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Steroidal workhorse Sylvester Stallone is launching a men's fashion line, also called Stallone, next year. Is it 1989 again? More »
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Neverland giraffes Rambo and Jabbar Jr. were discovered dead yesterday in Arizona's Bonjoko Wildlife Preserve, where staff suspect "foul play"; control of the beasts' $100,000 emergency fund had recently sparked a legal battle. Necropsies are under way. [TMZ Pictured:Jabbar] More »
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Leave it to the media to get the story wrong. Last week, the web was swarming with talk that the new Rambo movie would bejust a big dumb action flick. Hard to imagine anyone would believe such talk. More »
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Mickey Rourke's post-Oscar life has swiftly come into focus. More »
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Yesterday afternoon, while I was not watching Be Kind Rewind, I wondered, why don't they just make an entire film that's a homemade version of a real one? That seems easier. In fact, that was done to Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark in the magical pre-YouTube age of 1982-88 by three 12-18 year olds — that is, the kids started shooting the film in sequence at age 12, and by the last scenes they were several years older, so they age during the movie, which apparently is not the only reason this feature-length shot-for-shot remake of Raiders is entirely watchable, by complete strangers, for more than art/camp value. That's what every news report (one came out every few months since Spielberg discovered the film in 2002) says. CLIPS GALORE, and a link to the entire remake, below. More »
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As a director, Rambo auteur Sylvester Stallone is as ruthless as he is brilliant; dare to defy him, and you can be sure that when you show up to work the next day, you'll suddenly be listed on the call sheet as "Unknown Hostage Devoured By Man-Eating Pigs #3" or "Mercenary Landmine Victim": "One extra whose role as a mercenary consisted of a silent march through the jungle convinced the sound department to outfit him with a mic. 'He delivered this rambling monologue about his life back in Colorado, when he had no lines at all' says Logan. When Sly saw the rushes, he was furious. 'Boom! That guy got blown up instead.'" [Complex] More »
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· According to Nielsen's preliminary overnight ratings, a record number of Super Bowl viewers tuned in to watch the Giants shock the world™ by upsetting the heavily favored, once-unbeatable-seeming Patriots, with 97.5 million people tuning in (and 105.9 million at its peak) for the game. The telecast may also finish as the second-most-watched event of all time, behind MASH's 1983 finale. [THR] More »
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Sylvester Stallone's Rambo, the writer/director's powerful documentary on a mysterious, monosyllabic American boatman's struggle to unseat the bloodthirsty military regime subjugating Myanmar, has struck such a chord within the country that its ruling junta is trying to stop the cinematic call-to-action from reaching Yangon's black-market DVD stalls, where it could incite widespread rebellion by those inspired by Stallone's rousing catchphrases: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=352414&view=rss&microfeed=true Though we did try to communicate the level of pre-release excitement that consumed us during the run-up to Friday's debut of Rambo by sharing charts and pointing out near-unanimous critical support for our breathless anticipation of what we were sure would prove an instant classic, we never got around to offering our post-screening thoughts on Sylvester Stallone's opus. But rather than bore you with fifteen uninterrupted, giddy minutes of mimicking the sound of heads burst like overripe watermelons by high-caliber machine-gun fire, allow us to instead substitute the above, more considered appraisal of the movie's merits by a leading online critic. Enjoy. More »
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As you try to wash off the last of the oil you liberally applied to your torso for your unselfconsciously shirtless Rambo outing, have a look at the weekend's box office numbers: More »
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The critics have spoken: Rambo is the nauseatingly brutal, 2.59-gruesome-kills-per-minute, Burmese-missionary-eviscerating, desperation-comeback-vehicle thrill-ride of the late-January moviegoing season! "Stunningly, unrelenting violent," declares the Dallas Morning News! "[A]n adrenaline pump and purveyor of raw carnage[!!!]," raves the Philadelphia Inquirer. More »
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We never did get around to buying a ticket to Rocky Balboa during its theatrical run, as obsolescent action star Sylvester Stallone's comeback vehicle promised (at best) a body count limited to a sexagenarian pugilist whose steroid-weakened heart exploded from the exertion of flailing in the general direction of an opponent four decades his junior. After reviewing the above LAT chart (full scan here) detailing the carnage depicted in each chapter of the Rambo saga, however, we have no such concerns about the new installment's violence level; not only will we show up at the multiplex on Friday night, we'll be in our seats well before the coming attractions begin, knowing that with a staggering rate of 2.59 deaths-per-minute, wandering in during the opening credit sequence could deprive us of the experience of double-digit kills. More »
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A helpful MUNI-station artiste in San Francisco wanted to make sure there would be no confusion when it came to Sylvester Stallone's much-anticipated upcoming release: You'll be catching Rambo, the tale of a jungle mercenary eviscerating the Burmese with a machine gun and machete, not Rimbaud, the tale of a 19th century French gay poet whose life was already committed to film by a young Leonardo DiCaprio in Total Eclipse. Clearer now? [Slash Film] More »
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