Sylvester Stallone has made a career out of rehashing a single beloved performance and storyline over and over and over and over and over again. And who can blame him? Wouldn’t you if you had the chance? Well, even the most die-hard “Rocky” fans, and I count myself among them, may be running out of [...]
Sports and movies have much in common. They make us laugh, cry, shout for joy, and smash things uncontrollably (this only happens at really bad movies). So, it’s only natural that they overlap in their tireless efforts to entertain the world. Thousands of movies depicting every sport imaginable have been made — good, bad, ugly, [...]
What do you get when you mix world-class animation with skilled storytellers, talented voice actors, and a dose of harrowing humanity? If you said “Terminator Salvation” you’d be wrong. That movie sucks, remember? I’m talking about Disney-Pixar’s tenth consecutive critical and commercial mega-hit, “Up.” But does it live up to Pixar’s stellar track record? You’ll [...]
The city of Los Angeles announced Wednesday a $50,000 reward for any information that would be instrumental in solving the 32-year-old murder of famed boxing icon Howard Steindler. The character named Mickey Goldmill, a passionate, grizzled old boxing manager in the “Rocky” films starring Sylvester Stallone was inspired by the real life of Steindler, is [...]
