Movies with screenplay written by Skip Woods
The A-Team represents the motion picture industry's male-oriented answer to such franchises as Sex and the City and Twilight. To combat the new wave of estrogen-powered movies, Fox has fallen back on a tried-but-true formula: the adrenaline-and-te...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-06-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Joe Carnahan
Cast: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, ...
One hot summer day in 1988, I emerged from a movie theater exhilarated by what I had just experienced. The film in question was the original Die Hard, one of the best thrillers of the decade and, one could argue, an all-time Top 10 entry for the ge...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-02-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: John Moore
Cast: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, ...
Hitman: Agent 47 is an adaptation of a popular video game. It's also a reboot of a 2007 film. One might reasonably ask what this production does that wasn't accomplished in either of its other incarnations. The answer is: nothing. But that...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-08-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Aleksander Bach
Cast: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, ...
Sabotage, from director David Ayer (the writer of Training Day and writer/director of End of Watch), is a cop-centered thriller wrapped around a whodunit. It also attempts the significant feat of re-inventing Arnold Schwarzenegger now that his days...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-03-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Ayer
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, ...
"You know what the problem with Hollywood is - they make shit." It is with that statement - not profound, but undeniably true - that Swordfish opens. And, while this movie isn't going to convince anyone that the major studios have suddenly turn...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-06-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Dominic Sena
Cast: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, ...
2008 was the year in which the comic book superhero came of age. Films like Iron Man and especially The Dark Knight illustrated what was possible when a motion picture dared to take its characters out of the comfortable box in which too many super...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-05-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Daniel Henney, Taylor Kitsch, ...