Movies to Watch With Action & Adventure

Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain

Dir. Kenji Nakamura

While based on the Mononoke series, which is in turn, a spin-off of Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, it might seem…

Jentry Chau vs the Underworld

After the cool partnerships Titmouse and Netflix had, their next work was bound to be something to look forward to.…

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

If you’re expecting the sleek, playful, and totally over-the-top spy shenanigans of 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, you’re not going…

My Undead Yokai Girlfriend

Some people can get totally desperate when it comes to their love life, but rarely does this desperation end up…

DAN DA DAN

During adolescence, teenagers get to learn and discover themselves and the world, but for most people, this means going through…

Twilight of the Gods

Partially due to the surviving Norse myths, as well as certain modernized cinematic depictions, most people think of the Norse…

House of Ninjas

From the fantasy-powered folktales to superhero-like depictions, ninjas have captivated the world, but seem to be a relic of the…

La Máquina

After more than a decade apart on-screen, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna finally reunite in La Máquina. While they…

Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF

With a wolf deity, wheat harvesting rituals, and farmtown folklore, it may seem that Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the…

The Last Round

Dir. Mariam Ahmady

At a certain age, it can feel like starting over again isn’t possible, especially when all signs discourage you from…

The Gentlemen

After the successful release of The Gentlemen (2019), it would have been easy to just continue the story with the…

Flex x Cop

Dir. Kim Jae-hong

With plenty of familiar elements, Flex X Cop should feel unoriginal. After all, a rich heir that plays at being…

Zorro

Remakes are a dime a dozen, but Prime Video’s Spanish reinterpretation of Zorro gives justice to the masked vigilante. With…

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Watching the trailers, and even the first ten minutes, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off just seems like a rehash of the…

Delicious in Dungeon

When watching fantasy anime, there’s a wonderfully whimsical world that viewers can fully explore. Spectacular magic, brave warriors, and strange…

Skull Island

Set in the Monsterverse—the same shared universe that King Kong, Godzilla, and their respective films inhabit—Skull Island follows a group…

Orion and the Dark

Dir. Sean Charmatz

Going to sleep is something we do every day, though, when we were kids, it certainly wasn’t easy. With family-friendly…

My Daemon

You know how How to Train Your Dragon has a town terrified of dragons, but it turns out they’re actually…

The Shadow Strays

Dir. Timo Tjahjanto

Real life violence is usually not a good idea, but when those in power would do anything to gain more…

The Unwanted Undead Adventurer

Usually, being swallowed up by a dragon means death. However, for Rentt Faina, The Unwanted Undead Adventurer, becoming a skeleton…

VIVANT

Dir. Katsuo Fukuzawa

With an accounting mistake leading to being stranded in the desert, it’s hard to predict where VIVANT would lead us…

The Settlers

Dir. Felipe Gálvez

Horse riding. Gunslinging. Revenge and protection. These are notable elements in a Western, Spaghetti or otherwise. But rarely do these…

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

Usually, when whisked away to a fantasy world, there’s usually some grand reason, like a prophecy or a destined quest…

The Artful Dodger

Dir. Jeffrey Walker

The Artful Dodger’s leads might literally come from a Charles Dickens novel, but there’s something more playful about the way…

Captain Miller

Dir. Arun Matheswaran

Set in the British colonial era, Captain Miller is more unapologetically violent than its counterparts, but it’s not mindlessly so.…

Iwájú

White creators handling African stories rarely turn out well, so thankfully, Disney decided to collaborate with pan-African Kugali Studio for…

Parasyte: The Grey

Dir. Yeon Sang-ho

With Sweet Home and Stranger Things, we weren’t surprised that Netflix opted to create a live-action Parasyte, but we were…

Ishura

Dir. Takeo Takahashi & Yuki Ogawa

Fantasy shows usually follow one hero into their quest, but the newest isekai anime on Hulu has plenty of them,…

Metallic Rouge

Dir. Yutaka Izubuchi

With most of early January 2024’s slate focused on fantasy, Metallic Rouge is a fairly decent cyberpunk refresher. With fantastic,…

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

In fantasy worlds, races with different lifespans are a given, but rarely does a work actually contemplate how these variations…

Baby Bandito

With a ludicrous amount of cash, and one of the perpetrators escaping into a luxurious European life posted on Facebook,…

Wingwomen

Dir. Mélanie Laurent

An all-female action comedy that doesn’t get self-serious about the way it’s subverting the genre — Wingwomen feels like a…

A Shop for Killers

Dir. Lee Kwon & Noh Gyoo-yeob

For better or for worse, we don’t know who our guardians really are, whether that be our parents or other…

Sixty Minutes

Dir. Oliver Kienle

While not having world-ending stakes or large-scale operations, Sixty Minutes just works as an action movie. Sure, the plot is…

Dune: Prophecy

With the popularity of the Villenueve films, it’s no surprise that Warner Bros. Discovery would want to expand on the…