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When all is said and done and the last punch is thrown, one wonders if the monomyn Creed will have the same level of cultural caché as the ‘Rocky’ name. What would it take for the child to outshine its parent? Don’t get me wrong, 2015’s…

In 1955, bodies are dug up from a graveyard, brought to a nearby observatory and positioned like dolls, lying prostrate in front of a woman draped in white. Almost 30 years later, an apartment building stands on the site of that old…

Looking at the box-office records for 2018 thus far, you'd think that Hollywood was having a great year. They've had three hit films gross over 1 billion US dollars, a monumental feat when compared to the hugely disappointing summer of…

Say what you will about George Lucas and the Star Wars movies he both directed and created, but the one thing that ran through all six of them was a sense of direction; a sense of story; a sense that what we were watching was taking us to a…

Anyone with the slightest knowledge of the movie-making industry in general will know that Hollywood loves a successful franchise.  They are the modern-day equivalents of the genre pictures studios used to churn out in decades past, such as…

In the first act of Rambo 3, Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) shoots down a Soviet attack helicopter with a mounted machine gun. In the second act of Rambo 3, Rambo shoots down a Soviet attack helicopter with an explosive arrow. In the final act…