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Dolph Lundgren stars in writer-director Sylvester Stallone’s 1985 boxing movie sequel Rocky IV as Russian boxer Ivan Drago, the so-called ‘Siberian Express’, who delivers a final knockout blow to Rocky Balboa (Stallone)’s old rival and […]
Cult director Phil Karlson’s excellent little-known 1953 film noir crime melodrama 99 River Street is a satisfying walk on the wild side that keeps up a cracking pace from start to finish, with Franz Planer’s […]
Gruelling and punishing but brilliantly done, and the kick-boxing kid Joe Cole is a knockout. Director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s 2017 prison action drama biopic Prayer Before Dawn is a gruelling and punishing but brilliantly done true […]
Director Robert Wise’s 1956 biopic drama is the double-Oscar-winning Fifties fight movie classic that turned the 31-year-old Paul Newman into a star. It is one of the great boxing movies. Audiences certainly liked Newman up […]
Japanese writer-director Takeshi Kitano returns to form in his compassionate 1996 boxing tale about two troublesome teenage drifters, boxer Shinji (Masanobu Andô) and Yakuza gangster Masaru (Ken Kaneko), who take up boxing when their intimidation tactics […]
Director Joseph Sargent’s 1984 drama stars James Cagney in his final film and sole TV film. Infirm and at the age of 84, he gives a likeable performance as Joe Moran, a retired, disabled, wheelchair-using […]
For its 1954 20th Century Fox film musical Carmen Jones, Oscar Hammerstein’s renowned contemporary update on the Georges Bizet opera Carmen provides new, modernised lyrics and an African-American cast. It has ideal casting with Dorothy […]