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Tomb Raider (2018)

Tomb Raider (2018) is the reboot of the Lara Croft film franchise built on the 2013 Crystal Dynamics video game continuity. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons wrote.

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The Lost Battalion (2001)

The Lost Battalion is an A&E television movie that punches above its budget. Rick Schroder plays Major Charles Whittlesey, a New York lawyer who took five hundred and fifty-four men of the 77th Infantry Division into the Argonne Forest in…

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The Towering Inferno (1974)

The Towering Inferno is the best disaster film of the 1970s and the model against which every subsequent disaster film has been measured. John Guillermin directed the dramatic scenes and Irwin Allen directed the action sequences.

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San Andreas (2015)

San Andreas is a Dwayne Johnson disaster movie. Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a Los Angeles Fire Department rescue pilot whose helicopter and skill set turn out to be exactly what is needed when a magnitude nine earthquake destroys California.

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Taken (2008) Review

Taken is the best pure action film of the twenty-first century. Pierre Morel directed it in thirty-six days in Paris on a twenty-five million dollar budge.

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