"Während des amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges überfallen Unionisten die Farm des Südstaatlers Josey Wales und löschen dessen gesamte Familie aus. Aus Rache schließt sich Josey daraufhin einer Gruppe von Südstaaten-Guerillas an. Dies führt dazu, dass er nach dem Krieg nicht wie die Südstaaten-Soldaten ins Zivilleben zurückkehren kann. Als Guerilla-Kämpfer ist er ein Outlaw, ein Verbrecher, der von der Justiz gejagt wird. Auf seiner Flucht ger ..."
"Six hours of monosyllabic John Rambo high jinks, best savored in surround sound (for the bone-rattling explosions) and with your brain on pause (for everything else). Sylvester Stallone's second signature character, after Rocky, a seething ex-Green Beret killing machine, went from Vietnam-vet victim in the original picture, First Blood, flipping out over the ingratitude of his beloved homeland, to a muscle-bound terminator in Rambo III, ..."
"Clint Eastwood tried to get mellow--and/or funny--with a series of films in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bronco Billy works better than most (certainly better than those monkey movies he made), though it's far from perfect. Still, there's something charming about Eastwood as a cowboy wannabe who runs his own version of a Wild West show in modern times. The show is ragged and his sharp-shooting skills are suspect, but he's having fun. ..."
"Clint Eastwood tried to get mellow--and/or funny--with a series of films in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This one works better than most (certainly better than those monkey movies he made), though it's far from perfect. Still, there's something charming about Eastwood as a cowboy wannabe who runs his own version of a Wild West show in modern times. The show is ragged and his sharp-shooting skills are suspect, but he's having fun. At ..."
"This unassuming little coming-of-age drama features Matt Dillon in the title role as a sweet, slightly dim teenager living with his older brother Mason (Jim Metzler) in a rural Oklahoma town. With an absentee father and a deceased mom, the two eke out a marginal existence; things get desperate enough for Mason to sell his and Tex's horses to have enough money for groceries. Mason is ready to graduate high school and has his sights set ..."
"Welche mag die berühmtere der beiden Figuren sein, die Sylvester Stallone in den 70er und 80er Jahren verkörperte? Rocky, der heldenhafte Boxer, oder Rambo, die Kampfmaschine? Geht man vom Bekanntheitsgrad aus, dann wird es wohl Rambo sein, der als Synonym für einen gnadenlosen, schießwütigen Militaristen in die Alltagssprache einging. Gerade dies tut aber diesem ersten Film der Reihe -- es folgten Rambo 2 - Der Auftrag und Rambo 3 -- g ..."
"Clint Eastwood fired the original director, Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff), and took over the reins of this project himself. He may have had a point: this brutal, thoughtful western, a near-tragedy about a Civil War veteran whose past comes looking for him, is probably Eastwood's most mature frontier drama prior to the Oscar winning Unforgiven. Hoping to build a quiet life in a cooperative community of settlers, Eastwood's Wales bla ..."
"My North Philly traces the stories of four communities -- Nicetown, Kensington, el Norte de Filadelfia, Strawberry Mansion -- in North Philadelphia through the oral histories that inspired the creation of seven landmark murals. At the beginning of 2005, the Mural Arts Program began a new odyssey. The My North Philly project aimed to collect the stores that residents of North Philadelphia told about their neighborhoods and to give those ..."
"These are "what if" tales of alternate history, along the lines of "whatif Abraham Lincoln had lived?" or "what if Germany had won World War II?" What might ..."
"A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present. Do poets' surroundings shape their viewpoint and work? Abandon Automobile seeks to address this question by bringing together the work of more than one hundred of Detroit's most acclaimed and accessible poets. Writing about location as if it were a living entity, these poets visualize Detroit as a variety of complex archetypes - the city becomes a savior, a beast ..."
"It's easy to forget that this Spartan, violent film, which begat the Rambo series, was such a big hit in 1982 because it was a good movie. Green Beret vet John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) wanders into the wrong small town to find a fellow 'Nam buddy and gets the living heck kicked out of him by the local law enforcement (led by Brian Dennehy). The vet strikes back the only way he knows how, leading to a visceral, if unrealistic, flight a ..."
"Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond. A sexy waitress decides to join up with a travelling carnival, soon to become entangled in the comples lives and relationships of the carnies." 1967/color/83 min/NR."