It’s Boxing Day! Well, at least in Europe it is. Time to open up the rest of your Christmas presents (and/or box up goods for donations). But for me, this means only one thing….it’s time to watch the Rocky movies again! Now, I know that it’s a stupid pun, but […]
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“Well, you know Chick, like old momma said, next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing.” Walter Hill’s crackerjack Depression era film HARD TIMES (1975) was his directorial debut. Before this he had been a screenwriter on several films including Hickey & Boggs and The Getaway. Charles […]
In the town of Stockton California, Billy Tully (Stacy Keach) is an over the hill ex-boxer who lives alone in a dumpy little apartment and drinks too much. Since leaving the ring and getting divorced Tully has been working as a laborer on farms in the valley picking onions and […]
The title “Ong-Bak” refers to a stone Buddha head which is what gives the main character a reason to go on a path of destruction. The full title is “Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior“ and the movie as you can probably guess, is a Thai production. Supposedly, Thai movies have […]
After a close brush with death caused by a cocaine overdose in the late 70s, Martin Scorsese felt he was at the end of his career as a director. It wasn’t until his friend Robert DeNiro (Mean Streets) visited him in the hospital with a project based on a book […]
One of the finest dramas revolving around the sport of boxing which preceded such classics as Rocky (1976) and Raging Bull (1980) is Ralph Nelson‘s Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962). The screenplay was written by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling. The film stars Anthony Quinn as Louis “Mountain” Rivera, a […]