Rocky III (1982)
Plans for a third Rocky film to round out the trilogy were underway during Rocky II‘s post-production. Stallone wanted to begin filming within 18 months so he wouldn’t appear too old. Bill Conti began...
Author: Vincent Leo
Rocky (1976)
The seed of inspiration for Rocky was planted on March 24, 1975. Sylvester Stallone attended a closed-circuit Los Angeles movie theater presentation of Chuck Wepner fighting Muhammad Ali. Severe underdog Wepner wasn’t expected to...
Jingle All the Way (1996)
Although not the worst film in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career (if you can believe it), it’s still the one that has made him the butt of the most jokes. Schwarzenegger wasn’t exactly a stranger to...
The French Connection (1971)
In the 1960s and early 1970s, large amounts of heroin had been trafficked into the United States from France, who refined opium obtained from Turkey into the addictive, potentially deadly drug. U,S, author Robin...
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
In the mid-1990s, merchandising tie-ins to movies earned three times the revenue of the movies themselves. Although the pie of profit was bigger, individual slices were smaller, fragmented among a conglomeration of companies across...
The Associate (1996)
Whoopi Goldberg (The Lion King, Rat Race) plays African-American woman Laurel Ayres, a hotshot Wall Street player that hits the glass ceiling in her company when her white male protégé (Daly, The Outsider) gets the big promotion...
Foxes (1980)
Foxes is a coming-of-age story revolving around four teenage girls living in the Los Angeles area, trying their best to deal with raging hormones, peer pressure, drugs, sex, booze, and family demands. Jeanie (Foster, Taxi Driver) is...
Alien Nation (1988)
The seeds of Alien Nation started late in 1985 when producer Richard Kobritz looked for a writer for another horror project after Christine involving a killer doll for Columbia Pictures called Mechanicals. He eventually hired...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were quite a phenomenon among adolescents in the mid-to-late-1980s, starting off with humble beginnings back in comic book form in 1984, expanding into a wildly popular line of action...
Cocktail (1988)
Tom Cruise (Top Gun, Days of Thunder) stars as ex-Army soldier Brian Flanagan, who has his dreams of becoming a success in New York City shattered when he can’t even find a job even in...