Retro Movie Review: CLIFFHANGER Starring Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow
For this retro review, we are going back to 1993. Back to a time when Sylvester Stallone’s muscles were as big as his box-office clout. Back when action movies were action movies. Cliffhanger is without a doubt one of Stallone’s finest action films. It’s also director Renny Harlin’s best work. There’s not much bad to […]
140: ‘Creed’ Starring Sylvester Stallone, Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson
Tom and Dan have plenty to say this week since our movie is a sequel to a film that came out 40-years ago. It’s Rocky VII aka Creed. Stallone is back in the role that made him a star but he’s playing second fiddle to Michael B. Jordan. All that plus Joe finally learns what […]
139: ‘Creed’ Box Office Report (11/25 – 11/29)
Hunger Games repeats at the box office but that doesn’t mean there weren’t other winners. Tom regales us with the history of ‘80s era nighttime soap operas, Joe lectures us about the importance of Halloween 3, and Librarian Cynthia is either Captain America or a shill for Pfizer. In short… it was pandemonium. It’s Reel […]
Movie Review: ‘Creed’ Starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone
It’s been a long time since Sylvester Stallone has delivered a knockout performance, but in the new installment to the Rocky franchise, Creed, Stallone shows he deserves to be in the same ring with many of this years top supporting actor candidates. While Stallone is great, make no mistake, Creed is all about Michael B. […]
Ranking the “Rocky” Films – Worst to Best
With Creed set to release on Thanksgiving, I started thinking of my favorite Rocky films. I mean, I feel like Rocky should be dead and buried by now, yet he continues to live on. Judging by the trailer for the film, Creed will not feature a fight with Rocky Balboa, but rather, Adonis Creed, son […]
THE EXPENDABLES 3 opens August 15! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
Enter for your chance to receive a pair of passes to a special advance screening! In THE EXPENDABLES 3, Barney (Stallone), Christmas (Statham) and the rest of the team come face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was […]
Movie Review: ‘Grudge Match’ Starring Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Kim Basinger, Alan Arkin
Going into the film Grudge Match, my expectations weren’t very high. The latest offering from director Peter Segal not only exceeded my expectations, it knocked them out of the ring. Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro star, along with Kim Bassinger, funny man Kevin Hart and Alan Arkin in this boxing comedy-drama. The premise of the […]
GRUDGE MATCH opens December 25! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
Enter to win a pass for two! Oscar® winner Robert De Niro (“Raging Bull,” “Silver Linings Playbook”) and Oscar® nominee Sylvester Stallone (the “Rocky” films, “The Expendables”) star as old boxing rivals who come out of retirement for one final match. Thirty years later, boxing promoter Dante Slate Jr., seeing big dollar signs, makes them […]
Review: ‘Escape Plan’ Starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Are you looking for a movie with a deeply complex plot that may affect the very way you think? Are you possibly looking for a movie in which the main conflict at hand is resolved with none other than witty banter and or inspirational lines of dialogue? If you were looking for either one of […]
‘Escape Plan’ opens October 18! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
Enter to win a pass for two! One of the world’s foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called “The Tomb.” Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray Breslin (Stallone) must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan […]
