KGF Chapter 2, Review: The audience as cannon fodder
One-and-a-half million residents in and around Kolar Gold Fields are either shooting their guns out or are learning how to do so. Gangsters in Mumbai and the Middle East are either shooting their guns out or are selling guns to other gangsters. The police and the army are either shooting their guns out in raids, or are waiting for orders to do so. Rocky and his coterie are either shooting their guns out at the bosses at KGF, Bad Boy Adheera...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Suddenly everyone is Robert Osborne online - if you don’t remember him, he was a Turner Classic Movies Host who literally brought back “old movies” to a new generation - but now there are so many liner-note commenters. You've got a cinema ga-lazy of Blogstars and Podcast heroes, so it's unremarkable when all-comers comment on films…
However, tonight MGM is casting Sylvester Stallone as a L...
Badshaah Pahelwan, Review: There’s a brown wrestler in the boxing ring, tra la la la la
When director of photography S. Krishna turned producer just over two years ago, vicariously, through his wife, Swapna, having directed two action genre films, he decided to make his third film in nine Indian languages. Down the line, he settled for five, with the original in his native Kannada, and dubbed versions in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. Rather ambitious of Krishna, considering the fi...
Life has become a balancing act for Adonis Creed. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight, he is up against the challenge of his life. Facing an opponent with ties to his family’s past only intensifies his impending battle in the ring. Rocky Balboa is there by his side through it all and, together, Rocky and Adonis will confront their shared legacy, question what’s worth fighting for, and discover that nothing’s more important than family. Creed II is...
Southpaw, Review: Loses on points
South is to left what north is to right, and paw stands for hand, in boxing parlance. So, a ‘southpaw’ is a boxer who takes a right side on stance, but leverages his left-hand to telling effect. In other sports, southpaw is often used to describe a person who is left-handed, as a left-handed batsman in the game of cricket. Southpaw, the film, derives its title from this terminology. In the film, the protagonist makes very little use of his left, a...
'Rocky' actor Burt Young chats with Movie Geeks United
Now
we know why Burt Young played Sylvester Stallone’s dyspeptic
bother-in-law Paulie so convincingly in the penultimate Rocky picture:
He was peeved at the he-man.
Interviewed on Movie Geeks United,
the legendary character actor says it was only his daughter’s fond
memories of his earlier collaborations with Sly that repaired an epic
rift.
CAPTION: Burt (above): Much, ah, happier in the final Rocky fli...
Check out the new promo for the 3rd Annual Estes Park Film Festival - September 11-14, 2008 at the Historic Park Theatre in Estes Park, Colorado. www.estesparkfilm.com http://youtube.com/watch?v=S9OSIduBgkw...
Check out the new promo for the 3rd Annual Estes Park Film Festival - September 11-14, 2008 at the Historic Park Theatre in Estes Park, Colorado. www.estesparkfilm.com http://youtube.com/watch?v=S9OSIduBgkw...
