scene of the week

Scene of the Week: Van Damme vs. Stallone

If you believe the Hollywood rumors, Jean-Claude Van Damme was offered a role in 2010’s The Expendables but Van Damme turned it down because in his view, the character that was pitched to him had no...

Scene of the Week: The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter is a tremendous film, but you won’t catch me watching it all the time. I like to feel good after watching a movie and there is no doubt that The Deer Hunter is...

Scene of the Week: Meet the Pentangle

Of all the villains that Michael Dudikoff battled over the course of his film career, I don’t think any of them come close to the level of evil as the Pentangle from the 1986 film, Avenging...

Scene of the Week: Necessary Roughness

There are not many rules that I need an action movie to follow. However, there is one that I need an action movie to include or I want nothing to do with your movie. If there...

Scene of the Week: Merantau (2009)

As a story, Merantau doesn’t do much differently from films like 2003’s Ong-Bak or any other movie that sees its protagonist move from the small town to the big city and find himself in a heap...

Scene of the Week: Code of Silence

In 1985, Chuck Norris would make a film with Orion Pictures that felt unlike any other Chuck Norris movie up to that point. That film was Code of Silence. In Code of Silence, Chuck’s Eddie Cusack...