Celebrating its 35th anniversary this past weekend, 1990’s Pretty Woman kicked off with Go West’s “King of Wishful Thinking”, which played during the movie’s opening credits.  Go West was formed in 1982 and features the duo of Peter Cox and Richard Drummie.  The duo had released two albums before the release of Pretty Woman and “King of […]

Becoming an international dance craze in the late 80s and early 90s, the Lambada, aka “The Forbidden Dance,” spawned two films released on the same day in 1990 and a worldwide pop hit, “Lambada” by the band Kaoma.  The Lambada originated in Brazil and spread to other countries, especially the Philippines, Latin America, and the […]

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try to survive underground with Stallone and discuss the 1996 disaster movie Daylight, which just got released on 4K. Stallone stars as Kit Latura, the disgraced former chief of the New York Emergency Medical Services.  When an explosion collapses both ends of one of the tunnels that […]

Coming off the soundtrack for 1998’s Doctor Dolittle, “Are You That Somebody?” from Aaliyah is a pretty sultry R&B/Hip-Hop jam for a goofy Eddie Murphy movie.  Written and produced by Timbaland and Static Major, “Are You That Somebody?” was included on the Doctor Dolittle soundtrack album, which was a huge success, peaking at #4 on the Billboard […]

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris pay homage to the late Gene Hackman by discussing his co-starring role with Will Smith in the 1998 Tony Scott thriller, Enemy of the State. Smith plays Robert Clayton Dean, a labor lawyer in Washington D.C. who inadvertently comes into possession of evidence of the NSA […]

Tom Berenger is a former mercenary turned substitute teacher in the ’90s action movie The Substitute, which you can watch in the latest Everything Action Theater. When his girlfriend is brutally attacked at the school where she works, Shale (Berenger) goes undercover as the substitute teacher for her class to find out who was behind the […]

A movie that definitely fits the idea of an “Oscar Movie” is 1993’s Philadelphia, which earned a Best Actor win for Tom Hanks and a win for Bruce Springsteen for the movie’s primary single, “Streets of Philadelphia.”  Approached to write a song by director Jonathan Demme, Springsteen wrote it following his 1992-1993 World Tour in August […]

While Anthony Mackie wields the shield this weekend in Captain America: Brave New World, J.D. Salinger’s son Matt Sallinger was Cap in the 1990 movie, which you can watch in the latest Everything Action Theater. Directed by B-movie legend Albert Pyun and produced by one half of Cannon Films, Menahem Golan, the movie followed Steve […]

  Directed by his friend and frequent collaborator Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan stars as a TV chef who becomes the target of various gangs in 1997’s Mr. Nice Guy, which you can watch in the latest Everything Action Theater.  When a news reporter records footage of a cocaine deal between the Italian mob and a street […]

When Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) hit theaters in his first movie, Bean aka Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, in 1997, he brought the Irish boy band Boyzone, who provided the movie’s main soundtrack song, “Picture of You.”  Boyzone formed in 1993 with Ronan Keating as the band’s frontman and lead singer, and “Picture of You” […]