For action fans seeking out new movies on streaming, there are plenty of car chases, explosions and fist fights to sift through. We help by providing some streaming highlights.
‘American Badger’
These days cinematic knockoffs of the “John Wick” franchise litter the action landscape. It’s difficult not to roll your eyes when another one enters the fray. But the writer-director Kirk Caouette’s microbudget “American Badger,” a stylistic full-frontal assault on the senses, charts a distinct path. Caouette stars as a lonely assassin, code-named Badger, holed up with his dog in a low-rent motel and still mourning the death of his wife from cancer.
The Badger isn’t your typical silent killer. He leaves a mess. The fight sequences, particularly one in a neon nightclub, derives vigor from oblique angles, a kinetic shaky cam, and slow-motion effects. His murders are vicious in their brutality and shocking in their bloodiness. It’s a surprise, then, when this morose assassin falls in love with an emotionally damaged sex worker named Velvet (Andrea Stefancikova). It’s the contours of vulnerability Caouette discovers in this romance, through his measured performance, that I found so fascinating. He steers this film away from pastiche. “American Badger” is its own animal.
‘Castle Falls’
Mike Wade (Scott Adkins) is an ex-fighter who didn’t quite possess the killer instinct to become a champion. He finds himself drifting to a temp job scavenging for scrap metal in an abandoned hospital....
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