Caddyshack
This 1980 comedy is set at an exclusive golf club and stars Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray and a gopher. Caddyshack makes occasional hints towards a plot but veers wildly off course, opting instead for a series […]
Tag Archives: sports
Over the Top
There are films out there that defy belief, and most of them star Sylvester Stallone. Over the Top is such a film; a Stallone-penned drama about arm-wrestling. Let’s call it […]
Creed
Nothing to do with the Christian rock band of the same name, Creed is the latest Rocky movie, in which the franchise comes Full Circle. Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is […]
Blog: Stadium Scenes
Even outside the sporting genre, some of cinema’s finest finales and most stirring spectacles take place in sports stadiums – or stadia, for all our Latin readers. So here are […]
Rocky Balboa
And so we reach the final instalment of the Rocky franchise (so far). Rocky’s back in his Philadelphia neighbourhood and Adrian’s kicked the bucket in the intervening years, meaning Balboa […]
Rocky II
Following his survival through a whole match against legendary champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) is struggling to ride the wave of success. With promises of huge sums […]
Rocky
Boxing is at the centre of a number of great films, whether it’s Raging Bull, The Fighter or Grudge Match. One of the most iconic is of course Rocky, starring […]
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Dogtown and Z-Boys is a 2001 documentary about the revolutionary Zephyr skateboarding team of California in the mid-1970s, narrated by a stoned Sean Penn. I should say for legal reasons […]
Grudge Match
Two actors who should know better (Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone) play two boxers who should know better as they step into the ring to settle a long standing […]
BASEketball
Two lowlifes invent a sport which is like basketball but with some elements of baseball to win a bet and impress a girl. When the game goes big they blah […]
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