Stallone

  • Good, not great ‘Samaritan’: Stallone’s superhero’ movie is decent urban fable…

    On a fateful night decades ago the hero of Granite City, the superhero known as Samaritan faced his twin brother, the rabble-rouser known as Nemesis in a final showdown and both apparently perished in a power-station explosion. Years later both figures have something of a mythic following – Samaritan...
  • Peak Performance for ‘Cliffhanger’ remake?

    Those of a certain age will remember the 1993 Sly Stallone action adventure movie Cliffhanger, directed by Renny Harlin and in which Stallone played Gabe Walker, a rescue mountaineer… one who finds that the people he’s about to ‘rescue’ need him for more nefarious purposes. The film also starred...
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