Stay Hungry
Stay Hungry (1976) is director Bob Rafelson at his weirdest. At one point he juxtaposes the Mr. Universe contest with a sexual assault as if the masculinist bravura of bodybuilding… Read more »
Tag: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Predator
Arnold Schwarzenegger was unstoppable. He was Conan The Barbarian (1982), he was The Terminator (1984), and you better not give him a Raw Deal (1986). Arnold Schwarzenegger was a superhuman… Read more »
The Running Man
The Running Man (1987) continued a trend in American mainstream media of critiquing late Reagan-era conservatism through the moral decay of commercial public television. Like Robocop (1987) and Frank Miller’s… Read more »
Commando
Commando (1985) opens with Col. John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) enjoying his retirement from Special Ops. Matrix spends his days with his daughter Jenny (Alyssa Milano) in the mountains feeding fawns,… Read more »
Jingle All The Way
Chris Columbus always had success with Christmas movies. He penned Gremlins (1984) and directed the first two Home Alone movies. Then came Jingle All The Way (1996) and all of… Read more »
Raw Deal
If you’re the best there is they never would have invented the wheel. The best Schwarzenegger films always have a bit more to them than just the muscle of action… Read more »
True Lies
What James Cameron sets out to do with True Lies (1994), and does, is to make a genre film that is absolutely about its genre without ever being openly analytical… Read more »
