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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

Politics Feature

Rambo: In All His Glory

by Marco Lanzagorta

[4.Dec.08] :. Rambo is constantly portrayed as judge, jury, and executioner in the national and international spheres.

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News

Sylvester Stallone hopes violence of ‘Rambo’ will get people thinking

by Tom Baker [The Yomiuri Shimbun (MCT)]

[22.May.08] :. TOKYO - Sylvester Stallone fans planning to sit back with a cola and some popcorn to enjoy an hour and a half of escapist fun when Stallone’s new “Rambo” movie opens in Japan this...

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Books Feature

Historian: Interview with Brian Garfield

by Nikki Tranter

[5.Mar.08] :. "I think that, except for its ludicrous violence toward the end, the Death Sentence movie does depict its character's decline and the stupidity of vengeful vigilantism." Death Wish creator Brian Garfield talks to PopMatters about remakes, sequels, writing, and the meaning of vengeance.

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Sylvester Stallone explains why he brought back Rambo

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[28.Jan.08] :. LOS ANGELES—Sylvester Stallone was in a hurry. He was moving quickly but gracefully down the hall at the Four Seasons hotel in Los Angeles like a young John Rambo - not like an older Rocky...

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Film Review

Rambo

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jan.08] :. That Rambo is by now too old to recover or start again only underlines the film's ultimate point: no one wins this time.

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Rocky Balboa (2006)

by Brian Holcomb

[4.Apr.07] :. This may be the most truly independent and heartfelt piece of filmmaking released by a major studio last year.

 

Rocky Balboa (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Dec.06] :. Rocky Balboa traces its own kind of full circle, linking art and populism, politics and dreams.

 

Stallone climbs back in the ring with ‘Rocky Balboa’

by David Hiltbrand [The Philadelphia Inquirer]

[20.Dec.06] :. PHILADELPHIA - Someone has a sizable police escort waiting downstairs. The motorcycle cops are huddled in the hotel lobby to escape the year’s first cold snap. Outside, a phalanx of patrol cars...

 

Stallone ends the ‘Rocky’ saga with a story of redemption

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press]

[18.Dec.06] :. DETROIT - Many years ago, Sylvester Stallone made me cry. It was in New York, and the episode was only peripherally prompted by the less-than-remarkable Stallone movie I had seen the night before,...

 

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)

by Jesse Hassenger

[1.Aug.03] :. Fun as it is, demonstrates a little end-of-series fatigue.

 

Driven (2001)

by Robert Ara Svihla

While 'Driven' shows cars crashing exceedingly well, the people part only functions to keep the film from coming off like a late night infomercial for an exploitative 'Greatest Car Crashes' videotape -- not available in stores!"