The Essentials: 1989 Action
1989 saw the inauguration of George H.W. Bush as the 41st President of the United States. 1989 was also the year that the Berlin Wall fell. And Nintendo released their Game Boy console in North American...
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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...
The Ultimate Cannon Countdown
I honestly do not believe there would be a Bulletproof Action if there was never a Cannon Films. Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus changed the movie game and created a generation of action junkies in the process....
An Interview with Harry Mok
Harry Mok began his Hollywood journey over thirty years ago and it is a journey that continues to this day. You don’t stick with something as long as Mok has unless you truly love it and...
The Essentials: Power Couples
Action movies are known for a lot of things… tough guys, explosions, fist fights, car chases and guns ablazing! But as this post will soon prove somewhere soaring between the bullets flying and the exploding helicopters are...
10 Things You Didn’t Know About First Blood
When you scour through the past 70 years or so of filmmaking, there are a few action movies that really stand out. Not because they have the craziest fight scenes or best performances by an actor....
An Interview with Alexander Nevsky
The towering Alexander Nevsky was a force to be reckoned with in the world of competitive bodybuilding. A former Mr. Universe, Nevsky was a superstar bodybuilder in his native Russia. And like Arnold Schwarzenegger before him,...
My Favorite John Rambo Knockoffs
One of the most popular and most often replicated action star gimmicks is the war-veteran turned unlikely hero bit made famous by John Rambo. It was the role, way back in 1982, that solidified Sylvester Stallone as more...
10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Expendables
The Expendables is a film that is filled with all of the stuff that makes guys like me shake with joy. It features a team of hard-ass mercenaries who can only be stopped by death himself....
