We Are Marshall (2006)
On the evening of November 14, 1970, an airplane crashed near an airport in West Virginia, killing all 75 passengers on board. Among the passengers were the majority of the Marshall University football team...
Category: Action
X-Men (2000)
Upon first hearing of this project I was skeptical, since it seemed virtually impossible to cram almost 40 years of comic book mythos and the dozens of main characters that are a staple of...
Major League (1989)
Major League is meant to make you laugh, pure and simple. Baseball is merely the platform for some funny hi-jinks, but these characters could have been plugged into any sport and it would have been...
Rocky IV (1985)
Even though Stallone asserted that the Rocky series would conclude with Rocky III, its immense success led MGM/UA’s troubled financiers to clamor for Rocky IV. However, approaching 40 years old, Stallone couldn’t envision further...
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...
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...