First Blood (1982)
First Blood is quintessential Reagan-era violent individualism, and one of the benchmark flicks that set the standard for most Hollywood action films for the next several years. Resonant in the American psyche, this first...
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Leviathan (1989)
The plot: Set sometime in the near future, we follow a crew of eight on the last few days of their stint working for a deep-sea silver mining operation off the coast of Florida....
Rambo III (1988)
A purely propagandist return of the popular 1980s hero sees Stallone donning the tightly-bound bandana to the forehead again for another one-man rescue attempt. This time it’s a bit more personal as his former...
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Rambo: First Blood Part II is one of those films that doesn’t really have much going for it these days save for the social significance for the time in which it was released, where...
Body Heat (1981)
During a blistering heatwave, a small town Florida lawyer (Hurt, Broadcast News) picks up a well-to-do married woman (Turner, The Man with Two Brains) and begins a scorching affair hotter than the weather around them. Things get hotter...