For as schmaltzy and flashy as Rocky III is, you’d honestly be hard pressed not to have a great time right as Eye of the Tiger ushers in the 80s with a full display of the titular boxer’s lavish post-title win career from Muppet Show hostings to carnivalesque training gyms! Not only do these overindulgent moments of excess lead us toward a beautiful Apollo Creed redemption arc as he snaps Rocky back from the clouds, but — especially when compared to who Balboa…
The original Rocky was a pretty personal story for Sylvester Stallone so I suppose it’s no surprise its sequel seemingly follows suit the way it furthers the parallels between him and the titular boxer. By the time Rocky II graced theaters Stallone had been fully immersed in the Hollywood limelight for some time after it’s predecessor’s life-changing Best Picture win, yet his career since then hadn’t been all he’d hoped for with films like Paradise Alley floundering in the box office once…
Perhaps the most risqué film of 1896, Le Coucher de la Mariée has commonly been stated as being one of the first — if not the first — erotic films ever made, but unfortunately for modern viewers the short was apparently just too raunchy for us so the remaining four minutes of its seven minute runtime have now been completely lost to time, leaving behind nothing but a dramatic depiction of one woman's thousand-layer garment removal of a striptease while…
I’m actually speechless. I’ve always been a huge fan of bad Japanese comedies, but I honestly think I just found the crown jewel and new standard for the genre....but it’s way more than just that, I feel. This is the most blasphemous film I’ve ever seen and you’d think with the length and plot synopsis it’d be a trite garbage b-flick, but I’ve seen Sion Sono’s Antiporno so I know his style already and honestly it’s that dialed to the max,…
