fey play a bored married couple who are mistaken for a pair of international thieves in this crime–caper cum…