Tagged: Carl Weathers

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1980s / Action / Thriller

Action Jackson (1988)

Carl Weathers stars as Harvard-educated Detroit cop Jericho “Action” Jackson, who earned his reputation for crossing the line in roughhousing perps.  The police captain (Bill Duke) demotes Jackson from lieutenant to desk-jockey sergeant no...

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1980s / Action / Adventure / Horror / Science Fiction / War

Predator (1987)

A leaner-than-customary Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Major “Dutch” Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert hostage...

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1980s / Action / Sports

Rocky IV (1985)

“I must break you”. At the time wrote the words above are uttered, it’s hard to discern whether writer/director Sylvester Stallone was speaking through Rocky’s fiercest opponent yet, Ivan Drago (Lundgren, Masters of the Universe),...

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1970s / Drama / Sports

Rocky (1976)

The inspiration for Rocky came on March 24, 1975. Struggling actor and writer Sylvester Stallone attended a closed-circuit Los Angeles movie theater presentation of Chuck Wepner fighting Muhammad Ali. Wepner was a 40-to-1 underdog...

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1970s / Comedy / Romance / Sports

Semi-Tough (1977)

Semi-Tough is a difficult movie to describe, and perhaps impossible to recommend.  It doesn’t neatly fit into any defined genre, and there also isn’t any determinable plot one can put a finger on when telling...

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2000s / Animation / Comedy

Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

I freely admit that I’ve been known to use crude humor from time to time. Normally I reserve such lowbrow humor for people I know well enough so that I don’t offend others who...