Braveheart: Creating a New Wallace

Mel Gibson. Photo: Paramount As the story goes, American writer Randall Wallace made a trip to Scotland and came upon a statue at the entrance of Edinburgh Castle. Since the…

The Newsroom 

Aaron Sorkin’s return to television was touted as a classic network drama made for cable, taking us behind the scenes of ACN, a fictional cable news network, where a legendary…

Rocky V 

After the last movie's big fight in the Soviet Union, Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) returns home with a brain damage and few financial assets; he starts training a young, promising boxer…

Rocky IV 

Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) wants a comeback in the ring and decides to fight an intimidating Soviet boxer (Dolph Lundgren); the disastrous consequences pull Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) into the biggest…

Rocky III 

Heavyweight champ Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is challenged by a young, very aggressive fighter (Mr. T) and fails to see that the right attitude plays a huge part in winning……

Rocky II 

After the sensational fight that almost ended Apollo Creed's (Carl Weathers) career, the champ feels humiliated and demands a rematch; Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) refuses… at first. After two box-office failures,…

Rocky: Rise of an Italian Stallion

Sylvester Stallone. Photo: United Artists At the 1977 Academy Awards, Sylvester Stallone and Muhammad Ali staged a comic brawl as a way of showing that Ali had no ill feelings…

Wings 

When the United States enters World War I, two young men (Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen) from the same small town, one rich and the other poor, join the Air…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: The Crazy Ones

Photo: United Artists Author Ken Kesey considered himself a link between beatniks and hippies, a critic of behaviorism and the conventional. His most famous novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's…

Miss Julie: A Midsummer Nightmare

Anita Björk and Ulf Palme. Photo: Sandrews In 1888, when August Strindberg offered a Stockholm publisher his new play "Miss Julie", he added a warning: "I ask you not to…