Deployments are not easy by any means. For many soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines music is an outlet that helps us cope with being away from our friends and families, helps us prepare for battle, and is a great team builder. It pumps us up and gets us ready to face the dangers of day to day life in the war zone.
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2009, 102 min., PG-13
Grade: C+
Flavor-of-the-month Zac Efron headlines 17 Again, another reworking of Big, Vice Versa and Like Father, Like Son scenarios in which our hero gets a second chance at life’s do-overs.
Efron, best known for the High School Musical series, actually holds his own as hot-shot basketball player Mike O’Donnell and is good eye candy for the tweens.
Bookending the movie is former Friends star Matthew Perry, the adult version of Mike, whose wife, Scarlett, played by Leslie Man (Knocked Up) wants a divorce due to irreconcilable differences. Fate offers …
ALMOST HUMAN
1974, 99 Minutes, NoShame Films
1974’s Italian crime-thriller Almost Human (Milano odia) features a mesmerizing, savage performance by Tomas Milian (Comapneros, Traffic). Directed with mucho gusto by sleaze filmmaker Umberto Lenzi (Cannibal Ferox, Nightmare City), Milian plays Giulio Sacchi, a small time hoodlum who attempts to make it big by kidnapping the daughter of a billionaire. Henry Silva (Love and Bullets, Sharky’s Machine) plays Commissario Walter Grandi, the cop who will stop at nothing to take Sacchi out. Almost Human is a classic of the Italian Polizzeschi genre. Milian considers …
BLACK HOLE
Hardcover, 352 pages, Pantheon
Those looking to stay out of the heat, the bars, or simply kick the big H need look no further. Stay cool and climb the walls with the classic Charles Burns (Big Baby, El Borbah) graphic novel Black Hole. It’s Seattle in the mid ‘70s and a group of high school students discover that having sex has some very strange results…like growing tails, boils, and other physical abnormalities. Retreating into the forest, the teenage outcasts look for a way to cope, to escape their loneliness as …
This Dirty Dozen ripoff, in which a group of mercenaries go down to South America to assassinate a brutal dictator, stars Sylvester Stallone, Jason Stratham, Jet Li, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, and Arnold Schwartzenegger. Written and directed by Sly. Produced by Millenium Films (Rambo 2008) and distributed by Lionsgate.
Also in the works is the FIFTH installment of Rambo. Again, written and directed by Sly and produced by Millenium Films and distributed by Lionsgate. This will conclude a three picture deal Stallone made with Millenium prior to making Rambo 2008.
- Stuart Brick
2006, PG, 102 min., 1.85:1
After years of being out of the ring and running his own restaurant, Rocky decides he wants one last professional fight. This sixth, and supposedly, final installment to Stallone’s flagship franchise; Rocky Balboa, is a low budget, nostalgic, visually dismal looking drama which focuses more on the aging boxer’s heart, than his arthritic fists. Written and directed by Sly himself.
- Stuart Brick
