It's Christmas Eve and New York City cop John McClane (
Bruce Willis) is flying into Los Angeles. He's a nervous flyer, and as the plane lands the passenger sitting next to him suggests a tip: after the flight, he should take off his shoes and socks and make fists with his toes on the rug. A limousine has been sent to take John from the airport to the high rise offices of his wife, Holly (
Bonnie Bedelia), who he is separated from. The chauffeur, Argyle
(De'voreaux White), offers to wait in the building's car park while John decides whether he will be spending Christmas with his family or not, but as John gets ready to join the office party, there's a disturbance outside... some uninvited guests with guns...
It's safe to say that
Die Hard was a crucial development in the action movie genre. Written by Jeb Stuart and Steven de Souza, it led to many lesser imitators (
including its own sequels), which would become known by the reviewing shorthand as Die Hard on a ship (
Under Seige), Die Hard on a plane (
Air Force One), Die Hard on a train (
Under Siege 2), and so on. Despite looking well-worn now in terms of its plot, the original still stands up as reliable entertainment through its spectacular set pieces and excellent characters, ideal for watching again and again. It also turned Bruce Willis from a television star into a movie star, so how you feel about that depends on how you feel about Bruce Willis (
of course).
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The last time 'urban' cinema had an authentic martial arts hero was in the 1970's in the 'super-fly' form of Jim Brown, for the past three decades 'chop-socky' action movies have been the exclusive preserve of caucasian or asian protagonists... until now! Finally this under achieving niche has a saviour in the majestic shape of 'Black Dynamite
' himself Michael Jai White, and with Blood and Bone
his martial arts credentials assertively ascribe him to the pantheon of golden age masters like Seagal, Van Damme & their breed.
. Based on a script by Mark Boal, a former journalist who was assigned to a bomb squad in postwar Iraq, the consequent tale revolves around Jeremy Renner as Will James, a cavalier bomb disposal technician who seems to have an indubitable rogue streak fused to a terminal death wish, much to the consternation of his time weary comrades Sandborne (Anthony Mackie) and Eldritch (Brian Geraghty).
and the co-creator of 
, comes a brand-new animated series of pop culture parodies, skewered stories and fabulously filthy fun nuggets. Uncensored, uninhibited and unbelievably hilarious, 
is brimming with raunchy, twisted humour you can’t see on television anywhere and is available to buy on DVD from 25 January by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
, 
) and Academy Award nominee Gerard Depardieu (
, 
) star in the critically acclaimed, award winning double feature MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT and MESRINE PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1 a lavish gangster biopic released together as a two disc special edition DVD set and single Blu-Ray disc on 25 January 2010 by 
the movie establishes Patton the serviceman's Hollywood tendencies in a show-stopping prologue. Dwarfed by a stars-and-stripes backdrop, Patton stands on a stage and motivates an audience of troops with a charged and entertaining sermon.
, a supposedly true story based on the autobiographical novel 
by author Geoff Thompson. On the one hand, it seeks to empower the individual by overcoming fear (especially of violence), but on the other it seems to celebrate brutality and even involves one character getting away with murder (albeit with mitigating circumstances, so we’re told).
