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Tuesday, January 4 2011

The Guilty Pleasure Films of 2010

A collection of 10 films that make us feel bad for loving them so - though we can easily defend each and every one... we think.


Thursday, May 6 2010

2010 Summer Movie Preview - August

We round out our summer preview with the August releases, a rather dim bunch unfortunately. Will Edgar Wright save us from summer movie hell with the new Michael Cera vehicle?


Thursday, January 15 2009

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

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!


Reviews

Monday, January 16 2012

'The Expendables: Extended Director's Cut' Has a Brawny, Dunderheaded Instinct

Sylvester Stallone's ultimate men-on-a-mission movie is clearly a labor of love, but not a well-articulated one.


Tuesday, November 15 2011

'Cop Land' Is Captivating Journey of Self-Realization and Corruption

Sylvester Stallone doesn't do dramas often. Cop Land proves that may be his biggest mistake.


Friday, August 13 2010

'The Expendables': I Just Am

The Expendables delivers a series of macho encounters within the team of expert killers and pointedly named hard-asses.


Friday, January 25 2008

Rambo

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


Wednesday, April 4 2007

Rocky Balboa (2006)

This may be the most truly independent and heartfelt piece of filmmaking released by a major studio last year.


Blogs

Friday, November 19 2010

'The Expendables' (Blu-ray): Bad-Assiness is the New Nostalgia

A swarthy combination of a trip to GNC, an Old Spice commercial, a Men's Health magazine spread, and some very potent non-erotic male bonding.


Tuesday, August 17 2010

Expanding the Expendables

It's 'The Goonies' for grown men, except this time, Chunk ain't taking shit from no one and Mikey has a decidedly lethal way with knives.


News

Thursday, May 22 2008

Sylvester Stallone hopes violence of 'Rambo' will get people thinking

TOKYO - Sylvester Stallone fans planning to sit back with a cola and some popcorn to enjoy an hour and a half of escapist fun…


Monday, January 28 2008

Sylvester Stallone explains why he brought back Rambo

LOS ANGELES -- Sylvester Stallone was in a hurry. He was moving quickly but gracefully down the hall at the Four Seasons hotel in Los…


Wednesday, December 20 2006

Stallone climbs back in the ring with 'Rocky Balboa'

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…


Monday, December 18 2006

Stallone ends the 'Rocky' saga with a story of redemption

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…


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