Action Hero of the Week: Akira Saito
After escalating misunderstandings puts his family at risk by mobsters, mild mannered business man Akira Saito must call upon his secret ninja past to stop them.
Action Hero of the Week: John Smith
Bruce Willis takes on the role of the wandering samurai, Yojimbo, in Last Man Standing, trading swords for guns and feudal Japan for a Prohibition era border town.
Everything Actioncast Ep 145 “Cage’s Daughter”
This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe talk about the big Super Bowl trailers, a bunch of casting news, Marvel Phase 3, Thunderbirds, the original Django, Mama, what Nicolas Cage’s daughter would actually be like and much more.
Action Hero of the Week: Mallory Kane
When she’s betrayed by the organization she works for, Mallory Kane goes on the warpath across Europe and the US to take everyone down.
The State of Action
With failure at the box office three weeks in a row for some of the biggest action legends, what does this say about the current state of action and are there any “action stars” left?
Action Hero of the Week: Joseph Dredd
Judge Dredd is the law…and also judge, jury, executioner for the scum of Mega City One.
Action Hero of the Week: Jeff Sanders
Seemingly a normal construction worker, Jeff Sanders is secretly a black belt in Kenpo and must use his skills to avenge the death of his mentor when he is killed by the Korean mafia.
Action Hero of the Week: John Tillman
The most popular “slayer” in the future death sport/video game Slayers, John Tillman aka Kable must try to survive 30 matches so he can get his freedom and be reunited with his wife and daughter.
Action Hero of the Week: Jack Paul Quinn
JCVD and Dennis Rodman must stop crazed terrorist Mickey Rourke in the ridiculous action “classic”, Double Team, where JCVD plays anti-terrorist agent, Jack Paul Quinn.
Action Hero of the Week: Ira Kane
When alien life that rapidly evolves lands on Earth, biology professor Ira Kane has to go from studying them to stopping them.
Action Hero of the Week: Billy Peltzer
Billy Peltzer has saved the world from not one but two infestations of vicious, mischievous Gremlins, with plenty of help from his faithful pet Gizmo and girlfriend Kate.