Double TTC feature: “The Expendables,” “Piranha 3D”

(Rare it is that not one but TWO films come along that duke it out for top billing in Terrifically Terrible Cinema. But “The Expendables” came along, and then “Piranha 3D” — it was a perfect storm-like convergence of events – and both are so awesomely bad that they must stand together as the most fun you’ll [...]

My thought on today

The Big 2-9

Aside from the fact that this day sealed my fate as the ”Never Gets a ‘Happy Birthday’ from the Teacher or Your Classmates Because School’s Out for Summer Kid,” June 28 never seemed like a terribly interesting day to be born. Until I realized that’s also the day sublimely talented actors Kathy Bates, John Cusack, the late [...]

One to Watch: “The Expendables”

Probably the best we can hope for, in a movie like “The Expendables,” with Stallone directing and starring (he’s kind of a Streisand), is a few tongue-in-cheek lines and wagonloads of burnt-crispy stuff (and bodies!). But as long as it blows up awesome, who cares?

Terrifically Terrible Cinema: “Over the Top” (1987)

“The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.” ~~Lincoln Hawk  First things first: Let’s go ahead and agree that this movie scribble is going to file ”Over the Top,” a lesser-known Sly Stallone gem from the late 1980s, in the supremely overstuffed folder titled “Splendidly Bad Epic ’80s Flicks” (because if the ’80s [...]

An action trifecta is born!

They’re gonna give us a war we can’t believe. Yep, the rumors have been confirmed by Daily Variety: Rambo, Jet “I Punched You 32 Times in 5 Seconds” Li and The Transporter/Jason Statham will pool their collective acting talents (so it’ll be more of a wading pool, really) in “The Expendables.” Stallone, not surprisingly, is [...]

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