Action, Action

This week we quickly jump back to Edgar Wright with the 2017 film Baby Driver.

Doc forces Baby, a former getaway driver, to partake in a heist, threatening to hurt his girlfriend if he refuses. But the plan goes awry when their arms dealers turn out to be undercover officers.

It's Vin time. This week we take a look at the new Vin Diesel movie, Bloodshot.

 

After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine - Bloodshot. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life. But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility to get revenge, only to discover that there's more to the conspiracy than he thought.

On this episode of Action, Action we watch the classic Dad movie, Taken.

An ex-Secret Service agent's teenage daughter is abducted by human traffickers while on a trip to Paris. With almost no information on her whereabouts, he travels to Paris to find and save her.

On this weeks show we welcome Jackson from the We Watched This Movie Podcast to discuss The Fifth Element. 

Korben Dallas, a cab driver, tries to secure four mystical stones and a mysterious fifth element that alone can defeat a cosmic evil force during an apocalyptic war.

On this episode we wrap up May with Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

Scott Pilgrim meets Ramona and instantly falls in love with her. But when he meets one of her exes at a band competition, he realises that he has to deal with all seven of her exes to woo her.

It's week two of fuck it month and we watched a doozie, 1984s Top Secret!

The movie traces the life of Nick, a handsome American and a rock and roll singer. He falls in love with Hillary, a beautiful heroine and helps her rescue her father.

Initial release: June 8, 1984 (USA)Directors: David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry ZuckerBudget: $8.5-9 millionBox office: 20.5 million USDScreenplay: David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, Martyn Burke

Fuck It Month rolls on with the truly messed up 1992 Peter Jackson film, Braindead: Dead Alive.

Overprotective mother Vera Cosgrove (Elizabeth Moody), spying on her grown son, Lionel (Timothy Balme), as he visits the zoo with the lovely Paquita (Diana Peñalver), is accidentally bitten by the fearsome Sumatran rat-monkey. When the bite turns his beloved mother into a zombie, Lionel tries to keep her locked safely in the basement, but her repeated escapes turn most of the neighbors into the walking dead, who then crash a high-society party thrown by Lionel's boorish Uncle Les (Ian Watkin).

This week we watch a hidden gem, 2000s The Way Of The Gun.

Parker and Longbaugh, two criminals, get more than they bargained for when they kidnap the surrogate mother who is carrying the child of a mafia kingpin.

This week on the podcast, we take a second look at a classic, 1987's Robocop.

 

In a dystopic and crime-infested Detroit, a terminally injured policeman returns to the force as a potent cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

This week on Action, Action we dip our toe into the James Bond series of films with GoldenEye.

When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006 (Sean Bean), a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) can save the world from an awesome space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Trevelyan's stunning ally, Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.