The Essentials: 1984 Action
Our New Year’s Day tradition continues, with a look back at twelve action movies that will celebrate a milestone anniversary in the New Year. This year we are turning the clock back to 1984 and spotlighting...
Red Dawn
Scene of the Week: Red Dawn Paratrooper Invasion
Red Dawn is a ridiculous movie that really could only be made in the 1980s, the failed remake is proof of that, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. What makes Red Dawn work is...
Powers Boothe (1948-2017)
Powers Boothe was born on June 1, 1948. The son of a cotton farmer, Boothe would leave the farm life of Snyder, Texas behind and really delve into the world of acting while he attended Southern...
Lady WOLVERINES
Back in 1984 the United States was embroiled in a war that was felt the world over. It’s frigid and death dealing hands reached from the shores of San Diego and Charleston, to the far away...
The Legendary Manliness of William Smith
I’ve had these notes sitting around my work desk for the better part of two months, unclear of exactly how to do justice to a man who has accomplished so much both on and off the...
Bad Girls: Adrianne Palicki – John Wick
Navigating the criminal underworld can’t be an easy task and it must be especially difficult for a woman but if there is one person who has pulled off the near-impossible it is the beautifully deadly Ms....
20 Reasons Why You Suck: Red Dawn 2012
I had originally watched the Red Dawn remake several months ago and have been trying to get over it ever since. People say that hate is too strong of a word but to those people I...
