Khan takes a starship and the Genesis device, and Spock dies in the reactor room; the film that saved the franchise.
Mercenaries seize the control tower at Washington Dulles on Christmas Eve and start bringing aircraft down.
A bomber calling himself Simon walks McClane and a Harlem shopkeeper through riddles while the Federal Reserve is emptied.
Fifteen years before Fury Road, and how she lost the arm.
A coordinated attack shuts down American infrastructure and McClane escorts the programmer who wrote part of the code.
McClane goes to Moscow for his imprisoned son, who turns out to be CIA, and the two end up at Chernobyl.
John Woo takes over: free climbing above Utah, a stolen virus and a motorbike duel outside Sydney.
Hanging off an Airbus at take-off, and an assassination staged at the Vienna opera.
A Comanche hunter against a Predator in 1719; the series at its leanest.
Excommunicado in New York, with horses, dogs and a knife-throwing library.
The Penguin, Catwoman and a Gotham of black ice; the darker Burton Batman.
They killed his dog. Eighty-one bodies and a new action grammar.
The Continental's rules, a marker called in and a hall of mirrors in Rome.
Superheroes as corporate psychopaths and the men who hunt them; Homelander.
An Israeli undercover unit in the West Bank; the series both sides watched.
A teenager gets his father's powers and learns what his father is; the animated superhero series with teeth.
Humanity inside three walls against giants who eat people; the anime that ended in 2023.
Jack Bauer in real time, one season per day; the split screen and the clock.
Rio's BOPE police unit in the favelas; the Brazilian action film everyone argued about.
A bamboo forest fight and an echo game of drums; wuxia at its most beautiful.
A hitman tries to fund an eye operation for the singer he blinded; Woo's doves and two-gun ballet.
Chow Yun-fat in a hospital shootout of one continuous take; John Woo's Hong Kong farewell.
Stephen Chow's cartoon martial-arts comedy in a 1940s Shanghai slum.
Jet Li tells the King of Qin three versions of a story, each in a different colour.
Jackie Chan slides down a pole of lights through a shopping mall; his own best film.
A class of schoolchildren forced to fight to the death on an island; the film The Hunger Games was accused of copying.
Chow Yun-fat lights a cigarette with a burning banknote; the heroic bloodshed genre begins.
Jackie Chan learns the drunken boxing style from a beggar; kung fu comedy at its purest.
Two thieves hired to catch a bandit; the biggest Bollywood film ever, still quoted daily.
Zombies on the KTX from Seoul; the Korean blockbuster with a heart.
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