The 1980s were foundational for the action genre in film. The boom era established or solidified many of the tropes still associated with the genre today. Franchise fever hit the genre in the 1980s, ...

A ridiculous 90s action thriller where logic takes a backseat, explosions do the talking, and you somehow end up rooting for ...

I saw 1993’s Last Action Hero for the first time on cable when I was five or six years old and distinctly remember talking to my best friend about it at school the following day. Not knowing the name ...

Katrina Anderson has an avid interest in film, TV, and pop-culture. She has a MA in English Literature from Simon Fraser University. Her thesis project described the literary qualities of the ...