The A-Z of Action Movies: A-D
Beginning an A-Z series on action cinema, Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of movies from A-D…
Action cinema. Explosions, fist fights, one liners and occasionally mullets. From the early westerns to the modern Marvels of blockbuster cinema, action cinema has entertained and excited audiences for decades. Sure, everyone knows Die Hard is one of the pinnacles of the genre, so perhaps there’s no need to recommend that one. However, through a continuing series I will offer up a varied selection of films. Prepare as I unleash my encyclopedic knowledge of action cinema upon you. Here’s an A to D selection to roundhouse kick things off…
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The front page of the Sun on 27 April had the headline “Lying of Duty” stamped across a mocked-up case file from AC-12, the police anti-corruption unit featured in BBC One’s Line of Duty. The conceit is that Adrian Dunbar’s Ch Supt Ted Hastings, scourge of “bent coppers” in the show, should investigate multiple allegations of impropriety against Boris Johnson.
This joke escalates a metaphor introduced by Keir Starmer at prime minister’s questions on 14 April, when the Labour leader suggested Hastings could be hired to look at David Cameron’s lobbying of Johnson’s government on behalf of the finance company Greensill.
With the new rules speeding up play in 2021, coaches have responded by making their first few interchanges earlier than they did last year.
After six rounds of the 2021 season, an NRL.com Stats analysis shows there are 11 clubs making their first interchange earlier in games on average, some by a significant margin, while five clubs are making their first change fractionally later.
There is an even bigger disparity in the third interchange, with four clubs in 2020 regularly holding the third change back until the second halves of games but every club this year has used their third change on average before half-time.