The Stallone and Schwarzenegger bromance is alive and well, with the latter encouraging his fans to watch Sly on Netflix. The Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone bromance is alive and well. This weekend sees the release of Netflix’s Stallone documentary, Sly, and the iconic star’s former mortal enemy turned BFF, Arnold Schwarzenegger has given the … Read more
Elsewhere, “Sly” is a frustratingly unrealized work, always hovering on the edge of real insight but rarely jumping into it. It was smart of Zimny to put Stallone front and center and let him essentially hold court, guiding the audience through his life with the same affable, eloquent, man-of-the-people energy that he brought to so many … Read more
Netflix’s Sly is an inspiring, reverent account of Sylvester Stallone’s rise to superstardom in the wake of Rocky. PLOT: The life of Sylvester Stallone, from his humble origins to eventual superstardom. REVIEW: If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you’ll know many of us here are huge Sylvester Stallone fans. I do a show … Read more
Sylvester Stallone is widely known as a pop culture icon, action hero, and recently, a reality TV star. But he probably deserves more credit as an auteur. About ten years ago, I watched every single movie Stallone had made until that time as the research for a piece on his filmography for The Dissolve. I took the assignment … Read more
Three projects I watched at the festival this year asked audiences to think about subjects that they think they know well and look at them from a different angle. In the first two episodes of the new romantic series “Alice & Jack,” from writer Victor Levin and director Juho Kuosmanen, a complex relationship unfolds over … Read more