Bullet Points: Creed III
Michael B. Jordan continues the Rocky tradition both in front of and behind the camera in Creed III, which in and of itself is a tradition dating back to 1979’s Rocky II when Sylvester Stallone both...
Michael B. Jordan
Bullet Points: Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
The latest Tom Clancy property to hit the streamingverse is the Amazon Prime film Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse starring Michael B. Jordan. While Jack Ryan is the most famous Tom Clancy character, John Kelly is probably...
Scene of the Week: Desert Training Montage
I don’t want to say something unfounded like 1976’s Rocky invented the training montage, but it doesn’t take a trip to the film archives or countless hours of interviews with film historians to know that Rocky...
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...
Bullet Points: Creed II
It was Thanksgiving Day 1985. After partaking in the traditional Thanksgiving feast, I found myself like many people do… parked in front of the television watching football. During the breaks, commercials for the newly released Rocky...
