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Rocky Balboa was here (Rocky post, part two)
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pveugelaers
Rocky Balboa was here… Rocky II (1979) -Never give up Rocky has made money from boxing after his bout against the world champion Apollo Creed and is enjoying his success. He marries the ‘love of his life’, Adrian (Talia Shire). Meanwhile, world champ Apollo Creed makes a stir in the media to lure Rocky back…
Rocky Balboa was here (Rocky post, part three)
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pveugelaers
Rocky V (1990) Rocky V is well-directed but there isn’t a major turning point in the story. The street brawl, instead of fighting in a boxing ring, is a turn off and didn’t do the Rocky image much good. All was forgiven, though. In terms of what’s happening now for the Balboa family: Rocky and…
Luke Skywalker and the new Star Wars
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pveugelaers
I did not want to mention too much about how symbolically bad the darkness is, in Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens (2015, USA). So I went back to the film’s premise and discovered a theme that sounded better. It was rediscovering Luke Skywalker. Luke (Mark Hamill) was the hero of the original trilogy.…
Looking back at Indiana Jones
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pveugelaers
Movie flashback Action, adventure, and something mysterious—that’s Indiana Jones. There have been four films in the Indiana Jones franchise, all starring Harrison Ford as the swashbuckling archaeologist with a penchant for artifacts, and directed by Steven Spielberg, one of the ‘movers and shakers’ of the blockbuster movie form. By day, Jones is a lecturer at…
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