For HCMovieReviews: “Rambo: Last Blood”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi (spoiler free) Nothing is over… You just don’t turn it off… Rambo is back. Eleven years have passed since the excessively violent ‘Rambo’, which somewhat ironically, presented what seemed to be the logical closure point of John Rambo’s story. In Sylvester Stallone’s … Continue reading For HCMovieReviews: “Rambo: Last Blood”

For Ultimate Action Movie Club: “RAMBO (2008): THE MOST EXCESSIVE AND VIOLENT ACTION SEQUEL EVER”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi My second piece for Ultimate Action Movie Club… View here: https://ultimateactionmovies.com/rambo-2008/ This article’s featured image: By Source, Lionsgate, Fair Use, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rambo_(2008)_poster.jpg Continue reading For Ultimate Action Movie Club: “RAMBO (2008): THE MOST EXCESSIVE AND VIOLENT ACTION SEQUEL EVER”

For SetTheTape.com: “Backtrace – Film Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Bouncing between franchise revival films and the horrific Escape Plan 2, Sylvester Stallone stars alongside Stranger Things’ Matthew Modine in Backtrace – more appropriately direct-to-the-rubbish-bin than direct-to-video. Backtrace opens during the car journey home after a robbery or heist of sorts, and … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Backtrace – Film Review”

For SetTheTape.com: “Rambo V – 2019 Preview”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi To parody Rambo’s iconic line in 2008’s Rambo: “This is who we are, this is what we do; live for the sequel or die for the reboot.” Having successfully brought life back into his first iconic character, Rocky Balboa, with Creed and … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Rambo V – 2019 Preview”

For SetTheTape.com: “Escape Plan II – Film Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Stallone is back in Escape Plan II… for maybe a quarter or third of the running time, at least. Five years on from the original Escape Plan – co-starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – only Stallone and 50 Cent reprise their … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Escape Plan II – Film Review”

For SetTheTape.com: “Throwback 10: Rambo”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Having successfully brought life back into the Rocky franchise with Rocky Balboa in 2006, it was inevitable that actor-writer-director, Sylvester Stallone, would bring back John Rambo for one last mission. With the new film, Rambo, being the fourth in the franchise, the … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Throwback 10: Rambo”

For SetTheTape.com: “Cop Land: A failed comeback for Sly Stallone”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Back in the 1990s, indie-produced films – significantly, those made by Miramax – were challenging the Hollywood supreme. The biggest and best is example is undoubtedly, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction from 1994. Three years later, however, post-prime action star, Sylvester Stallone, landed … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Cop Land: A failed comeback for Sly Stallone”

For ReadFilm.co: “Obscure Movie Villains: “Wulfgar” from ‘Nighthawks'”

Released in 1981 and directed by Bruce Malmuth, Nighthawks, essentially, is a hidden gem from the days of Sylvester Stallone’s career between Rocky II and First Blood (1979-1982). Primarily set and filmed in contemporary New York, Nighthawks presents forms of terrorism, realistic action and revenge – the terrorist being Rutger Hauer’s “Wulfgar” – the third villain in this series of Obscure Movie Villains. Whilst the previous two instalments of Obscure Movie Villains have featured villains … Continue reading For ReadFilm.co: “Obscure Movie Villains: “Wulfgar” from ‘Nighthawks’”

108 Words on ‘First Blood’

The following 108 word section on First Blood is something I wrote for a journalism module at uni. The review is written as if in 1982, and First Blood is a contemporary film. Enjoy…   Directed by Ted Kotcheff, Sylvester Stallone gives his best blockbuster performance since winning title gold in Rocky II (1979), in a transition into the action genre, as war hero John Rambo in First Blood … Continue reading 108 Words on ‘First Blood’

Shot at 60 part XIV: Another Nine Shots Taken at Hour One

Not a special-themed Shot at 60, but a Shot at 60 featuring some special films… Enjoy. Play Misty for Me (1971) Universal Pictures / Dir: Clint Eastwood / Prod: Daley   Jaws (1975) Universal Pictures / Dir: Steven Spielberg / Prod: Zanuck & Brown   Rocky II (1979) United Artists / Dir: Sylvester Stallone / Prod: Chartoff & Winkler   Labyrinth (1986) TriStar Pictures / Dir: Jim Henson / Prod: Rattray   … Continue reading Shot at 60 part XIV: Another Nine Shots Taken at Hour One