Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Happy Mother’s Day from Netflix, thanks to whom mums around the world can spend today with a nice glass of antifreeze watching a Mother’s Day classic. Not Psycho. Or The […]
Tag Archives: Sylvester Stallone
Rhinestone
Multi-Razzie-nominated Rhinestone belongs in the rare subcategory of films based on songs (in this case Rhinestone Cowboy; the country song, not the Madvillain track) alongside Love Me Tender, Yellow Submarine […]
Beverly Hills Cop
Eddie Murphy turned down Ghostbusters to make the movie that would narrowly beat it, as Beverly Hills Cop cleverly comes top of the 1984 box office. This action-comedy about a […]
Bananas
Separating the art from the artist sounds great in theory but there’s something about Woody Allen that makes it difficult in practice, though I can’t quite put my finger on […]
Rambo: Last Blood
This week sees the release of two old people movies: Downton Abbey and Rambo: Last Blood AKA Rambo Number 5. 11 years after his last bloodbath, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) […]
Rambo
Given the number of decades he’d spent in genre flicks by 2008, you’d be forgiven for expecting Sylvester Stallone to at least know how to direct an action sequence, but […]
Rambo III
In his third outing (wisely not called First Blood: Part III) Sylvester Stallone’s traumatised vet turns Afghanistan into Afgunistan when he goes there to rescue his only friend, Colonel Trautman […]
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 […]
Creed II
Heavyweight champ Adonis Creed (Michael B Jordan) steps back into the ring to take on Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu), son of Ivan (Dolph Lundgren) – the former Soviet champ who […]
Get Carter
Get Carter is not to be confused with Coach Carter, John Carter or the 2000 remake starring Sylvester Stallone, to whom the film’s misogynistic violence probably came quite naturally. Allegedly. Like […]
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