Eye of the Tiger

Soundtraxx: The Rocky Edition

Maybe it is the scene where Burt Young’s Paulie throws the turkey his sister Adrian (Talia Shire) spent her day preparing right out the window in 1976’s Rocky… Maybe it is the fact that seeing Rocky...

Scene of the Week: Eye of the Tiger

Eye of the Tiger, starring Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto and William Smith, opened in theaters on November 28, 1986. It is a movie that completely flew under my radar upon its release and in the decades...

Unsung Heroes: Eye of the Tiger

Eye of the Tiger could be described as a true hidden gem, the sleeper action hit of 1986 or as one of the most unsung action movies of the golden era of action. The filmed starred Gary...

Know Your Role: Yaphet Kotto

Character actors may not get the leading man limelight, but the good ones do enjoy career longevity. Yaphet Kotto is not just a good character actor, he is a great one and he has the 40 plus year career to...

The Essentials: 1986 Action

The year was 1986. Ronald Reagan was in office. The Chicago Bears Super Bowl Shuffled over the New England Patriots. The Space Shuttle Challenger explosion and the Chernobyl disaster dominated the news cycle. And the world...

Scene of the Week: Paging Dr. Busey

The very first review I did for this site was the Gary Busey action flick, Eye of the Tiger. The mid to late 1980’s had so many classic action movies that it was easy for a...