Film review: ‘RAMBO: LAST BLOOD’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The Rambo film franchise began encouragingly in 1982 with First Blood, a convincingly raw and gritty survivalist action movie with Sylvester Stallone memorable as the Vietnam vet John Rambo battling personal demons and Sheriff Brian Dennehy. The sequels saw the quality rapidly nose-dive as Rambo transformed into a ridiculous, mulleted killing-machine who slaughtered his way through nations of evil non-Americans

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Film review: GRUDGE MATCH, from Built For Speed

Grudge Match is a boxing comedy featuring Sylvester Stallone and Robert de Niro but cinephiles need not fear some sort of Alien vs Predator trashing of both the Rocky and Raging Bull legacies as both Stallone and De Niro play brand new characters in this film. Stallone and de Niro are two former champs, Henry “Razor” Sharp and Billy “The

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