It’s been 24 years, but Ridley Scott finally took us back into the Colosseum for Gladiator II. While it lacks compared to its 2000 predecessor, it also shares many of its strengths. Paul Mescal plays the grown Lucius Verus Aurelius, who was forced to flee Rome after the events of Gladiator. Finding a new life […]

Denzel Washington hasn’t really dabbled in the horror genre too much, but he did in 1998 for the cult favorite Fallen.  Washington plays Detective John Hobbes, who helps capture serial killer Edgar Reese.  After Reese is executed, copycat killings begin to occur. As the evidence grows, Hobbes has to accept the reality that a demon […]

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach, and Chris are joined by special guest Justin to dish out some vigilante justice and discuss 2014’s The Equalizer, which came out ten years ago this week. Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall, a former black ops operative trying to live a quiet life in Boston working at Home […]

Ridley Scott returns to Ancient Rome in November with Gladiator II.  Paul Mescal plays Lucius, who fled to Numidia in the two decades following the events of Gladiator and tries to live in peace with his wife and child.  When Rome invades, his family is destroyed, and Lucius is captured as a slave and sold […]

We’re discussing The Equalizer this week on the Everything Actioncast, but on the much more dramatic side of Denzel Washington’s filmography is the 1987 biopic Cry Freedom, directed by Richard Attenborough.  Washington played Steve Biko, an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa who was killed while in police custody.  Kevin Kline played reporter Donald Woods, who […]