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4K Ultra HD Review – First Blood (1982)

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First Blood, 1982. Directed by Ted Kotcheff. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, and Brian Dennehy. SYNOPSIS: First Blood, the movie that kicked off the Rambo phenomenon, returns to 4K Ultra HD in a new SteelBook edition that’s exclusive to Walmart. Collectors will want to snap this one up, but keep in mind that the transfer […]

10 Actors Quentin Tarantino Needs In His Final Film

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With Tom Cruise rumoured to be in line to make his Quentin Tarantino debut in the filmmaker’s final film The Movie Critic, who else should pop their Tarantino cherry? Here’s Tom Jolliffe with ten suggestions… When it comes to master filmmakers the one thing you can rely on is the eclectic range of talent filling […]

Frank Grillo joins Sylvester Stallone in Tulsa King season 2

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Frank Grillo is heading to Oklahoma with the actor signing on to star alongside Sylvester Stallone in the second season of Taylor Sheridan’s crime drama series Tulsa King. Grillo – best known for his roles in The Purge franchise as the MCU – is set to take on the role of Bill Bevilaqua, a Kansas […]

Cannon’s Avengers: What If… Cannon Films Did the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

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Here in the Flickering Myth multiverse, we look at how a Cannon-produced Avengers epic may have been cast… The Marvel Cinematic Universe enjoyed an unprecedented run of success after Robert Downey Jr kicked off a major era in movies back with 2008’s Iron Man. Some might not have enjoyed the all-powerful grip that the MCU […]

Sylvester Stallone cautions actors against doing their own stunts following latest surgery

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Sylvester Stallone is telling actors that it might not be the best idea to do your own stunts. The action movie icon revealed during promoting for his reality show The Family Stallone that he underwent his seventh back surgery. Caused by his work doing an Expendables fight scene where he fractured his neck, Stallone reveals […]

Sylvester Stallone to hunt a serial killer in The Epiphany

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Sylvester Stallone is set to make his return to the streets of Philadelphia, the setting of the Rocky movies, as Deadline reports that the screen legend is set to star in the upcoming crime thriller The Epiphany from writer Will Eubank (Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin). Scripted by Katie Lovejoy and Russell Sommer, the film […]

Sylvester Stallone’s Cliffhanger 2 to shoot in summer 2024

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Sylvester Stallone is getting ready to return to the peaks as mountain search-and-rescue ranger Gabe Walker in a sequel to the 1993 action blockbuster Cliffhanger, and a new report from Screen Daily indicates that the film is set to shoot in Europe this coming summer 2024. As per Screen’s report, the sequel will see Sly […]

Cobra: Sylvester Stallone and Cannon Films Do Dirty Harry

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Sylvester Stallone’s first fling with Cannon Films… Riding high from a year of box office domination in 1985 having released career high grosses with Rocky IV and Rambo: First Blood Part II, Sylvester Stallone had the world at his feet. He could have picked anything he wanted to […]

Are the Old School Action Veterans Headed Into Forced Retirement?

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With diminishing returns and a lack of interest from big-screen audiences, are old-school action heroes heading to the retirement home…? In the 1980s and 1990s, you couldn’t move for action heroes. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger led a musclebound movement that led to younger, more grounded heroes like Will Smith, Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise […]

Jason Statham and David Ayer to reteam for Sylvester Stallone-scripted Levon’s Trade

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David Ayer and Jason Statham are set for a quickfire reunion with the news that they are teaming up for Levon’s Trade, an action movie which has been scripted by Sylvester Stallone.  The director/star duo have just worked on The Beekeeper, which is set for release in January 2024, and now Deadline report that they […]