Rambo: First Blood Part II
Ahead of September’s new Rambo movie (Rambo Number 5?) let’s look back on this 1985 sequel and ultraviolent Coca-Cola advert. Not so much a film as a catalogue of shots […]
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
A streetwise child (Julian Dennison) and his reluctant foster dad (Sam Neill) become the subject of a manhunt through the bush in this Kiwi comedy, a sort of mash-up of […]
Cliffhanger
Rocky goes to the Rockies in this 1993 mountaineering actioner starring Sylvester Stallone. When a group of incompetent criminals steal three suitcases full of cash, which were being transported from a place […]
Is First Blood an anti war film?
First Blood follows John Rambo, a Vietnam veteran searching for one of his old army pals. The people of a small town don’t take kindly to Rambo, however, as the local police arrest […]
Badasses Called John
John. John John John. According to the internet it comes from Hebrew and means ‘God is gracious’, so why’s it such a tough guy name? Well, it’s because in the […]
