Tag: Expendables
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The Expendables’ Waterboarding Scene Wasn’t Made With Movie Magic
“The Expendables” franchise has — smartly — allowed its titular roster of tough, never-say-die mercenaries to include women, as demonstrated by 2014’s “The Expendables 3″ adding Ronda Rousey to the crew and the upcoming “Expend4bles” (type that five times fast) bringing in Megan Fox and Levy Tran.However, while making the first “Expendables” back in 2010,…
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Denzel Washington Is Our Most Underrated Action Hero
There are Oscar winners and there are action stars. This is the Hollywood binary that prevents an Academy Award for stunts and determines that no amount of fight choreography ever adds up to a performance. Instead, the equivalent awards body for the action world is, say, the Expendables series, and only so many make the…
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‘Expend4bles’ Red Band Trailer: For Those Craving Violence & Gore In Your Action Films, Here You Go
You can read between the lines of a film’s marketing campaign in the trailer. How does the studio view the film? The trailer tells you everything. And boy, oh boy, the new red band trailer for “Expend4bles” has a story to tell.Let’s get this out of the way first— “Expend4bles” is the fourth film in…
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‘Hidden Strike’: What to Expect
Remember the good ol’ days when Jackie Chan’s laugh-inducing kung fu and hilarious expressions ruled movie channels on TV all over the world? Well, it’s been a while since those days, but Chan’s awe-inspiring stunts remain as fresh as ever as he returns to the silver screen with a bang, starring with none other than…
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Cobra Kai Season 5 Recalls An Awesome Movie You Probably Haven’t Seen
Who doesn’t love a good team-up? From the Avengers and the Justice League to Dominic Torretto’s family and the Expendables, action movies tend to feature some seriously badass collections of people that unite to take down the bad guys. We may even see them team up in some pretty major ways from time to time…
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New Expendables Movie Bringing Back Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, And More
With “The Expendables,” the idea of a bunch of Hollywood action stars joining forces in an Avengers-sized extravaganza has always been as ridiculous as it is appealing to audiences and studio executives, the latter of whom who see nothing but dollar signs at the prospects of gathering together all these icons of decades past, and cashing…