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The first "Gremlins," in 1984, was a meditation on movie myths - on Christmas, small towns, and things that will jump up and scare you.

Check out these must-watch action flicks. Credit: Village Roadshow Pictures Updated July 28, 2021 Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. The action film occupies an interesting place at the movies, holding hands with the spy film, the martial-arts picture, the Western, the monster movie, and even science fiction. Where once there were innumerable movies about cowboys and samurai wandering into a small, lawless village to dole out justice, today we tend to think of action film...

Last Action Hero - The UnPopular Opinion April 1, 2021 by: THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column will promote constructive and geek fueled discussion. Enjoy! ****SOME SPOILERS ENSUE**** If you were past puberty in the 1990s, you were an Arnold Schwarzenegger fan. From his 1980s action epics Raw Deal, The Terminator, Commando, Conan the Barbarian, Predator and more, Arnold owned Hollywood. Entering in...

"Things Change" is a neat little exercise in wit and deception, in which an old Italian-American shoeshine man convinces the crime syndicate boss of Lake Tahoe that he is the man behind the man behind the man. His secret is to have no secret. He answers every question truthfully. He does most of his talking about how to get a perfect shoeshine. By the end of the film, we have witnessed a con so perfect that the people pulling it didn’t even want to pull a con. The movie was directed by David Mamet, who wrote it with Shel Silverstein. Coming after the diabolical trickery of "Ho...

6. Thief (1981) Director Michael Mann, probably best known for his work on the 1980’s police series Miami Vice and the 1995 bank robbery film Heat made his name much earlier with the now beloved James Caan vehicle Thief. Frank, an ex-con who lost his twenties to a stint in prison emerges with a mind set on making up for lost time as a used car salesman by day and thief by night, chasing an American dream all his own for a house, a wife, and child. A product of inhuman institutions, from the impersonal rearing of an orphanage to the kill or be killed world of prison, Frank is an antisocial m...