The better news is that the drought has turned into a glut. Beginning this afternoon, you can see all those event pictures you missed on the big screen. Complete with obscene budgets, high body counts, brain chowdering explosions, robotic action stars and bigtime FX spending.

In a run-up to next month's Lethal Weapon 4 release, Warner Bros has booked the revamped New Empire to trumpet its biggest action flick in recent years.

Watch explosive expert Sylvester Stallone deal with the Miami crime syndicate and steamy showers with Sharon Stone in The Specialist, and pow wow with Antonio Banderas in The Assassins. Meanwhile Big Arnie saves witnesses and foils conspiracies in Eraser, Kurt Russell does a Die Hard onboard a 747 in Executive Decision, and Geena Davis hopes hubby Renny Harlin can launch heras a no-nonsense action star in The Long Kiss Goodnight. Debutant Cindy Crawford wonders if Hollywood, Billy Baldwin and Russian baddies are Fair Game. Bruce Willis reprises the lone wolf of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (and its remake Sergio Leone's spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars) and is the Last Man Standing in a Wild Western town.

Across the road, at the Paramount corner in Sterling, the same stars are upto similar high octane stuff. Beginning with the Tom Cruise cloak-and- dagger smash Mission Impossible to Harrison Ford's second outing as CIA honcho Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger. Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer hunt man-eating lions The Ghost and The Darkness in deep Africa, Arnie does a James Bond battling a Bin-Ladenesque nuclear terrorist and marital strife in Jim Cameron's pre-Titanic, True Lies', while Demi Moore battles her conscience and Robert Redford's million-dollar Indecent Proposal.

Motor-mouth EddieMurphy does the Axel Foley bit for a third (and hopefully last) time in Beverley Hills Cop 3 while Bruce Willis' chameleonic international hitman Jackal evades ex-con Richard Gere in the second remake of Frederick Forsyth's classic novel.

Strictly for action freaks.