Posts in Action Movies
SXSW 2024 Exclusive: A Preview Of This Year's Festival

FilmSpeak returns to Austin for the enduringly weird and wild congregation of the arts that is the 2024 SXSW Film Festival. This year brings bone-breaking action, unconventional horrors, war-torn cul-de-sacs and comedic millenial mayhem. Continue for a preview of this year’s headliners to be covered at SXSW 2024.

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'Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' GIVEAWAY: Win an AMAZING TRANSFORMERS PRIZE PACK!

We have yet ANOTHER GREAT GIVEAWAY from our friends at Paramount and Hasbro! To celebrate the release of ‘Rise of the Beasts’ , (now available to rent or own on digital), FilmSpeak is giving the chance to win an AMAZING TRANSFORMERS PRIZE PACK! Click now for contest details. Contest closes July 28th 2023.

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'Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' GIVEAWAY: Win A DIGITAL COPY OF THE FILM!

Based on the perennial toy that is more than meets the eye - ‘TRANSFORMERS: Rise of the Beastsis the latest in the insanely exciting series of Transformers films. To celebrate the release of ‘Rise of the Beasts’ , now available on digital, and courtesy of our friends at Paramount Canada, FilmSpeak is giving the chance to win a digital code of the film! Click now for contest details. Contest closes July 21st 2023.

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Saying Goodbye to Indiana Jones in Two Parts

The franchise kept feeling a little more off as it went on. A dual ode to the pinnacle of the action hero archetype, ‘Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ and ‘Dial of Destiny’ form two films that exist solely to say goodbye to Indiana Jones, despite, in each case, the film preceding it having already done so. We beg the question, where were these films going?

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‘DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES' GIVEAWAY: Win A COPY OF THE FILM and a LEATHER MESSENGER BAG!

To celebrate DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS: Honor Among Thieves’ being available to watch at home, FilmSpeak is giving you the chance to win a luxury leather messenger bag and choice of the film on 4K UHD, Blu-ray or DVD courtesy of Paramount! Click now for contest details. Contest closes June 5th 2023.

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Luc Besson: The Creative Creator

Opening this week is French director Luc Besson’s latest film, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The $180 million dollar sci-fi epic is both the highest budgeted independent and French film of all-time. While the title is unfamiliar to the casual movie goer in North America, the film is actually based off of a 50 year old French comic book. On the surface, it would seem strange for Besson to follow up his previous film, the international Scarlett Johansson hit Lucy, with a sci-fi film, but this kind of genre hopping has been a staple of Luc Besson’s career.

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The Welcome Return of the Action Movie

Here we get a clear layout of the disappearance and reappearance of the mid-budget action movies that we all loved from back in the day! Check out what Sean Chandler has to say about this phenomenon and why he thinks that we need to be getting more of them than we already are! 

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