Sylvester Stallone turned 73 this month, but the action icon isn’t slowing down anytime soon. In addition to Rambo V, which comes out later this year, Stallone is also planning to bring back another of his epic action franchises: The Expendables. For a time, it looked like the franchise was dead in the water. After...
When most American audiences think of South Korean films, two genres usually come to mind: martial arts action and horror. But now fans of the nation’s exports won’t have to choose between the two, because the new film The Divine Fury looks to combine both tenets of Korean cinema. The film is about an MMA...
The world of spy thrillers has largely been a male-dominated one, but that’s about to change with the upcoming 355. The new film is meant to be a female-led version of a Mission: Impossible/James Bond/Jason Bourne-type movie, and a behind-the-scenes video is showing that it’s really taking those influences seriously. The film comes from actress...
There are a lot of women who can handle themselves in a fight in the world of movies and TV. From Terminator‘s Sarah Connor and Alien‘s Ripley to Game of Thrones‘ Brienne and Charlie’s Angels, the last few decades of pop culture have been filled with female fighters. But out of all of them, Nikita just...
Rian Johnson may have lost a few fans after his divisive take on Star Wars with The Last Jedi, but he’ll no doubt win them all back with his newest effort, Knives Out. The murder mystery, which Johnson both wrote and directed, features an absolutely stacked cast who all appear to be having the time...
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham made the decision to break off from the Fast and Furious franchise in order to do their own thing with Hobbs & Shaw, and in doing so it looks like they may be giving us one of the best action movies in some time. We already knew this...
Action star Jean-Claude Van Damme has always had one leg up on his contemporaries Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, and that’s his uncanny ability to do a split anywhere, anytime (OK, maybe that’s two legs up). The split is Van Damme’s signature move, and with CHARGE! celebrating the works of the Muscles from Brussels all...
Remember that scene in 1989’s Batman where the Dark Knight audibly snapped a man’s arm in half without even mussing up his ponytail? No? That’s because it didn’t happen, but it very well could have if Steven Seagal had been cast as Bruce Wayne — which is something Warner Bros. apparently wanted. Batman‘s co-writer, Sam...
While many pundits like to claim that the action movie genre is dead, we at CHARGE! of course know that’s not the case. And we’re not the only ones keeping the flame(thrower) alive, either. The John Wick franchise has done big business at the box office in recent years, with each installment outperforming the last....
If there’s one thing director Roland Emmerich loves, it’s movies featuring a lot of destruction. The filmmaker has taken this to the extreme in films like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, but he’s taking a slightly more realistic approach in his latest effort, the WWII film Midway. The movie, about its eponymous battle,...
