The Boat Man In one of Rambo’s earliest scenes, religious missionaries approach John Rambo, asking to be taken into genocidal Burma. Rambo stares at them through cages, tossing helpless …
Men and Their Kids Creed II isn’t ready to surprise anyone with its familiar slew of montages, pumped up music, and haymaker punches. It’s Rocky. As this series continues …
Creed’s Screed It’s difficult to imagine a Rocky reset keeping the legacy together better than Creed. As with the best films in this series, Creed doesn’t rely on only …
Hanging In There Blending the ‘90s extreme sports fascination and distrust of government institutions, Cliffhanger is a masterwork of an action movie idea. It’s scenic, with enormous pans of …
Your Worst Nightmare First Blood ran credits to Dan Hill’s melancholic “It’s a Long Road,” a tribute to Vietnam veterans who felt distanced when they returned home. By the …
“Do we get to win this time?” There is a sliver of fact behind the asinine First Blood Part II. There were Vietnam prisoners still captive in 1985. There …
Rocky IV’s memorable scene is that of James Brown, surrounded by Americana, introducing Apollo Creed on his march to fight the USSR’s Ivan Drago to the pop tune “Living …
Firestrike The small American town of First Blood makes a critical mistake: insulating itself from the realities of Vietnam. Veteran John Rambo crosses the town border, but is forced …