Carl Weathers

20 Reasons Why You Rock: Action Jackson

The box office may have not given Action Jackson the love it deserved. The studio may not have given Action Jackson the opportunity to truly prove itself. But true fans of Action Jackson know it is...

Scene of the Week: Action Jackson

One of the most underrated rivalries in action movie history is the rivalry between Detroit police officer, Jericho Jackson (Carl Weathers) and billionaire auto magnate, Peter Dellaplane (Craig T. Nelson) as seen in the 1988 film,...

True Action: Death Hunt

Any Charles Bronson fan worth his salt is at least familiar with Bronson’s 1981 film Death Hunt. In Death Hunt, Bronson plays a trapper in the Yukon by the name of Albert Johnson. Johnson ends up...

Hall of Fame: Rocky Balboa

Rocky Balboa as a character is a metaphor for the America that was and is today. The rise, the stumble, the fall; the “started from the bottom” mentality that this nation created less than 250 years...

5 Questions: Action Jackson

There is one question that always comes to mind when I think of Action Jackson… why didn’t Carl Weathers get the opportunity to reprise the role of Jericho “Action” Jackson? Action Jackson was an opportunity for...

Bullet Points: Bucktown

Question… what time is it where you are at right now? If you answered anything but “Hammer Time” you would be wrong. For five decades now “The Hammer” Fred Williamson has been kicking ass in the...