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...
Rocky Balboa
Bulletproof Podcast: Episode 54 – Rocky vs. Drago
Rocky IV has officially received The Ultimate Director’s Cut treatment with the recent release of Rocky vs. Drago. On Episode 54 of The Bulletproof Podcast, Chris and Chad review Rocky vs. Drago and talk about the...
20 Reasons Why You Rock: Rocky IV
For many fans (myself included), 1985’s Rocky IV is the absolute pinnacle of the Rocky Balboa saga. So when news broke earlier this year that the director’s cut of Rocky IV was going to be released...
Bulletproof Podcast: Episode 44 – Stallone Countdown
In honor of Sylvester Stallone’s 75th Birthday, we are counting down his Top 10 Action Movies on Episode 44 of The Bulletproof Podcast. Your hosts Chris the Brain and Chad Cruise are joined by special guest,...
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...
Scene of the Week: Living in America
Why do we so fondly remember the character Apollo Creed? Is it because he was a world champion boxer? Or is it because he was a bombastic showman? I can’t help but think that the late great...
Scene of the Week: Rocky Ends The Cold War
Originally I had planned on doing something entirely different with this week’s Scene of the Week, but that idea got put on the back burner when one of Bulletproof Action’s Twitter followers, @BramhallPTGYM, shared a video with...
V Questions: Rocky V
Aside from the obvious question most people ask about the fifth film in the Rocky franchise, “Why was this movie ever made?” (The answer begins with dollars and ends with cents), more questions do come to...
