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Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • Total Recall
  • Back in Action
  • Showdown in Little Tokyo

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  • Stone Cold

    ★★★½

  • Trained To Kill

    ★★½

  • Wedlock

    ★★★½

  • Full Impact

    ★★

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  • Stone Cold

    Stone Cold

    ★★★½

    Suggested listening: Frank Stallone - Far From Over

    The life and times of Brian Bosworth are fascinating subjects if you have a couple of hours. The man seemed to make multiple careers out of ending his career. Everything he touched lit up intensely at the outset and, not unlike Roy Batty burning his candle brightly, quickly flashed out of existence. But unlike Rutger Hauer's brooding android anti-hero, whose brief lifespan was programmed into him, The Boz crashed headlong into failure…

  • Trained To Kill

    Trained To Kill

    ★★½

    Suggested listening: Harold Faltermeyer- Bad Guys (feat. Keith Forsey)

    Sometimes you walk away from a movie pondering the significance of the experience. Your entertainment sensibilities have been challenged; a visionary, standard-breaking film has made you begin to rethink the way you view movies, maybe even your life, and in those quiet and reflective moments alone with your thoughts you might plant the seed of a captivating revelation that could alter the course of your destiny. "Who says a movie must…

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  • Wedlock

    Wedlock

    ★★★½

    Suggested listening: Jennifer Rush - Sidekick

    I love alternate titles. They imply fascinating stories about a movie's production by the sheer pointlessness (Futurekick aka Future Kick), peculiar reasoning (I Come In Peace aka Dark Angel), or visionary wisdom (Star Beast aka Alien) behind the change. Whether we're talking about the deliberate mystery of a working title or the debatable sensibility of a studio-imposed revision, whether it's to appease ravenous fans or greedy investors, I find it all terribly interesting. So…