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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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (2017)
Upping the action, as well as the CG components, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 should go down easily for fans of the first film, even if it’s not quite on the same footing in terms of...
Creed (2015)
I went out on a bit of a limb in proclaimingFruitvale Station the best film of 2013. It was the debut film of previously unknown director Ryan Coogler, and yet, no other film moved me...
Tango & Cash (1989)
Sylvester Stallone plays Ray Tango, a flashy, business-savvy LAPD narcotics officer. Kurt Russell plays Gabriel Cash, a blue-collar, devil-may-care type who scores big busts with equal success. Drug kingpin Yves Perret (Jack Palance) wants the...
Demolition Man (1993)
Demolition Man starts off in Los Angeles’s near future of 1996, where crime has run rampant. It takes someone ruthless to catch ruthless criminals, and that man is super-cop John Spartan (Stallone, Rocky V), whose take-no-prisoners...
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...
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),...
Rocky III (1982)
Plans for a third Rocky film were underway during Rocky II‘s post-production. Stallone wanted a trilogy and wanted to begin filming within 18 months so he wouldn’t be too old. Bill Conti began composing...
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...